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While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

More than 100,000 students on U.S. youth, public school and college teams have no stable place to live.

All public schools and private schools enrolling more than 60 % of students at public expense are required to adopt a policy on the management of head injuries that is consistent with the policy of the Commissioner.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average scores on the ACT test (26.5) than their public school peers (25).

«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

They say the test results show that charter school students scored higher on the exams than did public school students.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 charter - school students and teachers descended on Albany Tuesday to demand equal funding with regular public schools.

More than 1,000 Boston public school students staged a walkout on March 7 to protest the city's plan to cut up to $ 12 million from the Boston Public Schools bpublic school students staged a walkout on March 7 to protest the city's plan to cut up to $ 12 million from the Boston Public Schools bPublic Schools budget.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

Voters in New York City put much more faith in the UFT than in Mayor Michael Bloomberg when it comes to protecting public school students» interests, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Feb. 8.

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including poPublic Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including popublic service jobs (including police).

UFT President Michael Mulgrew urged New York City to embark next September on a long - term initiative that will lower class size in the public schools to no more than 15 students in kindergarten through third grade.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

The administration also announced it will expand its Climate Data Initiative to more than 150 databases and unveiled a pledge from 30 medical and public health schools nationwide to train students on the links between climate change and medicine.

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.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

The NEPC report presents data from a variety of public sources on a portion of the schools operated by K12 Inc. (referred to henceforth as «K12»), including 48 full - time virtual schools that served more than 65,000 students in 2010 — 11.

For example, the fact that K12 schools spend $ 715 per student less on support services than public schools in the same states is interpreted as a «cost advantage» for the virtual schools.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

At the state and local level, these programs tend to be money savers because the average scholarship amount students receive is often considerably less than what is spent on them in total state and local spending in public schools.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

Perhaps this explains why students at religious schools score higher on measures of civic participation (volunteering in the community) than public school children.

This might be one secret to Catholic schools» success; in their 2012 paper, Figlio and Ludwig report that students in Catholic schools «spend more time on homework and extracurricular activities than those in public schools....

The history of the MPCP illustrates how voucher programs can provide significant taxpayer savings when students voluntarily choose to attend schools that draw less on public funds than the schools they would otherwise attend.

The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority stSchools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority stschools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.

In their report, Miron and Applegate conclude that Edison Schools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public sSchools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public schoolsschools.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

A Fordham Institute study found that on average charters receive $ 1,800 less per student than traditional public schools, despite serving more disadvantaged students.

Second, private schools are generally more selective in admissions than public schools and, on average, have students with higher socio economic status.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).