Sentences with phrase «public and private schools achieve»

• Public and private schools achieve similar results, after taking account of their home backgrounds.

Not exact matches

The intersection between public mission and private opportunity continues to get busier as schools search for better ways to educate students, and entrepreneurs work to create products and services to help educators achieve their goals.

Patrick Wolf explained that «private - school - choice programs disproportionately attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds,» noting that the choice participants are «considerably more likely to be low - income, lower - achieving, and African American, and much less likely to be white, as compared to the average public - school student in their area.»

When it comes to funding, private schools on average outspend public schools by a minimum of $ 9000 per student to achieve a similar result with almost 50 % of their funding coming from federal and state funds for independent schools and almost 80 % or more for Catholic schools.

Statewide, students receiving vouchers were low - achieving before entering private schools (on average, performing at the 42nd percentile compared to public - and private - school students statewide).

Future Ready Schools ® helps K - 12 public, private, and charter school leaders plan and implement personalized, research - based digital learning strategies so all students can achieve their full potential.

There are schools across the country — some are charter, some are private, and many are traditional public — that have shown us that it is possible for poor children to achieve at high levels when we respond to their needs and create conditions that are conducive to learning.

The state's low - income voucher students «appear to be lower - achieving students from the public sector,» they write, «and enter private schools substantially behind their private school peers.»

With this program, some families may be eligible for tuition assistance and scholarship programs that would allow them to attend another private or public school of their choice and avoid the low - achieving school system they may be currently in.

So, what happens to the republic once the traditional public schools have all been removed from the protection of the U.S. Constitution and are controlled by autocratic, for profit, often fraudulent, opaque and abusive publicly funded but private sector corporate charter schools that use bully tactics to achieve their goals?

The award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

Opponents argue that vouchers take funds and higher - achieving students away from public schools and divert them into private schools, undermining the quality of public education.

Such a reconstruction can be achieved only by privatizing a major segment of the educational system — i.e., by enabling a private, for - profit industry to develop that will provide a wide variety of learning opportunities and offer effective competition to public schools.»

If private and charter schools are to receive taxpayer funding via vouchers or tax credits, they should also have to be subject to the same state testing requirements as public schools in order to show that their students are achieving at state - mandated levels.

As described in yesterday's Journal Sentinel, in his new book, UW - Oshkosh Professor Michael Ford describes a system in which public schools, private schools, and charter schools all compete for the same students and resources with what often seems like more concern for increasing their share of enrollment than for the overall outcomes achieved by students.

GENYOUth convenes diverse stakeholders, generates dialogue and insights and collaborates with public and private partners to channel resources to bolster healthy, high - achieving students, schools and communities nationwide

Summary: NSEA's top priority was making sure tens of millions of dollars from public education would not be diverted to private schools, and its goal was achieved.

The Blue Ribbon Award designation goes to public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels, or have made significant academic progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

To achieve their goals, Copenhagen Forever is looking for collaborators such as private and public companies and institutions who are interested in recycling their by - products and waste, and organizations who are already involved in recycling, as well as schools and universities and anyone else who's enthusiastic about tackling today's waste problem.

Nebraska offers several public and private schools that can all help you achieve your goals.

NYU Steinhardt's master of arts in Counseling and Guidance prepares aspiring school counselor to work with K - 12 students in both public and private schools, helping them to achieve their personal and academic goals.