In both locations, investigations by journalists at the Boston Globe and WBEZ revealed that
the waiting list numbers were grossly exaggerated, often counting the same students multiple times.
The public has never been more supportive of California's charter public schools based on growth in charter school enrollment,
waiting list numbers, and polling data.
Inflated charter school
waiting list numbers: WBEZ reported that charter school waiting list figure cited by charter advocates «significantly overstates demand» and that «the 19,000 figure counts applications, not students, meaning if a student applies to four schools, he or she is counted four times.
Evidence over the past five years argues that the public has never been more supportive of charter public schools than they are right now based on growth in charter school enrollment,
waiting list numbers, and polling data.
Lower Manhattan's elementary school principals updated Walcott on
the wait list numbers for this September — 148 at three schools.
A collection of strong charter schools remain, but even these must engage in perpetual fights with teachers unions and the mayor for space and funding parity, despite
waiting lists numbering in the tens of thousands.
ILTexas has an aggressive growth plan to accommodate for the high demand made known by
wait lists numbers reaching more than 5,000 students in just its third year of operation.
We are no longer maintaining waiting lists for Cher Car Kennels puppies, having been forced to discard the practice on June 1, 2015 when
the wait list numbered 863 potential buyers (387 Dutch Shepherd, 255 German Shepherd, 164 Belgian Malinois, 57 Parson Russell Terrier) and dated back to May of 2013.
Not exact matches
Most startups using the «
waiting list» method usually send you a thank you email telling you your place in line, and then send you another email announcing your
number is up.
A
number of the disabled programs were going to be taken over by a federal court and we transformed them and 31,000 families got off a
waiting list...
This is the
number one thing on my Christmas
list, I'm just not sure I can
wait that long!
I got the
Wait List email stating that there was a 99 % retention on season tickets and it is highly unlikely that your
number will be called.
And flaminis??? Man this b ** lsh!t, multiplying players in so many positions does not make up for the
numbers, and
wait if we really means business how can you consider using some of your
listed player?
Given that our
number of openings can be fewer than our
number of qualified applicants, we do at times maintain an active
wait list until our seats for the next fall are all filled.
A
number of Assembly members who haven't spoken out against efforts to limit charter schools have long
waiting lists in their districts of kids wanting to get into those schools.
Senator David Carlucci said, «Lauren's Law has significantly helped increase the
number of registered organ donors in our state, which means thousands
waiting on donor
lists may get a vital organ sooner.
The Campaign for Youth Shelter, a coalition effort by a
number of advocacy groups, are pressing the state and city to grow the supply of emergency beds each year by 100 until
waiting lists at shelters around the city disappear.
According to area principals, the
wait -
list numbers have decreased slightly since the kindergarten offers first went out in early April.
This year's kindergarten enrollment
numbers, however, are still in flux, and some of the
wait -
listed children will likely win spots as other families choose private school or gifted - and - talented programs instead.
When we spoke with Vicki Been, who heads up the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which administers the Section 8 program, she told us that there «were a very limited
number of unattributed vouchers, about 600» from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8
waiting list has been closed for years).
Instead of acceptance letters, 148 lower Manhattan families were sent notice on Thursday of their child's
number on a
wait -
list for kindergarten at their zoned schools.
LOWER MANHATTAN — With far more applications than seats, most of Downtown's popular elementary schools have placed an even larger
number of youngsters on the dreaded kindergarten
wait -
list than last year.
When we spoke with HPD commissioner Vicki Been last month, she told us that there «were a very limited
number of unattributed vouchers, about 600 ″ from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8
waiting list has been closed for years).
New Labour continued the process, cutting the
number of Council houses built to a mere 200 - 300 a year in the last decade, despite the
number of households on the local authority
waiting lists topping 1.8 million.
During the 2013 mayoral primary campaign, de Blasio and all of his Democratic rivals committed to increasing the stock of available emergency beds by 100 every year until
waiting lists at the small
number of available youth shelters were eliminated.
The higher the MELD
number, the sicker a patient is and the higher they are placed on the
waiting list.
Each year, the
number of people added to the
wait list exceeds those who actually receive transplants.
Organizers need accurate registration
numbers to manage
wait lists and prepare name tags.
Quite a
number of schools have a long
waiting list — this article explores the uptick in enrollment and a divergence from traditional education
Nowhere is this more clear than in the Best Actor category, which already seems to have congealed into a solid
list of five extremely likely candidates with a
number of others
waiting in the wings to play the spoiler.
I can't
wait to get my hands on a
number of these titles, but The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Invisible Invaders are at the top of my must - have
list.
That said, Jeffrey Wells» overwhelmed response to Robert Towne's Ask the Dust, starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek, automatically pushes the film to
number one on my
list of Movies I Can't
Wait to See.
Some cities like Boston are nearing the local cap on the
number allowed, despite long
waiting lists.
Schools in popular, gentrifying neighborhoods will continue to grow; successful schools of choice will continue to attract plenty of students (though their
waiting lists should shrink); metropolitan areas that weathered the recession in good shape will continue to serve an expanding
number of families and their schoolkids.
«Some families applying today will go straight on to a
waiting list with no offer of any school places, and soaring
numbers of children will continue to be crammed into ever - expanding classes,» she said.
Statewide, charter groups say there are 45,000 applicants on
waiting lists, though that
number may include students who apply to multiple schools.
LAUSD assigns students priority points (e.g., matriculation,
number of years on
waiting list, sibling is at that school, and if resident school is predominantly made up of minorities or is overcrowded).
In fact, the
number of families on the
waiting grew by 60 percent compared to the last school year as almost 200 families were left on the
waiting list this year.
Each year during National Charter Schools Week, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) releases annual data on the
number of students across the state on
waiting lists to attend charter schools.
It was a miscalculation by the Mayor and his staff to assume that just because high - performing charters had
wait lists and low - performing schools were under - enrolled, that those
numbers would serve as a de facto poll of the African - American community's sentiment toward the Mayor.
And while taxpayers
wait for a fuller accounting of how their public dollars are being spent at the state's largest voucher school, Trinity Christian is on track to keep their
number one perch on the
list of schools receiving taxpayer dollars: they currently lead the pack in the
number of voucher applications for 2017.
As you all know, the key priority for the Texas Charter Schools Association (TCSA) is centered on providing public charter schools with facilities funding to help accommodate exponential enrollment growth and the
number of students on a
waiting list.
He should also listen to the demands of the families of an equal
number of students on charter
waiting lists.
An increasing
number of local education agencies are tying to curtail their availability, even though at least 50,000 children remain on
waiting lists to get into a quality charter school.
The average
number of students on a
wait list for one of the 249 charters available to LA Unified students is 146.
Despite the ongoing debate over whether charter schools are better than traditional public schools and the steady increase annually of new charters, the California Charter Schools Association reports a record
number of students are on charter school
wait lists statewide.
A new report out this week from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools indicates that nationally, the
number of names on public charter schools»
waiting lists rose by 13 percent in the 2013 - 2014 school year.
• Charter - school advocates like to cite their long
waiting -
list numbers to argue that more such schools are needed.
Bathgate says the
waiting lists for seats in charter schools, which her group tracks, are growing longer even as the
number of charter schools increase.
They note that a large
number of minority families are entering charter school lotteries and more than 500,000 students are on charter
waiting lists nationally.