Sentences with phrase «than regular public»

Is there new research that shows the charter movement gets better academic results than regular public schools or magnet schools?

Within the UNO school community, plenty of parents and students say network schools are a better option than the regular public schools.

«We are not asking for any more than the regular public school funding,» said Pullen, who pointed out that the parents involved in the program have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to supplement teacher assistants for each class.

In math, 56 percent of charters outperformed regular public schools while 17 percent performed worse than their regular public school counterparts.

Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, Harlem Children's Zone, and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) provide as much as 60 percent more time in school than regular public schools do.

But the best evidence we have indicates that most charters are little better than regular public schools, and perhaps slightly worse during their start - up periods (Gleason, Clark, Tuttle, & Dwoyer, 2010).

«I want to make sure people know [about] funding, and how charter schools are more unique than regular public schools,» said 8th grader Matthew Dukar from Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo.

(Current KIPP - type programs cost little more than regular public schools, but that's only because their teachers work about 60 percent more than regular public school teachers for only slightly higher pay.

Some charter schools show impressive academic gains for their students, but others perform the same as or in some cases worse than regular public schools.

«I want to make sure people know [about] funding, and how charter schools are more unique than regular public schools,» said 8

Critics of charter schools have often pointed to those schools» ability to expel uncooperative and disruptive students, far more readily than regular public schools can, as a reason for some charter schools» far better educational outcomes, as shown on many tests.

At KIPP, teachers make about $ 10,000 a year more than their regular public school counterparts, but they put in longer days, Saturday classes and summer school - all extra time and extra resources to lift students who begin KIPP below grade level.

4 Ironically, charter schools held an early promise of becoming more integrated than regular public schools because they were not constrained by racially isolating school district boundary lines.

Charter school operators, who are in the business because they believe they can do a better job of educating students than the regular public schools, argue they sought to bring the benefits of their schools to the students most in need.

The respected Stanford CREDO study in 2014 found that — nationally — neatly 40 % charters are worse than regular public schools, while fewer than 20 % are any better, and that mainly because they tend to be selective.

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Financed with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, charters also were more likely to earn D's and less likely to earn A's, B's or C's than regular public schools.»

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

AVC: What do you say to people who counter that testing illustrates that charter schools don't do better than regular public schools?

Although charter schools generally are more independent of their chartering authorities than regular public schools are of their districts, and are exempt from most of the state's regulations, they must participate in state testing and comply with federal laws.

The rule means charter operators must prove that they can show strong results without «creaming» students, or somehow enrolling an easier - to - teach group of students than the regular public schools do.

When asked what type of school they would select to obtain the best education for their children, nearly two - thirds of registered voters (66 %) would select something other than a regular public school.

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

In Arkansas, charter school students were 20 % more proficient on math tests and 19 % more proficient on reading tests than regular public school students.

Charter opponents also argue that although some charter schools do well, the majority don't do better than regular public schools.

In some expensive cities like New York, however, KIPP is still spending less per student than regular public schools are.

Most, however, offer a fairly traditional curriculum — more traditional, in many ways, than regular public schools.

On average, a new federal study shows, charter schools are no better and in some cases worse than regular public schools, but KIPP's test scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.

Indeed, the charter schools across this country have turned out to be more diverse and more successful than our regular public schools, and certainly even than the private schools.»

Wood pointed to research showing that many charters perform no better than regular public schools, and some perform worse.

Charter schools are publicly funded but have more freedom from government control than regular public schools.

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

Arne Duncan thinks that magnet schools are the answer, yet there is absolutely no evidence that they succeed better than regular public school despite the inherit advantage of having students of parents interested enough in their children's education to enroll them in one.

«It's better than a regular public school,» says 4th - grade teacher Tina Corsby.

Less successful states may fund their state virtual schools with extra appropriations, rather than regular public school aid, thereby limiting course offerings.

This for a place that promised longer days (an hour more than the regular public schools), an extra 25 days of school per academic year, tough discipline, uniforms, and rigorous academic standards.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

«This show is basically making clear to people that Eliot represents a different set of rules than the regular public, and that's not going to play well in the city of New York,» said Stringer.

This show is basically making clear to people that Eliot represents a different set of rules than the regular public, and that's not going to play well in the city of New York.»

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

Not exact matches

The Trumps announced Monday's date later than usual, and some regular participants went public with their anxiety over not hearing from the White House earlier in the year.

Bear in mind, the process leading up to financing is generally 30 to 60 days longer and potentially more complicated with public funding than with regular credit.

To start, we know historically in the NHL that when betting against the public in the regular season, road underdogs have fared better than home underdogs.

This level of one - sided public betting on the underdog is more common during bowl season than it is during the regular season, but it's still highly uncommon.

My research found that the majority of public bettors (more than 50 % of spread tickets) have taken the underdog in 16.1 % of regular season games, while the majority of public bettors have taken the underdog in 19.2 % of bowl games.

Because it's unrealistic to bet every match with this system due the sheer volume of games in the regular season, filtering the public betting percentage down to < 23 % of moneyline bets results in a much higher ROI of +7 % and more than +60 units won (overall record of 325 - 538).

Teams receiving less than 30 % of moneyline bets represent the optimal threshold for betting against the public during the regular season, but teams rarely fit that criterion during the playoffs.

As we have previously stated, the value derived from betting against the public is directly correlated with the number of bets placed on each game and marquee bowl games (like BCS Bowls or College Football Playoff game) receive nearly six times more bets than the average regular season game.