Sentences with phrase «of students in regular public schools»

We can address this issue by comparing the prior test scores of charter school applicants in our data with the test scores of students in regular public schools in their neighborhoods (within three miles).

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This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

Unfortunately, charter schools and regular public schools have some information recorded differently in the New York City database, and these differences cause charter schools» numbers of special education and English language learner students to be understated.

Many of the parents who initially supported the idea of integrating special education students into regular education classrooms in Portland are now worried about how the Portland Public School System is doing it.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

In a program sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative, students come to Rolling Meadows High School to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near ChicagIn a program sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative, students come to Rolling Meadows High School to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near ChSchool to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chicagin one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chicagin their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chschool districts near Chicago.

Judging from the steady stream of news reports about teachers in traditional public schools sleeping with students, it appears that no amount of background checks or government oversight can eliminate rare but regular instances of misconduct.

(The program substantially enhances high school graduation rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower cost per student than education in the regular public schools of the District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;

The same Stanford researcher conducted an RCT of charter schools in Chicago and found: «students in charter schools outperformed a comparable group of lotteried - out students who remained in regular Chicago public schools by 5 to 6 percentile points in math and about 5 percentile points in reading....

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

While the differences in incoming achievement are not dramatic, they certainly do not support the theory that charter schools drain regular public schools of their best, most - advantaged students.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

Standard value - added analyses, which are often used to evaluate charter schools, rely entirely on an unusual group of students who switch from regular public schools to charter schools late in their elementary - school careers.

These data provide us with information on achievement, as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), before students applied and, even more crucially, with post-application achievement data for students who remained in Chicago's regular public schools.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

Analyses from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center estimate that over 120,000 public high school students in the state of Texas failed to graduate with a regular diploma last school year.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

With an average score of 258, DC students attending DCPS regular public schools fall roughly around the national average for sixth graders in 2015 (students nationally scored 281 on average in 2015).

In Washington, DC, improvement among regular public school students matched the national rate of improvement with an eight - point gain.

An analysis by the Carroll County Public School District in Virginia shows that the 400 students in the virtual program there performed worse than the regular students in 19 of 26 categories on the state assessment test.

Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.

Arne Duncan thinks that magnet schools are the answer, yet there is absolutely no evidence that they succeed better than regular public school despite the inherit advantage of having students of parents interested enough in their children's education to enroll them in one.

But the students in the college - bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.

Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011) and Angrist, Pathak, and Walters (2013) found similar estimates of the impact of a year in a Boston area charter school whether they compared charter school admission lottery winners and losers or whether they compared charter attendees to regular public school students with similar observed characteristics.

ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test scores than in comparable regular public schools...

By comparison, the «Harlem - Scarsdale» gap only widens over the same span of grades for students who remain in regular public schools, according to the study.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

The analysis of charter management organizations is based on a «virtual control record» method, in which students in those schools are compared to «virtual twins» who attend regular public schools the charter students would otherwise have attended.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial compoSchools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composPublic Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial compoSchools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composchools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial compospublic schools with similar racial composchools with similar racial composition.

The study, by Christopher Lubianski and Sarah Theule Lubianski of the University of Illinois, compared fourth - and eighth - grade math scores of more than 340,000 students in 13,000 regular public, charter and private schools on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

hold an active National Board Certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and be employed as a teacher in a public school in Virginia on September 30 of the current school year with at least 50 percent of the regular school day engaged in direct instruction with students; and

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

The closing of six charter schools belonging to the Imagine Schools chain, in 2011 - 12, also brought more students back to the regular public sschools belonging to the Imagine Schools chain, in 2011 - 12, also brought more students back to the regular public sSchools chain, in 2011 - 12, also brought more students back to the regular public schoolsschools.

«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.

During the first semester of the second year of the master's program, each participant completed a full - time student teaching experience in a public school setting under the direct supervision and guidance of a regular classroom science teacher.

Kathlyn Paananen, Housing and Education Manager for Seattle Public Schools, speaks to the significance of caring adults in a student's life as having a proven positive impact on student success, «Best practices to address attendance include having a supportive community that positively reinforce regular school attendance!»

Charter school operators, who are in the business because they believe they can do a better job of educating students than the regular public schools, argue they sought to bring the benefits of their schools to the students most in need.

In a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that public schools must provide students with disabilities an «educational program [that is] appropriately ambitious in light of [a particular student's] circumstances, just as advancement from grade to grade is appropriately ambitious for most children in the regular classroom.&raquIn a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that public schools must provide students with disabilities an «educational program [that is] appropriately ambitious in light of [a particular student's] circumstances, just as advancement from grade to grade is appropriately ambitious for most children in the regular classroom.&raquin light of [a particular student's] circumstances, just as advancement from grade to grade is appropriately ambitious for most children in the regular classroom.&raquin the regular classroom.»

In regular public school schools, there were 182 kids expelled out of a student body of more than 353,000.

A number of studies have shown that in addition to benefitting from a more desegregated schooling experience, magnet school students tend to outperform students in regular public and private schools in both reading and math scores on standardized tests (Frankenberg & Seigel - Hawley, 2008).

The state longitudinal dropout rate is calculated by determining the total number of students enrolled in Texas public schools in seventh grade and subtracting the total number of those same students receiving a high school diploma five years later, excluding students who will not graduate but are still enrolled in the regular school program that leads to acquiring a high school diploma (such as students who were retained or do not have sufficient credits), divided by the number of pupils in the original seventh grade group and multiplying by 100 to determine the percentage.

In the 2007 - 08 school year, each campus had a higher proportion of students meeting or exceeding state standards in reading, mathematics, and science than students in the regular Chicago public schoolIn the 2007 - 08 school year, each campus had a higher proportion of students meeting or exceeding state standards in reading, mathematics, and science than students in the regular Chicago public schoolin reading, mathematics, and science than students in the regular Chicago public schoolin the regular Chicago public schools.

Students in Boston's charter schools gained 12 months of additional learning per year in reading and 13 months of additional learning in math compared with their regular public school counterparts.

Charter schools do not bring on equality; in fact they EXACERBATE INEQUALITY, as they tend to skim off the higher - performing students, leaving the regular public schools with a greater concentration of troubled children.

The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools...