Sentences with phrase «number of charters»

An increasing number of charter schools are using «blended learning» models, where students go to school but spend lots of time in front of keyboards and screens.

However, a growing number of charter schools aims to serve a more diverse student body.

When large numbers of charters fail to perform as well as the failing mainline schools they were supposed to be an alternative to, it threatens the entire sector, he said.

Choice now is essentially among existing public schools and a limited number of charter schools — less than 2,000 nationwide, scattered across 36 states.

These less restrictive placements may be facilitated by the higher number of charter students with less severe disabilities, i.e., specific learning disabilities.

In addition, the total number of charter school students surpassed 3 million for the first time in 2016 - 17.

In recent years, only a small number of charter schools have received adverse publicity, and in a number of cases their accomplishments have been covered positively in the press.

But, we also have to acknowledge that a significant number of charter schools are not fulfilling their central mission: preparing students for success in college, careers, and life.

But they also serve the greatest number of charter school students, which is a large contributing factor.

The potential cost of allowing unlimited numbers of charter schools, which operate on public dollars but are run as non-profits, isn't known.

There is not yet a sufficient number of charter school students in grades 9 through 12 for us to report achievement effects for this group.

The point was that competition was most effective in areas where a fair number of charter schools had sprouted up.

The growing number of charter high schools are providing students more educational options (some of them stronger than others).

First, we have to establish a limited number of charter schools.

Their success was attributed to the small number of charters that met stringent authorization qualifications.

Only 1 in 3 states offer a significant number of charter - school opportunities.

Or states might allow an unlimited number of charter schools to open, with enough funds to cover both operations and capital costs.

Today, however, a small, but growing number of charter schools are challenging that skepticism — and proving it wrong.

Podgursky, Pendergrass, and Hesla found that an increasing number of charters in these states, particularly those run by charter management organizations, opt out of state pension plans to offer their own benefit.

Many states, like Massachusetts, cap charter schools either by number of charters or by various percentages of total public school...

California has the highest number of charter schools in the country, growing to 809 in 2009, and serving some 341,000 students.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the natio...

* UPDATED An unprecedented number of charter school petitions could be denied next week because Los Angeles charter leaders are standing up against district policies they say require increasing amounts of time and money to satisfy and take away resources from the classroom.

Recently, some have floated a compromise centered on a small, controlled number of charters as pilots.

This promising pattern of performance may well reflect the fact that a surprising number of charter schools in these states serve suburban students, bucking the national trend of charters concentrating in big cities.

This contrasts to the state providing only between 5 percent and 62 percent of funding for Texas urban school districts located in the cities where a substantial number of charter schools exists (estimates based on TEA spreadsheet produced September 2016).

As San Diego plays host to the CCSA Conference in March our region has the honor to host the CCSA Parent Summit on March 13 at the Downtown San Diego Convention Center and sponsor a limited number of Charter Parents to attend the daylong conference.

The current number of charter schools in LAUSD is 285.

Beginning in 1997, when North Carolina's first charter school opened, state law set a maximum number of charter schools allowed to operate at 100, which was the status quo for more than a decade.

Second, the cap is designed to produce favorable academic results for students; by forcing many charter startup groups to apply for only a low number of charter allowances, natural competition forces charter schools in Massachusetts to perform relatively highly; this paper will investigate this purpose further.

The state Senate has approved a bill giving a five year extension of mayoral control, but additionally providing for increases in then number of charter schools.

The city maintains control over its numbers through the issuing of a fixed number of charters.

As my colleague Halley Potter and I note in a forthcoming book, A Smarter Charter, a small but important number of charter schools — from High Tech High in San Diego to Community Roots in Brooklyn — are taking conscious steps to create socioeconomically and racially diverse school environments.

For a growing and already sizable number of charter school students in Buffalo, summer no longer means sleeping late, settling in front of the television set or getting together with friends down the street.

At Tuesday's meeting, the board will be considering an unprecedented number of charter denials.

With the largest number of charters issued in Florida, Broward County is recognized by many as ground zero in the fight for school choice.

This positive impact of charter schools in Denver is almost entirely due to the achievements of a small number of charter management organizations (CMOs) that have academic performance significantly better than both district - operated schools and single - school charters.

The combined number of charter schools in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties grew from 443 in 2015 - 16 to 461 in 2016 - 17, according to the California Charter Schools Association.

Although the 11th grade number of charter growth appears alarming for LAUSD, it is actually the 6th, 7th and 8th grade numbers that are most alarming.

In 2000, the foundation helped launch the Charter School Growth Fund, which offers start - up and facilities financing, multiyear program grants, technical and other supports to a select number of charter networks each year.

As gatekeepers reluctantly approve an increasing number of charter schools on the heels of several high profile charter school closures, one is left to wonder: have we reached the tipping point of quality vs. quantity?

By 2004 — 05, the number had grown to 99; state law currently caps the total number of charter schools at 100.

Many states, like Massachusetts, cap charter schools either by number of charters or by various percentages of total public school enrollment.

In recent years, CCSA has seen a growing number of charter schools across the state struggle through the renewal process.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

The Kauffman Foundation funds have begun to recycle and revolve, enabling CSDC to serve an even greater number of charter schools.