In another good study, the RAND Corp. found that charter high school graduation rates and college attendance rates were better than
regular district school rates by 15 percentage points and eight percentage points respectively.
Not exact matches
If the
district were to extend the
school day at some
schools under the state's receivership law, it would have to compensate teachers at their
regular hourly
rate.
(The program substantially enhances high
school graduation
rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower cost per student than education in the
regular public
schools of the
District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;
Orlando is one of 83
school districts, from Newark to Los Angeles, where
regular schools increased their graduation
rates by at least one percentage point from 2010 to 2014 while sending more students into alternative education, ProPublica's analysis found.
This was measured as the percentage point difference between the graduation
rate at alternative
schools and
regular schools in the same
district.
District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation
rates than the
regular public
schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.
The charter
school's fourth - graders registered a similar result in reading, while their 95 percent success
rate in math trailed only one
regular district school.
Last year, the Center for Education Innovation created easy - to - read «education scorecards» for every
school district in the state so that parents — many lacking high levels of literacy or
regular access to the Internet — would have clear information about test scores, graduation
rates and teachers.
Regular district high
schools account for 41 percent of low - graduation -
rate high
schools and are where the majority of students who do not graduate on time can be found.
Upon election of the A4 - 1 / A4 - 2 method of determining tuition
rates, a
regular school district must continue to utilize this methodology until such time as Commissioner approval to change back to the Commissioner's Report methodology is requested and received.
Posters encourage
regular attendance at Simon Elementary
School in the
District, a city that has enormous truancy
rates, even among young children.