Not exact matches
Students with disabilities and English language learners at New York City charter
schools are outperforming their
peers in
traditional district schools.
Public charter
school students already receive nearly $ 4,000 less per child in public operating support than their
peers in
traditional district schools.
In fact, public charter
school students currently receive nearly $ 4,000 less on average than their
peers in
traditional district schools.
In Tennessee, for example, the state's
traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high
school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013
school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white
peers.
This has resulted in states such as Tennessee letting
traditional districts get away with low bar goals, such as ensuring that 42.8 percent of black high
school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013
school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white
peers.
«Stanford University's Center for Research on Economic Outcomes (CREDO) issued a report Saturday that found charter
school students in Los Angeles learn more in a year than their
peers in
traditional district schools.»
These findings turn out to be as good or better to what we've seen in urban
districts, where Linked Learning students are earning more credits and graduating at higher rates than
peers in
traditional high
school programs.
By comparing responses of teachers and children in the
traditional district to
peers in charters on the city's annual
school climate survey.
Charter
school teachers in the 678,000 - student Los Angeles
school district are up to three times more likely to leave their
school at year's end compared to their
peers in
traditional public
schools, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley.
For the purposes of the brief, we operationalized access and equity as follows: to evaluate access, we examined
districts» choice and recruitment policies and assessed the degree to which pathways were representative of their
districts» high
school student populations; to evaluate equity, we compared academic outcomes for Linked Learning student subgroups with those of similar
peers in
traditional high
school settings.
Or, as they say, «when compared to their
peers in
traditional public
schools in our same communities» they have done much better and deserve more of the money that was meant for the urban
district schools.