Sentences with phrase «majority of charter school»

Second, when given the opportunity to opt out of the state pension system without incurring new costs, a majority of charter schools take advantage of the opportunity — though a sizable number decline to do so.

With a few exceptions, the vast majority of charter schools operated by NewSchools CMOs are self - sufficient on public revenues (excluding major capital costs).

A further disappointment for me is that essentially given the freedom to create any form or structure of schooling, the vast majority of charter schools look just like the schools we've already got.

First, the vast majority of charter schools are new schools.

(The majority of charter schools continue to accept students via lottery at the Kindergarten, Middle School and High School levels.)

The majority of charter schools ask parents to be involved in the school community.

In California, the overwhelming majority of charter schools are organized as non-profit organizations and are held to state and federal laws governing nonprofits.

The majority of charter schools in Arizona — including Discovery Creemos Academy — are regulated by the ASBCS.

While the majority of charter schools in California are founded as start - up, or new, schools, there's a growing number of those that are conversions of traditional public schools.

Roughly six months later, the majority of the charter schools we identified in our report have not provided any indication that they have eliminated their exclusionary policies.

This may be due in part to policy, or the fact that while a significant majority of charter schools in NYC participate in the climate survey, only a sliver of L.A. charters do so.

Yes, the vast majority of charter schools are nonprofit organizations.

But I do think that the vast majority of charter schools are run by dedicated educators who have integrity and who will abide by the law.»

Students at the majority of the charter schools that could be turned down Tuesday by LA Unified's school board are performing academically above their peers in nearby schools.

In California, the vast majority of charter schools are authorized by local school districts that lack adequate staffing to monitor charter schools and ferret out fraud.

This means that, contrary to what I said in the last post, the vast majority of charter schools do not really have higher suspension rates.

Those are by far the exception; the vast majority of charter schools are boosting student performance, encouraging greater parental involvement, increasing teacher satisfaction, and broadening the curriculum with classes such as music and art without sacrificing core subjects.

While he allowed the vast majority of charter schools to continue using public space, many supporters of Ms. Moskowitz's schools were outraged.

H.R. 10 also furthers the false ideal that charter schools are the panacea for education reform, when in fact research indicates that the vast majority of charter schools do not outperform traditional public schools.

«The reality is that his statements are not rooted in evidence or fact, they are rooted in emotion, ideology and rhetoric,» Marquez said, noting that the majority of charter schools are run by non-profits.

The new system will apply to public schools including the vast majority of charter schools across Wisconsin.

The majority of its charter schools were in the «Very High» or «High» academic growth categories in Reading and Math at the time of NACSA's analysis.

In updating its 2009 national study on charter schools, Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) reaches the same conclusion it did in its previous study: The vast majority of charter schools in the United States are no better than public schools.

Here's a little known fact from CSFI: The majority of charter schools (53 percent) are renting or leasing space from a non-profit organization or a commercial entity.

In stark contrast to the misperception created by your article, the vast majority of charter schools are found to be following fair and transparent procedures designed to safeguard the interests of all students and families.

We know that the majority of charter schools are privately - managed.

While the Office has audited fewer than half of all charter schools, they have exposed some form of internal control deficiency or mismanagement in 95 percent of their audits.5 The majority of charter schools in New York are left to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits, specifically audits that are designed to determine whether these publicly funded, privately managed schools are spending public dollars properly.

The vast majority of charter schools, nationwide and in Chicago, are not unionized, and the flexibility that teachers and schools gain from not having a typical union contract does seem to make a difference — one researcher found that nonunion charters in Milwaukee performed better academically.

Despite this fact, facilities continue to be a challenge for charter schools in Oakland Unified, with the majority of charter schools spending funding out of their general funds to rent commercial space.

Research shows that the vast majority of charter schools in the U.S. haven't cleared that hurdle.

«The per - pupil expenditures in an overwhelming majority of charter schools already surpass the $ 10,306 parity target, so there appears to be no need to make such a change.»

The vast majority of charter schools also have policies that are overly dependent on disciplinary procedures and directly work to undermine teachers, their unions and the teaching profession.

«The vast majority of charter schools get no better and no worse test - based results than comparable regular public schools,» Matthew Di Carlo, a senior fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute, wrote in a recent policy brief that examined a large body of charter - school research.

The vast majority of charter schools also out - performed their host districts with at - risk student groups, including:

the majority of charter schools in California are founded as start - up, or new, schools, there's a growing number of those that are conversions of traditional public schools.

Another report from Data First, part of the Center for Public Education, stated that «the majority of charter schools do no better or worse than traditional public schools.»

This annual event is a one - stop shop for parents to meet the majority of charters schools in Memphis and consider how this public school options may be the best fit for their child (ren).

The vast majority of charter schools are operated by non-profit public benefit corporations.

If the studies so far are right (and yes, there's need for more), the majority of charter schools perform at or less than parity with public schools, even with more parental involvement and supposedly more / better teachers and programs.

The majority of charter schools were instead «hypersegregated,» with a student body composed of more than 90 % minority students...»

A recent study found that the majority of charter schools perform no better or worse than traditional schools.

Not exact matches

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

Moving a small percentage of traditional public school students into charter schools leaves the majority of students in «broken» schools.

The GOP majority has diverted millions of dollars to the charter school industry, despite have virtually no charter schools in the Republican held districts.

The mayor's words of support come as Johnson is being targeted, along with Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, by the AFL - CIO for his «yes» vote on charter schools, as well as a host of other issues with which the union is displeased.

The bitter stand - off over mayoral control of city schools continued over the weekend with state Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan slamming NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for his resistance to charter schools and de Blasio arguing charters shouldn't be part of negotiations.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.