Having
more public charter schools in a school boundary increases participation in public charter schools even when we exclude the Wilson HS boundary schools (see Appendix Table 15).
Not exact matches
The Los Angeles Unified
School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students
School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest
school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students
school district
in the country — closed its
more than 900 campuses and 187
public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...
The data on
charter -
school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children
in Catholic
schools are
more likely to take advanced courses than their peers
in public schools,
more likely to go to college, and
more likely to continue on to graduate
school.»
From Men
in Blazers: America SCORES is non-profit organization that promotes football and poetry with students at
more than 175
public and
charter schools across North America.
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits
in a
more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high
school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later
in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers
in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs
in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising
public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports]
charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
Second largest
in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified
School District (LAUSD) enrolls
more than 640,000 students
in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900
schools, and 187
public charter schools.
There are currently
more than 50 Waldorf - inspired
public charter schools in the US, most of them K - 8
charter schools.
First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a
public charter school and a private
school, I reported
in more depth at two traditional
public schools (Fenger High
in Chicago and I.S. 318
in Brooklyn).
This success is due
in part to the D.C. Healthy
Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular scho
Schools Act of 2010, which requires
school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students
in D.C.
Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular scho
Schools and D.C.
Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular scho
Schools, and it requires
schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular scho
schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price
school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the
school cafeteria and makes it
more accessible and a part of the regular
school day.
Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of
charters — and co-location
in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes
more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to
charters at the expense of traditional
public schools.
Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing
more charter public schools and demanding
more accountability from teachers
in the classroom.»
Mount Vernon — Accusations of impropriety continue for Mayor Richard Thomas, who is already facing corruption charges as the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting
more than $ 100,000 as a trustee of the Amani
Public Charter School in violation of state education law.
«
More than 85
public charter schools from across the state will be
in Albany on Tuesday.
The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit
charter school management companies as «
more interested
in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and
public schools.»
Republican state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan will insist that
more charter schools be allowed to open
in New York City as part of any deal to extend Mayor de Blasio's authority over the
public -
school system, The Post has learned.
Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being
more forcefully
in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked
public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening
charter schools.
But while so many
in the media and the glitterati are agog about
charters, let's not forget that
more than 95 percent of our students are
in the regular
public schools.
The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that
charters in public school buildings cost
more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular
public schools.
Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a
charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent
Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public s
Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing
more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers
in the city's regular
public schoolsschools.
City
charter schools in public school buildings are far
more overcrowded than their district - run counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.
Charter schools will have «new chances to grow»
in Mayor de Blasio's administration — including
more co-locations with traditional
public schools, he said Monday.
Students from Maple West Elementary
School in Williamsville and King Center
Charter School in Buffalo participated
in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where
more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County
Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.
A new study says that on average, New York City
charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning
in reading and 63
more days
in math each year, compared with similar students
in traditional
public schools.
An Independent Budget Office study suggested that
charter schools actually get
more overall aid than regular
public schools when factoring
in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.
Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats
in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our
school districts — District 7
in the South Bronx and District 12
in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate
more than 45,000 students.
By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs
in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of
public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands
more kids
in the Bronx the chance to participate
in a program or attend a
school that could change their lives.
Both the #PathToPossible movement for
more public charter schools and the Gifted & Talented Task Force are badly needed
in our communities.
More than 50 parents and education activists back a lawsuit filed by
Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to overturn all
charter school «co-locations»
in city - owned buildings approved by de Blasio last month.
Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on
charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting
in defense of the many
more students who go to traditional
public schools.
Mulgrew said he was «perplexed» that so many upstate Republican senators — many who receive contributions from the
charter industry — took so much interest
in creating «
more free space
in New York City
public schools» for
charter chains.
Klein, who oversaw
more than 1,600
public schools with 136,000 employees and a $ 21 billion operating budget, also helped grow the number of
charter schools in the city.
A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's
public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot
more charter schools in the Big Apple.
Last week, Mr. Silver questioned whether it was necessary to raise the
charter cap
in New York City, saying that the
more money that goes to
charters, the less goes to traditional
public schools.
Ramos said the de Blasio administration has resisted
charter schools for
more children, particularly by denying them space
in public school buildings.
Charter schools are
more racially isolated than regular
public schools in practically every state and large urban area
in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.
CREDO had done a national study that found
more charters doing badly compared to their feeder
schools from the traditional
public sector, and an NBER study
in New York City found substantially better performance of
charters versus traditional
public schools.
But the laws governing
school facilities were written a century or
more before
charters existed, when there was only one kind of «
public school»
in this country.
Based on a wealth of existing evidence, however, we are unable to share
in the team's optimism that
more complete data might show narrower differences
in segregation between
charter and traditional
public schools.
What we found is that, compared with other students
in the traditional
public schools,
charter school applicants are
more likely to be black and poor but are otherwise fairly similar.
The key flaw
in their report, as we describe
in more depth
in the article, is that the CRP authors compare the racial composition of all
charter schools to that of all traditional
public 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.
Another 18
school districts enroll
more than 20 percent of
public school students
in charter schools (see Figure 1).
Even
more of the control group members attended high - performing
public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.
As a major aspect of a
school model, it is
more readily associated with
charter schools, such as Summit Public Schools and Rocketship in Silicon
schools, such as Summit
Public Schools and Rocketship in Silicon
Schools and Rocketship
in Silicon Valley.
•
More than half of the
charter kids studied live
in poverty — higher than the traditional
public school rate.
Our analysis presents a
more accurate, but still imperfect, picture of the levels of racial segregation
in the
charter sector relative to the traditional
public -
school sector.
A reanalysis of the data used
in the UCLA report found much smaller differences between
charter and traditional
public schools once
more appropriate comparisons were made between the two groups of
schools.
Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty skepticism — of teachers unions to the
charter school movement, districts with a greater union presence were
more likely to have a
charter school and to have a greater share of
public school students enrolled
in charter schools in 2003 — 04.
Superintendent Michael Bennet (2005 - 2008) spearheaded Denver
Public Schools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compe
Schools» improvement by embracing
charter school expansion, giving principals
more decision - making power, and using student - based funding,
in which dollars followed children to their
schools of choice, to spur compe
schools of choice, to spur competition.
Today, almost half of the city's
public school enrollment is
in charters, even
more kids are on
charter waitlists, and PCSB has the authority to continue growing its portfolio.