Sentences with phrase «while traditional public schools»

«In a recent national study of charter school funding, Connecticut charter schools were receiving on average $ 12,631 per pupil, while traditional public schools would have received $ 16,476 for those students.

Whether that's true, (there's plenty of conflicting data out there), charter and alternative schools are often projected as hubs of innovation and experimentation, while traditional public schools are often branded as uninventive and stuck in their ways.

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In 2011, they were graduating 50 percent of their students while traditional public schools were graduating 75 percent.

Now California, in fairness, is listed as a state with «mixed results», but why would the governor promote the growth of this sector in his state while the traditional public schools are in such dire financial straits were it not for the huge sums of money dangled before him?

While both traditional public schools and charter schools must open their budgets to public scrutiny, voucher schools are exempt from any financial vetting — to the point that even when mismanagement has been repeatedly alleged, state officials are loath to intervene.

«Time and time again,» de Blasio claimed, «we've seen a tale of two cities, with resources lavished on [Moskowitz's] Success Academy while traditional public schools in the same building lacked the most basic necessities.»

But even within the large Census Bureau — defined Core - Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) used as proxies for metropolitan areas, charters are still disproportionately located in low - SES (socioeconomic status) urban areas, while traditional public schools are dispersed throughout the entire CBSA.

While the traditional public school does not have any Orton Gillingham certified teachers, an instructional approach considered state of the art for teaching students with dyslexia, the charter school has one.

While the traditional public school does not have any

Not exact matches

First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

While several of his fellow southern Brooklyn elected officials were criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio over Hizzoner's decision to allow plans for two charter schools to share space with traditional public schools in Bensonhurst to move forward, state Sen.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

While enrollment in traditional charters also increased during this period, traditional public school enrollment decreased.

Some families used these products and services to supplement their children's private - school education, while others used them to completely tailor their children's education outside of any traditional school, public or private.

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

For example, the authors note that in the Washington, D.C., CBSA, 91 percent of students in charter schools attend hypersegregated schools, while only 20 percent of students in that same area attend hypersegregated traditional public schools.

Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.schools (22 percent) were much higher.»

While many of the students transferred into Little Rock charter schools that were racially segregated, these students generally left traditional public schools that were even more heavily segregated.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

Our new findings demonstrate that, while segregation for blacks among all public schools has been increasing for nearly two decades, black students in charter schools are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings.

However, there may still be unmeasured differences that explain why one charter 8th grader attends a charter high school while another charter 8th grader attends a traditional public high school.

Charter advocates claim the schools receive 70 percent of what traditional public schools in New Jersey receive, on average, while charter critics note that many outspend traditional public schools.

Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

In Buffalo, charter schools receive $ 9,800 less per pupil than traditional public schools, while in Rochester the gap is $ 6,600.

While Puleo works in more traditional counseling positions at public schools during the academic year, as a curriculum adviser at Explo she often combines instructional training and counseling.

Traditional public schools annually lose about 14 percent of their students, while Success loses about 10 percent.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

Notably, while most teachers in traditional public schools are tenured and have multiyear contracts, 96 percent of charter teachers in their study were either at - will employees or had annual contracts; thus charters can and do separate ineffective teachers.

Thus, even while the right education is more valuable than ever, the public perception that traditional schools are overpriced, overcrowded, and irrelevant to the modern workplace has contributed to an atmosphere of crisis.

While their fees are often lower than other private and parochial schools in their communities, they are not free, unlike charter and public schools, and financial assistance is not widely available, unlike traditional private schools.

It is not possible to use this methodology to examine elementary schools because testing begins in third grade, so for those schools we compare test - score growth in traditional public schools and charter schools while taking into account student characteristics such as race, age, and special education status.

«While we applaud this critical budget increase, we must not forget that charter schools are still underfunded compared to traditional public schools.

Rocketship is transforming elementary public education with strong academic results, while operating its schools solely on traditional public funding.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gPublic Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gpublic schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

While urban students overall do better in charter schools than in traditional public schools — a conclusion found by rigorous studies that account for any potential differences in the students going in — the gap varies tremendously from place to place.

We demonstrate in a forthcoming Social Science Quarterly article that in advertisements for teaching positions, KIPP schools consistently emphasize public service incentives, serving kids, while nearby traditional public schools emphasize private incentives, namely salary and benefits.

Also, while some might point to the fact that both programs show signs of helping lift achievement in traditional public schools a bit by increasing competition between schools, I don't think anyone would argue that we should sacrifice the achievement of students using vouchers in order to help others.

While supporters of traditional public schools decry the changes, school choice supporters argued Tuesday that North Carolina is now doing a better job of meeting the needs of individual students.

Education policy changes made this decade by state lawmakers have helped create a trend in which enrollment in traditional public schools has declined while more students are enrolling in charter schools, private schools and homeschools.

Private online schools function much like traditional private schools, while public schools must follow national and state regulations.

While reminding the audience that public charter schools prove that «quality and choice can coexist,» she added that they «are not the one cure - all to the ills that beset education» and provided an example of three successful Miami - area schools she recently visited — a public charter, a private school, and a traditional public school, noting that the common factor with all three schools was the satisfaction of the parents that their chosen school was providing their child a quality education.

While the majority of charter schools in California are founded as start - up, or new, schools, there's a growing number of those that are conversions of traditional public schools.

While many communities seem willing to cede the cause of educational innovation to charter schools, CCE specifically partners with public school districts to negotiate opportunities for our MA PLN schools to innovate in the context of traditional districts.

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

Proponents contend that charters offer alternatives to traditional public schools that better match children's needs and inject healthy competition in the system while adhering to some of the same accountability mechanisms.

While reformers failed to overhaul New York City's laws for hiring and firing teachers, they have succeeded in cultivating a robust system of charters to challenge the preeminence and performance of traditional public schools, and offer a model of what non-union schools might look like.

More specifically, while 80 percent of traditional public school teachers are white, white teachers represent 71 percent of the teaching workforce in charter schools.