Sentences with phrase «magnet students report»

According to a 2009 study, magnet students report a greater sense of community at school and perceive more peer support for academic achievement.

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If parents are accurately reporting the type of school their child is attending, roughly 6 percent of all students are going to magnet schools.

Based on a report commissioned by Magnet Schools of America and conducted by the University of North Carolina - Charlotte's Urban Institute in 2016, there are approximately 4,340 public elementary and secondary magnet schools serving nearly 3.5 million students in the United States.

Moreover, the report included case studies of three school districts, located in separate areas of the country, each using different strategies to voluntarily increase racial and socioeconomic diversity, such as utilizing magnet schools, new student attendance zones, and school choice policies.

Because many magnets are a «school within a school» — called magnet centers — students» academic achievement is not reported by the state separately from the traditional school campus where the magnet centers are located...

LA School Report just published a district database that for the first time allows parents to compare how students at all of the district's magnet schools and programs performed on state tests...

The bulk of this report focuses on studies that have compared the academic achievement of magnet school students to those attending traditional public schools.

The need for magnet schools is abundantly clear in light of the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that students have become increasingly isolated by both race and socioeconomic status, with the number of intensely segregated schools more than doubling since 2001.

His report also includes a body of evidence that demonstrates that magnet schools with a socioeconomic mix can raise student achievement.

Even after you take out gifted magnet programs where students have to meet academic admissions requirements, students at LA Unified's magnet schools outperformed their peers at independent charter schools, an LA School Report analysis of district data found.

Many magnets have waitlists — last year the district reported that 25,000 students were waitlisted for magnets.

In an interview, Castrejón said GPSN relied on schools that applied for the grants to self - report their test scores because GPSN did not have access to this data for magnet centers located on a traditional school campus because the state combines the students» scores.

LA School Report took the district's analysis and separated the 44 magnet programs or schools where students have to meet minimum academic requirements, known as gifted or highly gifted magnets.

In fact, using data on the number of Hartford resident students in each magnet school from the 2014 - 2015 CSDE Sheff Compliance Report, I calculated that magnet schools located in the city of Hartford have an average of 43.7 % Hartford resident students enrolled, while only 34.1 % of students are Hartford residents in schools located outside of Hartford (in towns such as East Hartford, Bloomfield, Avon, Enfield, Glastonbury, New Britain, Manchester, Rocky Hill, South Windsor, and West Hartford).

According to the Choice Watch Report released in 2014 by policy analysts Robert Cotto and Kenny Feder, in the 2011 - 2012 school year, 76 % of public charters, 64 % of magnets, and 56 % of technical schools in the Greater Hartford Area (GHA) had substantially lower enrollment percentages of ELL students than the local, traditional public schools in their districts.

According to Cotto and Feder's 2012 Report, in the 2011 - 2012 school year, just under 50,000 students were enrolled in one of Connecticut's choice programs — the majority of these students attended one of 63 interdistrict magnet schools.

Only 85 attend the magnet school at Ryan, compared to 557 in - zone students who attend Cullen, according to the latest district demographic report.

The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing racial isolation and improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.

The report compares student achievement in non-urban schools, urban schools, and the choice programs of public charter schools, magnet schools operated by districts, regional magnet schools such as those operated by CREC, and Open Choice programs in which inner - city students attend suburban schools.

Many magnets are a «school within a school,» but the state does not report student scores at a magnet center separately from the traditional school where the magnet is housed.

A report commissioned by the Connecticut State Department of Education entitled Evaluating the Academic Performance of Choice Programs in Connecticut compared student achievement in public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and among those students bussed from urban areas to the suburbs and did not find evidence that students in charter schools had greater achievement than other students, even with their more select student body.

Regardless, school choice options for Connecticut students — magnets, charters and other schools of choice — have increased steadily, reports the legislature's non-partisan fiscal office.

In his report, Abrahams showed that over the past year, a large number of these students were withdrawing from local schools because they don't have magnet high schools to attend.

In its report, GPSN said there are more than 40,000 students who are on waiting lists for charter schools and «thousands more» attempt to enroll in the district's popular magnet school programs.