Sentences with phrase «performing traditional public»

The performance of charter management organizations should be examined before and after they are allowed to take over a low - performing traditional public school.

School flexibility: A Miami - Dade County lawyer who sits on the state Constitution Revision Commission is proposing that high - performing traditional public school districts get the same exemptions from state statutes that charter schools are given.

Many of California's 1200 + charter schools are out - performing the traditional public schools in their areas.

In our view, «educational choice» includes: education savings accounts, scholarship tax credit programs, public charter schools, virtual charter schools, home schools, and high - performing traditional public schools.

The authors concluded that infusing these best practices from charter schools had a statistically significant effect on low - performing traditional public schools in math achievement.

Over the last two decades, charter schools have emerged as major competitors to low performing traditional public schools in some cites.

One of its most significant provisions involved making it easier for national CMOs to enter communities with low - performing traditional public schools.

In fact, many high - performing traditional public schools — particularly magnets and selective enrollments — enforce a no - excuses policy by screening the students who enter their school.

In fact, many high - performing traditional public schools — particularly magnets and selective enrollments — enforce a

A similar pattern appears for the «parent trigger» proposal, which would allow a majority of parents whose children attend a low - performing traditional public school «to sign a petition requiring the district to convert the school into a charter.»

And equity would be further enhanced if we targeted choice programs toward low income students in low performing traditional public schools.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

b. Should states limit charter schools to certain geographic areas, such as urban communities or those with a high concentration of low - performing 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.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter 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.

That's a grave blow to Carnegie - style professionalism - and becomes more damaging as evidence emerges that such schools perform just as well as, and possibly better than, traditional public schools with all their certified teachers and principals.

(See Table 7 on p. 44) To claim that half the charters perform the same or worse than traditional public schools is a grotesque distortion of the study's findings.

As evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.»

As the article puts it: «But half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools.»

Sixty percent of the charter schools studied performed worse than their traditional public school counterparts.

The study found that only 1 % of Detroit's charters performs significantly worse than the traditional public schools in reading and only 7 % in math.

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.

One was that students not offered vouchers went on to attend high - performing public schools (either traditional or charter schools).

These results tell us whether a student attending a randomly selected charter school will perform better, on average, than a similar student attending a traditional public school.

Traditional public schools have their own built - in barriers to admission, starting with zip code: You don't have to write an essay to get into a high - performing suburban school, but you do have to belong to a household with the means to buy or rent in that neighborhood.

By these traditional measures we are the highest performing four - year public high school in Oakland.

But the bottom line is that expanding high - performing public charter schools can increase the academic performance of students in both charter and traditional public schools.

It wasn't until reformers created nondistrict charter - school sectors — a space for public education outside of the traditional system — that we saw a proliferation of high - performing high - poverty schools.

Instead they provide direction for continued need to address low performing schools, whether they are traditional public schools or schools of choice.

But some note that many charters perform the same as or worse than traditional public schools.

Yet studies show that quality of charters across the nation vary, with just a small percent performing better than traditional public schools.

What came next was the 2010 launch of HISD's Apollo 20 program, the nation's first large - scale effort to implement high - performing charter school practices in a traditional public school environment.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

The most startling of these reports indicated that students who used school vouchers performed much worse on standardized tests than those who remained in traditional public schools.

Supporters say such flexibility will allow the schools to provide innovative instruction to children who do not perform well in traditional public schools.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

The CRPE report indicates that, on average, students with disabilities in charter schools suffer less from some of the academic deficits experienced by students without disabilities in online charter schools, but overall students with disabilities perform better in traditional public schools.

Once again, Mayor de Blasio needs to acknowledge that charter schools are public schools and support lifting the cap for charter schools as well as continued expansion of progressive models such as the PROSE program for traditional public schools that are both high and low performing.

Charters may or may not perform any better than traditional public schools, he says.

Charter schools are free, autonomous public schools that operate independent of traditional school district policies and many state regulations, giving them the autonomy and flexibility that are the hallmarks of high - performing schools across the country.

The law, formally called the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, enables a majority of parents at a low - performing school to force a major overhaul through a petition campaign, with reform options ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to converting the traditional public school into a charter.

«There is a role for charter schools in California's education system, and that role should be performed to the same high standards of integrity, transparency and openness required of traditional public schools.»

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

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, found that for every charter performing better than the traditional public schools in its area, there are two charters either at or below or the performance of their public school counterparts.

In other words, this strategy of district - wide school improvement will only work if there are better options available for families, either through expansion of pre-existing high - performing public schools, either charter or traditional, or through the establishment of new high - performing schools.

Federal Way Superintendent Tom Murphy, whose School Board passed a resolution in favor of charter - school legislation, said anyone applying to start a charter - school would have to show that their schools elsewhere had performed better than traditional public schools.