Sentences with phrase «with public school performance»

When satisfaction with public school performance drops from high to low, the probability that a public parent is interested in going private increases by 37 percentâ $» which dwarfs the effects of all other variables.

Not exact matches

January 12: Boston Public School students showcase creative reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy with dance, music, theater performances, videos, and essays (Boston)

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Is there a single soul in New York City with less moral standing to speak on public - school performance than Michael Mulgrew of the United Federation of Teachers?

For those with kids in public schools, the numbers were even grimmer, with 78 percent disapproving of his schools performance.

He says his vision will help alleviate the city's long - standing issues with poverty, public safety, vacant properties, and poor school performance.

The Buffalo Public School District begins a brand new school with high hopes of improving student perforSchool District begins a brand new school with high hopes of improving student perforschool with high hopes of improving student performance.

In addition, he is looking to work with partners for creative solutions on delivering quality early literacy education, which he sees as a vital initiative for stemming the low - performance culture of Holyoke public schools.

As the leader of the Chicago Public Schools, America's third - largest urban school district, Arne has launched key initiatives all with a singular aim: improving student performance.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

Students with increased NAPLAN scores are more skewed towards subjects such as interest in science, law, engineering, architecture, social work and arts, and students who consider their academic performance to be above average are more likely to choose medicine, a study of 6492 students from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools has found.

It may be that SAT scores, as a very public measure of school performance, lead to agitation for charter laws, but that charters themselves are more likely to target students at risk of dropping out, and therefore participation is more closely associated with dropout rates.

In close collaboration with the district, a case study, «Staffing the Boston Public Schools,» was authored by PELP and used in both Ed School classes and PELP's 2007 Harvard Ed Press publication, Managing School Districts for High Performance.

The overall dismal performance of the Chicago public school system, with its 60 percent graduation rate, will remain more or less what it has been.

A study comparing the performance of students using vouchers to attend private school in Milwaukee with students who attend public schools found that students in both groups are exhibiting similar levels of growth.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

I also believe that private schools participating in public scholarship or tax - credit programs should have performance contracts with authorizers.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public schools during this period were more positive in schools with charter schools nearby than in schools not facing charter school competition.

This is despite the fact that microlevel data is critical to improving day - to - day student performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public scPublic Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public sSchools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public scpublic schoolsschools.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

It may be coincidence, but in the midst of this very public debacle, several national AFT leaders were quietly involved with the negotiations between Baltimore City Schools and the local union which resulted in the just announced path - breaking new pay - for - performance contract that will replace the so - called «steps» and «lanes» of the traditional teacher contract.

The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant principal, principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the district's pioneering system to track student performance.

• Of all the influences on parental choice, by far the most powerful is school performance: The less satisfied parents are with the performance of the public schools, the more likely they are to go private.

That democratically controlled authorizer would then have a performance contract with each of the city's public schools, including those operated by the district.

The Denver Public Schools, with the collaboration of the teacher union, launched a Pay for Performance pilot program in 1999 and, when it ended in 2003, started a more comprehensive Professional Compensation System for Teachers (ProComp).

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

Under this approach, districts negotiate performance agreements with public schools — traditional, charter, and hybrid models.

«Within three blocks of my house, kids are attending at least six different public elementary schools,» said Hewson, who found that many parents she knew were opting for schools with stronger performance or special features like dual - language immersion.

Private schools may be disproportionately located in communities with low - quality public schools, causing the relationship between private school competition and public school performance to appear weaker than it actually is.

Yet virtual school students come and go at all times of the year, leaving the public with no data on their performance.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

The program may have modestly increased academic performance in public schools, consistent with the theory behind school vouchers that they create competition between public and private schools.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.

While the ASD and other authorizers like Nevada's State Public Charter Schools Authority create contracts with clear performance expectations, the ESA program provides no apparent standards for judging whether public funds are buying strong outPublic Charter Schools Authority create contracts with clear performance expectations, the ESA program provides no apparent standards for judging whether public funds are buying strong outpublic funds are buying strong outcomes.

David Figlio talks with Education Next about his new study, which finds that public schools in Florida raise their performance when faced with the prospect of losing students to nearby private schools via the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.

But where one would hope for plentiful public information to help parents understand the performance of participating schools, Section 12 of the act requires only that the department publish aggregated results, sliced by grades and income levels, and that it conduct a survey of parent satisfaction with the ESA program, not the schools.

We then compared the performance of the schools in these categories with the performance of the rest of Florida's public schools, looking at each category's change in FCAT and Stanford - 9 scores from the 2001 - 02 school year to 2002 - 03.

Unfortunately, the performance of digital technology in the classroom proved disappointing early on, because its rapid influx into schools coincided with another dominant trend in U.S. public education: the national push for standards and accountability.

Comparing the performance of schools that were threatened with vouchers and the performance of those that faced no such threat gives a measure of how public schools respond to competition.

Podcast: David Figlio talks with Education Next about his new study, which finds that public schools in Florida raise their performance when faced with the prospect of losing students to nearby private schools via the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.

If Barack Obama and John McCain want to walk in step with the American public, they should acknowledge the flagging performance of schools, for while Americans retain an abiding commitment to public education, the grades that they assign the nation's schools are increasingly mediocre.

On the contrary, the model of self - governing schools — whether private or public — with significant control over their own operations, staffing, curricula, and budgets is far more likely to serve the ends of performance - based reform.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

Each year, commencing with 2002 - 2003 school year test administration results, the commissioner shall review the performance of all public schools, charter schools and school districts in the State.

With the understanding that no one exactly knows how money for schools is spent and who receives the money, the authors suggest that weighed student funding would show exactly where the money is going and foster transparency and accountability for performance, thereby potentially closing the gaps in local public service quality between the privileged and the disadvantaged.

To voucher proponents, that student performance at private schools is ultimately on par with that at public schools shows vouchers are working as intended, giving families an equal but different choice.