Sentences with phrase «american public charter sector»

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Both Detroit's charter and traditional public - school sectors serve predominantly African American families (roughly 85 percent) with limited economic resources (in charters, 84.5 percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch versus 81.6 percent in district schools).

Chartering empowers thousands of African American families to create a vibrant new public - school sector in Harlem; it liberates a group of Minnesota teachers to start and run their own schools; and it provides a Teach for America alum the freedom to start a network of college - prep charters serving Mexican immigrants in Texas.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

As the charter sector has emerged as a durable element of American public education and grown large in some places, a handful of issues come into focus that previously got scant attention.

If public and private high schools across the country catch on, this seemingly small ideological tweak in the charter sector has the potential to transform the entire American education system.