Sentences with phrase «than the charter sector»

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Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

It argues convincingly that chartering is more than a sector of schools.

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

Consequently, the movement of a single student from one sector to another has a much larger impact on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in charter schools than on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in district schools.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

Proficiency rates on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) among charter students are not only consistently higher than those of students in their respective district sectors, but many of these rates compare favorably to the states with the highest average levels of performance.

A greater share of parents reported serious problems in the charter sector than in the private sector.

When it comes to instruction in character and values, parental satisfaction within the private sector varies less than it does in either the charter or district sector.

An Ernst & Young study of 430 loan transactions by 15 community - development financial institutions (CDFIs) involving 336 charter schools found a foreclosure rate of 1 percent, lower than the corporate sector debt - default rate of about 3 percent.

This is also not surprising, given that teacher hiring in charter schools is often less tightly regulated than it is in the district sector.

In cities like New Orleans and Detroit, which have especially robust charter sectors, more students attend charters than district schools.

School communications in the charter sector are also perceived by parents to be more extensive than those in the private sector.

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

Satisfaction with school safety also varies less in the private - school sector than in the charter arena.

Charter parents report more extensive communications with their children's schools than parents in the other two sectors, but they also express greater concern about a paucity of extracurricular activities.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

Less formally, more than 20 cities, through the Gates Foundation — funded District - Charter Collaboration Compacts, have established cooperative working groups focused on a range of topics, such as solving shared problems, addressing gaps in service across sectors for students and families, and sharing innovative practices.

January 25, 2018 — In the last decade, the charter sector has nearly tripled its enrollment to serve more than three million students, with another half million on waiting lists.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

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.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

But I would've preferred the report to point out that school quality matters far more than school operator, and while the CSO - model is a promising approach to the district sector, it should be viewed in the context of a city's entire portfolio of schools — CSO, charter, and private.

In Detroit, district enrollment is 15 percent of its peak, and the charter sector is educating more than half the city's kids.

A central part of the plan to push back the decline of Catholic education is to treat the city's successful charter school sector as a model, rather than a competitor, although charter schools have been contributing to the Catholic sector's population drain by attracting low - income families who choose a free charter over a tuition - based parochial school.

Though England is voucher - averse, its charter - like sector is burgeoning, with more than half of all secondary schools now functioning as «academies» (we would say «conversion charters»), having successfully petitioned Whitehall to extricate them from district control.

Our finding that charter school sectors in all 28 states that we study demonstrate higher productivity and / or return on investment than their traditional public school sectors has ruffled some feathers at the National School Boards Association.

A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than their traditional public schools peers.

It's hard to find many «good» charter sectors making do with less than, say, $ 7,500 in per - pupil revenue.

Across all 28 states in our study we found that public charter school sectors were more cost effective and / or generated a higher return on investment (ROI) than traditional public schools.

But I can't help but notice that all of these strategies are making deeper, faster inroads in the charter schools sector than in the old traditional public school system.

Some charter schools do far better than others at educating their students, a reality that has profound implications for charter - goers, and for the charter sector writ large.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation, with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — over 10 percent of the state's public - school population (see Figure 2).

The story of the Texas charter sector is much more complicated than Matt's piece indicated.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

Amidst all this, Anderson has moved to lay off more than a thousand teachers over three years, an attempt to plug a budget deficit driven by the costs of the burgeoning charter school sector.

Regardless, Democrats have grown less positive about the quality of education provided by charter schools than they were five years ago, even as Republicans continue to stand by the sector.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

Worse yet, I was personally present with local and national union leadership when they acknowledged that reality and celebrated that much of the money donated by Mark Zuckerberg was going to go into the pockets of their teachers rather than towards a radical expansion of the charter sector — as had been the case, for example, in New Orleans.

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

• In all but the private sector, parents of elementary - aged children are more satisfied with their schools than are parents of children in their high - school years, but charter schools gather higher rates of satisfaction than assigned district schools at all age levels.

Osborne then shows that the charter sector accomplishes this with less money per student than the district and in spite of the fact that the charter sector has a higher percentage of low - income and non-white students.

• Black, white and Hispanic parents express higher satisfaction with private schools than with schools in both the charter and district sectors, but Asian parents do not.

Our results suggest that the charter sector was initially characterized by schools whose quality was highly variable and, on average, less effective than traditional public schools.

The best evidence suggests that, at least in urban areas, a regulated charter sector can substantially improve results, much more than we have seen in Detroit.

March 21, 2018 — Phoenix - Warning signs in the financial data of Arizona's charter schools are examined in a new policy report that recommends greater oversight of the sector as two schools have failed in the past two months and audits show that more than half of all charter schools are in financial distress.

ACT Rochester's 7th Annual Community Report Card event attracted more than 250 people from government, business, nonprofit, fath based, and education sectors, along with sixth - grade students from Genesee Community Charter School.