Sentences with phrase «neighboring public school districts»

Opportunity scholarships could be used at private schools and neighboring public school districts, should those schools choose to accept scholarship students.

Not exact matches

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

Public revenue for charter schools is typically 10 to 20 percent below per - pupil funding levels at neighboring district - run schools.

The study is rooted in analyses of parental behavior in District 4 in Manhattan and in suburban Montclair, New Jersey, with comparisons with neighboring districts that offer limited or no public school choice.

Due in large part to an «enormous» concentration of special - needs pupils, students in District of Columbia public schools are receiving an education far inferior to that of their counterparts in two neighboring suburban districts, according to a recent report by a coalition of parents and business leaders.

To qualify as a fair match - up, the charter and district schools had to be the nearest neighboring public schools of the same type (elementary or middle) and be located less than three miles apart as the crow flies.

These families are likely to have moved to a particular area because of its excellent public schools; charter schools and neighboring districts are unlikely to draw them away.

Far from an existential threat to their district - school neighbors, public charter schools can benefit not only their own students but also those in other programs down the street — or hallway.

The neighboring districts of Detroit Public Schools and Grosse Pointe Public School System in Michigan offer a stark example of this trend.

We've written before about how Indiana's public schools are adopting full - bore marketing plans to attract students to their districts — even occasionally buying ad space inside the boundaries of neighboring districts.

This is exactly what the families did, and their public school children deserve the same funding for their education that they'd receive in a neighboring district school.»

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

While many charter schools across the state achieved impressive gains, charter schools in San Diego County and in Oakland Unified School District experienced the most dramatic student achievement gains relative to their neighboring public schools.

Through this program, students who reside in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District can receive vouchers to attend neighboring public schools or private schools.

Some two thirds of students in public schools have the option of changing school buildings within their districts or neighboring districts.

But two neighboring school districts declined to take the students before a third, Pittsburgh Public Schools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighboSchools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighboschools, located in one of its poorest neighborhoods.

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An apparent anomaly on a list of top school districts that is mostly white and largely affluent, including neighboring Madison County and Rankin County Public School districts, Clinton Public Schools managed to excel against theschool districts that is mostly white and largely affluent, including neighboring Madison County and Rankin County Public School districts, Clinton Public Schools managed to excel against theSchool districts, Clinton Public Schools managed to excel against the odds.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

Yet it is worth noting that the public - school systems in Montgomery County and the neighboring District of Columbia both spent about $ 15,000 per student in the 2007 - 2008 school year — and while Montgomery County has obviously gotten a respectable return on its investment, D.C. has performed dismally, ranking dead last in the nation on 2007 and 2009 NAEP math and reading scores for fourth graders.

With student suspensions as a gauge of a school's safety climate, statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for the most recent school year available show a convergence of challenges for school districts in Madison and its neighboring suburbs.

Across Connecticut, public school districts report a loss of talented candidates to neighboring states and private schools, largely because of hurdles in the state's current certification process.

In part, it was a strategy to retain students as the district's gentrifying community increasingly chose private schools and the neighboring Denver public schools over the overwhelmingly poor and diverse Adams 50.

A legal victory has ignited a backlash against Gilbert Public Schools... John Wright, president of the state's largest teachers» union, said the lawsuit and now the ruling «have disastrous implications» for teachers in Career Ladder districts, including Gilbert's neighbors, Mesa Public Schools and Chandler Unified School District.

Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live in towns that don't have district public schools to receive their per - pupil education tax dollars to pay tuition at a neighboring town's public school or a private school of their choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.

We also look at the policies in public schools and neighboring jurisdictions that have already made efforts to reduce exclusionary discipline to discern lessons that could be useful to the District.

That's 2.1 times more than the neighboring district of Wilmette Public Schools District 39 in Wilmette, Ill., rated 10 by GreatSchools, with a median list price of $ 780,000, and 1.2 times more than Winnetka School District 36 in Winnetka, Ill., rated 10, with a median list price of $ 1.4 district of Wilmette Public Schools District 39 in Wilmette, Ill., rated 10 by GreatSchools, with a median list price of $ 780,000, and 1.2 times more than Winnetka School District 36 in Winnetka, Ill., rated 10, with a median list price of $ 1.4 District 39 in Wilmette, Ill., rated 10 by GreatSchools, with a median list price of $ 780,000, and 1.2 times more than Winnetka School District 36 in Winnetka, Ill., rated 10, with a median list price of $ 1.4 District 36 in Winnetka, Ill., rated 10, with a median list price of $ 1.4 million.