Both high - and low - income families express higher levels of satisfaction with their school if it is in the private sector
rather than the charter sector.
The evidence suggests that private school choice programs may have stronger later - life outcomes for
students than charters.
For example, one state charter might allow a bank more flexibility on interest rate offerings to its
customers than charters of other states or the federal government.
Other nonprofit organizations that use the tax - exempt bonds, like hospitals and universities, have many more financing
resources than charters, he noted.
The district's own experts and its independent financial advisory panel have already identified numerous issues that are much
bigger than charters, some of which you've discussed today.
Several factors contribute to the facilities squeeze, including the high cost of real estate and a policy environment in which district leaders can more easily access commercial real estate
than charter leaders.
By contrast, the district's white enrollment is five times higher (16 percent vs. 3 percent)
than the charter sector's.
While magnet schools are widely prevalent — there are over 3,000 magnets across more than 600 school districts within 34 states — they have received less attention in the research
literature than charters.
This will have the effect of strengthening the grip of unions where teachers unions are more
popular than charter schools.
Not only has there been less federal investment in
magnets than charters, but research has suggested that federal magnet priorities have somewhat shifted away from integration goals in recent decades.
But at the very least, the financial equation is far more
complex than charter opponents have let on.
If the educational goal is to close the achievement gap, then it will take something more
disruptive than charter schools.
The city's traditional public schools use long - term suspensions more
often than charter schools, imposing nearly twice as many in the past academic year, according to school data.
They should instead throw their mighty force behind traditional public schools which, thus far, have done
better than charter schools.
The finding that more than twice the number of districts use magnets
rather than charters to promote diversity and integration is interesting.
Parents are far more effective advocates for their children — and for other children in their community —
than charter school leaders or policy experts or professional advocates.
There are over 3,000 magnets across more than 600 school districts within 34 states, but they have received less attention in the research
literature than charters.
That was the thinking which lay behind the dicta to the effect that the appropriate measure of damages for late redelivery of a vessel was the difference between the charter rate and the market rate if the market rate was
higher than the charter rate for the period between the final terminal date and redelivery: Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd v Gesuri Chartering Co Ltd (The Peonia)[1991] 1 Lloyd's Rep 100, 108.
For much
less than chartered flights or private jets, members get the privacy, convenience and luxury of flying a first - class private jet.
However, the Rev. Willie Calhoun Jr., a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, said the «elected body has less authority
than the charter management groups.»
And they found that Detroit charters contributed to test score growth even more
than charters elsewhere in Michigan:
It's an indication of two things: that de Blasio learned from his tactical mistakes in confronting charters last spring, and that the mayor has far bigger items
than charters on his education agenda.
Robert Kraft is clearly unable to do anything halfway, so the team purchased two planes to retro - fit them so an entire team of football players can fly first class to games rather
than chartering flights for eight away games each year.
In its purest and most honest form, that should also mean we support all school choice even if that means people decide on something
other than charter schools.
However, in four states (Wyoming, Delaware, Missouri, and New Jersey) traditional public schools enroll at least five percent more students with
disabilities than charter schools.
But with students walking freely across the campus, chatting or looking at their cell phones, the school looks shockingly
different than charter schools like KIPP or IDEA, where rigor is often defined by conformity to a single teaching model and highly - standardized, test - driven learning environments.
However, if someone wants to convince me with some facts that a district school that is 5 percent free and reduced - price lunch is more
public than a charter serving 95 percent free and reduced - price lunch, I'd love to hear it.
Altice USA now trades at a higher
multiple than Charter and Comcast yet has more onerous debt and no clear path to expand.
They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more
successful than charter schools.»
The executive has been more
powerful than the charter framers might have intended in large part because the legislature has been less powerful.
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.
The growth in charter school enrollments in winning states, however, continued to climb at a higher rate
than charter growth rates in other states.
Despite countless stories like Jamal's, in the end nothing — and I mean nothing — was more threatening to the education status quo in New York
City than our charter school initiative.