Sentences with phrase «most charter schools across the country»

By refusing to admit students who would score lower on standardized tests, Connecticut's charter schools, and most charter schools across the country, artificially create the impression that they do significantly better.

Not exact matches

Some in the charter school movement, viewing autonomy as its most important animating principle, responsible for so much of the innovation and energy in the 3,300 charter schools across the country, argue that the testing regimen at the heart of the standards movement and NCLB will leave charters hidebound, soulless, bureaucratized.

While the bill isn't all that we had hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the coschool closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the country.

While the new law isn't all we hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coschool closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the country.

One of the most interesting yet challenging developments in recent years for many charter authorizers across the country has been the rapid rise and expansion of virtual or online charter schools.

Drawing on over 40 years of research and experience, Ravitch champions public schools across the country and critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the proliferation of charter schools.

Charter school quality has become a mixed bag: Despite some great schools across the country, most are on par with traditional district schools, and too many underperform.

At the same time, this may help explain why so many educators across the country take a dim view of charter schools, most of which enroll low - income students of color who have been underserved by the traditional public school system.

Using a value - added model to analyze performance data from 179 high - need charter schools across the country during the 2008 - 2009 school year, EPIC identified 22 schools that have made the most dramatic gains in student achievement.