About a third of the eligible students in the district's boundaries attend the charter; the others are at neighboring districts or other
nearby charter schools.
These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of
nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.
Our analysis of competitive effects therefore investigates whether the effect of charter schools on traditional public schools varies with the number of
nearby charter schools as well as with the distance to the nearest charter.
CAMBRIDGE, MA — In some school districts across the United States, public school buildings sit vacant while
nearby charter schools searching for space are turned away.
Not far from the heart of Houston, unlikely alliance between a school district and
nearby charter schools is bringing the best of both worlds to area students.
This prompted him to take education classes and start mentoring students in
a nearby charter school in order to try to help.
The influence of
a nearby charter school on traditional public schools in the area depends, in part, on the credibility of students» threats to switch to the charter.
«I feel like is a family, we're all as one,» said High Tech freshman Raven Wright, who came to the district - run school from a larger
nearby charter school.
Among those who enrolled in the spring — some just weeks before the school year ended — were a 17 - year - old from Guatemala returning to classes for the first time since he was in sixth grade, a ninth - grader who left
a nearby charter school after she was caught with marijuana, and an 18 - year - old who dropped out of Southeast Washington's Ballou High earlier in the year after moving into a group foster home in Northwest Washington.
The principal at
my nearby charter school makes over $ 300,000 per year, a 246 percent increase from her salary before the school was chartered.
In her commentary piece, Wendy Lecker reminded readers that as part of Malloy's education reform effort, Hartford's Milner School, a school where 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the primary language, was given to
a nearby charter school management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy schools.
But this way, Whitmore Lake wouldn't have to worry about
a nearby charter school stealing away their own kids, and the state funding that comes with each student.
With a cyber school, Whitmore Lake wouldn't have to worry about
a nearby charter school stealing away their own kids.
Vidaud's 15 - year - old son, who attends
a nearby charter school, lost seven friends in the shooting.
Not exact matches
In Hempstead, while most of the students at The Academy
Charter School are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems as
School are from the local district, the
school draws from nearby systems as
school draws from
nearby systems as well.
Even though
charters in his Harlem district have greatly outperformed students in
nearby traditional
schools, Perkins has proposed legislation that would cripple the
charter -
school movement.
Cox said his platform will call to convert the former church and the
nearby shuttered Ark
Charter School into a new City Hall.
Before the
charter opened, all Moraine students were bused to
schools in the
nearby suburbs of Kettering and West Carrollton.
Those
schools include public
charter schools, magnet
schools, and other types of options both within districts and in
nearby districts.
Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif. was remade after parents voted to turn it over to a nonprofit group that runs a
charter school in a
nearby town, according to an article in Politico by Stephanie Simon.
He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant
nearby, Engler reasoned that
charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.
«There are very few good options in
school nutrition, and most
schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food
schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM
Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food
Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food
nearby.
In the Spring 2018 issue cover story, we present evidence on the spillover effects of
charter schools on
nearby district -
school students.
Instead of asking whether all students in
charter schools are more likely to attend segregated
schools than are all students in traditional public
schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of
charter schools to that of
nearby traditional public
schools.
In a 2015 report, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that the average
charter -
school student in the Bay Area attained significantly more growth in reading and math than similar students in
nearby district
schools — and that this difference increased the longer he or she stayed in a
charter school.
One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public
schools when a
charter school opened
nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public
school to the
charter school.
To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public
schools during this period were more positive in
schools with
charter schools nearby than in
schools not facing
charter school competition.
As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of
schools west of the park and unable to afford private
schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary
school down the street or a diverse
charter school nearby.
Sarah Cordes of Temple University shows that elementary
schools in New York City see a notable uptick in student achievement, attendance, and grade completion when a
charter school opens
nearby — and that these gains are largest when the
schools are «co-located» in the same facility.
This summer, a high - performing KIPP
charter school in Annapolis, Maryland, was forced to close because it couldn't find a permanent facility, even though the
school district, according to its own study, had 900 empty seats in a
nearby, underutilized
school.
Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical
charter gets 28 percent less funding per pupil than
nearby district
schools, in large part because few
charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.
The AFT claims that
charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district
schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between
charter and
nearby district
school student bodies.
The results add one more data point to the diverse assortment of studies about
charter performance: an example of the
charter sector outperforming, on the whole,
nearby traditional
schools.
Critics at the
nearby Roaring Fork
School District, who had long opposed the charter school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino stu
School District, who had long opposed the
charter school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino stu
school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino students.
Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto
Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a
nearby salt marsh.
WNYC public radio recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of student attrition at New York City
charter schools and found that attrition rates are generally lower at
charters than at
nearby district
schools.
According to a 2015 study of
charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at
charters out - performed comparable students at
nearby public
schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.
Some proponents have predicted that the presence of
charter schools would have a positive effect on
nearby traditional public
schools by exerting positive competitive pressure; some opponents have worried that
charter schools would harm students in
nearby traditional public
schools by draining resources.
Second, the absence of effects on achievement in
nearby traditional public
schools suggests that the loss of students to
charter schools is not having negative achievement effects on traditional public
schools, but it also suggests that
charter schools may not produce the hoped - for positive competitive effects in traditional public
schools.
The researchers examined student achievement in traditional public
schools that had
charter schools nearby, and they found that the presence of the
charter schools did not appear to help or harm student achievement in the traditional public
schools.
Charter schools do not appear to help or harm student achievement in
nearby traditional public
schools.
Even when
charter schools use simple applications, the fact that parents must submit them months before the start of
school means that «these students are in some ways more advantaged, come from more motivated families» than kids in
nearby district
schools, education analyst Michael Petrilli said.
Canada's
charter schools get better results than
nearby public
schools serving impoverished students.
The RAND team found no evidence that
charter schools substantially affect achievement in
nearby traditional public
schools.
The opening of a
charter school leads to small reductions in enrollment at
nearby district
schools, but does not change the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups, special education students, or LEP students.
Although there is no significant difference on any of the individual indicators, the sum of responses indicates that teachers» overall perceptions at a district
school improve after a
charter school opens
nearby.
I find that students in district
schools do better when
charters open
nearby: students in these
schools earn higher scores on reading and math tests and are less likely to repeat a grade.
I compare the outcomes of students at district
schools after a
charter school opens
nearby to the outcomes of students in the same
schools before a
charter opened.
To shed light on the question of spillover effects, I use data from New York City to estimate the effects of
charter schools on students in two types of
nearby district
schools: those in the same neighborhood, and those that are co-located (in the same building).
Together, this indicates that the positive spillovers of
charter schools on
nearby students at district
schools did not come at the detriment of students across the city.