Sentences with phrase «results than district schools»

Charter schools had benefited over the years from a wealth of research that showed they were achieving better results than district schools and from news coverage that highlighted MCAS success.

Eligible organizations would have to operate existing charter schools with better test results than district schools.

Not exact matches

Kentucky districts participating in the national school meal programs served more than 128 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 265 million in federal reimbursements.

Alabama districts participating in national school meal programs served more than 129 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 272 million in federal reimbursements through the national school breakfast and lunch programs.

«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

In more than two - thirds of the states, teacher unions, school districts, and other interested parties have filed similar lawsuits that seek judgments resembling the stunning result handed down in New York.

In other words, as a result of political opposition, the vast majority of school districts, even in conservative Texas, turned down extra money from the state rather than adopt merit pay.

(Indeed, according to the EdNext results, «charter parents are 15 percentage points more likely to say they have communicated with the school about volunteering» than district - school parents.)

Instances of private placement that occur as a result of parental requests rather than at the initiative of school districts appear to be even more rare.

It bears noting that these charter results are significantly better than the national average CREDO reported in 2009, in which just 17 percent of charter schools in the 16 states they studied performed better than their district counterparts.

School district insolvencies are rare and most often the result of administrative or school board mismanagement and malfeasance, rather than from the consequence of diminished revenues and systematic budgetSchool district insolvencies are rare and most often the result of administrative or school board mismanagement and malfeasance, rather than from the consequence of diminished revenues and systematic budgetschool board mismanagement and malfeasance, rather than from the consequence of diminished revenues and systematic budget cuts.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education World.

However, some pioneering districts, schools, and teachers achieved better, faster results than others.

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school year automatically receive a failing grade.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecschools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecSchools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

In general, charter schools are held accountable for results, and in return they are given greater autonomy than district schools.

Meanwhile, should local schools perform higher than expected, as they may for at least some respondents living in districts in the upper half of the national rankings, then the opposite pattern of results may emerge.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

The striking turnaround resulted from a remarkable bottom - up effort that eventually brought together the school district, the city government, and more than sixty arts and cultural organizations in a group called Dallas ArtsPartners.

Moreover, the charters are achieving these results for less money per student than the district schools.

Such probes typically result in agreements that give the districts a few months to review the policies and practices in schools and identify inequality in upper - level courses and, subsequently, less than a year to come up with a plan to rectify the shortcomings.

Department of Education officials said the new superintendents led schools that achieved significantly better results than schools with similar populations in their districts.

A recruitment process for new teachers that is much less effective than it might be does not result in the school district losing students or revenue, at least not within a time span or through a series of events that would make the connection discernible.

I do this by looking at the sample of students who are continuously enrolled in a district school between grades 3 and 5 in order to exclude students coming from and going to other schools; their results are nearly identical to, if not slightly larger than, the effects on the full sample.

The most recent working paper sharing the research, that includes more than 400 schools in 21 school districts across six states including California, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New Jersey, outline the following results:

I worry that the latest 2017 «it» schools as promoted by themselves or their districts may be more like the collective high school predictions about post-high school life than some definitive objective measure of the schools that will deliver consistent results for kids.

The results paint a very different picture of county school districts than did the results of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning released last month.

Although scores rose this year on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, the results mean parents at more public schools than ever before will be offered the chance to transfer their children to a better - performing school at district expense...

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

The report — Portrait of the Movement — says LA Unified charter schools, on average, produce stronger test results than traditional schools in the district.

As a result, charter school rates in 2018 and beyond will have a far more tenuous link to the actual per - pupil expenditures of the local district than they would had if the original formula had continued.

BURIEN — Although scores rose this year on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, the results mean parents at more public schools than ever before will be offered the chance to transfer their children to a better - performing school at district expense.

At DC Public Schools (another district that has taken on significant reforms in recent years) while overall results are slightly higher than NPS, students at NPS who qualify for free or reduced lunch (FRL) drastically outperform those at DCPS

As a result, including the TIF value makes it appear as if school districts have more property wealth than is actually the case, and reduce the amount of state funding it receives.

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The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

As a result, 299 school districts will lose more aid than their taxpayers will gain in school levy credits.

State tests tend to provide results that are too coarse to offer more than a snapshot of student and school performance, and few district data systems link student achievement metrics to teachers, practices, or programs in a way that can help determine what is working.

The results for the typical student in a Harlem public charter school — approximately 25 percent of the city's charter students — were even more pronounced in math, on average gaining seven more months than his or her peer in a district public school, but less than a full additional month in reading.

While Achievement First likes to brag that their students do better on standardized tests than students in their neighboring district schools, they fail to reveal that the get those results by refusing to provide educational services to broad social - demographic groups within the community.

Despite receiving millions in additional funds from CPS and private entities that regular public schools do not get access to, AUSL «results» are little better than — and in some cases lag behind — district averages.

Further, Legg sought the numbers of students affected by having the compliance calculation at the school rather than classroom level, the number of teaching positions eliminated or unfilled because of this maneuver, and the amount of money districts have saved as a result.

To arrive at the results for the annual study, a detailed survey was mailed to more than 6,000 chief business officials at public school districts with enrollment of more than 600 students.

Instead, the lawsuit says, districts across the state suspend and expel special - education students at more than twice the rate of their peers — and further, school officials often send the children to «time - out» rooms or have their parents pick them up early, which results in their exclusion from an educational setting.

«This year's results reveal noteworthy achievement gains in many districts...» our neediest students continue to perform significantly worse than their wealthier peers, especially at the high school level.

This lack of transparency about the proficiency targets set, as well as the process by which cut scores are selected, results in children being cheated of high - quality education because schools and districts can look better - performing than they really are.

However, when we compare results across demographically similar schools and districts, we find that some schools performed better than expected.