Sentences with phrase «mortar school counterparts»

Despite the hope that many parents hold out for this new educational option, the performance of cyber charter schools has consistently, and often drastically, lagged behind the performance of their brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

It found that the majority of students who attend virtual charter schools are low - achieving; they are also more likely to be designated as special education and more likely to have repeated a prior grade than their traditional brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

Not exact matches

A useful addition would be data based on surveys of parents with children enrolled in virtual schools and in their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

If you look at just about every independent analysis of the performance of students in the full - time cyber charter schools compared to their traditional brick - and - mortar counterparts, they do quite poorly.

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO, found that students at online charter schools saw dramatically worse outcomes than their counterparts at traditional, brick - and - mortar schools.