Sentences with phrase «remained in private schools»

By year four, there was no statistically significant difference in math test scores between students who remained in private schools and the matched comparison group.

Consequently, the estimate should be interpreted as a lower - bound estimate of the three - year impact of attending a private school, because many students who used a scholarship during the three - year period did not remain in private school throughout the entire period.

This means that the Milwaukee attainment analysis almost certainly underestimated the benefits of remaining in private schools throughout high school by diluting the private school group with students who transferred to public schools.

As NPR's Cory Turner reports, the study finds that public school students in Indiana who used a voucher to switch to a private school tended to backslide academically after switching schools, but if the students remained in the private school long enough, their performance improved.

Not exact matches

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

The Blaine Amendments, which also were initiated by Nativists fearful of Catholicism and which remain in place in many states, ban any state aid to private, religious schools.

As I explained yesterday, I was gratified to be allowed to remain on the PAC this year even though my kids are now in private school.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

Cuomo, in the remaining days of the session, is pressing for one of the items in his education initiatives: a tax credit for big money donors to send students to private schools and pay for extra curricular programs for public schools.

He soon moved to the private Moses Brown School, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state coSchool, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state coschool system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state college.

A private school - educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001.

In Washington, for example, the average class size attended by students who switched to private school was 18, compared with 22 for those who remained in public schooIn Washington, for example, the average class size attended by students who switched to private school was 18, compared with 22 for those who remained in public schooin public school.

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control grouIn every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control grouin the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control grouin private school have remained in the study as members of the control grouin the study as members of the control group.

Over the past 15 years, private corporations have made their mark on public schools in America, but whether this will be education reform's salvation remained an unanswered question for many educators at the Askwith Education forum on Wednesday, October 11.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

They mean that the students in the control group would need to remain in school an extra 3.7 months on average to catch up to the level of reading achievement attained by those who used the scholarship opportunity to attend a private school for any period of time.

In both places, some of the students who lost lotteries enrolled in private schools anyway but remained in the randomized control group for purposes of calculating the effects of the prograIn both places, some of the students who lost lotteries enrolled in private schools anyway but remained in the randomized control group for purposes of calculating the effects of the prograin private schools anyway but remained in the randomized control group for purposes of calculating the effects of the prograin the randomized control group for purposes of calculating the effects of the program.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

Florida and Milwaukee compared private choice participants with similar students in public schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.

Working to improve charter authorizing — and its equivalent in the private schools sector — remains a top priority.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

It remains possible that the regulation - heavy approach they prefer will lead over time to quality improvements among private schools that decide to participate in choice programs.

An emotionally disturbed student who requires private placement, for example, is likely to be more challenging and expensive to educate than the average emotionally disturbed student who remains in public schools.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

(The remaining 5 percent were private schools that received a 100 percent state subsidy for teachers» salaries, making them public schools in all but name.)

What Ravitch does not understand is that this is an «intention to treat» analysis, in which all students who started in private schools via the voucher program are counted as if they had remained there, even if they transferred into public high schools.

Eligible school children may choose to remain in public school, attend a religious school, or a nonreligious private school.

After two years, African - American students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school scored 6.3 percentile points higher than African - American students who remained in public schools.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

As a result, it remains unclear whether these studies have unearthed actual differences between public and private schools or simply differences in the kinds of students and families attending them.

The estimated effects of the private school share on student achievement are somewhat smaller in science and reading than in math, but they remain substantial, positive, and statistically significant (see Figure 2).

The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to expand access to private schools.

After one year, the results show that students who used a scholarship to attend a private school scored 5.9 percentile points higher on the math section of the ITBS than comparable students who remained in public schools.

The only exception is that, in acknowledgement of the fact that many charter schools do not have a traditional district's breadth of resources, the New Jersey charter school law stipulates that, «the fiscal responsibility for any student currently enrolled in or determined to require a private day or residential school shall remain with the district of residence.»

First, we assess whether the private schools attended by students using state - funded vouchers offer more or less racially segregated environments than those available to students who remain in public schools.

Even those who remained in the city increasingly chose to send their children to private schools.

While unemployment remains high, the marginal advantage of investing thirty or fifty thousand dollars a year in private schooling is diminishing, particularly when those dollars are invested in low - selectivity, lower - status private institutions.

The other, who remains «Anonymous,» reflects on many years of teaching social studies in an elite private school in upstate New York.

And the rules that advantage charter and private schools remain firmly in place.

But when families are asked which type of school they would select in order to obtain the best education for their child, the numbers change dramatically: 41 percent would choose private school and 36 percent would remain in public school.

While there is no indication of racial motivation among the Indiana lawmakers who created the voucher program, the effects are clear: Indiana's voucher program increasingly benefits higher - income white students, many of whom are already in private schools, and diverts funding from all other students who remain in the public school system.

[4] Recent research has concluded that public school students who receive vouchers to attend private schools score much lower on both reading and math tests than similar students who remain in the public schools.

A recent Education Department analysis of that program found that after a year in private school, voucher recipients performed worse on standardized tests than their counterparts who remained in public school.

But Mr Perry said the platform has built - in security measures, such as secure sockets layer (SSL) which ensure data passed from the school remain private.

«Many of the remaining 146 schools in the priority school building programme, who had thought they would be procured via PF2 [Private Finance 2], are in dire need of work, so it is very important that their funding streams are confirmed as soon as possible.»

And let's not forget East Ramapo, where the elected school board has been accused of diverting resources to the 24,000 students in private Yeshivas at the expense of the 9,000 predominantly low - income students of color who remain in the district schools.

According to the Center for Public Education's calculations, only 10 percent of the school - aged population is enrolled in private schools — a proportion that has remained fairly steady for 40 years.

Is it okay for a «parent advocate» to send her kids to a private school while maintaining that your kids remain in a failing government run school?

No study, even those conducted by anti-school choice organizations, has found private school choice programs harm the academic performance of students who remain in district schools.

Public funds should remain in public schools and should not be used to support private or parochial schools.Alternative Education Alternative educational opportunities should be made available to students for whom the traditional classroom setting is not the optimal learning environment.