Sentences with phrase «progress in traditional public schools»

But what if we just look at progress in traditional public schools?

Not exact matches

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

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.

Outside of those guidelines, which deal with issues such as fiscal requirements, student progress, and non-discrimination, the school is free to innovate in ways traditional public schools can not.

Students in publicly funded and independently managed online charters across the country made far less progress than their counterparts in traditional public schools.

«We are also encouraged to see that the proposal makes significant progress toward addressing the historical disparity in funding levels that students in charter schools have experienced relative to traditional public schools, a problem that was made only more severe during the state's funding crisis of recent years.

That's because this system will be a major shift in how traditional public schools teach students and measure progress.

In 2017, the average reading score of fourth - graders who took the National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, was 218 for both public charter school and traditional public school students.

More - closely monitoring the academic progress of students, essentially subjecting schools to the same Value - Added analysis that is now being applied to teachers and schools in traditional public school settings also makes sense, as does monitoring their graduation rates; a private school that doesn't make the grade shouldn't be a school that families should send their kids.

The report, published Jan. 6, found that traditional public schools and public charter schools in the District have made little progress in closing racial disparities in discipline.

Among traditionally disadvantaged students, those attending charters make greater academic progress than those in traditional public schools.