Sentences with phrase «likely than district schools»

The gap grows as students progress through elementary grades, largely because charter schools are less likely than district schools to place students in special education — and less likely to keep them there.

What the AFT fails to acknowledge is that charter schools are more likely than district schools to promote integration, since in most charter schools white and minority kids take the same courses, while in many district schools minority kids are placed into nonacademic tracks.

A large part (80 percent) of the growth in this gap over time is that charter schools are less likely than district schools to classify students as in need of special education services and more likely to declassify them....

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And, just as you say, the good news is that some school districts are also following suit, so that kids who buy school lunch rather than bringing from home are more likely than ever to see whole fruit over canned, etc..

More than 600 teenage girls in the Buffalo will likely give birth this year, and not many of them will finish high school.Five years from now, their children will enter the Buffalo schools as some of the district's most at - risk students.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district elementary schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having an SLD than those enrolled in charter elementary schools.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

In both cities, students with existing IEPs are significantly and substantially more likely to remain in their kindergarten school if it is a charter than if it is a district school.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having a specific learning disability in early elementary grades than are students enrolled in charter schools, and also because students without disabilities are more likely to enter charters in non-gateway grades than are students with disabilities.

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

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

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.

Living below the poverty line, Brittany is six times more likely to drop out of high school than her counterparts in suburban and wealthy districts.

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

Districts with higher - than - predicted high - school dropout rates were, like states with high dropout rates, more likely to have charter schools and a greater share of students enrolled in charters.

Most notably, parents of charter - school students are more likely to be of minority background than are parents of either district - or private - school students (see Figure 1).

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.

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

District - school parents are generally more likely to say that various problems are either serious or very serious at their school than are private - school parents.

Charter Schools Do Not Appear to Discriminate Against Special Education Students Students with disabilities more likely to remain in charters than in district Schools Do Not Appear to Discriminate Against Special Education Students Students with disabilities more likely to remain in charters than in district schoolsschools

As we expected, school districts with only secondary schools or both secondary and elementary schools were more likely to have a charter school in 2003 — 04 than districts with only elementary schools.

(Indeed, according to the EdNext results, «charter parents are 15 percentage points more likely to say they have communicated with the school about volunteering» than district - school parents.)

School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sSchool and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sschool and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.

Students in district schools with three or more charter schools within a one - mile radius perform significantly better in math than students with just one charter in the neighborhood, and they are also significantly less likely to be retained.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

In your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at school.

Supporters are more likely than opponents to say that the Common Core allows local school districts to decide which textbooks and materials to use in their schools (64 % compared to 30 %).

Oakland charters more likely to enroll higher - performing students than district schools edsource.org/2017/oakland-c...

Like students in many urban schools, BPS students have lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, and are less likely to go to college than students from nearby suburban districts.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

• District - school parents are more likely than are private - school parents to say that problems at their school are either serious or very serious; charter parents fall in the middle.

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Just as important, OCR's demand that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to schools with varying racial demographics is more likely to overwhelm school officials with administrative burdens than to create a groundswell of support for redistributing education funds.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

It found that, because they got a voucher, parents «were more likely to be actively involved in their children's schools, parent - teacher organizations, and other education groups» than parents of students at traditional district schools with a similar demographic profile.

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

Because the Hypersegregation Index is a measure of the proportion of schools with FRPL rates more than 20 percentage points away from the district FRPL rate, districts with very high or low FRPL rates would be more likely to score low on this index even though their schools are not necessarily integrated.

A study more specific to Florida — Charter High Schools» Effects on Long - Term Attainment and Earnings — showed that students who attend Florida charter high schools are more likely to stay in college and earn more money than their counterparts in district sSchools» Effects on Long - Term Attainment and Earnings — showed that students who attend Florida charter high schools are more likely to stay in college and earn more money than their counterparts in district sschools are more likely to stay in college and earn more money than their counterparts in district schoolsschools.

District leaders faced with struggling schools were less rather than more likely to sponsor leadership - development initiatives or to provide strategic help to principals; they focused instead on recruiting a different sort of administrator.

By contrast, about a quarter of all district enrollments were in «beat the odds» schools, suggesting that, on average, the charter sector is more likely to provide enrollment in a «beat the odds» school than the district sector in the city.

Researchers found that teachers who were extended were more than 50 percent more likely to transfer to another school within the district or to exit teaching in the district than otherwise similar teachers who were granted tenure.

A low - income student enrolling in college is five times as likely to enroll at a top school if s / he comes from a wealthy district rather than a poor district;

Last month, an opinion piece on Bloomberg.com encouraged the DoE to withdraw their guidance and let schools and districts manage their discipline policies without oversight — despite clear evidence that prior to the 2014 guidance, African American students and other groups were (and in many cases still are) more likely to receive heavier punishment for the same offenses than white students, and to be suspended at a higher rate.

Compared to Chicago Public Schools» district - wide 1 - point improvement in the same period, these two schools improved by 8 and 10 points, respectively, on the student - teacher trust measure of the 5Essentials Survey — a school climate survey based on more than 20 years of research that found schools strong on three or more of the 5Essential components were ten times more likely to improve student learningSchools» district - wide 1 - point improvement in the same period, these two schools improved by 8 and 10 points, respectively, on the student - teacher trust measure of the 5Essentials Survey — a school climate survey based on more than 20 years of research that found schools strong on three or more of the 5Essential components were ten times more likely to improve student learningschools improved by 8 and 10 points, respectively, on the student - teacher trust measure of the 5Essentials Survey — a school climate survey based on more than 20 years of research that found schools strong on three or more of the 5Essential components were ten times more likely to improve student learningschools strong on three or more of the 5Essential components were ten times more likely to improve student learning gains.

District officials also said five schools were identified as under - staffed, likely because they had higher - than - expected enrollments.

It said that the District's poor and minority students are still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

In addition, white students are nine times more likely than African - American students and 18 times more likely than Latino students to attend a high - quality district school.