Sentences with phrase «often than charter schools»

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It's about the fact that most charter schools aren't unionized, and that more often than not they work - embarrassing the unionists.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

This is also not surprising, given that teacher hiring in charter schools is often less tightly regulated than it is in the district sector.

Charters appear to provide fewer extracurricular activities than either private or district schools, perhaps because they are newer and often have less - lavish facilities and limited space for playgrounds and sports activities.

State laws often bog charter conversions down with excess baggage, such as keeping the school under the district's collective bargaining agreement, or requiring that it have a higher percentage of certified teachers than other charters.

These early deficits are often partially offset by start - up grants from the federal Charter School Program and the Walton Family Foundation, which together typically amount to more than $ 500,000 per school, spread out over several School Program and the Walton Family Foundation, which together typically amount to more than $ 500,000 per school, spread out over several school, spread out over several years.

As blended learning has grown within district schools, it's often been a bit more ad hoc — a class here, one subject there — than in many charters in which blended learning has become a core part of the school's operations.

The heart of the piece is the claim that Detroit has experienced a dramatic increase in charter schools, but those new schools are no better or often worse than the traditional public schools.

The Times editors fault DeVos for supposedly supporting «legislative changes that have reduced oversight and accountability» for charter schools — a charge that treads a thin line between exaggeration and falsehood — and laments that DeVos wants to expand school choice in Detroit, where supposedly «charter schools often perform no better than traditional schools, and sometimes worse» [links in the original].

In fact, they cite with contempt the fact that in some instances «teachers, students, and parents successfully lobby to keep their charter school open» when authorizers attempt to shut them down, often for political rather than academic reasons.

Otherwise, the classifications could reflect differences in how often the charter schools place students in these programs rather than their students» traits.

For instance, numerous surveys have found that students and parents who transferred from district schools to charter schools thought the charters were safer, friendlier, and more effective, often by margins of more than 50 percent (see Figure 1).

This research does not show that private or charter schools are always more effective than district schools in raising student performance on standardized tests — the indicator that is often put forth as a measure of a school's success.

But today, charter school teachers often have even less voice than teachers in district public schools.

Interviews with more than 400 charter school operators from coast to coast have revealed widespread localized combat — what one administrator called «bureaucratic sand» that is often hurled in the faces of charter schools.

What is not often debated is that charter schools, which are independently run but publicly funded, generally receive less public funding per student than district - run schools.

While their fees are often lower than other private and parochial schools in their communities, they are not free, unlike charter and public schools, and financial assistance is not widely available, unlike traditional private schools.

Charter schools are often forced to operate at a much lower funding level than traditional public schools, facing an

Charter schools are often forced to operate at a much lower funding level than traditional public schools, facing an average disparity in per - pupil funding of 29 percent in metropolitan areas.

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, said charter schools are often a better academic option for students than the conventional school district they came from.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

As Matthew Ladner has shown, Arizona parents voting with their feet closed down low - performing charter schools earlier and more often than state regulators:

The policy report also finds that charter school teachers earn 20 percent less than public district school teachers while their executives (often the charter holders) earn on average 50 percent more than their counterparts in similarly - sized public school districts.

Charter schools are run by private corporations that are often more interested in generating profits than in empowering parents.

Now that the Trump administration has made school choice a cornerstone of its education policy, we thought it would be worth exploring how charter schools work, who runs them, how they're funded and whether they work better than the traditional public schools they're often competing against.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

Charter schools often receive less money than other public schools, usually don't get facility financing, and the cost of benefits keeps rising.

Too often charter schools, like other public schools, lack the specialized knowledge to know how to serve students with disabilities, especially severe disabilities, and to meet their needs directly, rather than serving them through a private placement outside of the school.

Although districts and charter schools are more often cast more as adversaries than collaborators, there are a few outposts challenging that dynamic.

While charter school advocates say the practice often reflects no more than smart budgeting, some educators and others question whether the schools receive the proper oversight to ensure that religious groups are not benefiting from taxpayer dollars intended for public school students — or that faith - based instruction is not entering those classrooms.

«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.

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

The federation's review of the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called «the nation's report card,» found that charter - school students» average scores were lower in math and reading in the fourth and eighth grades than the nationwide public - school averages.

First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools.»

More often than not, these charter schools in predominantly minority neighborhoods are higher - performing than their traditional counterparts.

The addition of charter schools in high - performing suburbs often creates more instability than reform.

Surveys show that parents rate their charter schools as better than their previous traditional public schools, often by 50 percent margins.

At the same time, parents in those same cities often hear claims by many charter schools that their students score two or three times higher than their district school counterparts.

The charters, often billed by proponents as a superior alternative to traditional schools, were seven times more likely than regular schools to get an F in the appraisal of the state's elementary and middle schools.

Charters» grade levels, programs and demographics are often different than public schools».

For example, charter schools are publicly funded but are much more independent than traditional public schools, and far more often than not, they do a better job of educating the poor.

A series of studies from CREDO at Stanford University have found that in the aggregate charter schools don't perform better than traditional public schools but often outperform them in urban areas.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

However, the distinction between for - profit and nonprofit is often messier than groups like NAPCS readily admit: Nonprofit charters can still hire for - profit management companies to run their schools.

As described in yesterday's Journal Sentinel, in his new book, UW - Oshkosh Professor Michael Ford describes a system in which public schools, private schools, and charter schools all compete for the same students and resources with what often seems like more concern for increasing their share of enrollment than for the overall outcomes achieved by students.

«Noble is exceptional because they operate almost entirely high schools, which are often the toughest grades to advance academically at high levels,» said Paul Pastorek, a member of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools review board and the former Louisiana state superintendent of education, who announced the winner before an audience of more than 3,000 charter school representatives from around the cschools, which are often the toughest grades to advance academically at high levels,» said Paul Pastorek, a member of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools review board and the former Louisiana state superintendent of education, who announced the winner before an audience of more than 3,000 charter school representatives from around the cCharter Schools review board and the former Louisiana state superintendent of education, who announced the winner before an audience of more than 3,000 charter school representatives from around the cSchools review board and the former Louisiana state superintendent of education, who announced the winner before an audience of more than 3,000 charter school representatives from around the ccharter school representatives from around the country.

Even now, teachers in New Orleans charter schools tend to be younger and more often white than they used to be.

There is a weighty and still growing body of evidence that Charter Schools do no better — and often worse — than local education districts in improving student achievement at «low performing schools.Schools do no better — and often worse — than local education districts in improving student achievement at «low performing schools.schools.»

In my report with Kenny Feder, «Choice Watch,» over at CT Voices for Children, we reported that charter schools in CT tend to have smaller proportions of emerging bilingual children and children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school districts.

Each charter school is governed by its own local school community, which often includes parents and teachers — rather than a district.