Sentences with phrase «whether charter schools»

The 29 - 19 Senate vote followed a lengthy debate about whether charter schools represent an abandonment of the state's public school system.

This raises questions about whether charter schools may be violating civil rights law by not reporting the data on whom they exclude from school on disciplinary grounds.

Other questions raised by QUEST include whether charter schools will be required to increase programming for students with higher needs and English Language Learners so that they take in an equal share of these more costly - to - educate demographics.

Local school districts have no say in whether charter schools are created, where they are located, which children they educate or refuse to educate, nor do local boards of education have control over any other charter school policy or practice.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in July, complaining that charter school data is so incomplete that it could not determine whether charter schools are avoiding non-English speaking students.

The data is key to deciphering whether charter schools — which are publicly funded but can be independently run — are holding up their end of the bargain of increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability.

It is not about whether charter schools are good or that charter schools are successfully educating their students.

As Connecticut seeks to overhaul its education system so that all children have access to a quality education it is important to determine whether charter schools are the primary reason students score higher or whether charter schools score higher because they are «creaming off the highest performing students» in urban school districts.

LA Unified school board members confronted each other headlong in a dramatic discussion Tuesday night over whether charter schools were being treated fairly by the district.

Yet for all their growth and visibility, the basic question of whether charter schools have been delivering on their promise of higher - quality education, especially for underprivileged students, remains remarkably open.

In 2010, Education Next magazine conducted a poll in which 80 percent of respondents didn't know whether charter schools could hold church service or charge tuition (they can't do either).

Much of the argument centers on whether charter schools unfairly cherry pick students.

Indeed the question of whether charter schools in Puerto Rico would be unionized remains an open one.

Test scores help families decide where their students go to school, and whether charter schools like Common Ground can keep their doors open.

The relevant question today is no longer whether charter schools are good or bad as a group.

It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their district school counterparts.

While civil rights groups and leaders often agree that poor and minority children are more likely to receive a substandard education, they diverge on whether charter schools provide a sound alternative.

The suit challenging the new law has raised a number of issues, but perhaps the key question is whether charter schools — operating independent of an elected school board and, in turn, the voters — qualify under Washington law for public funding.

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.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

The studies come amid a growing debate over the question of whether charter schools are inadequately funded compared with traditional public schools, and if / how they improve student achievement better than the traditional schools.

Adding to the performance debate are questions about whether charter schools should «backfill» seats that open up when students leave during the year by admitting new students from their waitlists.

I hope we can move past tired debates about whether charter schools should, can or do serve students with disabilities.

In this post, Burris looks at whether charter schools can properly be compared with district public schools — as they often are.

I am very much looking forward to talking with people on both sides of the conversation as to whether charter schools are the right way to help historically disadvantaged students reach their full potential.

The answer then to the question of whether charter schools provide opportunities for students in struggling public schools appears to be «yes, but...»

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts (as the law currently allows), or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

While schools will get one last state payment, it's not clear whether charter schools will receive their latest share of federal funds.

This article does raise the question about whether charter schools are performing better than public schools.

Whether charter schools are better than traditional schools is still a question that remains very much unanswered in my mind.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they....

Referendum 55 will ask voters to decide whether the charter schools bill approved this year should become law.

State Rep. Roy Takumi, D - 36th (Pearl City, Palisades), and Sen. Norman Sakamoto, D - 15th (Waimalu, Airport, Salt Lake), the leading Democrats on education, said they will look at whether charter schools are adequately funded.

The summer issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether charter schools should continue to expand in cities like Washington, D.C. so that a larger share of students are attending charter schools.

The substantive issue here, of course, is whether charter schools work — and why they work.

In fact, a few examples of whether charter schools are meeting their academic goals already exist.

Lake and her colleagues have not used a rigorous analysis to determine whether charter schools are having a positive effect in Detroit, they just show trends in urban NAEP scores.

These figures have a direct effect for high schools, constituting 25 percent of the school performance score that determines over time whether charter schools stay open.

While the number of charter schools is growing rapidly, questions have been raised about whether charter schools are appropriately serving students with disabilities.

At least part of the disagreement revolves around whether charter schools deliver on their promise to improve student outcomes.

The interaction with own ability addresses the question of whether charter schools do well because they serve a relatively high - ability group.

One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.

Whether charter schools have actually lived up to their initial promise is a hotly contested topic in the education reform debate.

«Democracy Prep provides a test case of whether charter schools can successfully serve the foundational purpose of public education — preparation for citizenship — even while operating outside the direct control of elected officials,» the Mathematica report concludes.

For example, when asked whether charter schools are free to teach religion (they are not), or whether they can charge tuition (they can not), almost two - thirds of the public confesses to not knowing the answer and another quarter offers the wrong answer.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

Designing an effective charter school policy therefore requires attention to details about accountability and other features, such as whether enrollment in charters is unified with traditional public school enrollment processes and whether charter schools provide transportation for students.

As our survey did two years ago, we asked respondents a variety of factual questions: whether charter schools can hold religious services, charge tuition, receive more or less per - pupil funding than traditional public schools, and are legally obligated to admit students randomly when oversubscribed.