A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than
their traditional public schools peers.
Home - schooled children typically excel
their traditional public school peers.
We will never have as much money as our charter and
traditional public school peers, which means that we will always need to find creative solutions in our quest for excellence.
As public school students, children attending charters should be able to access similar funding and facilities as
their traditional public school peers.
She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than
their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.
The Bay Area, Boston, D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, New York City and Newark are much stronger than
their traditional public school peers in math.
Students in poverty, black students, and those who are English language learners (ELL) gain significantly more days of learning each year in both reading and math compared to
their traditional public school peers.
«The majority of online charter students had far weaker academic growth in both math and reading compared to
their traditional public school peers.
Performance differences between charter school students and
their traditional public school peers were especially strong among black and Hispanic students in poverty and Hispanic students who are ELL in both reading and math.
Contrast that with Indianapolis, where three Stanford University studies have found that the average charter school student makes large advancements in reading and math compared with
her traditional public school peers.
A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of
their traditional public school peers.»
Compared to
their traditional public school peers, Tennessee charter school students gained the equivalent of 86 additional learning days in reading and 72 days in mathematics over the course of a single year.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, «Like
their traditional public school peers, students at Utah's charter schools struggled to reach new performance benchmarks in math, science and English.
Right now, charter students in Colorado on average receive only 80 cents on the dollar in funding compared to
their traditional public school peers — largely due to unfair gaps in local funding policies.
At Bridge PSL public schools the learning gains increased by 100 %, with students learning at twice the speed of
their traditional public school peers, the equivalent of an extra full year of schooling.
According to the report, «African - American and Latino charter students almost twice as likely (19 percent) to apply to [the University of California system] as
their traditional public school peers (11 percent).»
A 2013 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University analyzed the charter sectors in 27 states and found that, on average, charter schools have significant positive impacts in both math and reading for black students in poverty, Hispanic students in poverty, Hispanic English language - learners (ELLs), students in poverty in general, and ELLs compared to
their traditional public school peers.
Overall, students enrolled in urban public charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math and 28 additional days in reading compared to
their traditional public school peers.
The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of
their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.
Nevada's charter schools demonstrated the worst overall performance, with charter students learning the equivalent of 108 fewer days in reading and 137 fewer days in math compared to
their traditional public school peers.
Students enrolled in urban charter schools in New Jersey learn significantly more in both math and reading compared to
their traditional public school peers.
Not exact matches
«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter
schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high
school graduation than their
peers in
traditional charter and
traditional public schools,» said McEachin.
These four characteristics distinguish us from our
traditional public school and
public charter
school peers.
The key question is whether KIPP's positive effects on learning are attributable to a
peer environment that is more conducive to academic achievement than the
peer environment found in
traditional public schools.
More than a third of teachers in North Carolina's
traditional public schools are chronically absent — double the rate of their
peers in the state's charter
schools, according to a new national study released Wednesday.
A recent national study showed that African - American students in
public charter
schools gained an average of 36 extra days of reading and 26 extra days of math when compared to their
traditional school peers.
Stanford University researchers completed a review of New Jersey charter
schools in 2012 (the CREDO report), finding that compared to their
peers in
traditional public schools, «charter students in Newark gain an additional seven and a half months in reading and nine months in math» per year of
schooling.
Students in KIPP
schools may be surrounded by classmates who are, on the whole, more supportive of academic achievement than
peers in
traditional public schools with similar poverty rates.
Students transferring to charter
schools had prior achievement levels that were generally similar to or lower than those of their TPS [
traditional public school]
peers.
The KIPP
schools we observed emphasize teamwork and assuring success for all («team beats individual»; «all will learn «-RRB-, encouraging more - advanced students to help their
peers rather than just fend for themselves, in contrast to more individualistic
traditional public schools.
The
school lotteries, which are required under the state's charter law when a
school is over capacity, provide a way to answer the common complaint that the charter
school applicants are «different» from their
peers in the
traditional public schools.
Schools that have entrance criteria of any type or use lotteries to select students should not be included in the peer groups with traditional, democratic public s
Schools that have entrance criteria of any type or use lotteries to select students should not be included in the
peer groups with
traditional, democratic
public schoolsschools.
Public charter school students already receive nearly $ 4,000 less per child in public operating support than their peers in traditional district sc
Public charter
school students already receive nearly $ 4,000 less per child in
public operating support than their peers in traditional district sc
public operating support than their
peers in
traditional district
schools.
In spite of the sincere efforts that have been made to date to spur innovation in teaching and learning in the
traditional public school sector, the data show that just infusing more per - pupil
public school spending in the past has failed to propel the U.S. beyond its
peer countries on international rankings of student achievement.
So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter
schools performing worse than their
peers at
traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.
In fact,
public charter
school students currently receive nearly $ 4,000 less on average than their
peers in
traditional district
schools.
Yet they regularly outperform their
peer groups in
traditional public schools often located blocks away.
As a result, our scholars spend approximately 25 percent more time at
school than their
peers in
traditional public schools.
Poston is referring to a 2015 Stanford University study that found virtual charter students may trail their
peers in
traditional public schools by as much as an entire academic year.
Committee members were clearly uneasy about how these
schools could ensure children, particularly in the early grades, receive a quality education without any in - person interactions with teachers,
peers, counselors, and other support personnel that occur in
traditional public, charter, and private
schools.
Though they are
public school students like any other, each
public charter
school student is given, on average, $ 2,800 dollars less per year than their
peers in
traditional public schools.
Black students — typically underserved in
traditional public schools — are outperforming their
peers statewide on assessments.
News Release: San Antonio (December 13, 2017)-- Texas students in charter
schools are not necessarily faring better than their
peers in
traditional public schools.
Texas students in charter
schools are not necessarily faring better than their
peers in
traditional public schools.
Today, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) released a ground - breaking report on virtual
schools which found student outcomes at virtual
schools lag dramatically behind both
traditional public schools and
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In fact, in 2015, poor and minority student groups in charter
schools outperformed their
peers attending
traditional public schools in reading, writing, and math.
The fifth Portrait of the Movement report shows that California charter
schools continue to beat the odds by helping their students achieve at higher levels than their
peers in
traditional public schools.
Specifically, students enrolled in urban charter
schools receive the equivalent of 40 additional days of learning growth in math and 28 days of additional growth in reading compared to their matched
peers in [
traditional public schools].
Similarly, most surveys show that charter teachers are more «empowered» than their
peers at
traditional public schools.
The first
peer - reviewed research released on co-location, the study looked at nearly 900,000 students in grades 3 - 5 who attended a
traditional public school in an attendance zone that included a charter
school serving at least one of those grades between 1996 and 2010.