Sentences with phrase «segregated than district schools»

Scott Milliman and I found, after correcting for this and other errors, that one of the key studies cited by the AFT as alleging racial concentration in charter schools in fact found charter schools no more segregated than district schools, with the notable exception of those charters that had converted from private schools.

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In Parents Involved, Scalia joined the plurality opinion of Roberts, who took the categorical view that race can never be taken into account, even when districts are trying to integrate schools rather than segregate them.

School district policies that allow parents to easily choose a school for their children can lead to schools that are more segregated than would be the case if school assignment were based entirely on zipSchool district policies that allow parents to easily choose a school for their children can lead to schools that are more segregated than would be the case if school assignment were based entirely on zipschool for their children can lead to schools that are more segregated than would be the case if school assignment were based entirely on zipschool assignment were based entirely on zip code.

The study uses a more intelligent definition of segregation than the DOJ, which assumes that a school is «segregated» if its racial makeup varies from the population in that district.

That said, the pattern of associations reported here is consistent with the hypothesis that school district policies that allow parents to easily choose a school for their children can lead to schools that are more segregated than would be the case if school assignment were based entirely on zip code.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

Second, the country's most segregated school districts are larger than the typical school district.

But most of the participating teachers worked in district and charter schools in Chicago that were more than 95 percent Black — just as racially segregated or perhaps more segregated as they were during the civil rights era.

If comparing all charter schools to all district schools is «like asking whether eating out is better than eating at home,» 71 then concentrating resources into the propagation of nonunionized, segregated charter schools is like going to a buffet and only eating the dinner rolls.

In my report with Kenny Feder, «Choice Watch,» over at CT Voices for Children, we reported that charter schools in CT tend to have smaller proportions of emerging bilingual children and children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school districts.

The REAL TRUTH is that more than $ 100 million a year in scarce Connecticut funds are being handed over to charter school companies and that according to the most recent reports filed with the Connecticut State Department of Education (2012 - 2013), every single major charter school in Connecticut is more racially segregated than the school district they are supposed to serve.

Every single one of Connecticut's major charter schools is even more segregated than the school districts that they serve and as proof of their use of de facto segregation, every charter school, along with Perry's own Capital Prep., fails to enroll or maintain their fair share of Hispanic students, students that aren't fluent in English or students that go home households where English is not the primary language.