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To CStephenBaldwin: Since you know so much and you are part of the for - profit charter con, have your read about charter school fraud and the hedge fund managers?

Enjoy reading about our charter schools and the stellar kids they're educating.

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Then I read this article from Los Angeles magazine about one charter school's attempt to institute an Alice Waters Edible Schoolyard program.

Randi Weingarten likes to brag a little about the reading and math test scores posted this year at two New York City charter schools she...

Read the New York Times expose and hear what charter school employees have to say about the methods used by those running the schools.

Students from Buffalo's Enterprise Charter School and Bennett Park Montessori PS # 32 were on hand for the announcement which featured songs about books and reading by local performers The Hill Brothers.

That night I read his proposal that school districts should no longer run schools directly but, instead, oversee performance contracts for charter - like schools, and I could barely get to sleep because I couldn't stop thinking about his idea.

The same Stanford researcher conducted an RCT of charter schools in Chicago and found: «students in charter schools outperformed a comparable group of lotteried - out students who remained in regular Chicago public schools by 5 to 6 percentile points in math and about 5 percentile points in reading....

Charter schools in the NewSchools» portfolio achieve proficiency rates in reading and math that are about 9 percentage points higher, on average, than those achieved by schools in their host districts.

That study, and a follow - up report published two years later, found that in Detroit, about half to three - fifths of charter schools outperformed demographically similar district schools on reading and math assessments.

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.

Based on the findings presented here, the typical student in Michigan charter schools gains more learning in a year than his [traditional public school (TPS)-RSB- counterparts, amounting to about two months of additional gains in reading and math.

Read more about charters in Arizona and the other Four Corners states in «In Defense of Education's «Wild West»» from our Spring 2018 issue, or learn more about charter schools by visiting our topics page.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

Read more about how the Park City charter school community came together now!

But when you compare the charters to the DCPS schools they're actually competing with — the ones outside of Ward 3 — the gap becomes more dramatic: The proficiency rate among charter students last year was about 34 percent higher in math and 30 percent higher in reading.

Here are edited excerpts from our Story Suite conversation with two leaders learning about the potential to authorize charter schools in Alabama: Eleanor Dawkins and Melissa Snowden, both members of the Montgomery County... Read More

«For every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.»

Read more about why his work with charter schools is more than just a job.

They found that, in reading, about one in four charter schools outperformed its traditional counterpart, while one in five performed worse.

CREDO released a 2014 report (http://credo.stanford.edu/pdfs/LA2014ReleaseFinal.pdf) finding that the typical LA charter school student gains more learning in a year than his / her district school peer, amounting to about 50 more days of learning in reading and an additional 79 days of learning in math.

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I remember that when I made my first attempt to go back to college four months after having my daughter Cereta in 1999, I read a book for one of my educational courses about the debate over charter versus traditional schools.

Matt Barnum, at Chalkbeat, gives an easy - to - read breakdown of «what the NAACP is worried about, what we know about those issues, and what the group's recommendations could mean for the charter school world.»

About 38 percent of enrollments in charter schools and about 33 percent of enrollment in district schools were «beating the odds» in math; in reading, the percentages are also simAbout 38 percent of enrollments in charter schools and about 33 percent of enrollment in district schools were «beating the odds» in math; in reading, the percentages are also simabout 33 percent of enrollment in district schools were «beating the odds» in math; in reading, the percentages are also similar.

Read more about the award in The Boston Foundation's press release: Brooke Charter Schools Wins Pozen Prize.

So that was just one school district and I read later about another school district doing the same thing, also complaining about how much money it was «losing» by having the kids enroll in charter schools versus staying in the traditional public schools (TPS).

• Read more about charters: How charters went from a «novelty» to dominate the conversation of LAUSD, 9 questions and answers about LA's charters and Alliance College - Ready Public Schools: A replicable model or unique success?

For example, I read about a district in San Diego that was losing $ 65.9 M per year to charter schools because the kids are signing up and attending local charter public schools.

The Building Hope Annual Report has just been released and it makes for interesting reading for those who want to know more about the challenges facing charter public schools as they open new facilities.

She responded that Osborne's critique was misleading and that his interpretation «reads to me like an attempt to slice the data so that it says what you want it to say about charter schools»

I remember when I made my first attempt to go back to college four months after having my daughter Cereta in 1999, I read a book for one of my educational courses about the debate over charter versus traditional schools.

Read more about the honors and see how California charter schools place on the US News Top Schoolschools place on the US News Top SchoolsSchools list.

Read about NSBA's actions regarding charter schools: letters to Congress and federal agencies, comments, and grassroots calls to action.

In California, the study found that charters overall did about the same as regular public schools, with reading gains more or less balanced by the math deficit.

Find out more about Public School Choice and read profiles on the other charter applicants.

Read about our actions regarding charter schools: letters to Congress, comments, and grassroots calls to action.

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the typical student in a New York City public charter school gains more learning in a year than his or her peer in a district public school, amounting to about one more month of learning in reading and five more months of learning in math.

One group found on average charters have a slight edge over traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math but acknowledged charter quality is uneven across the states and across schools.

More parents deserve access to quality charter public schools that can enhance and challenge a child's educational experience. Visit www.publiccharters.org/openthedoors to read more stories about how charter schools change lives, and tell Congress to increase support for charter schools.

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You can learn more about this particular proposal by reading Wendy Lecker's commentary piece here: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Lecker-Charter-school-pitch-not-about-helping-5338987.php and a news article about the Stamford Board of Education's opposition to the Bronx Charter School proposal here: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/Stamford-school-board-votes-against-charter-school-5352577.php

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For details about Perry's New York charter school plan read the Wait, What?

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As the lead researchers on some of the most comprehensive (and controversial) national studies of charter schools, she and her colleagues have found that while charter schools seem to be doing slightly better than traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math, great variation exists within these results (CREDO, 2013).

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