Sentences with phrase «remaining in public schools performed»

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

Not exact matches

Warm results arrived this past winter in New York City from Stanford University economist Caroline Hoxby, who detailed how students winning slots via lotteries in over-subscribed charters out - performed applicants who remained in regular public schools.

None of the independent studies performed of the most lauded and long standing voucher programs extant in the U.S. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. — found any statistical evidence that children who utilized vouchers performed better than children who did not and remained in public schools.

In a separate 2009 study, Winters also found that «the more students a public school lost to charters, the better its remaining students performed — probably because the school now faced competition from charters for enrollment.»

Sure, the new high - stakes testing and public reporting requirements might accelerate the creative destruction of low - performing choice schools in Milwaukee, but that remains to be seen.

Peyser notes that political opposition to charters remains even though numerous studies, «regardless of the sponsoring organization or the research design,» show that Boston's charter schools are among the best - performing urban public schools in the country.

The most startling of these reports indicated that students who used school vouchers performed much worse on standardized tests than those who remained in traditional 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.

Malloy remains the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the «lowest performing» schools.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

In a recent poll, 83 % of parents, agreed that in order to ensure DC remains an attractive place for families, that the city needed to both improve quality at DCPS schools and expand the top - performing public charter schools so more parents can choose the school that's best suited for their chilIn a recent poll, 83 % of parents, agreed that in order to ensure DC remains an attractive place for families, that the city needed to both improve quality at DCPS schools and expand the top - performing public charter schools so more parents can choose the school that's best suited for their chilin order to ensure DC remains an attractive place for families, that the city needed to both improve quality at DCPS schools and expand the top - performing public charter schools so more parents can choose the school that's best suited for their child.

«Importantly, this finding helps to address the concern that such programs may hurt students who remain in their public schools, either as a result of funds lost by those schools or the exodus of higher - performing peers.

Earlier this year, the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank, found that students participating in state voucher programs are performing worse on assessments than similar students who remained in public schools.

Suspensions and expulsions from public schools are slowly declining, but at charter schools and in low - performing districts the numbers remain significantly higher than state averages, according to a state report released this week.

«In Georgia, far too many children continue to remain trapped in a low performing school district with no access to a high achieving public schooIn Georgia, far too many children continue to remain trapped in a low performing school district with no access to a high achieving public schooin a low performing school district with no access to a high achieving public school.

However, students who attended public schools that were granted considerable autonomy but kept the union — known as «pilot» schools — performed no better than they would have had they remained in a traditional Boston public school.