Sentences with phrase «traditional public school students»

Moving a small percentage of traditional public school students into charter schools leaves the majority of students in «broken» schools.

In math, charter school students had «stronger growth» than traditional public school students in 12 states, and weaker growth in 13 states.

State and local policy makers who cave to union demands and block the growth of charters aren't doing traditional public school students any favors.

Many charter schools use older buses and vans that would not be allowed to transport traditional public school students.

In Louisiana, on average, public charter school students exhibited higher academic growth when compared with traditional public school students between 2007 — 08 and 2010 — 11 (50 more days in reading and 65 more days in math).

The draft revealed that nearly 15 percent of LAUSD traditional public school students attend schools that are in some of the lowest - ranked public schools statewide.

One recent study of schools in 27 states containing 95 percent of the nation's charter students found charter advantages overall, but not necessarily in every state: reading scores were actually higher for traditional public school students in eight of the 27 states, and math scores higher in 13 out of 27 states.

This allowed them to «compare charter and pilot students to traditional public school students who had similar academic achievement and other traits during an earlier school year.»

A 2017 multi-state review of voucher programs by Carnoy with the Economic Policy Institute found that students in voucher programs scored significantly lower than traditional public school students on reading and math tests and found no significant effect of vouchers leading to improved public school performance.

Comparisons are also included in the report based on the percentage of charter school students making learning gains and the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.

Choice schools (here meaning charter and private schools) in large cities, however, are less confined: to accommodate their interests, students can cross the school boundaries that confine traditional public school students.

We used carefully matched samples of charter and traditional public school students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbiased.

Accordingly, many of us in the charter sector have come to rely upon and appreciate the CREDO team's research, which examines charter performance against traditional public school students.

We are steadfast in our commitment to our Prop. 39 lawsuit and remain hopeful about the possibility that the California Supreme Court will hear the case, confirming once and for all that charter schools should be provided facilities that are truly «reasonably equivalent» to those that are provided to traditional public schools students consistent with California laws.

We identified a funding gap of 28.4 percent, meaning that the average public charter school student in the U.S. is receiving $ 3,814 less in funding than the average traditional public school student.

For example, about 12 percent of the parents of traditional public school students attained a college degree or higher, compared with 35 percent of the parents of charter school students.

All charter students in Texas take the same State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and End of Course (EOC) tests as traditional public school students.

It's quite nauseating and I'm trying to imagine what kind of uproar their would be if traditional public school students were being used as pawn the way they're using the charter school students.

The State's decision not to provide charter schools with facilities funding, and decision to fund charter school students in a manner that results in these students receiving as little as half the support that traditional public school students receive, serves no purpose but to limit the ability of charter schools to provide students with the high quality educational opportunities that these children deserve and these schools were designed to offer.

According to that DPI report, more than 50 percent of traditional public school students today would be considered low - income, compared to less than 30 percent of charter students.

The effect of charter schools on traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind left behind?

It doesn't stand to «make money» off of Malloy's reforms; in fact, Malloy's reforms will raise the per - pupil state funding amount for charter school students so that it will be equal with the per - pupil state funding amount for traditional public school students.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

Comparisons were made based on subject, grade level and subgroup and showed in 82 of 96 comparisons, the percentage of charter school students making learning gains was higher than the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.

Students with special needs in charter schools change schools less often than those in traditional public schools: Five years after enrolling in kindergarten, about 65 percent of charter students with special needs are still in their original schools, while only 37 percent of traditional public school students with special needs are still in their original schools.

In studying the characteristics of students in each school sector, the researchers observed that students in charter schools — both online and traditional — have lower baseline achievement than traditional public school students, are more likely to qualify for free and reduced price lunch, and are less likely to participate in gifted education.

Fifty - two percent of city charter school students were in 90 - 100 % minority schools, compared to only 34 % of traditional public school students — a difference of eighteen percentage points, very similar to the overall difference of twenty percentage points between the two sectors of schools (Table 22 on p. 63 of our report).

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

Ideally, to examine the issue of segregation, we would pose the question, Are the charter schools that students attend more or less segregated than the traditional public schools these students would otherwise attend?

The problematic figure in this table is the percentage of traditional public school students in hypersegregated schools used as the point of comparison.

According to the authors» own numbers in Table 20, more than half (56 percent) of charter school students attend school in a city, compared to less than one - third (30 percent) of traditional public school students.

In middle school, the study found that pilot school students «may actually lose ground relative to traditional public school students.»

For 90 percent of the 6,576 transfers in our database, the distance between the charter school where the student enrolled and the traditional public school the student attended the previous year is less than ten miles.

After re-analyzing the data for all 39 metropolitan areas, the authors of the re-analysis conclude, «Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students.»

According to CER charter schools have «highly contentious» relationships with school districts and receive only $ 3,400 per - pupil compared to $ 11,400 for traditional public school students.

How does the performance of charter schools compare to that of the traditional public schools their students would otherwise attend?

«If they were paired with a traditional public schools student, the public school student kept their place in line, and the cyberstudent moved back five spots,» she said.

Citywide, across all grades, 10.6 percent of charter school students transferred out in 2013 - 14, compared to 13 percent of traditional public school students.

Their students may be doing better than traditional public school students, but they're still dropping out of college at alarmingly high rates, and earning low wages.

Charter school students showed «significantly stronger» reading growth than traditional public school students in 16 of the 27 states and weaker in eight.

Traditional public school students in Arizona have made massive achievement gains in recent years.

Students enrolled in the Milwaukee voucher program are more likely to graduate from high school and go to college than their public school counterparts, boast significantly improved reading scores, represent a more diverse cross-section of the city, and are improving the results of traditional public school students....

We found substantial differences in the background characteristics of charter and traditional public school students.

Both charter and traditional public school students in Texas take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ™) tests.

Studies on vouchers show that many voucher students perform worse than traditional public school students.

The number of proficient early grade readers doubled; more than twice the number of Bridge PSL public school students met reading fluency benchmarks compared to traditional public school students.

We support his plan to get our schools back on track, and we are confident that he will be a strong, independent voice for both charter and traditional public school students and families in the state.»

We are confident that he will be a strong, independent voice for both charter and traditional public school students and families in Santa Ana.»

In Michigan, nearly 75 percent of charter school students are eligible for a free or reduced lunch, while 48 percent of traditional public school students are eligible for the subsidy, according to data from the Michigan Department of Education.