According to a study of lottery data, students
who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.
In places where these schools of choice are allowed, students are no longer limited to attending their neighborhood public school but can
apply to a charter school elsewhere in the community.
In addition to the usual arguments about how such a system diverts funds from needy school districts and / or skims away the best students and their highly - involved parents (an argument that is
also applied to charter schools yet, strangely, not to NYC ’s
Charter School Fellowship: Talented individuals and teams seeking to develop or replicate charter models, outside of a partnership with Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), should
apply to the Charter School Fellowship.
In my prior work on middle schools, I found that the special education gap in Denver was almost exclusively caused by differences in the rates at which students with disabilities and students without
disabilities apply to charter schools in gateway grades (that is, when all students are entering school initially or graduating from elementary to middle school, for example).
Longwood's applicants,
before applying to the charter school, had similar reading scores but lower math scores (5 percentile points lower) than other students in neighboring regular public schools.
Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that
apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.
1000 - 1013, F.S.), except those statutes
specifically applying to charter schools: pertaining to the provision of services to students with disabilities; pertaining to civil rights; and pertaining to student, health, safety and welfare.
While these bills do not
explicitly apply to charter schools, we list them here because many charter schools mirror district policies in their suspension and expulsion practices.
«AB 913 would also protect funding for public education
by applying to charter schools the requirements that have proven effective in minimizing conflict of interest in traditional public schools,» Rivas said.
Plus, for complicated legal reasons (which you can read more about here), it's unclear whether Janus would
apply to charter school employees, meaning that CTU could retain the 1000 members they gain through the ChiACTS merger.
Chief executive Jinal Jhaveri cofounded the company after going through the tedious process
of applying to charter schools on paper applications in Oakland, saying, «It was a huge hassle.»
However, even if the bill passes and is signed into by Governor Malloy, McCluster and Perry can rest easy because as it is presently written the law
only applies to charter school applications that are submitted on or after July 1, 2015.
The methodology helps mitigate the selection issue present in the CREDO study, since the student population they are comparing, the winners and losers, both have the unobservable characteristics that lead to a
family applying to a charter school.
As California's Academic Performance Index has been discontinued and as the California State Board of Education (SBE) considers changes to the state's accountability system, there have been questions about which criteria should
apply to charter school renewal decisions.
For instance, the researchers focused mostly on low - income Latino students who applied to one of three public charter schools in Los Angeles, so the findings may not be applicable to other students, including those who do
not apply to charter schools or those living in different areas.
And as long as you live in the state in which the charter is located, you are eligible to
apply to that charter school.
Many charter schools host open family nights for families interested in
applying to the charter school.
Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to
apply to charter schools.
Since students who
apply to charter schools are assigned to enrollment randomly, we can have some confidence that the characteristics of those who enter charter schools in kindergarten mimic those of the students who apply.
Our analysis confirms that estimates of the effects of attending a charter school that rely on this peculiar group of students differ dramatically from estimates that are representative of students who
apply to charter schools.
However, private schools should not be held to any other accountability standards that might
apply to charter schools.
Like any other parents, parents of students with disabilities, and ideally the students themselves, choose to
apply to a charter school and, assuming they are selected through the lottery, enroll.
Of the families that have applied to new schools, 63 percent have
applied to both charter schools and district schools, according to statistics provided by the group.
However, a recent study from the Manhattan Institute found that, while ELL students are less likely than native speakers to
apply to charter schools in «gateway» grades (typical transitional points between, say, elementary school and middle school), they are also less likely to leave their charter schools than ELL students in traditional schools.
This method allows the researchers to isolate the effect of attending a charter school, without being concerned that factors related to the decision to
apply to a charter school are really driving achievement differences.
This one - day workshop presented by national charter law experts will provide the legal expertise charter school leaders need to serve their students, staff, and community in understanding the breadth of civil rights law and the ways they are changing with a clear understanding of how they are
applied to charter schools.