Data from charter schools and traditional public schools in New York City shows that a lower percentage of students
transfer out of charter schools than traditional public schools.
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Not exact matches
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention that WNYC recently did its own dive into the data to find
out if
charters or districts are better at retaining their students — and they found that in NYC, across all grades, a smaller percentage
of charter students
transferred out of their schools than did students at district schools.
There are options besides Districts
of Choice and
charter schools for parents to
transfer their kids
out of their districts:
«DPI was never in love... with
charter schools,» Sen. Tillman (R - Randolph) said in a Senate Education Committee hearing on Tuesday as he introduced to fellow lawmakers a gutted version of House Bill 334, which would transfer the Office of Charter Schools out of the Department of Public Instruction, placing it under the State Board of Edu
charter schools,» Sen. Tillman (R - Randolph) said in a Senate Education Committee hearing on Tuesday as he introduced to fellow lawmakers a gutted version
of House Bill 334, which would
transfer the Office
of Charter Schools out of the Department of Public Instruction, placing it under the State Board of Edu
Charter Schools
out of the Department
of Public Instruction, placing it under the State Board
of Education.
The
charter operator also moved into Allan Elementary in the fall
of 2012; 85 percent
of students
transferred out.»
Post the grades online and give parents the option
of transferring their kids
out of failing schools or converting them to
charter schools.
Howard Gardner covers a great deal
of territory in this interview, from the role
of the federal government in education to teacher education to
charter schools, but what stands
out most to me is his statement: ``... education in the arts needs no justification in terms
of «
transfer» to other subjects or to its generation
of wealth; it is a «good» in itself.»
As the former principal
of this school, which follows the Big Picture Learning philosophy
of — one student at a time — and seeks to connect students to their interests and passions, I know the other variables at play, e.g. over 75 % are chronically truant (not a new practice they develop but one that's existed for some time), thought the school serves about 140 students, it's not unusual that nearly double that figure are served in a given year (it's the nature
of serving students in foster care and others that are highly mobile), over 2/3 are
transfer students who were «counseled
out» by other LAUSD district and
charter schools.
In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate
transfer of public dollars to
charter schools the Governor failed to point
out that (1) Connecticut already has one
of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department
of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.
There's the equally oppressive staff incentive system, reports
of Noble students attempting suicide, and the memo below from the Rauner
Charter school itself that essentially bribes a student with his / her own year's worth
of credits to
transfer out of Rauner.
«We're still figuring
out how to do it, but we're trying to have
charters take their quote unquote fair share
of mid-year
transfers and other high - need students,» Toll said.
It seems to me that consistently front - loading a
charter school's enrollment only to see it shrink over the course
of the year, thereby back - loading enrollment at public schools, could also allow fiscal shenanigans wherein, if less money is spent on students on average at the beginning
of the year (say, no building heating costs or payments for school trips or assessments that occur later on in the year), then the
charter school can effect a profit on students who later in the year
transfer out of the school.