Sentences with phrase «to remain in public school»

That is, the evidence suggests that both students who exercise choice and students who remain in public schools benefit from school choice programs.

I am not going to prevent any parent who currently has their child in public school the opportunity to have their child remain in public school until the terminal grade.

Moreover, increased competition from school choice makes students remaining in public schools better off.

This piece of the research puzzle examines whether the introduction of vouchers leads to higher outcomes for pupils remaining in public schools.

First, as noted above, research shows that the scholarship program improves the performance of students who remain in public schools.

For teachers who expect to remain in the public schools for longer periods of time, the MA degree represents a potentially sound upfront investment to increase their lifetime earnings.

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

Although school choice programs vary across different states, the local and federal funding generally remains in the public school and results in a greater quantity of money being available for the students who choose to stay there.

With the passage of school choice legislation, a portion of these percentages — ranging from 46 % to 58 % — remain in the public schools as some students depart.

These subsidies have not only improved education for the students who attend the schools of choice, but study after study has shown that kids who remain in public school also benefit when a voucher system is instituted and schools are forced to compete for students.

On a national level, only 28 percent of TFA teachers remain in public schools beyond five years, compared with 50 percent of non-TFA teachers.

The study compared two groups were compared: (1) students eligible for vouchers, but chose to remain in public school with (2) students who took a voucher and attended a private school.

He soon moved to the private Moses Brown School, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state college.

These students fell into three categories: 1) those who won a scholarship and used it to enroll in a private school («choice students»); 2) those who won a scholarship but either moved out of the area or elected to remain in a public school for a variety of reasons («noncomplying students»); and 3) those who didn't win a scholarship («control students»).

Study after study have shown that students at private schools using vouchers do no better and sometimes even worse than similar peers who remain in public schools.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Sandra Feldman, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, complains that vouchers take «money away from inner - city schools so a few selected children can get vouchers to attend private schools, while the majority of equally deserving kids, who remain in the public schools, are ignored.»

Determined that Mary should remain in public school, Frank's mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) comes to Florida and launches a custody battle to become Mary's legal guardian.

In Washington, for example, the average class size attended by students who switched to private school was 18, compared with 22 for those who remained in public school.

In the remaining two locations, Chicago and Milwaukee, black students attended slightly less segregated charter schools than they would have if they remained in public schools, though both traditional school systems contained very low percentages of white students (Zimmer, et al., 2009).

Studies show performance gains for both the students who switch to private schools and the students who remain in public schools, and taxpayers save tens of millions of dollars every year.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

An emotionally disturbed student who requires private placement, for example, is likely to be more challenging and expensive to educate than the average emotionally disturbed student who remains in public schools.

For starters, public school districts would have more resources for each student who remains in public school (as well as other tangential benefits such as smaller class sizes and better matches between Missouri students and schools).

None of the independent studies performed of the most lauded and long standing voucher programs extant in the U.S. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. — found any statistical evidence that children who utilized vouchers performed better than children who did not and remained in public schools.

On the combined reading and math tests, younger students in private schools scored 9.3 percentile points higher than those who remained in public schools.

Eligible school children may choose to remain in public school, attend a religious school, or a nonreligious private school.

After two years, African - American students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school scored 6.3 percentile points higher than African - American students who remained in public schools.

After two years, African - American students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school scored 6.3 percentile points higher than African - American students who remained in public schools (the control group)(see Figure 1).

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

This study examines the impact of the nation's largest private school scholarship program on the performance of students who remain in the public schools.

Studies of a similar program in Florida have found that it improves the academic achievement of students who switch from public to independent schools and that it also improves achievement among students remaining in public schools.

After one year, the results show that students who used a scholarship to attend a private school scored 5.9 percentile points higher on the math section of the ITBS than comparable students who remained in public schools.

In Ohio, the findings were positive: The introduction of voucher competition modestly improved the outcomes of students who remained in their public schools — in the range of one - eighth of the magnitude of the black - white test - score gap.

Statewide programs in Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio, however, already have demonstrated clear positive effects on the achievement of students who remain in public schools, confirming Caroline Hoxby's claim (see «Rising Tide,» features, Winter 2001) that competition from choice generates «a rising tide that lifts all boats.»

First, we assess whether the private schools attended by students using state - funded vouchers offer more or less racially segregated environments than those available to students who remain in public schools.

Scholars continue to disagree about other topics (such as the likely impact of a large - scale voucher program on the education of students who remain in public schools) because the evidence assembled to date is more provisional.

On one issue there is general agreement: parents who use vouchers are more satisfied with their private schools than are parents who apply to voucher programs but remain in public schools.

And, it would provide more resources for students who remain in public schools.

But when families are asked which type of school they would select in order to obtain the best education for their child, the numbers change dramatically: 41 percent would choose private school and 36 percent would remain in public school.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that many of these discharges may have been forced «push - outs» by school administrators of students who have a legal right to remain in public schools....

Moreover, all but $ 250 million of these proposed resources would remain in public schools.

It's a study of roughly 3,300 low - income students in grades 3 - 8 who used a voucher to switch from their public school to a private school and were then matched by the researchers to similar students who remained in public schools.