Leader Voices
By Christina Reyes, Executive Director of Inwood Academy for Leadership Starting Your School Right The proverbial saying, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time,” is one that I constantly refer to as I relate the process of opening a charter school. It seems like an impossible task at times – opening […]
Alive and Growing Smartly
By Michael Pih Each morning, my inbox contains a digest of all the latest in education news here in the city, which gives me some sense of what the day has in store. It was with some shock, then, that I recently read an opinion piece in which the author claimed the death of the […]
2014-15 State Test Score Analysis: Charters Better Serving African-American and Hispanic Students
By Michael Pih On Wednesday, the New York State Education Department (SED) released scores from the third year of the Common Core 3-8 Assessments. View Interactive Charts Download Test Scores Performance by African-American and Hispanic students in charter schools far exceeds that of their district counterparts. In Math, African-American and Hispanic charter school students outperform […]
Charter Schools Remain Underfunded: New Report
By Michael Pih Today’s IBO report, Charter Schools Versus Traditional Public Schools: Comparing the Level of Public Support In School Year 2014-15, shows that charter schools receive significantly less public support than do traditional district schools. When compared to 2009-10, the last year for which the IBO calculated the data, the gap between traditional district […]
New IBO Report: Positive Trends in NYC Charter Growth, Diversity, Backfilling & Achievement
By Michael Pih Today, the New York City Independent Budget Office released a new report, School Indicators for New York City Charter Schools: 2013-14 School Year. The IBO has put out a series of similar reports for NYC traditional district schools for the last three years; this is the first such report on the charter […]
Myth Busting: Charters Do Share, Mr. Mayor!
By Jaclyn Leffel I was disappointed to read in a recent news article Mayor de Blasio’s pronouncement that, “…district schools will share where charters will not.” I commend the mayor for opening up more PROSE schools and allowing a percentage of district schools more freedom and flexibility, but his statement that charters are not sharing […]
Charters Tackle ELL Instruction
By Melissa Katz It’s hard to believe that we’re approaching the end of the school year! As I reflect on the progress made this past year since I joined the Charter Center team, I already find myself looking forward to next school year. After conducting numerous, stimulating and informative school visits and English Language Learner […]
Updated IBO Study: Special-Needs Students Staying in Charters
The IBO has just confirmed what we have long known – charter school students stay in charter schools at higher rates than students in nearby traditional public schools (TPS). Even more counter to charter detractors’ claims– fewer charter school special needs students leave their schools than nearby special needs district students. The newly released updated […]
2013-14 School Quality Reports
The NYC DOE released its first School Quality Report from the 2013-14 school year. The report no longer includes an overall grade for each school, but instead presents multiple ratings on different aspects within 5 categories for charter schools: Student Progress, Student Performance, School Environment, Closing the Achievement Gap, and College and Career Readiness. Schools […]
Why the ELL Gap?
by Michael Regnier Why the ELL Gap? New Research Points to a Cause In Why the Gap? English Language Learners and New York City Charter Schools, a new report from the Manhattan Institute, Dr. Marcus Winters uses NYC DOE data from school years 2008-09 to 2011-12 to follow charter and district school ELLs over time. […]
