Sentences with phrase «of charter school students»

Roughly 40 percent of charter school students in grades 3 — 8 were black, compared with 31 percent in traditional public schools.

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.

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

The factors explaining the performance of charter school students thus remain a bit of an academic holy mystery — hotly debated, though possibly unable to be resolved for the time being.

You can also seek out parents of charter school students to find out what other families like about the school.

No other district had a higher percentage of charter school students.

About one - third of charter school students were eligible for free and reduced price lunch, which is about the same proportion as in all public schools.

The system is discriminatory, the plaintiffs said, because the majority of charter school students are black and Hispanic.

It's always surprising, if not shocking, to me that many charter school supporters and researchers don't recognize this obvious characteristic of charter school students (and lottery participants).

It found that the average academic growth of charter school students surpassed public school students in both mathematics and reading, and at each level from elementary to high school.

It is also likely that the public school selected for comparison was the school that most of the charter school students would have attended, had there been no charter school.

In 2015 - 16, 67 percent of charter school students identified as students of color, compared to 51 percent of district school students.

A snapshot of geography and ethnicity of charter school students.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

And as a taxpayer, I think it's only fair that every dollar of a charter school student's designated funding goes to educating not housing.

And only about 25 percent of charter school students were enrolled in a secondary grade during the 2003 — 04 school year.

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

More than a third of charter school students are eligible for the federal free or reduced lunch program.

Thousands of charter school students on 450 buses, along with their parents and teachers, came to the Capitol for a rally that was billed by organizers as a school field trip.

The latest report from the New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project compares the academic performance of charter school students with that of their peers who attempted to enroll in charter schools but were not selected in a random lottery.

Thousands of charter school students on 450 buses, along with their parents and teachers, came to Albany for a rally that was billed by organizers as a school field trip.

Our analysis of the 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students reveals that charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the nation.

The state's charter school association today made the following statement in response to the New York City Independent Budget Office's study on the funding of charter school students versus district school students.

Dukes is also notorious for accusing parents of charter school students of «doing the business of slave masters».

We therefore calculated weighted averages of the effects for students observed only entering charter schools and the effects for students observed exiting charters, with the weights equal to the proportion of each group in the total population of charter school students.

Will New Orleans want to continue as the U.S. city with the highest concentration of charter school students?

For two years, NECSN has supported the passage of the Charter School Students with Special Needs Act.

In short, the AFT claims that test scores of charter school students fall below those of district school students.

Amid the background of hundreds of charter school students and special needs voucher recipients decked in matching yellow scarves — symbolic of school choice — Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves told attendees that Mississippi has «significantly more work to do» in providing students options.

This week, the U-T San Diego profiled the story of charter school students learning to give back to their community through a series of service projects the school encouraged them to participate in to expand their worlds.

«Their analysis of the 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students reveals that charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the nation.»

Comparisons are also included in the report based on the percentage of charter school students making learning gains and the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.

Searching for Excellence: A Five - City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality, with research by Lyria Boast, Gillian Locke, and Tom Koester, and foreword and Fordham analysis by Terry Ryan and Aaron Churchill, considered charter schools in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis — all of which have a decade - long history of charter schools and relatively large market shares of charter school students.

Last week, CCSA, along with charter parents, presented a letter to the Sweetwater School District demanding an emergency board meeting to address the exclusion of charter school students from the Compact for Success Programs, along with other requests to include charter students in district sports competitions as well as stop the distribution of misinformation on charter schools.

To promote educational excellence for all students through equitable accountability, certification, and licensure requirements for charter schools, as well as improved research about the performance of charter school students as compared to traditional public school students.

Perkins asked about the demographic breakdown of charter school students in Upper Manhattan.

The parents of charter school students pay local taxes just like the parents of TPS students.

Those 275,000 students represent more than the total number of charter school students enrolled in the nation's 10 largest charter school communities, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Suburban Oak Park is happy to rent its vacant school buildings to charter schools because most of the charter school students come from Detroit rather than Oak Park.

Citywide, across all grades, 10.6 percent of charter school students transferred out in 2013 - 14, compared to 13 percent of traditional public school students.

One study by Duke University found that more than two - thirds of charter school students receive their education in intensely segregated settings.97 Similar research suggests that expanding charter schools may contribute to increased segregation without focused policy changes.

She said there were not enough charter schools in New York State to compare the performance of charter school students here to the performance of students at traditional public schools.

An advocacy group, «Act Now for Washington Students,» posted this photo to their Facebook page of charter school students attending a legislative committee meeting in Olympia on Nov. 20.

Parents of students enrolled in charter schools have more limited rights than in traditional district schools, but parents of charter school students still have the right to:

During National Public Charter Schools Week, parents, students, educators and local leaders come together to showcase the academic successes of charter school students and the...

The state Department of Public Instruction doesn't keep track of the household income levels of charter school students, something it does track for traditional public students.