Sentences with phrase «public charter school sectors»

Across all 28 states in our study we found that public charter school sectors were more cost effective and / or generated a higher return on investment (ROI) than traditional public schools.

But while we're seeing truly great progress in supporting the quality growth of the public charter school sector, there's still a lot of work to be done here in Newark.

Twenty - five years after the first charter law was enacted in Minnesota, the public charter school sector has helped spark significant public education improvements, particularly for urban students and students of color.

Nashville's public charter school sector may be amongst the best in the country.

The public charter school sector has demonstrated great potential to create safe, caring and orderly schools that have good reason to be proud of the academic growth of their students.

Founded in 1995, the Association is dedicated to supporting Arizona's thriving public charter school sector.

Atlanta, GA, July 10, 2013 — With interest in Georgia's public charter school sector at an all - time high, the Georgia Charter Schools...

There's never been a better time to find a job in Georgia's growing public charter school sector.

Founded in 1995, the Arizona Charter Schools Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving Arizona's thriving public charter school sector.

Idaho's public charter school sector has grown to almost 50 schools and there are now about 20,000 children enrolled in the state's charters (about 7 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students).

But during the last year, ever since the Mayor meekly crawled to Albany to beg for a one - year extension, the sticking point in negotiations over the renewal of mayoral control has been the urgency of expanding NYC's public charter school sector, de Blasio's favorite whipping boy, which now serves one out of ten students in NYC, most of them poor and of color.

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In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

UPDATE: Johnson released a lengthy statement in response to the AFL - CIO attack, noting he has been a «strong supporter» of a property tax cap and charter schools, was «proud» to support Tier V — «a move that will save Long Island taxpayers $ 8.5 billion and save this state $ 35 billion over the next three decades» — and has been urging teacher and public sector unions to sit down with elected officials to «hammer out revised wage agreements that reflect the current economic reality.»

Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter schools, pushed high - stakes testing and undermined public schools.

Still, de Blasio is often at odds with the sector and its backers over granting charter schools space in public buildings.

Members of the UFT and its state affiliate, NYSUT, sent nearly 2,000 faxes and made nearly 1,000 phone calls to get their message to the Senate Republicans, who were pushing to expand and enrich the charter sector at the expense of neighborhood public schools.

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 public charter school board reviews and certifies graduates in the city's charter sector; DCPS should do the same.

As the number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

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).

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Scpublic and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter ScPublic Charter Schools.

Our analysis presents a more accurate, but still imperfect, picture of the levels of racial segregation in the charter sector relative to the traditional public - school sector.

First, the majority of students in central cities, in both the public charter sector and in the traditional public sector, attend intensely segregated minority schools.

What makes Boston's resistance to expanding charter schools so remarkable is that the city's charter sector includes some of the best urban public schools in the country, of any kind.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

A key step in establishing a charter - school sector is identifying the institutions that can authorize would - be founders to create these new public schools and grant them charters.

The result is entrenched competition between entire school sectors, such as charter versus district, public versus private.

In fact, in the vast majority of the 39 metro areas reviewed in the CRP report, the application of our central - city comparison decreases (relative to the flawed CRP analysis) the level of segregation in the charter sector as compared to the traditional public school sector.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

Demand for seats in charter schools remains high among families but public enthusiasm for continued growth of the charter sector seems to be slipping.

A third faction, let's call them the Prudent Expansionists, have thought it just dandy that NCLB would invite bad schools to close and reopen as good ones, but doubt that the charter sector has the capacity to restructure vast swaths of failing public schools.

Placing public charter schools on a par with TPS in receiving local educational funds, as Colorado plans to do, would bring over half the cities in our study to funding parity across the two public school sectors.

In the traditional public school sector in both Florida and Chicago, high schools are almost always separate from middle schools, which is not the case for charter schools.

The public sector pays teachers who hold master's degrees about 25 percent more; in charter schools, they are paid about 20 percent more.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

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).

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.

In a decade and a half, the charter school movement has gone from a glimmer in the eyes of a few Minnesota reformers to a maturing sector of America's public education system.

We did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Others seem to want the charter sector to permanently operate in parallel to a district sector, giving interested low - income families public alternatives to assigned government - run schools.

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So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

Others may want to focus on expanding their charter or private school sectors, or on fostering more choice within the traditional public sector.

It seems clear, then, that if the charter sector hopes to contribute to transformational numbers in high - quality public schools, the current CMO approach alone can't get it there.

After all, a common test does make life easier for parents «shopping» for schools across the public, private, and charter sectors and for taxpayers seeking evidence of return on investment from their education dollars.