Sentences with phrase «regular public schools when»

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.»

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

Not exact matches

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.

The report shows that when fully accounting for pension and health cost liabilities, regular public schools cost $ 19,822 to $ 20,283 per student.

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

The difference between charter and regular public schools was quickly apparent in Algiers when ACSA began hiring teachers.

For when families are allowed to leave the regular public schools for new options — charter schools or (via vouchers or tax credits) private schools — the regular public schools lose money and jobs, and so do the incumbent teachers in those schools.

They also suggest that KIPP might be doing well because it attracts the most motivated parents, to which KIPP teachers reply that their students had the same parents when they were doing terribly in regular public schools.

And when do regular public schools have to go through that kind of scrutiny?

It didn't take me long to figure out, when I tried the regular public high school, that this was not for me.

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.

Charter schools might not be trouncing regular public schools, as some overzealous advocates claim, but when we make fair comparisons charter schools are significantly better.

This innovative district is Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), which began the process of «PLC Rounds» five years ago when the district's chief academic officer decided that every school would be required to implement PLCs as a regular aspect of their teachers» professional practice.

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

Although KIPP students have shown substantial academic gains, when KIPP took over a regular, high - poverty public school, serving a non self - selected population, the program failed, indicating that the academic achievement at KIPP may be due to the high motivation levels of the students, and not the charter program itself.

When asked what type of school they preferred for their children, 46 percent of Hispanic respondents in the Friedman survey said private, while 32 percent said regular public schools, 12 percent said charter schools and 9 percent said homeschooling.

All the public money that UNO has received to build schools also bothers some Latino critics, especially when buildings for regular neighborhood schools are run - down.