Sentences with phrase «nearby public schools»

In fact, 29 of the top 31 empirical studies on the topic find that freedom of school choice improves the performance of nearby public schools.

As such, the vast majority of charter school teachers have less than six years of teaching experience, typically less than half the average for nearby public schools.

The vast majority of gold standard studies show greater academic achievement for both students in choice programs and those in nearby public schools.

Several external factors impact home values, but perhaps none is more important than the quality of nearby public 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.

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

The problem, she said in a separate analysis, is that Ms. Raymond compared the achievement of individual charter students with that of groups of students from nearby public schools, without making the statistical adjustments necessary to account for the natural downward biases that result from that sort of calculation.

In the two most notably rigorous studies referenced in School Choice: The Findings, Caroline Hoxby and Paul Peterson, respectively, showed students «lotteried into» charter and private schools achieve more than students in nearby public schools who were «lotteried out.»

Like most public charter schools, the Paul Cuffee School strives to provide the same excellence in educational technology as nearby public schools, but because resources must primarily be allocated to paying salaries and leasing school buildings, extra money for technology is scarce.

In Michigan the available evidence suggests that charter schools perform no better — and often worse — than nearby public schools on state assessments.

On the first issue — self - selection — the study finds that KIPP students do not have higher levels of prior achievement, and are broadly similar to students in nearby public schools demographically.

When researchers examined, for example, whether competition from private schools pressed nearby public schools to improve performance, they found that the test scores of students in these competing schools did indeed increase, albeit modestly.

Local officials worked with the Virginia General Assembly to create a «tuition grant» program that allocated vouchers for white students to attend segregated private schools or other nearby public schools.

Critics question whether KIPP skims the more - motivated parents and students from nearby public schools, making its job easier.

An additional finding described in the book is that — though there are exceptions — the average cost of private schools in the United States is about half the cost of nearby public schools.

Or maybe they feel like money is too tight and assume that the nearby public school is the only free or affordable option.

At the nearby public schools, fewer than one in ten students passed either exam.

When Lucero returns to teaching, she looks forward to testing her skills at a nearby public school.

I do look like my sister, who is an occupational therapist at a nearby public school system.

As Isabella, an 11 - year - old student who previously attended a nearby public school, said, «Here it's different from my old school because you're doing your own playlist and you have more projects.»

«The format was introduced by Walter McKenzie, creator of The One And Only Surfaquarium, who conducted a WebQuest workshop for the teachers at our school as well as teachers at the Academy for the Middle Years, a nearby public school.

Note: Nearby public schools are schools within a three - mile radius of the respective charter school, with the exception of Prairie which draws from an Hispanic area with a smaller radius.

Think back to Topeka, Kan., in the 1950s, where seven - year old Linda Brown was denied the opportunity to attend a nearby public school because she was black.

They also view participation as a way to provide an alternative curriculum to nearby public schools.

The IEP called for her to be bused twice a week to a nearby public school to receive these special education services.

More than a third perform worse than nearby public schools, and about half do about as well as public schools, the study found.

Only one in five of these charters perform better than nearby public schools — in short they tend to be crap.

I tried to switch to a nearby public school with more services, but because of 2011's special ed reform, I was told she now had to be served by her zoned school, and they were giving her all that they could.

According to their marketing materials and testimony at legislative hearings, charter schools claim that their students score 10 to 30 percent better on master tests than do students in the nearby public schools.