Sentences with phrase «percent in traditional public schools»

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES 1999 - 2000), 27.3 % of the students in charter schools are African Americans, compared to 16.9 % percent in traditional public schools; 20.8 % percent are of Hispanic origin, compared to 14.9 % in traditional public schools, and 2.3 % are Native Americans, compared to 1.2 % in traditional schools.

According to research released in 2010 by professor Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, 70 percent of black charter school students attend a school where the bulk of their peers are also minorities — compared to 40 percent in traditional public schools.

Charters serve proportions of students with disabilities at rates close to traditional public schools: 12.55 percent in traditional public schools compared to 10.42 percent in charter schools.

In 2014, only 11 percent of its students were proficient in English and 18 percent in math, compared to 28 and 36 percent in traditional public schools with similar demographics.

In fact, 68.5 percent of the Big Apple's charter students are proficient in math compared with 57.3 percent in traditional public schools.»

According to WNYC, Icahn's attrition rate for the 2013 — 14 school year was 8 percent for elementary school grades and 5.4 percent for middle school grades, compared to an overall rate of 13 percent in traditional public schools.

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

Around 50 to 60 percent of traditional charter school students are Black, compared to approximately 10 percent in online charters and 12 percent in traditional public schools.

Not exact matches

But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.

«Some 96 percent of students in public education attend traditional public schools,» Magee said.

His resolution would support the Board's request to reserve 17 percent of seats for «traditional» Buffalo Public Schools applicants in an effort to «remedy imbalances.»

Fifty - two percent of city charter school students were in 90 - 100 % minority schools, compared to only 34 % of traditional public school students — a difference of eighteen percentage points, very similar to the overall difference of twenty percentage points between the two sectors of schools (Table 22 on p. 63 of our report).

The focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

For example, the authors note that in the Washington, D.C., CBSA, 91 percent of students in charter schools attend hypersegregated schools, while only 20 percent of students in that same area attend hypersegregated traditional public schools.

For the 39 CBSAs examined by the authors, only 22 percent of the traditional public schools were located in central cities, compared to 51 percent of the charter schools.

As the authors themselves note, across the country only 2.5 percent of public school children roam the halls in charter schools each day; the remaining 97.5 percent are compelled to attend traditional public schools.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

For example, under the CRP method, 91.2 percent of the charter students in the DC CBSA are in hypersegregated minority schools, as compared to just 20.9 percent of the students in traditional public schools.

According to the authors» own numbers in Table 20, more than half (56 percent) of charter school students attend school in a city, compared to less than one - third (30 percent) of traditional public school students.

The D.C. metro CBSA contains 1,186 traditional public schools, 1,026 of which are in Virginia, Maryland, and even West Virginia; only 13 percent of the traditional public schools in the D.C. CBSA are actually situated in the racially isolated District of Columbia.

In Florida, 57 percent of students who went from a charter school in 8th grade to a traditional public school in 9th grade received a standard high school diploma within four years, compared to 77 percent of charter 8th graders who attended a charter high schooIn Florida, 57 percent of students who went from a charter school in 8th grade to a traditional public school in 9th grade received a standard high school diploma within four years, compared to 77 percent of charter 8th graders who attended a charter high schooin 8th grade to a traditional public school in 9th grade received a standard high school diploma within four years, compared to 77 percent of charter 8th graders who attended a charter high schooin 9th grade received a standard high school diploma within four years, compared to 77 percent of charter 8th graders who attended a charter high school.

The average performance composite among traditional public schools increased from 67 percent in 1996 — 97 to 75 percent in 1999 — 2000 as the number of charter schools in the state increased from 0 to more than 70.

28.3 percent of teachers in traditional public schools miss eleven or more days of school for illness or personal reasons.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schoolIn Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schoolin college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percenIn Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percenin 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percenin a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

These students are much more likely to attend Detroit's traditional public schools than charters: 18 percent of DPS students have IEPs compared to 10 percent in charter schools.

For 90 percent of the 6,576 transfers in our database, the distance between the charter school where the student enrolled and the traditional public school the student attended the previous year is less than ten miles.

Both Detroit's charter and traditional public - school sectors serve predominantly African American families (roughly 85 percent) with limited economic resources (in charters, 84.5 percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch versus 81.6 percent in district schools).

Charter advocates claim the schools receive 70 percent of what traditional public schools in New Jersey receive, on average, while charter critics note that many outspend traditional public schools.

Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

Fifty - two percent of city charter - school students were in 90 to 100 percent minority schools, compared to 34 percent of traditional public - school students.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

For example, the Civil Rights Project reports that, in the metropolitan area surrounding the District of Columbia, 91.2 percent of charter students are in segregated schools, compared with just 20.9 percent of students in traditional public schools.

Notably, while most teachers in traditional public schools are tenured and have multiyear contracts, 96 percent of charter teachers in their study were either at - will employees or had annual contracts; thus charters can and do separate ineffective teachers.

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

Charters nationally are producing student achievement gains that are very similar to the levels in traditional public schools but receive about 30 percent less money per pupil.

No fewer than 26 % percent of respondents living with school - age children have used an alternative to traditional public schools at some point in those children's education.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

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.

A total of 34.6 percent of teachers in North Carolina's traditional public schools missed more than 10 days of work because of sick days or personal days, compared to 12.8 percent of teachers in the state's charter schools.

In school year 2009 - 2010, which was the most recent data available at the time of our review, approximately 11 percent of students enrolled in traditional public schools were students with disabilities compared to about 8 percent of students enrolled in charter schoolIn school year 2009 - 2010, which was the most recent data available at the time of our review, approximately 11 percent of students enrolled in traditional public schools were students with disabilities compared to about 8 percent of students enrolled in charter schoolin traditional public schools were students with disabilities compared to about 8 percent of students enrolled in charter schoolin charter schools.

In a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public schooIn a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public schooin an alternative setting that was not a traditional public school.

Their enrollment surged by 1,500 in 2000 - 01, to an estimated 9,450 students, or 12 percent of those still enrolled in traditional public schools.

The same study found that 61 percent of Arizona charter parents gave their schools an A + or an A. Comparable surveys of Arizona parents with children in traditional public schools found only 38 percent grading their schools A + or A.

The researchers found 28 percent of teachers in traditional public schools, more than one in four, were chronically absent.

In Connecticut, public charter schools receive $ 11,000 per student from the State, approximately 75 percent of the per - pupil funding allocated to traditional public schools.

In New Orleans, where 7,000 teachers lost their jobs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and traditional schools were replaced by public charter schools, the share of teachers who were black fell from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 201In New Orleans, where 7,000 teachers lost their jobs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and traditional schools were replaced by public charter schools, the share of teachers who were black fell from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 201in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and traditional schools were replaced by public charter schools, the share of teachers who were black fell from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 201in 2012.

We find that students attending schools in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program score a staggering 16 percent higher than students in traditional public schools.