Sentences with phrase «against traditional districts»

Certainly this means losing key tools in expanding choice, especially against traditional districts and others opposed to allowing poor and minority children to attain high - quality options.

Not exact matches

Addressing the media and irate youth, at Donkorkrom, the district capital of Kwahu Afram Plains North, the Amankuahene of the Kwahu Afram Plains Traditional Area, Nana Okuntu Sakyi, said they (the people of Afram Plains) are not against Government's plans to site additional campuses aside the two mentioned in the Act establishing the University in any community it wants to.

This is the fifth time in as many months that state oversight officials have taken some kind of disciplinary action against virtual schools — which some research has shown perform markedly worse academically than traditional district schools.

Her broadside is political, ideological, and mainly about defending traditional school districts against claims that they should not have a monopoly on educating children.

View a statement from Jed Wallace, President and CEO, CCSA, about CCSA's decision to discontinue pursuit of two facilities - related lawsuits against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and to focus renewed effort on working collaboratively with LAUSD to ensure every public school student - both traditional and charter - has a stable, suitable place to learn.

And even as they badmouth families, they also engage in intimidating families daring to speak out on the ground, and are working together with traditional districts to push back against Parent Power and choice initiatives in states such as Mississippi and Alabama.

With an assist from some local school boards and 275 district superintendents, the union's main arguments against the proposition are their usual ones — charters drain money from traditional public schools, charters cherry - pick their students, yada, yada, yada.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

If traditional districts were measured against the standards within the Performance Framework, dozens of struggling districts would be forced to close.

While DeVos» group, the Great Lakes Education Project, supported most of the changes, it pushed back hard against a proposed Detroit commission focused on improving both charters and traditional schools, contending it would be beholden to the city's mayor and school - district officials.

Recent op - eds in The Detroit News continue to pit the wide - ranging needs of charter public school students against those of students enrolled in traditional public school districts.

That's in stark contrast to what's allowed at traditional public schools, where state law has strict prohibitions against someone who works in a district serving on its school board.

Of course, that sets O'Farrell up for one of the biggest criticisms against charter schools — that they suspend or expel kids at higher rates than traditional district schools.

The results can be seen in districts in cities such as Birmingham, Ala., where police officers in Birmingham, Ala., using Freeze + P pepper spray against eight children attending the traditional district there (the subject of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center); some 110 incidents of pepper - spraying occurred in the district since 2006.