High Turnover for Charter School Principals, Report Says
By their own numbers, New York City charter schools have a tough time holding onto their principals, with nearly one in five of them heading for the door from one year to the next, according to a...
View ArticleBloomberg Budget Calls for More Teachers This Fall, Not Less
After losing about 5,300 public school teachers to budget cuts over the last several years and watching class sizes rise, New York City plans to reverse course and add some teachers this fall, Mayor...
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Harlem Schools See High Student Turnover
Principal Pamela Price Haynes has worked at P.S. 161 in Harlem for 28 years. Every morning and afternoon, she can see how charter schools have changed the face of the neighborhood when she watches the...
View ArticleTop 10: Charters with Highest Attrition Rates
2:15 p.m. | Updated Editor's Note: The following article has been updated to include a statement from the spokeswoman for Brownsville Collegiate school.The chart below shows charter schools with the 10...
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'No-Excuses' Charters Grapple with Attrition
At Democracy Prep Harlem Middle School, a sixth grade math teacher started her class by giving her students exactly four minutes to solve a problem involving ratios. When her watch beeped, homework was...
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Brooklyn Charter Dials Back Discipline After Outcry
Editor's Note: This is the third and final piece of our Charters & Choices series on charter schools and attrition rates, based on data obtained exclusively by SchoolBook. We made an interactive...
View ArticleIBO: More Special Need Students Leave Charters Than District Schools
Students who enroll in charter schools for kindergarten are more likely to stay through third grade than students at traditional New York City public schools, according to the Independent Budget...
View ArticleReport: Most NYC Charter Schools Replace Students who Leave
New York City charter schools have widely different policies when it comes to replacing students who leave, according to a new report by the Independent Budget Office, but most in the report's sample...
View ArticleNYC Charters Retain Students Better Than Traditional Schools
New York City charter schools retain more of their students, on average, than traditional public schools, according to Department of Education data obtained and analyzed by WNYC.Citywide, across all...
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