Sentences with phrase «today than the charter school»

Lhota: «There's nothing more progressive today than the charter school movement throughout the United Staes.»

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Charter schools in New York City receive almost $ 5,000 less per student each year than traditional schools, according to a study to be released today by researchers at the University of Arkansas.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

Today, more than 1.2 million U.S. school children attend more than 4,000 public charter schools.

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

For two decades, charters have quietly spread, and today about 2 million students are attending more than 6,000 charter schools.

According to the most recent data, 75 of the state's 82 charter schools had lists totaling more than 37,000 individual students — more than actually attend the schools today.

Today, 24 states have less than 1 percent of their students in charter schools.

Ideas such as charter schools, performance pay, and consequential accountability are much more widely accepted — and acceptable — today than they were a decade ago.

It should include more (and better) specialized charters created in systematic ways: schools that focus on STEM, career and technical education, high - ability learners, special education, socioeconomic integration, and other realms within the K — 12 universe that cry out for better options than what's there today.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

Today, more than 1 million students are enrolled in public charter schools in the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) that have charter laws, with almost 4,000 charter schools in all.

But today most charter schools have even higher concentrations of poverty than traditional public schools.

But today, charter school teachers often have even less voice than teachers in district public schools.

Today, more than three million students are enrolled in charter schools and another 250,000 use vouchers or tax credit tuition scholarships to attend private schools.

Today, more than 2 million students are taking advantage of this robust public school choice option in over 5,600 charter schools across the country.

Today Arizona enrolls a greater portion of K - 12 students in charter schools than any other state in the nation.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

Today more than 9,000 children in our state are being educated in charter schools from Windham to Fairfield Counties and everywhere in between.

«One thing is clear from Education Next's poll released today: despite the wording of the questions, when looking across the board at the dominant forms of educational choice options like charter schools, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships, this poll finds more support for these programs than opposition.

Today, more than 6,000 public charter schools serve approximately 2.5 million students; that is more than double the number of students who were attending charters in 2007.

The U.S. Department of Education announced today new grants totaling more than $ 157 million through its Charter Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the Charter Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the charter schools across the schools across the nation.

Just 25 of California's 2,462 high schools account for more than a fifth of the state's dropouts, with the problem heavily concentrated in charter and alternative schools, according to a study being released today by UC Santa Barbara.

Charter schools, while they educate less than 5 percent of North Carolina's average daily membership, are one of the most controversial topics in North Carolina education today.

Today, the nation's charter schools number close to 7,000 and serve about 5 percent of the students in the U.S. — just half of those who attend private schools, and slightly more than the 3 percent who are homeschooled.

Today, charter schools enroll more than 30 percent of the kids in 14 cities in America and more than 10 percent in more than 160 districts.

Compass Charter School in Meridian, a perennial high flier on state performance assessments, has added almost 300 new students just this year (growing from 565 students to 859), while the successful Sage International School in Boise has almost doubled from 545 students in 2013 - 14 to more than 930 today.

Today, 43 states and the District of Columbia permit charter schools and more than 60 private school choice programs are in place.

They first approved charter schools in the early 1990s and today approximately 15 percent of public school students attend one of the more than 600 charter schools in the state.

Today, more than 80 percent of New Orleans public school students attend charter schools and the rest attend schools operated by RSD.

Here are some highlights from two separate studies on charter schools that were released Tuesday: * Public charter schools generally receive less funding than traditional public schools, according to a new report released today, but most or all of these funding differences can be connected to the additional obligations that the traditional schools have.

Indianapolis Charter School Director Brandon Brown says there are fewer than ten students still enrolled as of today.

Today, at best there are in all three Oakland American Indian charter schools not more than a a few Native Americans in all of three charter schools.

Today, just 12 percent of charter schools are unionized, and teacher retention rates — one possible measure of professional satisfaction — are much lower than in traditional public schools.2 Moreover, most charter schools largely discarded the goal of student integration.

Today, Tennessee's charter school movement — which serves more than 35,000 students across 112 schools — has revolutionized traditional thinking about public schools and helping students reach new heights of achievement while also paving the way for enhanced innovation in K - 12 education.

In the past two decades, charter schools have grown by leaps and bounds, from a single school in Minnesota in 1992 to more than 6,400 charter schools today, serving more than 2.5 million students in 42 states.

Today Michigan has more for - profit charter schools than any other state.

Today charter schools continue to receive their special education allocations based on the state's flawed system that sent more than

New Haven, Conn. — The state Legislature approved a budget today that protects a $ 250 per - student increase for charter public schools, which serve nearly 10,000 children across the state yet receive thousands of dollars less than traditional public schools to educate each one.

More than 32,240 events and activities will focus on all education options available today, including traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, private schools, online learning, and homeschooling.

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Nationwide, more than 32,240 events and activities will focus on all education options available today, including traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, private schools, online learning, and homeschooling.

If charter schools ever had to educate everyone, no doubt their results would look the same or worse than that of today's public schools.

More than 50 4 - year - olds started their school careers today at the new John W. Hoffman College Prep campus on South Prieur Street, a Head Start program created by the New Orleans College Prep charter network in hopes of fulfilling the neighborhood's desire to see a school rebuilt on the site.

A New Wave of School Integration Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity shows responses to greater segregation today by race than in 1970s, despite decades of research showing academic, cognitive, and social benefits of integrated schools.

Today there are almost 4,000 names on charter school waitlists in Connecticut and more than 50,000 names on waitlist in New York City alone.

Chief of Strategy, Chicago International Charter School (CICS) Today, Chicago's poor children go to schools that are not preparing them for college, career, or life, and every day the discussion about education is focused on adult interests rather than the success of children.