Early college attendance can be an effective educational option for highly gifted students who are eager for more challenging
coursework than their regular school environments can provide.
This is a capacity that has developed over time, and the results can be seen at the transfer schools (small, academically rigorous, full - time high schools for students who have been enrolled in high school for at least one year and are far from promoting on grade level), which often have higher graduation
rates than regular schools.
The charters, often billed by proponents as a superior alternative to traditional schools, were seven times more
likely than regular schools to get an F in the appraisal of the state's elementary and middle schools.
Whether charter schools do a better job
than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...
At a June meeting between Houston ISD Food Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more
healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized program.
In fact, according to the report from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that students are any more likely to graduate from college with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty science and math
school than a regular school.
Nationwide, nearly a third of the alternative - school population attends a school that spends at least $ 500 less per
pupil than regular schools do in the same district.
In that state, a survey of alternative education a few years ago revealed substandard facilities and programs that offered fewer class
hours than regular schools did.
As Sahm notes, studies by Marcus Winters have shown that there are complicated reasons why charter schools are listed as serving fewer students with
disabilities than regular schools are.
Charter schools, she concluded, were proving to be no better on
average than regular schools, but in many cities were bleeding resources from the public system.
This opportunity excites me as I am looking forward to starting out my career in a language center where the implementation of the Spanish language is more potent
rather than a regular school.
Using the association's own performance criteria, charters were four times more
likely than regular schools to score in the state's top 5 percentile, but also twice as likely to be in the lowest performing 5 percentile of the model.