Sentences with phrase «student at charter schools»

Initial test scores of students at charter schools are usually well below those of the average public - school student in the state in which the charter school is located.

The report examined schools from 2004 to 2008, and overall, students at charter schools performed «significantly better compared to their traditional public school peers,» the report states.

African - American students at charter schools scored lower in math than African - American students at traditional schools.

Their primary argument is that students at charter schools do better on mastery tests.

Despite the setback caused by changing schools, disadvantaged students at charter schools still did better in math within two years after switching to charter schools.

This is happening even though students at charter schools are more likely than their peers in conventional public schools to come from a low - income household.

Question: Is there funding available to help provide meals to low - income preschool students at a charter school?

According to the district analysis of last school year's test scores, 83 percent of students at charter schools are economically disadvantaged and 19 percent are English learners.

Other promising data came out last week for students at charter schools in Kent and Spokane.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney greets students at a charter school in Philadelphia.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

Students at charter schools serving low - income populations are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in a school that is among the top five or ten percent of all public schools statewide.

By separating out these students (most of whom were presumably attending 1 of the 5,274 charter schools operating across the U.S. in 2011), we are able to compare parent satisfaction of students at charter schools with students in private schools, assigned - district schools, and choice district schools.

Charter - school opponents and supporters are both claiming the high ground after a controversial report by the American Federation of Teachers that said students at charter schools fare worse than students at traditional public schools...

Earlier this year, the city council created a steering committee to determine whether students at charter schools - many of whom are low - income students of color whose families struggle to afford college - are eligible for the scholarship funds.

The evaluation effort included a week of beta - testing with 80 6th - 8th grade students at a charter school in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Stanford Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) has conducted numerous studies on the performance of students at charter schools across the country.

By that measure, too, elementary students at charter schools and neighborhood schools in Chicago were in a virtual tie on the reading and math exams last year, the Sun - Times / Medill Data Project analysis found.

The report compares average performance on Florida assessment tests by students at charter schools and students at traditional public schools.

Disciplined students at charter schools have the lowest rate of chronic absenteeism, and faced shorter suspensions, when compared to similar students at all other public schools.»

Students at charter schools outperform their peers at geographically close and demographically similar public schools, a new report that will be released this week finds...

In August, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released by the U.S. Department of Education showed that students at charter schools nationwide generally performed worse in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.

The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution released a study in September 2002 that found test scores for students at charter schools lower than those at traditional public schools.

When the American Federation of Teachers published a study that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

While California's schools need to do more to help African American students reach academic proficiency, African American students at charter schools are closer to reaching grade - level proficiency than their TPS counterparts.

City officials have argued the new requirements will require twice as many stops as before and likely prompt parents of students at charter schools and other private schools to clamor for equal treatment.

OPSB required, among other things, that 20 percent of the students at each charter school be students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, and 10 percent be special - education students.

UChicago Medicine issued Asthma Community Benefit Grants during the 2016 - 17 school year to fund the Chicago Asthma Consortium's school - based work to improve asthma identification and education for students at the Charter Schools.

It also states that the district's staff findings «fail to explain how denial of the renewals, as CEG currently operates today, could possibly be the best result for the students at our charter schools.