Charter schools lead way on LEAP
It's great to see charter schools in New Orleans kicking butt:
In scores released this week, charter schools such as Wright posted higher scores at every grade level, with some showing vast improvement over their pre-Katrina, pre-charter performance under the Orleans Parish School Board...
In the first test scores offering a meaningful comparison between charter and traditional public schools in New Orleans, charters clustered near the top of the rankings, while traditional schools -- particularly those run by the state-run Recovery School District -- in some cases had more than half their students fail the test. At many Recovery District schools, fewer than 20 percent of students scored basic or above.
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Charter schools lead way on LEAP
Some improve in every grade; Recovery District campuses lag
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
By Darran Simon Staff writer, New Orleans Times-Picayune
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At Sophie B. Wright, one of many New Orleans charter schools that outperformed most traditional public schools on this year's LEAP test, the faculty makes academic achievement a daily competition.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 9:11 AM
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