Sentences with phrase «schools control enrollment»

In contrast, charter schools control enrollment — in both direct and subtle ways.

Many private, parochial, and charter schools control enrollment, and choose not to work with students exhibiting disciplinary problems.

Not exact matches

A school district or charter school may not delay eligibility or otherwise prevent a student participating in controlled open enrollment, or a choice program, from being immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic and intrascholastic extracurricular activities.

But policymakers only control the growth of enrollment in virtual schools when they decide whether or not to allow them to exist and what cap, if any, to put on their enrollments.

Others, concerned about a radically different notion of schooling, have seized on a variety of tools for controlling growth, including caps on school enrollment or restrictions limiting enrollments to a single district or regional area.

According to a report by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the school district, which funded the campus, has more control over student enrollment than the charter management organization does.

I also control for the characteristics of the school, including total enrollment, pupil - to - teacher ratio, racial composition, percentage of students eligible for free lunch, and percentage of returning students.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

(p, 18) College attendance benefits are also fleeting: «Similar to the results for high school graduation, however, control students eventually catch up and make the treatment effects on college enrollment insignificant.»

When we controlled for factors such as school racial composition, grades served, and religiosity, the coefficient on tuition became insignificant in Louisiana, but remained highly significant for the enrollment measure.

7) Reasonable funding levels based on the needs of particular student enrollments and other factors outside of district control, but also discretion by local district taxpayers to augment the funding of their schools.

If an African American student used the scholarship to attend private school for any amount of time, the estimated impact on college enrollment was 9 percentage points, a 24 percent increase over the college enrollment rate among comparable African American students assigned to the control group (see Figure 1).

Freed from union rules and OPSB central - office control, the RSD was able to act on its conviction that improved performance lay in spinning off as many schools as possible and chartering them as independent institutions with open - enrollment admissions policies and citywide catchment areas.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

Cerf said the system was a «way to encourage schools to take their fair share of students with the greatest level of need» and «take control of the enrollment process of charter schools.»

Smaller schools boosted college - going rates for black males by 11.3 percentage points, «a 36 percent increase relative to the enrollment rate of their control group counterparts.»

Price controls likely also play a role in reducing the incentive of participating private schools to expand enrollment.

Instead of funding a system of schooling that remunerates regular public schools based on enrollment, funding for K — 12 education in DC could go directly into a parent - controlled education savings account.

At stake in the fiercely contested campaign is control over a complex, underperforming school district whose ability to improve schools for nearly 665,000 students is compromised by declining enrollment, a $ 1.46 billion projected deficit, and billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities for retirees.

St Paul — Minnesota's Democratic - controlled Senate Finance Committee last week deleted from an omnibus education - aid bill Gov. Rudy Perpich's controversial open - enrollment plan, dealing a severe blow to the state's chances for a public - school choice plan.

And while student enrollment in traditional public schools has increased, the city's public charter schools, over which Henderson has no control, have outpaced that rate of growth, according to a recent report by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

In order to promote and encourage parental involvement and ensure students have access to a school that meets their needs, the Florida Legislature enacted Section 1002.31, Florida Statutes, which directs each school district to develop a controlled open enrollment plan.

Beginning with the 2017 - 18 school year, each district school board and charter school must adopt a controlled open enrollment plan that allows a parent from any school district in the state to enroll his or her child in and transport his or her child to any public school that has not reached capacity.

The state of Florida has one of the most robust choice systems in the country from Opportunity Scholarships, charter schools, McKay Scholarships, and controlled open enrollment.

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

They simply can't blame charters for their problems when they offer weak school options and have ballooning staff during shrinking enrollment and out - of - control pension and healthcare costs.»

Intervention students completed more honors, advanced placement, and dual college - high school enrollment courses than did their matched controls, an indication of their greater interest in these subjects.

As such, in 1985, with Republicans in control of the legislature, Perpich recommended two school choice proposals: postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), to allow high school juniors and seniors to attend nonsectarian public and private colleges, and open enrollment, to allow parents to send their children to schools anywhere in the state.

Orleans Parish School Board charters were invited to use RSD's centralized enrollment application this year, but many, including Einstein, opted to remain in control of their own application process.

Bennett and Toranto explained that the school did not want to fully participate in the OneApp process yet because then their enrollment, and hence revenue, would be controlled by RSD.

While all of the details are still being decided, the district will run the enrollment system, meaning charters (and those district schools, like Ann Street School in the Ironbound, which can't meet demand) would give up individual control over the application, deadlines and lottery program.

Enrollment in our magnet schools is done through a lottery that consciously controls for demographics.

If an African American student used the scholarship to attend private school for any amount of time, the estimated impact on college enrollment was 9 percentage points, a 24 percent increase over the college enrollment rate among comparable African American students assigned to the control group.»

Private schools also have the ability to control their enrollment.

While it does not statistically control for the types of students who take dual enrollment, nonetheless it documented that 16 % of all students had taken dual enrollment courses in high school.

Using regression analysis to statistically control for the impact of student demographic variables, ACT performance, and school variables, the study found that students who took dual and concurrent enrollment courses were 23 % more likely to enroll in college immediately following high school graduation and 9 % less likely to enroll in remedial classes.

«Even if LAUSD had no more new charter schools, its enrollment would continue to decline due to demographic factors, factors that are not within its control, and that are unlikely to reverse in the coming years.»

This held true after controlling for other student and school characteristics.116 Similarly, a study of dual enrollment programs concluded that participating students were more likely to graduate from high school, enroll in college, have higher college GPAs, and persist in college than their peers.

«Even if LAUSD had no more new charter schools, its enrollment would continue to decline due to demographic factors, factors that are not within its control, and that are unlikely to reverse in the coming years,» the panel concluded.

Limiting analyses to only CTE students also provided us with an additional level of control for preexisting characteristics, because both CTE dual enrollment students and their non-participating peers had technically - oriented goals while in high school.

Controlled Open Enrollment allows a parent from any school district in the state to enroll his or her child in and transport his or her child to any public school, including charter schools, that has not reached capacity.

There are a growing array of education choice options available in America such as controlled open enrollment, charter schools, charter districts, online schools, lab schools, schools - within - schools, year - round schools, charter technical career centers, magnet schools, alternative schools, vouchers, special programs, advanced placement, dual enrollment, International Baccalaureate, early admissions, and credit by examination or demonstration of competency.

Or perhaps we are stuck in an environment of educational competition, fighting for student enrollment — and classroom space is just one of those lures that schools want to control.

Early adopters included La Crosse, Wisconsin, which created a districtwide plan to balance school enrollment by socioeconomic status in 1979, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, which made socioeconomic status the main factor in its controlled choice program in 2001.

In 2007, the Parents Involved vs. Seattle School District Supreme Court case ruled that schools could no longer control enrollment by race.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE As a special education teacher assistant, creatively controlled students» behavioral routine with innovative and creative processes that successfully maintained student enrollment in mainstream school environment.

Sole physical custody includes the right to control the child's whereabouts, housing arrangements, school enrollment, after school care, medical and dental appointments, holiday and vacation plans.

Multiple logistic regression analysis explored the association between incident infection and perceived parental supervision and perceived parental communication while controlling for relevant demographic and behavioral factors (age, religious involvement, school enrollment, a 2 - parent household, having a main sex partner, and having concurrent sex partners).