Sentences with phrase «regular public schools»

A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.

He now works as a consultant, helping regular public schools with online programs.

State and federal funding enables charter schools and private schools to draw students from regular public schools.

Silver also warned that any money that goes to the charters will be at the expense of regular public schools.

The money represents $ 107 million for regular public schools and about $ 6 million for district charter schools.

The second major contribution is the way in which his dissertation compares students in indigenous schools to indigenous students attending regular public schools.

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

In my state, charters are under the same accountability system and follow the same rules as regular public schools.

76 percent object to reducing spending on regular public schools and increasing spending on charters.

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.

At the same time, spending for instruction and teacher salaries and benefits was lower than at regular public schools.

Such schools simply have no equivalent among regular public schools.

Private and charter schools would be squeezed by the proposed cuts, just like regular public schools.

If this is basically correct, the comparisons give a sense of how a charter school's existence affects regular public schools around it.

Parents would then be able to voluntarily contract with the schools and service providers of their choice, including regular public schools, charter schools, and private schools.

He entered into a public school kindergarten class and has been in regular public schools ever since.

Not only are many charter schools enjoying success, but they are also held accountable in a way regular public schools are not.

It then tells young principals and mostly young staffers - paid somewhat above regular public school salaries for their extra hours - to make it work in ways that make sense to them.

An apples - to - apples comparison between charter schools and regular public schools yields far different results.

On regular public school campuses, some principals simply pass problem teachers from school to school.

How much money can regular public schools take from private business?

In virtually all instances, the charter students did worse than their counterparts in regular public schools.

Nevertheless, New Leaders will need to find more success in placing its graduates if it is to remain a viable model for improving the management of regular public schools.

These schools then failed to lift their children's performance, relative to peers attending regular public schools.

We journalists tend to focus on exam results because so many of our readers say that is what they want, and such information is relatively easy to get from regular public schools.

Unlike regular public schools, many charter schools are specifically designed to serve students with low test scores.

Take a 2009 Stanford study Ravitch frequently references, which found that only 17 percent of charters outperform regular public schools with similar students.

The city would be required to first look for space in regular public schools where new charters — or those wishing to expand — could be co-located.

-- Why have conservative leaders shown so little interest in bringing greater equity to funding regular public schools where students from wealthy families can have twice or more spent on their education than is spent on students from poorer families in less fortunate school districts?

The best you can say is charter schools do as well or almost as well as regular public schools when it comes to student test scores.»

Alabama Governor Signs Measure to Allow Charter Schools * Education Week Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation Thursday afternoon that will allow charter schools to open in the state after a years - long effort to get legislative approval for the publicly funded schools that operate without many of the regulations that govern regular public schools.

Longwood's applicants, before applying to the charter school, had similar reading scores but lower math scores (5 percentile points lower) than other students in neighboring regular public schools.

By allowing kids to leave regular public schools for alternatives and by forcing unionized schools to compete with nonunion schools, choice ensures that the unions will lose members and resources - and thus become smaller and less politically powerful.

As charters proliferate, regular public schools lose students and funding, and many charters try to avoid the students who are most costly and difficult to educate.

In math, 50 percent of New York City charter schools outperformed regular public schools while only 16 percent were worse.

The school year begins in August, not September (when regular public schools start back), because SCN believes a longer school year benefits students, Sedlis said.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

The district, however, is alleged to have shortchanged its charter schools by funding them according to their audited enrollment while funding regular public schools based on their projected, but always inflated, enrollment.

ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test scores than in comparable regular public 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.

CPS's 10 year slash - and - burn campaign against regular public schools, teachers, and communities is the status quo.

Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the city's public - school system by promoting privately managed charter schools to replace regular public schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.

«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.

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

-- Why have millionaires favored funding with their largesse charter schools for the few while disinterested in regular public schools educating most students?

4 Ironically, charter schools held an early promise of becoming more integrated than regular public schools because they were not constrained by racially isolating school district boundary lines.