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price lunch. Figure K.1 displays the ethnic composition of Amarado Charter Elementary
Charter School.
Figure K.1: Ethnic Breakdown of Amarado Elementary Charter School
The school has been recognized for its achievement and has received the Title I
Academic Achievement Award. Amarado Charter has a similar schools ranking of 10 out
of 10. The API for the school has fluctuated but remained above 800 since its inception.
Since 2006, it has had a net gain of 20 API points and from 2008 onward, has
demonstrated positive growth in their API every year. It is important to note that
according to the California Department of Education (CDE), because the school was
identified as a small school (having between 11 and 99 valid Standardized Testing and
Reporting (STAR) Program test scores in 2006 and 2007), these numbers are not as
reliable as APIs calculated with a larger student body and should be carefully interpreted.
Figure K.2 reflects API scores from 2006 to 2010.
Latino
African American
Asian
Filipino
White
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 |
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| Title | Page 203 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 195 price lunch. Figure K.1 displays the ethnic composition of Amarado Charter Elementary Charter School. Figure K.1: Ethnic Breakdown of Amarado Elementary Charter School The school has been recognized for its achievement and has received the Title I Academic Achievement Award. Amarado Charter has a similar schools ranking of 10 out of 10. The API for the school has fluctuated but remained above 800 since its inception. Since 2006, it has had a net gain of 20 API points and from 2008 onward, has demonstrated positive growth in their API every year. It is important to note that according to the California Department of Education (CDE), because the school was identified as a small school (having between 11 and 99 valid Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program test scores in 2006 and 2007), these numbers are not as reliable as APIs calculated with a larger student body and should be carefully interpreted. Figure K.2 reflects API scores from 2006 to 2010. Latino African American Asian Filipino White |
