Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than
regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.
Not exact matches
Carter is no stranger to high -
school sports drama, helming the 2005 inspirational basketball flick, Coach Carter (which is set in
nearby Richmond, CA), and even starting off his behind - the - scenes role by directing several episodes of the high -
school basketball TV show he appeared in as a
regular cast member, «The White Shadow».
In 2008 Canford was approached to sponsor a local «failing
school» which it agreed to do as long as the
school was
nearby, so that there could be
regular contact between the two
schools.
As evidence mounts that most charters are outperforming
nearby regular public
schools, the governor and state Legislature need to step up their support of charters.
These «special progress» classes, at Klein's Junior High
School 10 and my
nearby Junior High
School 74, were not for would - be truants and gang members but for academically advanced students with ambitious parents who were impatient with the
regular curricular pace.