Sentences with phrase «local public school peers»

Verriden said Hope eighth - graders outperformed their local public school peers in reading and math in the last WKCE exam and that that their pace of improvement exceeded those of students nationally and locally in what's known as the MAP assessment.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

Not exact matches

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

In fact, several urban union locals, in Cincinnati, Denver, and Rochester, to name a few, have already agreed to reforms such as merit pay, peer review, and public school choice.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

that students attending private schools thanks to this program have equal or better academic performance than their peers in the local public schools, and have significantly higher graduation rates.

Right now, charter students in Colorado on average receive only 80 cents on the dollar in funding compared to their traditional public school peers — largely due to unfair gaps in local funding policies.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coSchool Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coschool instructors in the country.