Sentences with phrase «very bad charter schools»

A: There are very good charter schools and there are very bad charter schools.

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The findings show that even using the most careful methods given the available data, the results for online charter schools are very bad.

All of the bad press makes it very hard to win support for the good charter schools, in terms of greater funding, facilities aid, or help in replicating.

And it seems, for whatever reason, very hard to get the public to understand that charter schools are not a single entity with one kind of culture or philosophy; they vary and, as with everything else in existence, produce both good and bad outcomes.

The WBD movie is produced by the same company that produced the controversial documentary «Waiting for Superman,» which put teachers in a very bad light and presented false and misleading information about charter schools, which overall have not had any better track record in the US than regular schools.

But, the very limited charter schools bill passed in the state Legislature last year and in front of voters in the form of Referendum 55 this election may help some students succeed in places where the worst schools exist.

Pittsburgh Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt described just how bad Imagine's reputation is when Imagine was trying to open a school in the district: «A lot of my friends in education around the country are very supportive of the charter movement.

In cases where the company lost the charter but the school remained open under different management, schools allege that it was «a very bad divorce.»

Despite the painfully bad educational outcomes in many public schools in ghettos across the country, there are also cases where charter schools in the very same ghettos turn out students whose test scores are not only far higher than those in other ghetto schools, but sometimes are comparable to the test scores in schools in upscale suburban communities, where children come from intact families with highly educated parents.

At best, it appears that some charter schools perform very well, but that the majority perform no better, or even significantly worse than neighboring traditional public schools.