Sentences with phrase «white charter schools»

Majority white charter schools have very low, mostly statistically insignificant discipline rates.

And while the overall numbers are somewhat muddled in the data, state officials still reported increasingly white charter schools this year, so much so that the state's Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a GOP champion of school choice, asked to pull a demographics report from the State Board of Education's agenda in January because it was too negative.

«In some cases, like Idaho, charter school students across all races attend schools of white isolation: majorities of students of all races are in 90 — 100 % white charter schools.»

Boy it's interesting to see the birth of a white charter school in this state.

Not exact matches

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Rumore provided information which said that 25 percent of charter school students in Erie County are white...

White said she'd never voted for a Republican before, «but de Blasio is in with the D.O.E., and if that's what it's going to take to keep my son in a charter school, I have no trouble jumping to a Republican.»

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white stSchools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white stschools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white stschools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.

«We beat the white schools,» beams Tom Carroll, founder of Brighter Choice Charter Schools schools,» beams Tom Carroll, founder of Brighter Choice Charter Schools Schools (BCCS).

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

Addressing these challenges is the focus of three new white papers a Public Impact team led by Lucy Steiner recently produced with the support of the National Charter School Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program.

The legislature's leadership and commitment for the past six years, combined with Mayor Peterson's and Ball State University's ability to authorize charters (and willingness to do so), along with reform - minded superintendents such as Eugene White working to improve the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), demonstrate to the country's education reformers that Indianapolis is prime territory for innovation and investment.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

Compared with traditional public schools, charter schools in North Carolina enrolled a larger percentage of black students and lower percentages of Hispanic and white students.

Though his support of charter schools has been laudable, one of these people, President Obama, currently sits in the White House.

In less than four years, White Hat Ventures LLC, the company Mr. Brennan founded to operate charter schools, has become Ohio's largest for - profit education management company.

We also found greater support for charter schools among black and white Americans.

Given that the targeted school population for charters is almost all low - income minorities, the contrast seen during school visits can be startling: black and brown students who are taught by white teachers.

Really bad if the pushback forces succeed in drawing in white, middle - class, suburban parents by convincing them that charters drain money from their high - functioning schools.

In a terrific white paper for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Kingsland makes a compelling case that NOLA's system of chartering, thanks to conscientious changes in policy and practice, is far fairer than the previous model.

Among residents of communities with a charter school, 63 percent of white parents express support for the idea, as compared with 50 percent of white parents nationally.

What the AFT fails to acknowledge is that charter schools are more likely than district schools to promote integration, since in most charter schools white and minority kids take the same courses, while in many district schools minority kids are placed into nonacademic tracks.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Little noticed at the time, the school the White House chose for the visit wasn't exactly a typical urban charter.

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

Now the concerns center around white, middle - class kids and the schools they are leaving to attend charters.

In April 2006, White released a statement about the KIPP initiative: «I promised the mayor, the charter schools, the private schools that we would compete against them.

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

The differences in reported levels of satisfaction between charter and assigned - district schools are wider among Asian and white families, too: for assigned - district schools, the difference is 16 percentage points for Asian families and 9 for white families, compared to a statistically insignificant 6 percentage points and 5 percentage points for African American and Hispanic parents, respectively.

Among charter - school parents, 70 percent of Asian parents and 67 percent of white parents say they are «very satisfied,» compared to 63 percent for Hispanic parents and 54 percent for African American parents.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

Education reported in July 2014 that the National Charter Schools Resource Center (NCSRC) is preparing a white paper on charter school collaboration to meet students with disabilities needs and case studies of charter schools that serve students with disabiCharter Schools Resource Center (NCSRC) is preparing a white paper on charter school collaboration to meet students with disabilities needs and case studies of charter schools that serve students with disabiSchools Resource Center (NCSRC) is preparing a white paper on charter school collaboration to meet students with disabilities needs and case studies of charter schools that serve students with disabicharter school collaboration to meet students with disabilities needs and case studies of charter schools that serve students with disabicharter schools that serve students with disabischools that serve students with disabilities.

The effects of charter schools in urban populations are of special interest because any gains in this context might help reduce the black - white achievement gap.

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A similar pattern was seen among Latino and white students, particularly in urban districts with charter schools.

Prior to being named State Superintendent, White served as Superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District, overseeing the nation's first system of publicly - funded charter and non-public schools in New Orleans and launching the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone to replicate successes in New Orleans.

Many of the charter schools in our study aspire to boost minority achievement, so a natural benchmark for charter effectiveness is the black - white test score gap.

Particularly, White explores charter school reform and the organizational distinctions across community - based charter schools and privately managed charter schools.

For White Hat Management, the politically connected Ohio for - profit operating both traditional and virtual charter schools, the success rate under NCLB was a mere 2 percent, while for schools run by K12 Inc., it was 25 percent.

In this white paper, Public Impact explores how New Orleans and Indianapolis are developing robust talent pipelines to expand the supply of effective charter school teachers and leaders in their cities.

The charter school effects reported here are therefore large enough to reduce the black - white reading gap in middle school by two - thirds.

We know from the 2016 Education Next survey that white Americans are more supportive of charter schools (once the idea is explained to them) than are Hispanics.

In truth, Catholic education could have seized on many previous moments — the 1972 White House report on the sector's troubles, the 1983 call to arms of A Nation At Risk, the 1992 launch of charter schooling, the 2008 White House report on the sector's troubles, and so on.

An article by Harvard's Tom Kane reports that the wildly successful Boston charter schools cut the black - white achievement gap by roughly one - fifth each year in reading and one - third in math.

In fact, the effect of a single year spent in a charter school was equivalent to half of the black - white achievement gap.

The new staff members included Ferrero; James Shelton, a McKinsey consultant, MBA, and former president of Learn Now, a charter - school management company; former Clinton administration official David Lane; and Stefanie Sanford, a White House fellow and former senior staffer to Governor Rick Perry of Texas.