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CMO is governed by a board of directors representing business and educational leaders in
Los Angeles and currently manages multiple schools in Los Angeles with plans to
expand in the next five years.
Timothy Charter Elementary School currently has 306 kindergarten through
second grade students, adding a grade every year until it reaches fourth grade with an
expected capacity of 500 students. The school’s four pillars are integrity, excellence,
honor, and love. The school is tuition free and entrance is based on a lottery. Located in
East Los Angeles, 97% of the school is Latino and 91% quality for the federal free and
reduced lunch program. Sixty-eight percent of the students are English language learners.
Figure I.1 reflects the ethnic breakdown of Timothy Charter School.
Figure I.1: Ethnic Breakdown of Timothy Charter
Because 2010-2011 will be the first year that Timothy Charter School will have a
class of second grade students, there will not be STAR data until the summer of 2011.
Consequently, there are no API or AYP results. However, the school had independently
administered standardized tests, namely the SAT-10 Subject Test, to its kindergarten and
Hispanic
African American
Object Description
| Title | Allocation of educational resources to improve student achievement: Case studies of four California charter schools |
| Author | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Author email | rpatrick@usc.edu; ramonakaypatrick@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-28 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert C. Nelson, John L. |
| Abstract | Charter schools are growing at a rapid pace have significantly more flexibility in their allocation of resources in comparison to their traditional public school counterparts in California. Because of this, it is important to study how successful charter schools, with this increased flexibility, are utilizing their resources to achieve high results with their students in a time of fiscal constraint. There is a plethora of data and research on effective school practices to improve student achievement, but a dearth of research on the effective allocation of resources at charter schools. The purpose of this study is to analyze how four high performing charter schools, with high percentages of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in Los Angeles, California, are implementing school improvement strategies and utilizing resources at their school site to impact student achievement. The Evidenced-Based Model, (Odden & Picus, 2008) along with Odden and Archibald’s (2009) Ten Strategies for Doubling Student Performance were used as a lens in this study to compare resource allocation as well as school improvement strategies to best support student achievement at the schools. This study will describe each schools’ instructional vision and improvement strategy, how resources are utilized to implement their instructional improvement plan, how the current fiscal crisis is affecting their allocation of resources, and how actual resource patterns are aligned with the Evidence Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008). |
| Keyword | charter schools; resource allocation; evidenced-based model |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3815 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Patrick-4438 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Patrick-4438.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 172 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 164 CMO is governed by a board of directors representing business and educational leaders in Los Angeles and currently manages multiple schools in Los Angeles with plans to expand in the next five years. Timothy Charter Elementary School currently has 306 kindergarten through second grade students, adding a grade every year until it reaches fourth grade with an expected capacity of 500 students. The school’s four pillars are integrity, excellence, honor, and love. The school is tuition free and entrance is based on a lottery. Located in East Los Angeles, 97% of the school is Latino and 91% quality for the federal free and reduced lunch program. Sixty-eight percent of the students are English language learners. Figure I.1 reflects the ethnic breakdown of Timothy Charter School. Figure I.1: Ethnic Breakdown of Timothy Charter Because 2010-2011 will be the first year that Timothy Charter School will have a class of second grade students, there will not be STAR data until the summer of 2011. Consequently, there are no API or AYP results. However, the school had independently administered standardized tests, namely the SAT-10 Subject Test, to its kindergarten and Hispanic African American |
