As you might be aware, even though charter schools are public schools, we are not funded equally as our traditional
public district school counterparts.
Not exact matches
City charter
schools in
public school buildings are far more overcrowded than their
district - run
counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.
Due in large part to an «enormous» concentration of special - needs pupils, students in
District of Columbia
public schools are receiving an education far inferior to that of their
counterparts in two neighboring suburban
districts, according to a recent report by a coalition of parents and business leaders.
GCI also found that charter
schools paid teachers on average 20 % less than
public school districts while paying administrators significantly more (about 50 % greater than their
counterparts in similar - sized
public school districts).
And a 2015 Stanford University study cited by the National Alliance for
Public Charter
Schools showed that low - income Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district s
Schools showed that low - income Black students in charter
schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district s
schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black
counterparts in traditional
district schoolsschools.
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.
Specifically, the data book reports that two
public charter
schools in Eastern Idaho serve a significantly lower number of Hispanic students than their
district counterparts (24 % in
public charter vs. 51 % in the Jerome Joint SD, for example).
In fact,
public charters are doing better than their
district school counterparts at getting these at - risk students to graduate, as can be seen in data from the 2008 high
school cohort (students graduating four years later and released in 2013).
In 2014, New York City's budget office released a report making the claim that attrition among charter
schools of special education students was higher than their
district public school counterparts.
The study of charter
schools in 15 states and the
District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter
schools do better academically than their traditional
counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional
public schools.»
It is no bargain that many teachers who teach in a
public charter
school are paid less than their
school district counterparts because of the funding gap.
Finally, BVP also purposefully collaborates and shares best practices with its traditional
public school district counterparts as well as other charters.
It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter
schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate
public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their
district school counterparts.
An updated IBO report confirms that not only do NYC charter
schools receive less in
public spending than their
district counterparts, but this funding disparity continues to grow.
at approximately 64 percent of their
district counterparts, averaging $ 7,131 per pupil compared to the average per pupil expenditure of $ 11,184 in traditional
public schools.
Nationwide, charter
schools are funded at approximately 64 percent of their
district counterparts, averaging $ 7,131 per pupil compared to the average per pupil expenditure of $ 11,184 in traditional
public schools.
More than 80 percent of
public charter
school students in Connecticut scored higher in both Math and English Language Arts than their
district school counterparts on the 2016 - 17 SBAC, and 70 percent of charter
school students identify as low - income.
Eighty - three percent of charter
schools in Boston significantly outperformed their regular
public school counterparts, and none of the charter
schools performed significantly worse than the regular
district schools.