Sentences with phrase «nearby districts»

The results indicate that charter schools tend to increase or, at the very least, do not harm the performance of at - risk student populations in nearby district schools.

Independent study charters have assumed they could legally operate resource centers for the convenience of students living in other nearby districts.

These universities will build partnerships with nearby districts and implement clinical components of teacher preparation within schools.

One nearby district saved 1.2 million dollars in one year by direct - ordering food.

I also find that charter school entry has only a small impact on the probability of students exiting nearby district schools.

Families choose from among charter schools, magnet schools, district schools, and schools in nearby districts.

It garners 2.2 times the listing views of Harris County and 1.2 and 1.0 times as many views, respectively, as nearby districts of Pasadena in Pasadena, Texas (rated 5) and La Porte Independent School District in La Porte, Texas.

These disadvantaged populations have high rates of educational mobility, but rates of exit from KIPP schools are typically no higher than rates at nearby district schools.

A record number of charter schools, all outperforming nearby district schools, have been recommended for denial by LA Unified staff when their petitions come before Tuesday's school board meeting.

Voters are to go to the polls there on March 27 to decide whether the system should become a noninstructional district — a step that would require sending all its students to nearby districts on a tuition basis and would have a significant effect on its proposed budget for the coming school year.

Dismantling Brown's district would have the side effect, of course, of allowing Democrats to «unpack» the district, taking its many Democratic voters and spreading them around nearby districts, creating three or four Democratic - leaning districts where there is currently just one solidly Democratic district.

We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have large achievement effects in the first year of students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any effects.

A recent University of Utah study found that the presence of more charter schools in an area increases the academic achievement of students attending nearby district schools.

The superintendent of Albion Public Schools wants nearby districts to stop sending buses to Albion to pick up school - of - choice students.

Since the appeals court's decision provides «binding precedent and clarity,» said Lozano Smith attorney Sloan Simmons, school districts across the state can cite the appeals court decision to order closure of resource centers of charters authorized by nearby districts.

Virginia has no parental leave policies, but nearby District of Columbia introduced new legislation in 2015 to provide its residents with up to 16 weeks of paid family leave in a year, the most generous family leave policy in the nation.

Ladera Ranch is a community within a community which means students will share high schools with other nearby districts.

Most are outperforming nearby district schools, but the majority of the denials stem from charters» rejection of specific language required by the district in their petitions.

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.

Luckily, it appeared that these districts would be able to partner with nearby districts in order to fund the program (Wiser).

They outscore their peers in nearby district schools in both math and ELA tests.

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).

At the same time in a nearby district, Reverend Peter Kainwo, a pastor at Mission for Salone, has been visiting mosques during Friday prayers with the same purpose.

Miller, Aaron and other parents discovered that nearby districts were spending less and providing higher quality meals by cooking from scratch using commodity products, applying for fresh produce grants and managing foodservice operations themselves.

A three - judge Federal District Court redrew District 23 and four other nearby districts: 15, 21, 25, and 28.

Seven are taking on Rep. Mimi Walters in Orange County, while eight want to unseat Republican Dana Rohrbacher in a nearby district.

Success Academy received about 850 applications from parents who live in School District 14 and roughly 550 applications from parents who live in nearby District 16, the spokesman added.

That same year DuPont found that a nearby district's water supply contained three times that figure, and though the issue was debated within the company, they decided against making this information public.

Those schools include public charter schools, magnet schools, and other types of options both within districts and in nearby districts.

Are a nearby district's staff developers known for their enthusiasm, professionalism, and preparedness?

In the Spring 2018 issue cover story, we present evidence on the spillover effects of charter schools on nearby district - school students.

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.

The salary scales in each of the nearby districts we examined displayed evidence of gradual tinkering in response to political pressure.

Of these teachers, 13 (21 percent) have come from schools in high socioeconomic areas in Madison or nearby districts, and they are among the best teachers from the area.

The demographics of the CMO schools are roughly similar to nearby district - run schools.

In terms of prior achievement, KIPP schools generally admit students who are disadvantaged in ways similar to their peers in nearby district schools.

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.

About half of the teachers who resign accept jobs in nearby districts, often leaving Brockton officials scrambling to find replacements.

By Pecchia's count, nine nearby districts have adopted «open - enrollment» policies and now welcome pupils from beyond their own boundaries.

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.

Nearby districts have adopted blended learning on their own.

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.

She has helped, for instance, mend misconceptions about career and technical education by convening the district's secondary - math teachers with peers at the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology — a technical high school serving Bellefonte and two other nearby districts.

Schools may only give preference to siblings of current students or students enrolled in nearby district schools that have received a «D» or «F» grade.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

The Shorewood, Wis., schools had never hired a woman for a high - level job when, in 1981, Barbara Grohe, a 36 - year - old assistant superintendent from a nearby district, was picked to succeed veteran schools chief Doug Brown.

It also appears that charter schools may have small, negative effects on absenteeism at nearby district schools.