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In a study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages, for the underlying components of the S&P 500, Charter Communications Inc has taken over the # 102 spot from Stanley Black & Decker Inc, according to ETF Channel.

The state has revoked the teaching license of Christopher Fisher, 31, who was a social studies instructor at Quantum High, a charter school in Boynton...

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

The Charter of Cyrus the Great should be studied in the history of human rights.

In the charter adopted in Dallas in 2002, the Catholic bishops of this country promised to sponsor two extensive studies of the recent crisis, one to consider its nature and scope, the other to consider its causes and context.

Charter schools in New York City receive almost $ 5,000 less per student each year than traditional schools, according to a study to be released today by researchers at the University of Arkansas.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

Until it assumed a university status in September 2008 following the receipt of a Presidential Charter, the school was called Institute of Professional Studies (IPS).

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Stephen Eide in a new study finds that a flat rent of $ 2,400 per student, as recommended by the Independent Budget Office, would have resulted in 71 % of charters running deficits and potentially 577 teacher layoffs in 2011.

According to the Erie County Charter, the Chairman of the Legislature has the authority to issue the subpoena in order to: «make such studies and investigations as it deems to be in the best interest of the county, and in connection therewith to obtain professional and technical advice, appoint temporary advisory boards of citizens, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and require the productions of books, papers, and other evidence deemed necessary or material to the study or inquiry.»

The public schools in eight states — Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Utah — and the charter schools in a number of others, for example, recognize the guided self - study program of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence.

Despite dramatic growth in enrollment in online charter schools in Ohio, students are not achieving the same academic success as those in brick - and - mortar charter and public schools, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and RAND Corporation.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

If that seems like a small number of subjects for a major study, consider the fact that each acoustic transmitter costs approximately $ 300 to $ 550, not counting the investment of researchers» time and the expense of chartering a boat for the implantation phase.

«Over the years, a program that is similar to those employed in private charter schools has been implemented, but the results of this study can not be extrapolated to those schools because it is not clear that they have the same level of teachers prepared to implement the program,» the professor states.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

And next month the agency wraps up a pilot study on charter boats in Florida and North Carolina of electronic logbooks, which provide real - time reporting of catches.

Barbara studied at Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse, then went on to become a charter member of the Actor's Studio.

More importantly, in a series of studies of individual cities, this very same research organization found that charter students were realizing huge academic gains.

In examining the causes of charter school closures in the United States, former National Charter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he scharter school closures in the United States, former National Charter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he sCharter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he studied.

The United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School has declined to participate in the study so far, but it does not yet have any students in test - taking grades.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.

The decade between 1999 and 2009 saw a dramatic expansion in CMO schools, with increases of approximately 20 percent per year, a higher growth rate than seen by independent charter schools, according to a recent study by Mathematica Policy Research.

Numerous studies, including six separate analyses by the U.S. Department of Education (each of which relied on state - level data), have concluded that charter schools are more segregated than traditional public schools.

I've identified 10 rigorously designed studies of charter and private school choice programs with later life outcomes.

Using a district - level comparison, then, the RAND study, like the Ritter et al. reanalysis, found evidence of higher racial segregation among charters.

Five years of studies on charter schools prove they are meeting the needs of traditionally underserved children and forcing regular public schools to change for the better, the Center for Education Reform concludes in a report released last week.

The [RAND] study determined that in five of the seven locales, the movement of black students to charter schools meant these students attended more segregated schools (Zimmer, et al., 2009; see also Bifulco & Ladd, 2007).

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

But the guidebook's coup de grace is its deft use of the 2013 CREDO charter - performance study.

On January 6, a team of researchers, led by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas Kane and MIT Professor Joshua Angrist, released the results of a study of Boston's charter, pilot, and traditional public schools.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

The New York Center for Autism Charter School is not included in the study because it serves a very special population and is not compatible with many elements of the study.

In studying charter schools nationally, Paul Hill of the University of Washington observed in 2008 that, while money doesn't assure educational success, it's needed to innovate successfully.

Our study data are collected as follows: First, the information from each charter school application is sent to the New York City Department of Education for inclusion in its administrative database.

In a recent study called «Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next,» Andrew Kelly and I examined a set of schools that tried to get the best of both educational worlds by «converting» from Catholic schools to charter schools when their enrollment dipped below sustainable levels.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stop them.

There were two major differences among the studies: they used different evaluation methodologies, and they analyzed different sets of charter schools.

Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.

As the Chartered Institute for IT our interest in education is part of our Royal Charter to promote the study and practice of computing and to advance knowledge and education therein for the benefit of the public.

Brandon Wiley is the Director of Asia Society's International Studies Schools Network, a design - driven network of 34 public and charter schools, located in eight states, focused on nurturing students to be globally competent and college and career ready.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Wintercharter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, WinterCharter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

It is difficult to pin down the relative quality of charter and district schools with confidence without studies that use admissions lotteries to compare the achievement of students who win charter - school admission to those who don't.

Few such studies exist, and indeed this approach is impractical for studying entire sectors of charter schools within a state, not all of which are consistently oversubscribed.

Two new studies compare the views of charter school parents to the views of private school and district school parents.

Margaret Raymond, director of CREDO at Stanford University, sits down with Paul Peterson to discuss CREDO's latest study on charter schools in New York City.

In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.

• More than half of the charter kids studied live in poverty — higher than the traditional public school rate.