Sentences with phrase «rates than public school students»

Proponents often assert that voucher students graduate at higher rates than public school students.

Parents: But homeschooled kids do better on achievement tests, have higher graduation rates than public school students and are actively recruited by top colleges.

Not exact matches

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

«Graduating students should be proud of their hard work and public charter schools deserve special recognition for improving at a faster rate than the district.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

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Still other researchers with national credentials report that low - income voucher students in Milwaukee graduate from high schools at higher rates than do public school students.

Public school districts in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco reported higher student - absentee rates than usual on May 1, the day of the boycott.

The Baltimore Education Resource Consortium tracked a Sixth Grade Cohort in Baltimore City Public Schools from 1990 - 2000 and showed that severely chronically absent students (more than forty days) had a 56.3 % rate of withdrawal from school or likely dropped out.

The study found that deeper learning public high schools graduate students with better test scores and on - time graduation rates nine percent higher than other schools, a win for teachers and students alike.

According to surveys conducted by the Attleboro Public Schools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teSchools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teschools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teachers.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

In the «High School and Beyond» study, Coleman's team reported that students in Catholic high schools both learned more and had higher graduation rates than their public - school School and Beyond» study, Coleman's team reported that students in Catholic high schools both learned more and had higher graduation rates than their public - school school peers.

WNYC public radio recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of student attrition at New York City charter schools and found that attrition rates are generally lower at charters than at nearby district schools.

Moreover, 12 percent of the 446,000 participants in private - school - choice programs in 2016 — 17 were in initiatives limited to students with disabilities, which is slightly higher than the 11 percent average rate of student disability in public schools nationally.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

Using data from the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship program, we find that low - income Florida students who attended private schools using an FTC scholarship enrolled in and graduated from Florida colleges at a higher rate than their public school counterparts.

Students from low - performing public schools who received and used scholarships graduated at a rate 20 percent higher than the control group.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Students in KIPP schools may be surrounded by classmates who are, on the whole, more supportive of academic achievement than peers in traditional public schools with similar poverty rates.

A 2010 report from the Education Department that examined the D.C. program found that graduation rates were higher among voucher recipients than public school students, according to reports from parents.

What we do know, with considerable certainty, is that while the percentage of students in the voucher schools with disabilities is substantially lower than the disability rate in the public schools, it is at least four times higher than public officials have claimed.

Charters, which now teach 43 percent of all public school students in the District, perform at a somewhat better rate than the DCPS system.

More than a third of Washington students who entered public high school as freshmen in the class of 2003 failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002.

More than a third of the Washington state students who entered public high school as freshmen in the class of 2003 failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002, a state education official said yesterday.

Additionally, the hiring of administrators and non-teaching staff in public schools, for whatever reason, has increased at a rate nearly three times that of students since 1992 — and more than seven times that of students since 1950!

graduated from high school and both enrolled and persisted in four - year colleges at rates that were four to seven percentage points higher than a carefully matched set of students in Milwaukee Public Schools.

Of more than 3,000 public schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate ofpublic schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate ofPublic Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate of 98 %.

In fact, some of the local charter school networks with the highest discipline rates have long enjoyed reputations as «beat the odds» schools that supposedly serve students of color better than the Minneapolis Public Sschools that supposedly serve students of color better than the Minneapolis Public SchoolsSchools.

Their students may be doing better than traditional public school students, but they're still dropping out of college at alarmingly high rates, and earning low wages.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

Regardless of high school type, persistence rates among students who enrolled in private colleges and universities were higher than those in public institutions.

She defended the network's practice of suspending even very young students at a much higher rate than at regular New York City public schools.

Students from low - income backgrounds, who make up over 80 % of the public school population, have improved at an even faster rate than the city's average.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuSchools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuschools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

If Connecticut's numbers are representative of the national rate, it appears that more than 70 percent of restraints used on special education students in public schools are not reported to the federal government, and more than 85 percent in charters.»

«Graduating students should be proud of their hard work and public charter schools deserve special recognition for improving at a faster rate than the district.

The CSF Baltimore scholarship recipients were graduating high school at a rate of 97 percent — a much higher rate than their peers in Baltimore public schools (between 40 and 60 percent), and a higher rate than students across Maryland (84 percent on average).

Charter school students are accepted into college after completing high school at a higher rate than traditional public schools.

The drop - out rate in public schools tends to have a negative effect on matriculation data, and many students who enter into trade careers tend to enroll at public schools rather than private, which decreases the rate of students who go on to college.

Under ESSA, the West Virginia Dept. of Education proposed «making out - of - school suspensions, other than those resulting from the highest level of student offenses, count against public schools» attendance rates.»

They are also graduating students from high school and enrolling them in college at much higher rates than traditional urban public schools.

DeVos supporters point to a 2013 Stanford study that found that Michigan charter - school students are learning at a faster rate in reading and math than their public - school peers — seeing an additional two months of gains in each subject.

When we consider any student identified as having a disability in kindergarten as a special needs student, these students remained at their charter schools through the 2012 - 2013 school year at a higher rate than similar students at nearby traditional public schools.

In fact, data shows that charter schools retain special education students at rates slightly higher than traditional public schools.

The one major exception is special education students, who leave charter schools at a much higher rate than either general education students in charter schools or special education students in traditional public schools.