Sentences with phrase «regular public schooling does»

Regular public schooling does not always have the resources to help your teen recover academically.

If students moved into the neighborhood, KIPP would have to take them in, like regular public schools do.

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

The rule means charter operators must prove that they can show strong results without «creaming» students, or somehow enrolling an easier - to - teach group of students than the regular public schools do.

A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.

Despite receiving millions in additional funds from CPS and private entities that regular public schools do not get access to, AUSL «results» are little better than — and in some cases lag behind — district averages.

Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, Harlem Children's Zone, and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) provide as much as 60 percent more time in school than regular public schools do.

Not exact matches

And he's made strides in his overall functioning: Went from nonverbal and screaming at 2 to being potty trained at 3, learning to communicate better and coping well with different stimuli, and is going to a regular public school with a little support and doing relatively well, learning to read and write along with the other neurotypical kids.

It was my understanding from the article that this school participates in the National School Lunch Program (it isn't limited to just public schools); if they do participate, then they are subject to all of the same requirements as a regular public sschool participates in the National School Lunch Program (it isn't limited to just public schools); if they do participate, then they are subject to all of the same requirements as a regular public sSchool Lunch Program (it isn't limited to just public schools); if they do participate, then they are subject to all of the same requirements as a regular public schoolschool.

During the last school year, most Chicago public schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more than 40 minutes of physical education a week.

Mr. de Blasio is critical of charter schools, saying that they do not serve enough of the most difficult students and that they increase the burden on regular public schools.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

Many of the parents who initially supported the idea of integrating special education students into regular education classrooms in Portland are now worried about how the Portland Public School System is doing it.

And many districts do maintain the «magnet schools and special schools» Ravitch referenced at least in part to accommodate such youngsters outside of «regular» public schools.

While the differences in incoming achievement are not dramatic, they certainly do not support the theory that charter schools drain regular public schools of their best, most - advantaged students.

For when families are allowed to leave the regular public schools for new options — charter schools or (via vouchers or tax credits) private schools — the regular public schools lose money and jobs, and so do the incumbent teachers in those schools.

Why do charter schools, 88 percent of which are nonunion, only outperform regular public schools 17 percent of the time, as a 2009 Stanford University study found?

But the students in the college - bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.

Circling back to the original question — what lessons does KIPP's success have for regular public schools — it's important to clear up one misunderstanding.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

They also suggest that KIPP might be doing well because it attracts the most motivated parents, to which KIPP teachers reply that their students had the same parents when they were doing terribly in regular public schools.

Studies comparing student achievement in charter schools with that in regular public schools are difficult to do credibly, however, because students who apply and their families are presumably more motivated to succeed in school than those who remain in regular schools.

Not only do we get around 75 percent of the funding of regular district schools, but many of our schools pay all facilities expenses, which means rent, utilities, snow removal, security, roof repairs and everything else that district public schools get for free.

The best you can say is charter schools do as well or almost as well as regular public schools when it comes to student test scores.»

But students who use vouchers or attend charter schools generally do no better academically than comparable students who remain in regular public schools.

Charter opponents also argue that although some charter schools do well, the majority don't do better than regular public schools.

And when do regular public schools have to go through that kind of scrutiny?

It didn't take me long to figure out, when I tried the regular public high school, that this was not for me.

AVC: What do you say to people who counter that testing illustrates that charter schools don't do better than regular public schools?

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

In California, the study found that charters overall did about the same as regular public schools, with reading gains more or less balanced by the math deficit.

«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.

First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools.»

Then, they need to have the resources to actually attend the charter, because unlike regular public schools, charter schools in North Carolina do not have to offer transportation or lunch to students.

If unions are central to school failure, why do charter schools, 88 percent of which are non-unionized, only out - perform regular public schools 17 percent of the time?

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Charter school operators, who are in the business because they believe they can do a better job of educating students than the regular public schools, argue they sought to bring the benefits of their schools to the students most in need.

If the teachers you see are unexceptional, then how bad do the regular public school teachers have to be, given that they do so poorly compared to KIPP?

Sometimes students in regular, old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.

The state longitudinal dropout rate is calculated by determining the total number of students enrolled in Texas public schools in seventh grade and subtracting the total number of those same students receiving a high school diploma five years later, excluding students who will not graduate but are still enrolled in the regular school program that leads to acquiring a high school diploma (such as students who were retained or do not have sufficient credits), divided by the number of pupils in the original seventh grade group and multiplying by 100 to determine the percentage.

The charter school chain Ms. Moskowitz runs — which receives city tax dollars and often shares space with district public schools but is privately managed and does not employ unionized teachers — greatly outpaces regular district schools in terms of standardized tests.

Similarly for students attending charter schools, those students generally do not have higher academic achievement than comparable students in regular public schools.

In virtually all instances, the charter students did worse than their counterparts in regular public schools.

Amistad Academy is a Connecticut charter public school that receives $ 4,000 less per student from the state than do New Haven's regular public schools.

Charter schools do not bring on equality; in fact they EXACERBATE INEQUALITY, as they tend to skim off the higher - performing students, leaving the regular public schools with a greater concentration of troubled children.

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...