Sentences with phrase «student in traditional public schools»

By comparison, just 38 percent of students in traditional public schools met state reading standards this year, and 36 percent did so in math.

The researchers used a rigorous research design that compares learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools to those of similar students in traditional public schools in their districts.

In 20 of 22 comparisons, the achievement gap was actually lower — and better — for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools.

By comparison, researchers found, only 36 percent of black students in traditional public school attended schools where at least 90 percent of students were of color.

Again, these improvements are measured relative to what would have happened to the same students in traditional public schools.

Second, students who choose to remain in charter schools do not continue to make smaller gains than students in traditional public schools after their initial year in a charter school.

About 30 percent of students in traditional public schools would fall into that category.

Charter schools statewide receive on average 75 cents for every dollar spent on students in traditional public schools, according to charter advocates.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.

To address the problem of nonrandom location, we essentially measure the effect of charter school competition on test - score gains by comparing the gains made by students in each traditional public school before the establishment of a nearby charter with the gains those same students made in that school after the arrival of nearby charter schools.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

For example, KIPP NYC reports that «among students classified as English - language learners, 82 percent who originally enrolled in their charters for kindergarten remained in their schools four years later, compared with 70 percent of such students in traditional public schools.»

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

Did you know that according to CREDO, Black students in Traditional Public Schools perform better than Charters in all five major Texas cities?

the gradual undermining of traditional public school districts and, in turn, the increased segregation of some of the nation's most vulnerable students in traditional public schools that no longer have the resources to serve them.

«In every single category, African - American students in charter schools scored higher than African - American students in traditional public schools in the same host districts,» Moorehouse said.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

The research by Robert Bifulco and Helen Ladd fails to find an effect of charter schools on the effectiveness of traditional public schools, while a similar analysis by one of us conducted in 2003 reported improvements for students in traditional public schools smaller than the ones estimated here.

This study added two years of performance data to a 2010 study, which also found that public charter school students in New York City outperformed students in traditional public schools.

The researchers found, «students with multiple challenges — blacks and Hispanics in poverty or Hispanics who were English language learners — gained a substantial learning advantage in charter schools compared to [similar students in traditional public schools].»

The results, released in September, show that only one - third of LA students in traditional public schools performed up to their grade level in English and one - fourth did so in math but that the city's charter school students did much better.

Given that many more students in charter schools have the advantages of a positive family structure, a peer group that is a positive influence, and their own inner drive that many students in traditional public schools do not, it is reasonable to expect that charter school students would perform very much better than they do.

The Tricky Bit — How to Account for Selection Bias Now for the important question, in the context of these data and techniques, how did I compare students in choice schools to students in traditional public school knowing that that difference in decision might be because of some unobservable characteristic obscuring the true comparison between choice students and traditional public school students?

It's shocking, especially when more than 50 percent of students in traditional public schools lack proficiency and charter schools are providing children of greatest need with the only choices they've ever had.»

He says if you are a student in Rochester charter school, you'll receive less than 75 percent of the funding that students in traditional public schools receive.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

To estimate the effects of charter schools on students in traditional public schools, we use information on each school's distance from the nearest charter school to develop indicators of whether or not the traditional school faces competition from charter schools.

61 % of those surveyed agree with an Arizona law that provides tax credit scholarships to special education students in traditional public schools, allowing them to attend the public or private school of their choice.

Stanford University researchers found that students in some charter schools did extremely well, while many others were not faring as well as students in traditional public schools.

An oft - cited study from Stanford University's Center For Research on Education Outcomes in 2009 states that «for students that are low income, charter schools had a larger and more positive effect than for similar students in traditional public schools.

Although NWEA gathers data for students in traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools, I limited the study to students enrolled in traditional public schools or public charter schools because private schools are not included in the state's accountability program.

A 2009 report lauded as most authoritative research yet on the efficacy of charter schools concluded that 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of the same students in traditional public schools.

The «burden» on NYC DOE from paying private school tuition is the difference between the average tuition and legal costs associated with private placement ($ 28,571) and the average cost for a disabled student in the traditional public schools ($ 24,773), which works out to $ 3,798 per student.

We first compare the average gains made by all students in charter schools with the gains made by students in traditional public schools, taking into account differences in gender, ethnicity, and the highest level of education completed by their parents.

reports that «among students classified as English - language learners, 82 percent who originally enrolled in their charters for kindergarten remained in their schools four years later, compared with 70 percent of such students in traditional public schools.»

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

Forty - three percent of black charter school students attended these extremely segregated minority schools, a percentage which was, by far, the highest of any other racial group, and nearly three times as high as black students in traditional public schools.

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, the union of the city's teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public schools.

We also used new data to see whether the academic performance of students in traditional public schools and the influence of teachers unions affect the strength of charter school legislation in a state.

For example, under the CRP method, 91.2 percent of the charter students in the DC CBSA are in hypersegregated minority schools, as compared to just 20.9 percent of the students in traditional public schools.

Participating schools should be required to accept the voucher amount as payment in full even though that amount is almost always less than their regular tuition, less than their cost to educate each student, and far less than what is provided to students in traditional public schools.

Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.