Sentences with phrase «students via a lottery»

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

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

@Xaqron - not that I'm aware of as far as elite migrating via the lottery (not impossible, but unlikely since elite tends to be able to easily get student / business visas)

Because the students in this pool of applications differ (on average) only in where they were offered a place, researchers can make apples - to - apples comparisons to see how the students who are admitted via lottery perform, compared to those who were not admitted.

Some of the 106 participants were selected via random lottery to receive the Match program's individualized math tutoring for one hour per day, every day; each math tutor works with just two students at a time.

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.

Noble Street College Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

What's more, they are open to all children, for free, and when there are more applicants than the state mandated number of seats, select students via a blind 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?

New Jersey assemblyman John Burzichelli sponsored the so - called lottery bill, which will ease the burden of repaying student loan debt via a lotto, with tickets going for $ 3 a pop.