Sentences with phrase «more charter schools located»

Parents who would like more charter schools located on Long Island have some powerful friends in Washington.

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The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

More than half of all charter schools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Sschools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Sschools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent SchoolsSchools.

Average per - pupil public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000, depending on the states and cities where schools are located.

Again, however, our data do not tell us whether the charter presence has caused opinion to change or whether charters have simply located in areas that are more hospitable to school choice.

In addition to a nationally representative sample of American adults, the survey included representative samples of two populations of special interest: 1) public school teachers and 2) adults living in neighborhoods in which one or more charter schools are located.

There are no significant spillover effects on students in district schools located more than a half mile away from the nearest charter school.

In suburban areas, charter schools are more likely to locate in districts with lower incomes, greater socioeconomic diversity, and close proximity to central cities.

New York State Resource and Computer Training Centers are the largest professional learning communities in New York State with more than 125 Teachers Centers located throughout the state, working with 675 public schools districts and nearly 1000 non-public and charter schools.

Though the majority of New Mexico charter schools are concentrated up north — Albuquerque alone has more than 50 — 11 charter schools are located in the southern half of the state, from Silver City to Deming to Carlsbad.

It's a question the students and faculty at Explorations Charter School, a public charter high school located in northwestern Connecticut, found themselves answering more than once as fall classes started earlier thisCharter School, a public charter high school located in northwestern Connecticut, found themselves answering more than once as fall classes started earlier this School, a public charter high school located in northwestern Connecticut, found themselves answering more than once as fall classes started earlier thischarter high school located in northwestern Connecticut, found themselves answering more than once as fall classes started earlier this school located in northwestern Connecticut, found themselves answering more than once as fall classes started earlier this month.

SIATech charter school campuses are currently located on more than 22 campuses and serve nearly 3,000 students.

If I use only the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch, then the student characteristics from charter high schools would constitute an «AB» demographic profile: Less poor than students in public high schools located in an average «A» community and a little more poor than students in public high schools located in an average «B» community.

The poll also found strong support for locating charter schools statewide, support for making educational scholarship accounts available to all students, and that voters are more likely to support a candidate for the legislature if they support school choice.

To be eligible charter schools must serve a student population with at least 55 percent of their pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals (FRL), or they must be physically located in the attendance area of a public elementary school with 55 percent or more FRL qualified students.

A charter school operated by a hope operator which serves students from one or more persistently low - performing schools; is located in the attendance zone of a persistently low - performing school or within a 5 - mile radius of such school, whichever is greater; and is a Title I eligible school.

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What the CT SDE and charter school lobbyists are not explicitly telling you in these claims is that charter schools often serve a relatively more advantaged group of Black and Latinx children compared to the local public schools where they are located and these children are likely to do relatively better on standardized tests because standardized tests favor more advantaged groups of people.

The LA school board is one of the most powerful in the entire country, overseeing a budget of more than $ 7 billion and making decisions that impact 664,000 public school students, including 110,000 who attend charter public schools located within the district.

Because charter schools in many states and districts aren't bound to a particular geographic area, they have more leeway than traditional public schools in deciding where they can locate.

As noted, the data indicates that every single major charter school is MORE RACIALLY IMBALANCED than the town in which they are located.

Fact 6: While charter schools are predominantly located in urban areas, charter schools, on average, are more racially / ethnically diverse * than their traditional district school counterparts (comparative districts).

«If we're going to have a brand - new charter school open up, and you have vacant space in a district building, it's far more efficient for everybody — for the charter, for the district, for the taxpayer — to locate in a building already within a school, and appropriate for a school.

Using suggested GCSA language, Rep. Caldwell changed the language of the bill to read, «The governing body of a charter school with a state - wide attendance zone and students residing in 25 percent or more of Georgia's counties or in three or more counties which are not geographically contiguous shall conduct one such public meeting in the county in which its primary business office is located and one such public meeting in the metropolitan Atlanta area.»

None of these «blue» charter schools is located in either of the two more affluent (and smallest) districts.

• KIPP Public Charter Schools: Across KIPP, a network of more than 200 schools with 80,000 students located in multiple states, 38 percent of the students who graduated from a KIPP middle school, or enrolled in a KIPP high school in ninth grade, are earning college dSchools: Across KIPP, a network of more than 200 schools with 80,000 students located in multiple states, 38 percent of the students who graduated from a KIPP middle school, or enrolled in a KIPP high school in ninth grade, are earning college dschools with 80,000 students located in multiple states, 38 percent of the students who graduated from a KIPP middle school, or enrolled in a KIPP high school in ninth grade, are earning college degrees.

For its part, National Alliance said it wants to include more measures of academic outcomes in future years and begin to make comparisons beyond those between charter schools and the public schools located around them.

(i)(1) Not more than 120 charter schools shall be allowed to operate in the commonwealth at any time, excluding those approved pursuant to paragraph (3); provided, however, that of the 120 charter schools, not more than 48 shall be Horace Mann charter schools; provided, however, notwithstanding subsection (c) the 14 new Horace Mann charter schools shall not be subject to the requirement of an agreement with the local collective bargaining unit prior to board approval; provided, further, that after the charter for these 14 new Horace Mann charter schools have been granted by the board, the schools shall develop a memorandum of understanding with the school committee and the local union regarding any waivers to applicable collective bargaining agreements; provided, further, that if an agreement is not reached on the memorandum of understanding at least 30 days before the scheduled opening of the school, the charter school shall operate under the terms of its charter until an agreement is reached; provided, further, that not less 4 of the new Horace Mann charter schools shall be located in a municipality with more than 500,000 residents; and not more than 72 shall be commonwealth charter schools.

Even more odd is that the charter schools that operate in Los Angeles and operate with high levels of independence, still get the score of the district within which they are located.

If there are more spaces available than eligible applicants from the city or town in which the charter school is located and who are siblings of current students and more eligible applicants than spaces left available, a lottery shall be held to determine which of the applicants shall be admitted; provided, however, that a lottery conducted for Horace Mann charter schools shall reflect the enrollment priorities of this section.

Although common thought among some parents is that independent charter schools are located in wealthier communities, the statistics show that more than half of the 224 independent charters are located in the poorest school board districts of Los Angeles.

School board president Mónica García said she was surprised to see that more than one - fourth of the independent charters, 61 schools, are located in her District 2 of East Los Angeles and downtown.

The Academy For Integrated Arts (AFIA), a public charter school located in Kansas City, Missouri's East side, was running out of space in their original location and received more than $ 3 million in pledges to purchase a new building, the King Louie East Bowling Alley at 7910 Troost Avenue.

More than half of Americans live in suburbs, and about 1 in 5 of the 4,951 existing charter schools were located there in 2010, federal statistics show.

The inaugural display features more than 150 works by students in kindergarten through sixth grade from the Avon Grove Charter School (AGCS), located in West Grove and Kemblesville, Pennsylvania.