Sentences with phrase «than traditional district schools in»

Academic achievement at charter middle and high schools is higher than traditional district schools in several areas key to putting students on the path to college.

Not exact matches

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets onlyIn terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets onlyin their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets onlyin most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

A new Fordham report finds that 28 % of teachers in traditional district schools miss more than 10 school days a year for sick or personal leave while teachers in charter schools have lower rates absences.

Clickable surveys offered through school or district Web pages are easier to prepare and tabulate, and appear to get higher rates of response, than traditional paper surveys that are sent home in backpacks or mailed, say school administrators who have joined the trend.

In addition to charter schools, students can enroll at one of 38 innovation schools, district - operated schools pioneering new school models with more autonomy than traditional district schools.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

For starters, the school district's computer couldn't accept SOF's narrative - style report cards, which evaluated students» proficiency in the core competencies rather than giving them traditional numeric grades in individual subjects.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

Are they aware that charters in Detroit, Indianapolis, and elsewhere already receive at least 40 percent less funding than traditional district schools?

Likewise, only about one third of charters ranked in the bottom tier, compared to more than half of the combination of district and selective - admissions schools and more than six in ten traditional district schools.

Smith, who has taught for more than a decade in both D.C.'s public charter and traditional district schools, immediately saw the benefit for students, but says she was most captivated by the opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

For example, in that same year, each public - school student in a traditional school in the Cherry Creek School District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenschool student in a traditional school in the Cherry Creek School District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenschool in the Cherry Creek School District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenSchool District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studDistrict received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studdistrict's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenschool student did.

Lynette N. Tannis began her education career more than two decades ago and has served in myriad capacities in traditional and charter school settings, including classroom teacher, literacy coordinator, school / district administrator, intern superintendent, and education consultant.

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 nearly $ 1 billion in state funding that has left the district, as more than 100,000 students have fled their traditional neighborhood schools in the past decade for charter schools and other school districts?

Founded more than 25 years ago, they are operated independent of the traditional school district but in addition to the being heldto the same accountability standards as all public schools, charter schools have performance targets that they must meet in order to stay open.

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 Detroit, where more than 40 percent of students attend charters, traditional district schools are slowly taking on a higher and higher proportion of students with special needs.

It found that, because they got a voucher, parents «were more likely to be actively involved in their children's schools, parent - teacher organizations, and other education groups» than parents of students at traditional district schools with a similar demographic profile.

But in a sector of public education with far less oversight than traditional school districts, it's easy to see how a teacher could find herself fired and out of options.

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.

The study, just completed, compared test scores of 46,000 charter school [fourth - grade] students in 20 states and the District — almost every student attending the special schools with fewer restrictions than traditional public schools.

This is the fifth time in as many months that state oversight officials have taken some kind of disciplinary action against virtual schools — which some research has shown perform markedly worse academically than traditional district schools.

Public charter school students already receive nearly $ 4,000 less per child in public operating support than their peers in traditional district schools.

In fact, public charter school students currently receive nearly $ 4,000 less on average than their peers in traditional district schoolIn fact, public charter school students currently receive nearly $ 4,000 less on average than their peers in traditional district schoolin traditional district schools.

The report — Portrait of the Movement — says LA Unified charter schools, on average, produce stronger test results than traditional schools in the district.

In Tennessee, for example, the state's traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peerIn Tennessee, for example, the state's traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peerin Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

Charter students already receive less in funding per year than students in traditional district 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.

ublic charter schools received significantly less funding than traditional public schools in five cities, including the District, between 2007 and 2011, according to a new study released Wednesday.

Charter schools in Los Angeles have much lower populations of homeless students than traditional district schools.

Dora posted an analysis of the initiative by local education expert Dr. Wayne Au, who points out that charter schools are undemocratic, take funds away from struggling public school districts, and — contrary to assertions in the initiative's language — are not better than traditional 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.»

Because charter schools in many states and districts aren't bound to a particular geographic area, they have more leeway than traditional public schools in deciding where they can locate.

In 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.&raquIn 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.&raquin these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.»

Some school districts use «private placement» to sell bonds rather than using a more traditional method of selling bonds in the primary market to many investors.

Charter schools in Idaho have historically served a lower concentration of low - income and minority students than their neighboring traditional district schools.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Traditional district schools, particularly Forest Hill and Cramer Elementary, more than doubled their proficiency in math.

Fact 6: While charter schools are predominantly located in urban areas, charter schools, on average, are more racially / ethnically diverse * than their traditional district school counterparts (comparative districts).

According to a 2017 report from the Texas Education Agency, just 62 percent of Texas charter school students graduated on time in 2016, compared to more than 90 percent of students from traditional school districts.

* In most states, charter school districts reported spending less money per pupil than traditional public schools on instruction, student support services and teacher salaries.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

Charter schools are less likely to engage in this practice, but traditional districts tend to see the costs of absence as lower than the costs of lengthening teachers» contract year with a proportional increase in salary.

Alternatives to charter schools (such as the Travis Heights Elementary School, sometimes referred to as an «innovation school,» rather than as an in - district community charter school) are worth investigating as a means to forestall school districts imposing traditional charter schools on their students, teachers, and paSchool, sometimes referred to as an «innovation school,» rather than as an in - district community charter school) are worth investigating as a means to forestall school districts imposing traditional charter schools on their students, teachers, and paschool,» rather than as an in - district community charter school) are worth investigating as a means to forestall school districts imposing traditional charter schools on their students, teachers, and paschool) are worth investigating as a means to forestall school districts imposing traditional charter schools on their students, teachers, and paschool districts imposing traditional charter schools on their students, teachers, and parents.

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The mission of the SCSC is to improve public education by authorizing high quality charter schools that provide students with better educational opportunities than they would otherwise receive in traditional district 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.

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).