Sentences with phrase «if traditional public schools»

If traditional public schools are doing a pretty good job as you say, why do so many people seem to think they need to be fixed?

In fact, if traditional public schools were held to the same level of accountability as charter schools, the world will be a much better place.

If all traditional public schools were up to standards like the ones I had the pleasure of going to maybe there would have been no need for charters to exist.

If traditional public schools and districts want to reclaim the mantle of minting engaged and competent citizens, they have some valorizing work to do of their own.

If traditional public schools are doing their jobs, charters will not experience explosive growth.

Charter schools have the potential to have broader effects on student achievement if traditional public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter schools by improving the quality of their own education programs.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

According to Julia Sass Rubin, a parent and member of the grassroots group Save Our Schools New Jersey, a PAA affiliate, «If a traditional public school converts to a charter schools, it affects the education of every child in that community by drawing critical resources from the traditional public school system.

Not exact matches

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapSchool full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool year pursuant to paragraph (a).

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

If the efforts are successful, then the quality of traditional public schools will increase relative to what it would have been in the absence of competition from charter schools.

Normally, if we say that a traditional public school is «more black» or «more Hispanic,» we mean to imply that the school has fewer white students.

I do think, though, that if we try to make rules so that nothing ever goes wrong, we're going to look a lot like the traditional public school system.

But if we truly want teacher evaluations to be part of an ongoing cycle of learning and growth, one that helps to cultivate great teachers, then effective policy has to address school capacity, particularly the capacity of traditional public schools.

It means that traditional public schools are really capable of making significant progress if only they become more open to learning from successful charter schools.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.

Here is what we know: students in urban areas do significantly better in school if they attend a charter schools than if they attend a traditional public school.

If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

Still, if North Carolina's traditional public schools improved in response to their presence, the apparently negative effects of charter schools on the achievement of students who attend them could be offset by more positive statewide effects.

If so, traditional public schools may find it difficult to achieve comparable impacts by replicating the KIPP model.

If so, what accounts for the quality differences between charter schools and traditional public schools?

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

If minority leaders can be weaned away from traditional alliances, the underlying public support will translate into effective legislative action, especially if choice laws focus on schools in urban areaIf minority leaders can be weaned away from traditional alliances, the underlying public support will translate into effective legislative action, especially if choice laws focus on schools in urban areaif choice laws focus on schools in urban areas.

In terms of retirement, the Miami - Dade County Public Schools teachers in voting districts 1 and 2 are particularly vulnerable if they remain in the traditional state pension system.

Only 18 percent of the public know that charters can not hold religious services, 19 percent that they can not charge tuition, 15 percent that students must be admitted by lottery (if the school is oversubscribed), and just 12 percent that, typically, charters receive less government funding per pupil than traditional public schools.

And equity would be further enhanced if we targeted choice programs toward low income students in low performing traditional public schools.

If we believe that all parents — particularly those struggling to make ends meet — deserve authentic choice among diverse school options that include charter, Catholic, and traditional public schools, we can and must do better.

Even if a charter or private school were no better than a traditional forced - choice public school, the fact that parents and students themselves choose the school may mean they perceive distinct advantages in it, real or not.

As for the latter, states must to find ways to get charter schools to a decent level of per - pupil funding, plus facilities funding, if not in comparison to traditional public schools then at least in terms of real dollars.

If we use the traditional definition of a C grade as «satisfactory,» then the public, on average, thinks about one - fifth of teachers in the local schools are unsatisfactory (13 % D and 9 % F)(see Figure 3).

As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

At the same time, even if we accept New Orleans as a success story, it's fair to ask whether similar success might have been achieved through a thorough reform of a traditional public school system.

If the student attends a traditional public school, the state spends $ 6,225 in operational expenses alone this year.

If anything, public charter schools tend to increase the academic performance of students in traditional public, likely due to increased competition.

If cost and location were not issues, just one - third of parents say they'd pick a traditional public school over a private school (31 %), public charter school (17 %), or a religious school (14 %).

«If they were paired with a traditional public schools student, the public school student kept their place in line, and the cyberstudent moved back five spots,» she said.

Conversely, any flexibility afforded to «choice» schools taking public dollars should be available to all public schools: if it's onerous and burdensome for charter schools, odds are it's burdensome for traditional public schools.

The supporters of the charter school moratorium made two arguments: the charter schools are not as good as people say they are, and if the charters schools expanded they would hurt the education of students in the traditional public schools.

If traditional public - school systems work by spending someone else's money on someone else's children, taxpayer - funded vouchers allow parents to spend taxpayer money on their own children.

If you look at Figures 1 and 2 in the report on Detroit that I cited from Stanford's CREDO research center, you will see that the city's charter schools do look somewhat better than the comparison traditional public schools, but there are four problems with taking these results literally.

Such charges would be more appropriate if they were leveled at traditional public schools where students in residential boundaries are forced to attend segregated schools.

If choice schools don't have to take state tests, why should traditional public schools?

We have included private schools, traditional public schools and charter schools in the table, as well as data from the 2014 and 2013 ISTEP + tests, so you can see if a school's score went up or down.

For example, in the case of Washington D.C., if the entire CBSA were an appropriate point of comparison, charter students would be crossing state lines (since the Washington D.C. CBSA also includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia) and city boundaries in the 5,000 square mile region in an effort to travel to charter schools in the heart of inner city D.C. Of course, it doesn't make sense to compare, for instance, the charter schools in Washington D.C. (where 93 % of the charter schools in the metro region are located) to the traditional public schools in Front Royal, VA, which is 63 miles away!

If policymakers aim to improve the educational opportunities available to the poorest students, they will have to develop strategies to turn around the schools — charter schools and traditional public schools — that these students attend.

Traditional public schools can copy nearly all of the KIPP playbook, if they wish to try.