Private school principals report more influence over curriculum than their public
school counterparts report.
Not exact matches
All this despite the fact that private
schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada
report (instead, the apparent academic success of private
school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public
schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private
school counterparts.10
A study by Robin Wilson of the Washington and Lee University
School of Law
reports that women with MBAs get divorced or separated more often than those who have only a bachelor's degree, while women with law or medical degrees are more likely to divorce or separate than their male
counterparts.
The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive
report claiming, among other things, that charter
schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district
school counterparts.
Alan Milburn, a former Labour UK cabinet minister, recently published a
report showing that pupils eligible for free
school meals in England are 50 % more likely to obtain five good GCSEs than their
counterparts in Wales.
Only 226 females obtained five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics in the May / June 2015 West African Senior
School Certificate Examination in Yobe State, CHARLES ABAH
reports MALES performed better in the May / June 2015 West African Senior
School Certificate Examination than their female
counterparts did, a West African Examinations Council document has revealed.
The senator, the former Erie County Sheriff, noted he co-sponsored a bill to expand the criminal statute of limitations in abuse cases sponsored and in January introduced a bill to close a loophole that does not require private
school teachers and administrators — unlike their public
school counterparts — to
report allegations of abuse.
A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman
School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to
report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male
counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.
The survey
reports that high
school seniors in states with medical marijuana laws are more likely to have vaped marijuana and consumed marijuana edibles than their
counterparts without such laws.
Charter critics point to
reports showing differences in the demographic characteristics of charter
school students and their
counterparts in traditional public
schools as evidence that choice leads to segregation.
The CREDO
report found that students in Boston charter
schools gain the equivalent of 259 additional days of instruction in math and 245 days in reading compared to their
counterparts in traditional district
schools.
For example, a 2010
report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter
school students were twice as likely to attend
schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their
counterparts in traditional public
schools.
In 2009, CREDO
reported that charter students performed somewhat worse in reading and substantially worse in math than their district
school counterparts.
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.
Due in large part to an «enormous» concentration of special - needs pupils, students in District of Columbia public
schools are receiving an education far inferior to that of their
counterparts in two neighboring suburban districts, according to a recent
report by a coalition of parents and business leaders.
Public
school students have more classroom access to the information highway than their private
school counterparts, a federal
report released last week says.
The
report, entitled «Immigrant Students at
School: Easing the Journey towards Integration», maintains that most immigrant pupils have aspirations which match or even surpass their non-immigrant
counterparts.
American students lag academically behind their European
counterparts largely because they lack any real incentive to achieve and because
schools have no benchmarks against which to measure student progress, a
report by the American Federation of Teachers says.
As he wrote in this year's
report: «Scholarship participants tend to be considerably more disadvantaged and lower - performing upon entering the program than their non-participating
counterparts (in public
schools).
Teachers who enter New York City
schools through alternative pathways such as Teach For America and the city's Teaching Fellows program are as effective as their traditionally certified
counterparts in raising student test scores in mathematics and reading, a
report says.
Mining the data from the federal government's 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress («the nation's
report card»), the national teachers union released a study showing fourth - graders in charter
schools lagging behind their mainstream public -
school counterparts in nearly every category of race, ethnicity, poverty, and community size.
The policy
report also finds that charter
school teachers earn 20 percent less than public district
school teachers while their executives (often the charter holders) earn on average 50 percent more than their
counterparts in similarly - sized public
school districts.
Second, female elementary teachers
reported being more likely to stay than male
counterparts, except that teachers with a masters or advanced degree leaned toward leaving their present
school.
Specifically, the data book
reports that two public charter
schools in Eastern Idaho serve a significantly lower number of Hispanic students than their district
counterparts (24 % in public charter vs. 51 % in the Jerome Joint SD, for example).
The New York Times
reported that the trigger law portrayed in Won't Back Down differs from its real life
counterparts in a key respect: Unlike standard parent triggers laws which require just a majority of parents» signatures to trigger a turnaround, the law in the movie requires support from a majority of a
school's teachers as well.
In 2014, New York City's budget office released a
report making the claim that attrition among charter
schools of special education students was higher than their district public
school counterparts.
Yet, private
schools receiving the vouchers are not bound by the accountability or
reporting requirements assigned to their public
counterparts.
On November 27, The Lens
reported that Jay Altman, CEO of the charter management organization Firstline
Schools, believes the most recent results show that charters didn't have the capacity to adapt to tougher standards like their parish - wide
counterparts.
In terms of transition to postsecondary, more students
reported having a post-high
school plan than their comparison
school counterparts at two of the three study
schools.
While the
report recognized a robust national demand for more charter
schools from parents and local communities, it found that 17 percent of charter
schools reported academic gains that were significantly better than traditional public
schools, while 37 percent of charter
schools showed gains that were worse than their traditional public
school counterparts, with 46 percent of charter
schools demonstrating no significant difference.
The
report found that linked learners accumulated high
school credits — those needed to graduate — faster than their
counterparts outside the program:
An updated IBO
report confirms that not only do NYC charter
schools receive less in public spending than their district
counterparts, but this funding disparity continues to grow.
In a
report on
school safety released last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter
schools were «safer» than traditional district
counterparts not by comparing raw data from the Big Apple's
school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident
reports over a period of several years.
The
report by Alan B. Krueger, a professor of economics and public policy, analyzed data presented last year by Harvard University Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson that found black students in the voucher
schools scoring 5.5 points higher on standardized tests than their
counterparts in public
schools.
The
report found poor oversight when it came to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public
school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology.
Discipline Disparities Students of color in North Carolina
schools have significantly higher rates of both short - and long - term suspensions than their white
counterparts.14
Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Consolidated Data
Report 2014 - 15 (Rep.).
Poor oversight when it comes to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public
school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology were only some of problems the
report found with CAVA and were echoed by Golovich, who was not involved in the compilation of the study.
In New London, the local parent advocate group presented a
report on the high number of suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in their
schools that gave more harsh punishments to minorities compared to their white
counterparts.
Safe and affirming environments have been shown to affect educational outcomes: LGBT students show lower academic achievement than their
counterparts as a result of missing
school to avoid harassment, being less likely to pursue higher education, and
reporting higher levels of depression (Nieto 1992; GLSEN 2013).
According to Nordstrom's
report, charter
schools statewide receive about $ 215 more in local spending per student than their traditional
school counterparts, although the funding amount varies depending on the district.
Such criticisms may have only been bolstered by last week's
report from Duke Law
School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counter
School, which cited North Carolina private
school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counter
school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public
school students may be rescued by their private school counter
school students may be rescued by their private
school counter
school counterparts.
Complaints about unfair charter funding are frequently made by
school choice advocates, although a
report by the progressive N.C. Justice Center this year claimed local charter allocations are, in most
schools, comparable to their traditional
school counterparts.