Districts are reimbursed through another funding stream for students who have
left traditional district schools for charters: 100 percent of per - pupil in the first year, 25 percent for the next five years, as well as an annual per - pupil facilities cost of approximately $ 900 dollars.
When asked why
she left a traditional district school and gave up her statutory job protections, Ms. Pulley responded: «I left, like I said because I wanted a different teaching environment.
Not exact matches
A new Fordham report finds that 28 % of teachers in
traditional district schools miss more than 10
school days a year for sick or personal
leave while teachers in charter
schools have lower rates absences.
The nearly $ 1 billion in state funding that has
left the
district, as more than 100,000 students have fled their
traditional neighborhood
schools in the past decade for charter
schools and other
school districts?
What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank
schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child
Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of
districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the
traditional teacher.
But I also think, as you go around the country, to some extent
school districts don't like the notion of funds
leaving the
traditional school system into a different sector.
It would be as if those who always thought the
district was too large to be manageable suddenly got their wish,
leaving half the students in
traditional public
schools and the other half to wherever their parents could find new slots to enroll them.
In some
districts, this exclusivity, combined with aggressive expansion, is
leaving vulnerable children in
traditional public
schools with inadequate resources.»
He acknowledges that
leaving districts to handle those costs alone as charters expand might make things more difficult for
traditional school districts.
Charter
school teachers in the 678,000 - student Los Angeles
school district are up to three times more likely to
leave their
school at year's end compared to their peers in
traditional public
schools, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley.
This chart shows the number of students who
left traditional district high
schools during the 2015 - 2016
school year.
When a student
leaves the
traditional public
school system for a charter
school, the
school district loses the average funding for a student.
For Western New York in particular, when taking into account the money that charter
schools are forced to spend on facilities, charter
schools are
left with about 50 % of the money spent on
traditional district school students to put towards actually educating their students.
Nerad announced a year ago the creation of a committee to explore alternatives to
traditional public
schools, partly as a way to keep middle class families from
leaving the
district.
Traditional districts, in particular, do as little as possible to inform families about their options; the penchant of
districts to inform families of kids in failing
schools of their options in June — just as families were going on summer break — is one reason why the No Child
Left Behind's
school choice provision has never worked as envisioned.