Sentences with phrase «of alternative schools»

The primary empirical challenge in any study of alternative school models is selection bias.

Among the types of alternative school opportunities outside the system are the elite and costly private schools, the schools with a religious orientation, and the recently revived home schools.

The district began the redesign process of its alternative school programs in 2012 after observing that the current model was providing little improvement in student achievement.

And they are certainly part of the alternative schools story.

The most common form of alternative school operating today to serve youth in at - risk situations is designed to be part of a school district's comprehensive dropout prevention program.

The vast majority of alternative schools are district - administered programs.

The most critical question that must then be answered is what kind of alternative schooling should be designed and offered in our public schools?

Equally impressive, according to the administration, there would be close to 100 of the alternative schools operating this fall.

While just 6 percent of regular schools have graduation rates below 50 percent, our analysis found nearly half of alternative schools do.

A national map of alternative school enrollment appears on our site as seen above.

Supporters of alternative schools say they provide more support for struggling students, and the best do — through small classes, caring teachers, flexible schedules and extra counseling and tutoring.

Many states around the country have yet to determine how to best measure the quality of alternative school education.

Could she benefit from some type of alternative schooling approach?

By contrast, the administration is putting relatively little money into the creation of alternative schools specifically for students who have dropped out or are about to.

For now, passage of the charter conversion bill is the latest development in the escalating debate as to the merits of the alternative schools and how to best oversee them.

The database contains descriptions of many of these alternative schools located throughout the nation.

A cost - benefit analysis of the alternative school or program in relation to a traditional public school within the school district.

Today we see a proliferation of all kinds of alternative schools — charter schools and pilot schools, among others.

Prior to that, she took on an imposing task as the principal of an alternative school for troubled adolescents run by the New Orleans School Board.

The Christie administration has winnowed down its list of applicants for new charter schools in 2014 to four organizations, including an existing private school and a Philadelphia - based network of alternative schools.

Lena Gubiotti, community relations coordinator for High School District 214, said the district uses the Forest View building for its administrative offices, for the site of its alternative school for students with behavioral disorders, for adult education and community theater productions.

Dubbed «charter school deserts,» these areas are predominantly located in urban and rural settings and represent populations of students in most need of alternative school options.

The Arizona State Charter School Board has developed an innovative system that compares the performance of alternative schools only to that of other alternative schools.

Blake examined a number of factors including enrolment numbers, NAPLAN results, location and availability of alternative schools in compiling the list, and insisted that no conclusions were reached on any single factor.

TFA alumnus Cami Anderson is superintendent of New York City's district of Alternative Schools and Programs, where she oversees the educational needs of 50,000 young people at a variety of facilities, including transfer schools and correctional education facilities.

There is much anecdotal literature about the effectivenes of alternative schools in keeping students in school.

Said Dubelbeis: «Annexing to the village is not good enough for the 3,000 - plus students at the campus, but it will be good enough for the 6 to 12 students of the alternative school.»

The principal of an alternative school opens up about the challenges and rewards of shepherding at - risk kids to graduation.

On Twitter, reporter Vogell noted that charter schools might be a niche element of the alternative school world but that «doesn't mean we shouldn't write about this case.»

West and Woessmann demonstrate that despite all the warnings by supporters of the common state school, the existence of an extensive sector of alternative schools is of benefit to everyone.

It is as though the ex-bowling partners of Robert Putnam's lonely souls simply left the lanes behind to create this feisty array of alternative schools.

California also intends to include a proportionate share of alternative schools identified under this separate approach within the five percent of schools identified for comprehensive support.

b. Availability of counselors, measured as the percent difference between the percent of alternative schools in the district that had a counselor and the percent of regular schools that did.

Universally applying a four - year cohort graduation rate would result in the identification for comprehensive support of a significant number of alternative schools due to their program characteristics and without any regard to the achievements their students make during the time they are enrolled in such schools.

A Study of An Alternative School for Pregnant and / or Parenting Teens: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence.

But a ProPublica analysis of federal data on measures of school quality, like funding, counseling staff and graduation rates, has found that a broad swath of alternative schools shortchange their students.

President Barack Obama and Arne Duncan, his new education secretary, are trying to entice states into opening more of the alternative schools.

Execute contracts that include clear, measurable performance standards to judge the effectiveness of alternative schools, if applicable - requiring and appropriately weighting rigorous mission - specific performance measures and metrics that credibly demonstrate each school's success in fulfilling its mission and serving its special population.

American public education already does that in the form of alternative school ghettos, special ed asylums and dropout factories.

The most important lesson of this alternative school is, perhaps, rather mundane — but one that almost every school leader would heartily agree with.

She has been active in advocacy in the state of Utah and was instrumental in guiding policy makers to better understand the mission of alternative schools which resulted in an appropriate accountability system for alternative high Schools in Utah.

Finally, the proliferation of alternative schools, which often accord teachers a major decision - making role, is driving the proliferation of teacher leadership models.

Increasing the price of unsubsidized meals, dipping into reserves and other school district funds, delaying investments in equipment, facilities, and other necessities, and reducing staff and hours, are just a few of the alternatives school districts have had to do.

Under the bill, an independent oversight board would be created inside the state Department of Education to review new charters and monitor existing ones in a move to address growing questions about the quality and access of the alternative schools.

Although the curriculum of an alternative school must be real - world and engaging, it must also be credit - bearing so that students can earn a diploma, which most dropouts from traditional schools still want.

California is currently home to 912 charter schools, but the report excluded several from its report including small schools that test less than 20 students and schools that are part of the Alternative School Accountability Model.

One thing that's different about KIPP's presence in Camden, is there has been a broader of acceptance of alternative schools, Martin said.