Sentences with phrase «less than their charter school»

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

Wilson feels that public schools, and families that go to them, have wrongly been labeled as failed schools, and that as a result the families and children that remain in those schools end up being seen as less than their charter school peers in the Rutherford County community.

Not exact matches

When he purchased space on the charter flight he told school officials he was going to Salt Lake to sell his house and «your charter is $ 11 less than the regular fare.»

Cuomo's preliminary budget allocates $ 300 million less for the NYC Department of Education than was expected, according to a new report, and Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter school lease compensation by $ 86 million.

Charter schools in New York City receive almost $ 5,000 less per student each year than traditional schools, according to a study to be released today by researchers at the University of Arkansas.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

This morning, the New York City Independent Budget Office released data showing charter schools housed in private space receive 16 % less funding per student than district schools.

Mr. Jeffries could face attacks on certain positions, such as his enthusiasm for charter schools, that might be less popular in a citywide Democratic primary than with political donors who support education reform.

NYC's mayoral election less than a month away, and charter school advocates are amplifying their criticism for Bill de Blasio.

Between 2004 and 2014 alone, charter school enrollment increased from less than 1 million to 2.5 million students.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

The annual lobby day is hosted by the New York City Charter School Center and Northeast Charter Schools Network, two groups that maintain a decidedly less confrontational political posture than Moskowitz's Success Academy and a group that lobbies on its behalf, Families for Excellent Schools.

For every move de Blasio has made to treat charters less favorably relative to traditional public schools than they were treated by the previous administration, Cuomo has countered with promises of more charter funding and benefits.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Low - income minority adolescents who were admitted to high - performing public charter high schools in Los Angeles were significantly less likely to engage in risky health behaviors than their peers who were not admitted to those schools, according to a new UCLA - led study.

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

Instead, when we say a New York City charter school is «more black» than surrounding schools, it is automatically «less Hispanic» (and vice versa).

Within the same district, charter schools typically receive less per pupil spending than the traditional public school.

But the fact that students with special needs in charter schools are less mobile than those in district schools suggests that such incidences are not widespread.

However, this represents less than 1 percent of the bond package, when charter schools account for 4.5 percent of California's public schools and serve about 2.5 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students.

In fact, students with disabilities are less likely to exit charter elementary schools than they are to exit district schools.

In both cities, students enrolled in charter schools are significantly less likely (and in Denver, substantially less likely) to be newly classified as having an IEP than are students in district schools.

Charter schools in all four states are concentrated in urban areas, but to a lesser degree than in the nation as a whole.

These parents are more likely than the general population to be liberal; less likely to be Christian; more likely to be atheist; and more likely to send their child to a charter school.

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

Ideally, to examine the issue of segregation, we would pose the question, Are the charter schools that students attend more or less segregated than the traditional public schools these students would otherwise attend?

This is also not surprising, given that teacher hiring in charter schools is often less tightly regulated than it is in the district sector.

One intriguing question is whether stories that mention race tend to be more or less positive about charter schools than stories that do not.

For instance, a Google Scholar search of «magnet schools» research published since the year 2000 returns less than half the hits of a search for «charter schools.»

Charter parents are also less likely to perceive serious problems in their children's schools than are district - school parents.

Charters appear to provide fewer extracurricular activities than either private or district schools, perhaps because they are newer and often have less - lavish facilities and limited space for playgrounds and sports activities.

Satisfaction with school safety also varies less in the private - school sector than in the charter arena.

In sum, charter parents are more likely to identify serious problems with student behavior at their children's schools than are private - school parents, but less likely to do so than district - school parents.

Third, charter operators have generally chosen to offer relatively attractive defined benefit plans, though these appear less costly and more flexible (for both educator and school) than the established state system.

The study also shows that students with disabilities are less likely to exit charter elementary schools than they are to exit district elementary schools.

While magnet schools are widely prevalent — there are over 3,000 magnets across more than 600 school districts within 34 states — they have received less attention in the research literature than charters.

States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.

According to the authors» own numbers in Table 20, more than half (56 percent) of charter school students attend school in a city, compared to less than one - third (30 percent) of traditional public school students.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

But despite such a large pool of hopefuls, the rate of charter school growth has fallen steadily since 2014, to less than 2 percent in 2016.

We find that parents report less social disruption at charter schools than at district schools.

Students in public charter schools receive $ 5,721 or 29 % less in average per - pupil revenue than students in traditional public schools (TPS) in 14 major metropolitan areas across the U. S in Fiscal Year 2014.

The direct - managed schools were generally less successful than those operated under charters, and the RSD has massively shifted toward the charter option in recent years.

The only issues on which charter school parents are either less satisfied or more concerned than traditional public school parents are is the availability of extra-curricular activities, school facilities, and the location of their child's school.

The remaining portion — 36 percent — said they «neither supported nor opposed charter schools,» a little less than the 41 percent in 2008.

Controlling for 10th - grade test scores explains about half the graduation differential for charter high schools in Florida but less than 20 percent of the difference in Chicago.

The AFT report states that charter schools do spend less money than other public schools.

Camden had the largest per - pupil funding gap in our study, with charter schools students receiving 45 %, or $ 14,771, less per pupil than TPS students.

Klein's opponents also point to recent data on charter schools that show, as a whole, less than stellar results on Common Core — aligned English Language Arts assessments.