Sentences with phrase «school via a lottery»

The final evaluation found being admitted to a KIPP middle school via a lottery leads to significant improvement in students» average math and reading scores after two years.

But what many of them are really doing is 1) self selecting students into their school via a lottery 2) lower % of ELL and SPED kids, who are more challenging and expensive to educate 3) kicking students out who can't cut it 4) claiming 100 % graduation rates or college admissions rates, unlike those terrible local traditional public schools

Not exact matches

Because the oversubscribed charter schools in our sample admit students via random lotteries, comparing the outcomes of lottery winners (most of whom enrolled in a charter school) and lottery losers (most of whom did not) is akin to a randomized - control trial of the kind often used in medical research.

Research that painstakingly tries to separate out the actual effects of schools clearly has value, but it is important to bear in mind that, in the absence of random assignment of students to schools (such as occurs via charter school lotteries), families that choose for their children to be educated in their home (through virtual schools) are likely to be very different from other families.

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.

Deming, in fact, found very similar results in his 2002 study of charter schools in North Carolina, comparing students who got into a charter via lottery to those who ended up attended a neighborhood school instead because they lost the lottery.

Another Mumsnet user called Nynaevessister said: «It doesn't help that our two closest schools are both highly sought after and also admit via lottery so being close to them doesn't help us at all.»

Right now, the only public charter high school in Holyoke is the Paolo Friere Social Justice High School, which admits slightly more than 100 9th graders from all over Holyoke every year via random loschool in Holyoke is the Paolo Friere Social Justice High School, which admits slightly more than 100 9th graders from all over Holyoke every year via random loSchool, which admits slightly more than 100 9th graders from all over Holyoke every year via random lottery.

To shed light on these questions, we studied Noble Street College Prep, a high - performing no - excuses charter high school in Chicago where admission is granted via randomized lottery.

(The majority of charter schools continue to accept students via lottery at the Kindergarten, Middle School and High School levels.)

But thousands of kids and their families who have won the lottery (literally) and have been given a shot at a good life via a good education by the likes of Eva Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academies, KIPP Schools and the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program undoubtedly won't.

Applications for The Children's Guild DC Public Charter School SY2015 - 16 lottery are now available via My School DC!

All charter schools are required to admit students via a lottery - no admissions testing is permitted.

The school will contact all parents via a letter of confirmation delivered to the address indicated on your lottery enrollment application at the end of each lottery.

Charter school — A public, nonreligious school that provides free public elementary and / or secondary education to students via a lottery process under a specific charter granted by the local school board.

In some of our New York schools, we now serve a greater special education percentage than our host districts.Since students enter our schools via a blind lottery, we can not reserve a certain number of seats for students with special needs.

IDEA Comprehensive Health Professions (IDEA CHP) will dramatically increase the racial and socioeconomic diversity of schools in Austin by providing a high - quality, college - preparatory, comprehensive health professions education in or near downtown Austin via an open - enrollment lottery.

While Brooklyn LAB offers an enrollment preference to students with disabilities (via its lottery weighting formula), it does not operate as a school solely dedicated to special education, instead striving to enroll a natural proportion of students with disabilities compared to its surrounding district.

In short, the authors find that students who won a school voucher via lottery ended up -LSB-...]

A national study conducted by Mathematica Policy Research found that students attending KIPP middle schools made gains in reading, math, science, and social studies equal to 11 to 14 months of additional learning when compared to similar non-KIPP students.60 Similarly, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that students selected by lottery to attend Harlem Success Academy made significant gains in reading and math equal to 13 to 19 percent higher test achievement, compared to demographically similar students not selected via lottery.61

Charter schools are publicly funded, but can be privately run, and often admit students via lottery.

Less than 5 % of children nation - wide attend charter schools, and many charters fill their classrooms via lottery, «creaming off» the easiest to teach students and refusing admission to kids with special needs — why site your project in this kind of setting?