Sentences with phrase «around whether charter»

At least part of the disagreement revolves around whether charter schools deliver on their promise to improve student outcomes.

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In Massachusetts, the political battle over whether to raise a cap on the number of charter schools has come to center around the issue of race.

[1] For a long time, the debate over charter schools has revolved around the simplistic question of whether they are better or worse than traditional public schools.

Some members of the Tacoma School Board are tiptoeing carefully around the idea of charter schools — and whether they want to signal their intent to become an authorizer of the independently run, publicly funded schools...

This attempt to turn around an existing large and troubled school was unlike anything it had attempted before, marking the first true test of whether a charter's formula for success might be applied to regular public schools.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

AAC cited its plans to partner with a growing charter network, TeamCFA, in its application, but the state's consultant (the private firm SchoolWorks) questioned whether the group — which had yet to ink any contract with TeamCFA — should be deemed eligible for the takeover program, given state law calls for an operator with a «record of results» turning around low - performing schools.

Four experts faced off in a live debate Wednesday night on a range of issues that swirl around charter schools — whether for - profit schools work, what's best for student achievement, and if charters lead to innovation.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Given that school lists draw from a one - mile radius around the students» home, QUEST also says answers are needed as to whether a unified enrollment system will mean that assignment lists for students in charter - heavy neighborhoods like Hyde Park could include only or almost all charter options.

With Initiative 1240 on the ballot in Washington this fall, the discussion around whether students would benefit from allowing charter schools to operate is taking place statewide.

It's about evaluating whether or not this model places the responsibility of turning around failing Atlanta schools on the Charter network programs or Atlanta school leaders management of Charter networks and their programs.