Even if the impacts end up being roughly the same,
urban charter schools achieve these results at a small fraction of the cost.
Related:
An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM
Not exact matches
Innovative
schools in
urban areas show that all children can
achieve at high levels given the chance, building on the promise of the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said while visiting the Amistad Academy
charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2004.
So even if SIG
achieved the same effects as
urban charter schools the study may not have been able to detect these effects.
It seems pretty unfair for
charter (or voucher) champions to call SIG a failure when SIG might have very well
achieved near the same results as
urban charter schools.
Ten years ago,
Urban Prep opened the nation's first all - male
charter public high
school knowing that, if we were to
achieve uncommon results, we would have to pioneer an uncommon approach.
And a still - newer 2015 CREDO analysis, examining
charter schools in 41
urban communities, found them, on average,
achieving 40 additional days of learning growth in math and 28 days in reading compared to matched peers in district
schools.
Commissioner Robinson cited the need for more
charter schools to open in
urban and rural areas with «persistently low -
achieving schools.»
See what some of the best
urban charter school leaders have to say about why they do what they do (and how they
achieve such great results in their inner - city
schools) in our short film Unchartered Territory; click on the photo to watch this short film on SnagFilms.com for free.
Synergy
achieves this through the operation of
urban public
charter schools in South Los Angeles that implement a holistic approach to education, believe in collective accountability and share best practices through professional collaboration.
BES trains leaders to take on the demanding and urgent work of leading high -
achieving, college - preparatory
urban charter schools.
Our mission at PUC
Schools is to develop and manage high quality charter schools in densely populated urban communities with overcrowded and low achieving s
Schools is to develop and manage high quality
charter schools in densely populated urban communities with overcrowded and low achieving s
schools in densely populated
urban communities with overcrowded and low
achieving schoolsschools.
BES accomplishes this by training leaders to take on the demanding and urgent work of leading high -
achieving, college - preparatory
urban charter schools.
Nationally,
urban charter schools on average
achieved significantly greater student success in both math and reading than traditional public
schools, said the study, which covered the academic years 2006 - 07 to 2011 - 12.
Sarah taught high
school English and Humanities in both suburban and urban New Jersey public schools for 14 years, including seven years at the high - performing North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 and
school English and Humanities in both suburban and
urban New Jersey public
schools for 14 years, including seven years at the high - performing North Star Academy
Charter School of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 and
School of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students
achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 and 2007.
According to the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) «
urban charter schools on average
achieve significantly greater student success in both math and reading, which amounts to 40 additional days of learning growth in math and 28 days of additional growth in reading.»
She served as a founding teacher, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and
School Culture, and Head of School at a successful urban charter school and has coached school staff to achieve an «A» rating on the Ohio Report
School Culture, and Head of
School at a successful urban charter school and has coached school staff to achieve an «A» rating on the Ohio Report
School at a successful
urban charter school and has coached school staff to achieve an «A» rating on the Ohio Report
school and has coached
school staff to achieve an «A» rating on the Ohio Report
school staff to
achieve an «A» rating on the Ohio Report Card.
Research by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes found across 41 regions,
urban charter schools on average
achieve significantly greater student success in both math and reading.
The federal
charter school program has been instrumental in seeding the development of many of the nation's highest
achieving urban schools.
In 1998, the future AF founders started Amistad Academy, a public
charter school in New Haven, CT with the goal of proving «that
urban students can
achieve at the same high levels as their affluent suburban counterparts» (Achievement First, 2017a).