Sentences with phrase «than traditional district schools do»

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

Not exact matches

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.

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A disproportionate share of low - income and minority children are enrolled in charter schools and a recent study by CREDO found that charter schools do a better job educating low - income and minority children than traditional district schools.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

In many cases, the charter community does reflect lower percentages of enrollment for these high need students than the traditional district schools on an aggregated level.

DPS» adoption of the LLN allows the district to shift more toward an authorizing body and service provider rather than a traditional command - and - control school system that emanates from the Superintendent's office with a focus on «one best system» which we know does not work if you want a diverse set of great schools.

Their report found that, on average, charter school students in New York City tend to stay at their schools at a higher rate than do students at nearby traditional district schools.

The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

Charters do receive public funding but it is generally much less than that provided to traditional districts and schools.

In other words, Ben throws a lot at the wall, but nothing sticks to rebut the basic point: Charter don't spend more than traditional districts and their schools.

Currently, more than 30 states have policies that allow CBP, although these policies do not always translate into broad use by districts and schools, where traditional definitions of credit as seat time prevail in local policy and practice.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

«I don't think there's any question based on the numbers that the charter school population is different than your traditional district population,» said Keith Poston, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in Raschool population is different than your traditional district population,» said Keith Poston, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in RaSchool Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in Raleigh.