And, finally, do students
who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?
They need to advocate for policies that promote cooperative problem solving among school providers, including districts in cities where thousands of students
still attend traditional public schools.
Some states have voucher - type programs that enable children to use public funding to attend private schools, and some districts allow students to
attend a traditional public school other than the one in their neighborhood.
The proof point is our current debased and divisive national discourse, which is conducted daily with rising intemperance by American adults, nearly all
whom attended the traditional public schools that Christakis, in my view, sentimentalizes.
Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both
sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.
We asked respondents who live with children aged 6 to 17 to report whether those children have
ever attended a traditional public school, a charter school, or a private school, as well as whether they have been home schooled.
The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young
women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.
I, too, hope the NAACP remembers that «7 out of 8 Black public school students in
America attend traditional public schools, so it goes without saying that the traditional public school system is far more responsible than charter schools for the inequities and outcomes of Black students.»
While Congress and the Obama administration have pressed the Bureau of Indian Education to overhaul operations at the schools it oversees on or near American Indian reservations, more than 90 percent of the 950,000 American Indian children
attend traditional public schools run by local districts.
More than 5,900 in
pre-K attend traditional public schools, and about 600 attend pre-K in community - based child care centers, according to city data confirmed by the D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter School Board.
Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools shows that 42 percent of
seniors attending traditional public schools are on track to graduate, while 19 percent are considered «moderately off - track,» meaning they could still earn enough credits for a diploma.
And about 3,500 of those new students are
not attending traditional public schools, said Beck, speaking to lawmakers Tuesday at a joint session of the state Senate and House appropriations committees.
A recent study by the Urban Institute compared college attendance rates of students who participated in the program to attend a tuition - based school with their demographically - similar peers
who attended traditional public schools.
This group believes that consistent collaboration between the two sectors would enable charters to experiment and then share lessons learned so all students, the vast majority of whom
still attend traditional public schools, could benefit.
In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from 1.7 million K - 12 students in Ohio who
attended a traditional public school, charter school, or an online charter school between the 2009 - 10 and 2012 - 13 school years.
Charters only serve fewer than 3 % of US public school children; the remaining 97 % are compelled to
attend traditional public schools.
More than half of the students (52 percent) attending charters serving a majority high poverty population attend charter schools that are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide, compared to only 26 percent of similar students
attending traditional public schools.
As the authors themselves note, across the country only 2.5 percent of public school children roam the halls in charter schools each day; the remaining 97.5 percent are compelled to
attend traditional public schools.
And we know that, more often than not, the students
attending traditional public schools in cities are in intensely segregated schools.
The fact that the charter students and their parents actively sought out an alternative to traditional public schools suggests the students may be more motivated or their parents more involved in their child's education than is the case for students
attending traditional public schools.
Here is what we know: students in urban areas do significantly better in school if they attend a charter schools than if
they attend a traditional public school.
Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while
attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.
A key challenge for this research is to account for the subtle differences between students who choose to attend charters and otherwise similar children who
attend traditional public schools.
If the student
attends a traditional public school, the state spends $ 6,225 in operational expenses alone this year.
So it is ironic that the media treat charters as identical as they zero in on one overriding question: do students attending them learn more than students
attending traditional public schools?