Also like Comcast's wireless service, Charter's service, to be creatively named «Spectrum Mobile,» will offer users unlimited data for $ 45 per month — provided you also at least subscribe to
traditional Charter fixed - line broadband service.
Not exact matches
I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now,
fixing the schools, because
charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of
traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.
The authors of the North Carolina study attempt to control for hard - to - measure permanent characteristics of students who attend
charters by estimating what is known as student «
fixed effect» models, which involves measuring how student performance changes as students switch between the
charter and
traditional sectors.
Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to
fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.
As educators try to improve performance of students at
traditional public schools,
charter schools are springing up as a popular, if patchy,
fix.
Fixed costs are incurred regardless of whether students attend
traditional or
charter schools.
Using an individual panel data set to control for student
fixed effects, we estimate the impact of
charter schools on students in
charter schools and in nearby
traditional public schools.
In a letter, we told the Governor that the loss of every student to a
charter school would cause
traditional public schools to bear a disproportionate share of
fixed costs, significantly reducing the amount that each school has available.
The premise that students moving to
charter schools will cause financial quakes in
traditional school systems also suggests we should accept another premise that public school systems are so inflexible they can not adjust their
fixed and variable costs and still produce quality learning.
If
charter growth continues unchecked and
traditional schools lose more students, it will be even harder for DPS to pay down its debt and afford
fixed costs, like buildings, maintenance, and administration.
Superintendents like Mr. Ricci and some school board members lament that
traditional districts have
fixed costs that they must meet even with the loss of funds going to
charter schools.
Critics of reform efforts in Chicago say many of the well - funded initiatives to
fix CPS involve opening more privately run
charter schools and closing down the district's
traditional neighborhood schools.