Sentences with phrase «opening bad charter schools»

Opening bad charter schools doesn't do our kids any good.

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This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

«The existence of a traditional school that is worse is not a good reason to keep a bad charter school that's not meeting standards open,» Medler says.

He showed us videos of charter schools with eighty openings and five hundred applicants — which drove home just how badly quality school options were needed.

Parents» current experiences should open the report to prioritize findings and to move the study out of the tired «are charter schools good or bad?»

«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.

Now there has been a flood of charter schools seeking to open in North Carolina, and the researchers warn that the segregation problem might only get worse.

But the damage might be irreparable: thousands of closed schools, worse conditions in those left open, an extreme degree of «teaching to the test,» demoralized teachers, rampant corruption by private management companies, thousands of failed charter schools, and more low - income kids without a good education.

And yet, last month, Chicago Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard announced 18 more closures, turnarounds and other interventions, and, this week, a plan to open 12 new charter schools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst sSchools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard announced 18 more closures, turnarounds and other interventions, and, this week, a plan to open 12 new charter schools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst sschools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst schoolsschools.

School - choice supporters believed parents and students would reject badly run charter schools and allow only the best to remain open.

Pittsburgh Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt described just how bad Imagine's reputation is when Imagine was trying to open a school in the district: «A lot of my friends in education around the country are very supportive of the charter movement.

In cases where the company lost the charter but the school remained open under different management, schools allege that it was «a very bad divorce.»