Sentences with phrase «worse than district»

Charter school students outperformed their peers in reading 30 percent of the time and only performed worse than district school students 11 percent of the time.

Is your expectation that charter schools should be renewed if they aren't any worse than district schools?

So, roughly one in five or one in six Philadelphia charter schools are doing worse than the district - run schools.

Not exact matches

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Specifically, in the Munster, ID and Caroline County, MD school districts where percentages dropped off after the prices went up — Did those students switch to a la carte and spend less than $ 2.72 on food that was nutritionally worse?

PR seems to me the worst possible alternative system, if it comes with Party List elections a la Germany / Israel rather than District elections.

He stays active in the district, picks good issues to champion and, in a badly polarized Congress, is more than willing to work with Republicans to get something done.

Dirty John does not propose meddling in those districts (that need oversight much worse than NYC) because he would make DeFrancisco, Funke and WNY Senate candidate Jacobs very unpopular.

Oklahoma Rep. Sally «gays are worse than terrorists» Kern's husband wants to join her in the legislature, the AP reports: A familiar name is on the ballot in a Republican primary for the open Senate District 40 seat in northwest Oklahom... Read

And you should remember that Governor Cuomo not only publicly supported Senator Stephen Saland, a Republican against Terry Gipson, the official Democratic candidate and ultimate winner in the 41 st Senate District, but worse than that, Governor Cuomo kept a distance from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign especially during the time when it appeared that Obama's chances were uncertain.

The graduation rate in the Syracuse City School District continues to be one of the worst in the state, with less than half the students getting their diplomas after four years of school.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

Speaking for myself as a voter, this election revolves around two issues for me; amnesty and the East Ramapo School District, one at the national level and one at the local level; neither one good, one worse than the other.

«I did not believe one word that you said,» Lynch said, sounding more like tough - talking U.S. District Court Senior Judge Gary Sharpe or state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin than a former defense attorney who carried the reputation of a prosecutor's worst nightmare after taking the bench in January 2013.

It's presented as a propagandistic TV documentary about what went wrong in District 9, where Wikus — a white representative of a black government — went in with heavy military backup to uproot the one group in South African history to be treated worse than blacks were under the previous apartheid regime.

Unfortunately, student achievement in many affluent suburban districts is worse than parents may think, especially when compared with student achievement in other developed countries.

It showed that among the 16 states studied, there was wide variation in charter quality, and that while lots of charters were doing well, lots were doing worse than local district schools.

In 2009, CREDO reported that charter students performed somewhat worse in reading and substantially worse in math than their district school counterparts.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

More Republicans than ever are worshiping before the false god of local control, and too many Democrats have learned from their union friends that local control ain't so bad after all, especially when free money flows to local districts and teacher paychecks arrive courtesy of the U. S. Treasury.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

Given that they have the same powers and organizational interests, the only difference I can see between PM and School District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quality.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

The district level is adjusted a second time based on the extent to which the U.S. does better or worse than students in a set of countries with developed economies, as measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

Many states and districts will take the easier path than trying to educate ALL children, disadvantaged students will lose out, and millions of young people who could have become hard - working taxpayers will end up jobless, in prison, or worse.

An analysis by the Carroll County Public School District in Virginia shows that the 400 students in the virtual program there performed worse than the regular students in 19 of 26 categories on the state assessment test.

A freshman entering the district today has less than a 50 percent chance of graduating four years from now, according to one study, and the odds are even worse for Latinos.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

This is the fifth time in as many months that state oversight officials have taken some kind of disciplinary action against virtual schools — which some research has shown perform markedly worse academically than traditional district schools.

However, the truth is many school districts across the state are doing much worse than 23 percent.

Worse off are «Qualified» certification districts, which host more than 1 million students, including in LA, San Diego and Oakland.

The Spending Blind report also underscored the CREDO findings: The education offered at three fourths of the charters was worse than that provided at nearby district schools.

The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

Later, when asked if it were possible that choice programs could produce worse outcomes for students, she derided the traditional district system's outcomes: «I'm not sure how they can get a lot worse on, you know, a nationwide basis than they are today.»

Or are the kids in poor districts generally worse off than their peers in wealthier districts?

Invariably, what is labeled «teacher bashing» is nothing more than anger at the teachers unions for blocking every type of education reform imaginable, as well as the unions doing their level best to block school districts» attempts to fire bad and even criminal teachers.

But the majority of charter districts statewide perform even worse than the city school district for African - American students in eighth - grade math, the report noted.

«This year's results reveal noteworthy achievement gains in many districts...» our neediest students continue to perform significantly worse than their wealthier peers, especially at the high school level.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

In the case of New Designs, the district had recommended a denial of the renewal charter petition claiming it, too, is performing worse than surrounding schools.

TeacherMatch probably isn't any worse than the methods the district uses now to rate and reward teachers it's already hired — seniority and advanced - degree attainment, which have little to do with teacher quality.

If a teacher is teaching in a district where 35 % of the students are at goal, is a 5 % increase in test scores better or worse than a 1 % increase in test scores where 85 percent of the students are at goal.

In Figure 2, the curved lines provide a sense of how this relationship varied across districts.6 The lines indicate the upper and lower bounds for the shares of 4th graders who met the ELA standard in 68 percent of demographically similar school districts.7 Overall, the scores were lower in districts with larger shares of high - need students, but in some districts student performance was either better or worse than expected, based on the shares of high - need students.8 The orange dots (for the CST) and the teal dots (for the SBAC) represent the 20 school districts that were furthest above or below expectations — these dots are mostly outside the curved lines.

Thirty years after being labeled the worst school district in the nation and after two decades of fiscal crisis, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) welcomed more than 381,000 students back to class last month as a leader among the nation's urban school districts.

More than half of the districts with performance that was worse than expected on the SBAC ELA also fared poorly on the SBAC math (52 %).

In part because the district's finances are so bad — it has $ 2 million in operating debt and receives $ 2,000 to $ 3,000 less funding per pupil than Minneapolis and St. Paul — Lester had long taken advantage of every community partnership he could.

Schools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Picayune.

This very bad bill amazingly had the support of the Washington Education Association — the teachers union in Washington State — even though it led to the firing of more than one thousand public school teachers in Washington State as any student in any other school district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to District to K21 INC!

According to «The Myth of Unions» Overprotection of Bad Teachers,» a well - designed study by Eunice S. Han, an economist at the University of Utah, school districts with strong unions actually do a better job of weeding out bad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak unioBad Teachers,» a well - designed study by Eunice S. Han, an economist at the University of Utah, school districts with strong unions actually do a better job of weeding out bad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak uniobad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak unions.