Sentences with phrase «regular district schools»

Because charter schools, like regular district schools, vary so much, it is very difficult to compare their impacts in valid ways.

It also offers professional development for other charter and regular district school leaders.

Meanwhile, about 87 % of charter schools had 60 % or more of their students meet or exceed state standards on achievement tests; only about 65 % of regular district schools reached that threshold.

Peterson cites research by Stanford University's Caroline Hoxby and Harvard University's Thomas Kane — randomized experiments that compare students who win a charter lottery with those who applied but were not given a seat — and also research by RAND, which found that charter high schools had graduation rates and college attendance rates that were, respectively, 15 and 8 points higher than regular district school graduation and college attendance rates.

There are three different kinds of autonomy models as established by the LSSEI agreement: pilot schools, which offer the most flexibility as compared to a traditional district school; Local Initiative Schools (LIS), which offer moderate flexibility; and Expanded School - Based Model Management (ESBMM) schools, which differ somewhat from regular district schools, but in less dramatic ways.

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 only do we get around 75 percent of the funding of regular district schools, but many of our schools pay all facilities expenses, which means rent, utilities, snow removal, security, roof repairs and everything else that district public schools get for free.

The district enlisted a local psychiatric hospital to keep special education students like Chris in regular district schools.

A host of new, small schools opening in Chicago will get more money than regular district schools, officials have decided.

Admission depends on whether students have done something so serious a regular district school won't have them anymore: assaulting classmates or staff members, possessing or distributing drugs, or wielding weapons.

The treatment groups consist of schools managed by each type of private provider, and the comparison group includes the regular public schools with test scores below the median for all regular district schools, as discussed above.

Because of that disparity, we limited the schools included in the comparison group to the lower half of all regular district schools.

Students in PLCs learn the same course content as their peers in regular district schools, distinguishing the PLC model from «credit recovery» programs designed to boost graduation rates quickly.

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.

Although much of the focus on charters has been on the high fliers that are outstripping the performance of regular district schools, others have struggled.

At the same time, she worries that reductions to some areas, such as art and music programs, will give the city's 17 charter schools an edge in attracting parents, further contributing to enrollment losses at the 77 regular district schools.

The improvement was most dramatic in San Diego, where charter school gains were three times greater than their traditional counterparts, and in Oakland, where charters with at least two years of scores had an average increase that was nearly five times the growth in regular district schools.

Erik Kass, the district's assistant superintendent for business services, pointed out that teachers would have a longer school day and year in Madison Prep than in a regular district school — 8.75 hours a day for 227 days versus 7.5 hours a day for 192 days.

Another concern is that schools that promise advanced learning opportunities filter more ambitious, precocious, or well - supported students out of the regular district schools, while those who fall short of the school's expectations are traumatically spit back out.