Sentences with phrase «of nearby charter schools»

These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.

Our analysis of competitive effects therefore investigates whether the effect of charter schools on traditional public schools varies with the number of nearby charter schools as well as with the distance to the nearest charter.

The influence of a nearby charter school on traditional public schools in the area depends, in part, on the credibility of students» threats to switch to the charter.

Not exact matches

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Before the charter opened, all Moraine students were bused to schools in the nearby suburbs of Kettering and West Carrollton.

Those schools include public charter schools, magnet schools, and other types of options both within districts and in nearby districts.

Not far from the heart of Houston, unlikely alliance between a school district and nearby charter schools is bringing the best of both worlds to area students.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

«There are very few good options in school nutrition, and most schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food nearby.

In the Spring 2018 issue cover story, we present evidence on the spillover effects of charter schools on nearby district - school students.

Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.

One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public schools when a charter school opened nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public school to the charter school.

As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

Sarah Cordes of Temple University shows that elementary schools in New York City see a notable uptick in student achievement, attendance, and grade completion when a charter school opens nearby — and that these gains are largest when the schools are «co-located» in the same facility.

Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical charter gets 28 percent less funding per pupil than nearby district schools, in large part because few charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.

The AFT claims that charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between charter and nearby district school student bodies.

The results add one more data point to the diverse assortment of studies about charter performance: an example of the charter sector outperforming, on the whole, nearby traditional schools.

Critics at the nearby Roaring Fork School District, who had long opposed the charter school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino stuSchool District, who had long opposed the charter school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino stuschool's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino students.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

WNYC public radio recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of student attrition at New York City charter schools and found that attrition rates are generally lower at charters than at nearby district 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.

Some proponents have predicted that the presence of charter schools would have a positive effect on nearby traditional public schools by exerting positive competitive pressure; some opponents have worried that charter schools would harm students in nearby traditional public schools by draining resources.

Second, the absence of effects on achievement in nearby traditional public schools suggests that the loss of students to charter schools is not having negative achievement effects on traditional public schools, but it also suggests that charter schools may not produce the hoped - for positive competitive effects in traditional public schools.

The researchers examined student achievement in traditional public schools that had charter schools nearby, and they found that the presence of the charter schools did not appear to help or harm student achievement in the traditional public schools.

Even when charter schools use simple applications, the fact that parents must submit them months before the start of school means that «these students are in some ways more advantaged, come from more motivated families» than kids in nearby district schools, education analyst Michael Petrilli said.

The opening of a charter school leads to small reductions in enrollment at nearby district schools, but does not change the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups, special education students, or LEP students.

Although there is no significant difference on any of the individual indicators, the sum of responses indicates that teachers» overall perceptions at a district school improve after a charter school opens nearby.

I compare the outcomes of students at district schools after a charter school opens nearby to the outcomes of students in the same schools before a charter opened.

To shed light on the question of spillover effects, I use data from New York City to estimate the effects of charter schools on students in two types of nearby district schools: those in the same neighborhood, and those that are co-located (in the same building).

Together, this indicates that the positive spillovers of charter schools on nearby students at district schools did not come at the detriment of students across the city.

Limiting comparisons to students who attended the same district schools accounts for all features of schools that do not change over time, such as their spatial attributes (that is, whether nearby buildings are suitable for housing a charter school).

A 2014 study found the typical charter getting just 72 percent of what's spent in nearby district schools.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

I also find that charter school entry has only a small impact on the probability of students exiting nearby district schools.

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.

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Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

About a third of the eligible students in the district's boundaries attend the charter; the others are at neighboring districts or other nearby charter schools.

As evidence mounts that most charters are outperforming nearby regular public schools, the governor and state Legislature need to step up their support of charters.

Besides giving new authority to the chancellor, the mayor is also proposing to allow some charter schools — those located in «high need» areas of the city — to become neighborhood schools, which students living nearby would have a right to attend.

Students at the majority of the charter schools that could be turned down Tuesday by LA Unified's school board are performing academically above their peers in nearby schools.

Just 53 parents at Desert Trails, a school of about 600 kids, made the final call to turn the building — and the public funds to run it — over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town.

Using an individual panel data set to control for student fixed effects, we estimate the impact of charter schools on students in charter schools and in nearby traditional public schools.

Disclosure of school operations, especially as relates to finances, should be mandatory for charters, they say, because the failure of such an institution impacts nearby school districts and the students who are displaced when a charter must close down.

The Spending Blind report also underscored the CREDO findings: The education offered at three fourths of the charters was worse than that provided at nearby district schools.

This contract fails to resolve many serious issues that were identified in the review of the proposal for this charter school, including inadequate staffing and student services, a budget shortfall, and no way to ensure enrollment reflects the demographics of nearby neighborhoods or the district.

(Warhaftig has released his own data analysis of high schools, which includes magnets, charters, and traditional schools both in LA Unified and in other nearby school districts.)

For example, in 2011, AFT engaged the NAACP, now on the union's payroll, to file a lawsuit to keep some children in Harlem in their failing traditional public schools, instead of allowing them to attend nearby superior (non-unionized) charter schools.

Most are outperforming nearby district schools, but the majority of the denials stem from charters» rejection of specific language required by the district in their petitions.

Among those who enrolled in the spring — some just weeks before the school year ended — were a 17 - year - old from Guatemala returning to classes for the first time since he was in sixth grade, a ninth - grader who left a nearby charter school after she was caught with marijuana, and an 18 - year - old who dropped out of Southeast Washington's Ballou High earlier in the year after moving into a group foster home in Northwest Washington.