Sentences with phrase «regular public school»

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school with a similar racial composition, charter students are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math.

Eighty - three percent of charter schools in Boston significantly outperformed their regular public school counterparts, and none of the charter schools performed significantly worse than the regular district schools.

«We are not asking for any more than the regular public school funding,» said Pullen, who pointed out that the parents involved in the program have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to supplement teacher assistants for each class.

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school, charter students are 4 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 2 percent more likely to be proficient in math, on their state's exams,» Hoxby wrote in her study published in September.

For example, Memorial Charter Academy, which converted from a regular public school into a charter school in 1995, is on the restructure list.

Students in Boston's charter schools gained 12 months of additional learning per year in reading and 13 months of additional learning in math compared with their regular public school counterparts.

I used 2014 — 15 charter school enrollment data, subtracted this from the 2014 — 15 total public school enrollment to get regular public school enrollment, and used 2013 — 14 private school enrollment, which is the most recent available.

A regular public school in Chicago that she and her siblings attended had «gangbanging» and «people killing people,» she said.

On the other side, there's a regular public school, P.S. 149, with 438 pre-K to 8th - grade students.

House and Senate budget negotiators on Friday agreed to increase regular public school spending by $ 241 million.

«Regular Public School Teachers Miss More School Than Charter Teachers, Study Finds» by Lianna Loewus Education Week — September 20, 2017

However, just like a regular public school, a portion of the affiliated school's budget is deducted in return for administrative services provided by the district.

At KIPP, teachers make about $ 10,000 a year more than their regular public school counterparts, but they put in longer days, Saturday classes and summer school - all extra time and extra resources to lift students who begin KIPP below grade level.

In regular public school schools, there were 182 kids expelled out of a student body of more than 353,000.

I could go on explaining why this piece is tendentious and misguided, but I doubt anyone at Education Trust cares what I, a regular public school teacher, thinks.

If the teachers you see are unexceptional, then how bad do the regular public school teachers have to be, given that they do so poorly compared to KIPP?

As a «regular public school» teacher, I'm a lot better than the KIPP teachers I've observed (and I've observed in more than one KIPP school).

In state after state, charter legislation followed the Minnesota model of failing to provide all charter teachers automatic collective bargaining rights similar to those enjoyed by regular public school teachers.

The next week, after confirming that there was a seat in the regular public school where her younger son is in prekindergarten, she withdrew her daughter and placed her in that school.

Looking at students in grades 4 - 8, the researchers found that the regular public school population in North Carolina has become less white over the past 15 years (from 64.1 percent white to 53 percent white), while the charter school population has grown more white (from 58.5 percent white to 62.2 percent white).

Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who sent their children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public school taxes and again by paying tuition for their children's private schools.

They question the way levy dollars could be converted to a new purpose without consulting voters if a regular public school is converted to a charter school, as is allowed under the new law.

When asked what type of school they would select to obtain the best education for their children, nearly two - thirds of registered voters (66 %) would select something other than a regular public school.

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

In Arkansas, charter school students were 20 % more proficient on math tests and 19 % more proficient on reading tests than regular public school students.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

After that, the charter school students gained an additional 2.4 to 3.6 points a year beyond the regular public school students who failed to win a charter spot in the lottery.

«Regular public school parents are angry because they no longer have an art room, they no longer have a computer room — whatever space they had for extra activities gets given to the charters and then they have better facilities.

As a regular public school principal, she said, «I knew every nickel and dime.»

Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011) and Angrist, Pathak, and Walters (2013) found similar estimates of the impact of a year in a Boston area charter school whether they compared charter school admission lottery winners and losers or whether they compared charter attendees to regular public school students with similar observed characteristics.

If that meant departing, even radically, from the regular public school system, then so be it.

Arne Duncan thinks that magnet schools are the answer, yet there is absolutely no evidence that they succeed better than regular public school despite the inherit advantage of having students of parents interested enough in their children's education to enroll them in one.

In Washington, DC, improvement among regular public school students matched the national rate of improvement with an eight - point gain.

«It's better than a regular public school,» says 4th - grade teacher Tina Corsby.

Our results should therefore be interpreted as the effect of attending a CCSF charter school on students who would otherwise be attending a regular public school, not the effect on students who would otherwise be attending a private school.

Less successful states may fund their state virtual schools with extra appropriations, rather than regular public school aid, thereby limiting course offerings.

Another new promising avenue for popular participation is Parent Trigger, whereby parents can petition to turn a regular public school into a charter school.»

Notably, the film portrayed not a single successful regular public school.

They looked at their achievement prior to entering a charter, pilot, or regular public school, as well as their achievement in one of those schools.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

So I'm not sure how my food compared to regular public school.

It was my understanding from the article that this school participates in the National School Lunch Program (it isn't limited to just public schools); if they do participate, then they are subject to all of the same requirements as a regular public school.

And he's made strides in his overall functioning: Went from nonverbal and screaming at 2 to being potty trained at 3, learning to communicate better and coping well with different stimuli, and is going to a regular public school with a little support and doing relatively well, learning to read and write along with the other neurotypical kids.

Jody and I ended up visiting a few public schools including a charter school, a regular public school and an International Baccalaureate World school (also public).

Bold and innovative schools like KIPP South Bronx Academy and brave private school leaders are venturing into areas rarely explored in regular public schools.

Regular public schooling does not always have the resources to help your teen recover academically.

The charter concept is a promising one, but only if the charters commit to helping the kids who can't make it in regular public schools.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

Mr. de Blasio is critical of charter schools, saying that they do not serve enough of the most difficult students and that they increase the burden on regular public schools.