Voucher and charter schools have gained steady traction
as alternatives to traditional public schools over the last two decades, on both the state and national level.
Set up
as alternatives to traditional public schools, charter schools typically operate under private management and often boast small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.
Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted
as an alternative to traditional public schools.
Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted
as an alternative to traditional public schools.
The schools will serve
as an alternative to traditional public schools in an area where many parents have lost faith in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Some parents will choose home school, private school or public charter schools
as an alternative to the traditional public school setting.
While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools
as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.
They have offered
themselves as an alternative to traditional public schools and are free of union requirements and the central office direction by Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, who oversees the regular public schools.
Not exact matches
And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray
as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight
to eliminate teacher tenure and promote
alternatives to traditional public schools.
Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward
alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with
traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private
schools do not serve
as a hindrance
to the start - up of
public charter
schools.
Charter
schools have become a popular
alternative to traditional public schools, with some 5,000
schools now serving more than 1.5 million students, and they have received considerable attention among researchers
as a result.
Charter
schools have emerged
as the most widely discussed
alternative to traditional public schools.
Just
as information on state and national ranking lowers evaluations of the
public schools, it increases the willingness of the
public to support
alternatives to the
traditional public school.
Ashton said her experience teaching found the challenges
to urban education more about the adults than the children, and she saw charter
schools as a viable
alternative to traditional public schools.
For many parents, educators, and policy - makers in the United States, charter
schools - innovative
public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must «compete» for students in order
to retain their charters - have held out enormous promise
as a
public alternative to failing
traditional schools.
Conceived
as a way
to teach a small segment of the home -
schooled and others who need flexible
schooling, virtual education has evolved into an
alternative to traditional public schools for an increasingly wide range of students — high achievers, strugglers, dropouts, teenage parents and victims of bullying among them.
While charters remain a small slice of the
public school system, they nonetheless occupy a far larger position in the
public policy landscape and continue in many states
to attract controversy because of their role
as alternatives and competitors
to traditional schools.
Certified teachers remain one of the best options for boosting student performance,
as school districts and the
public consider
alternative choices
to traditional schooling.
Though our governmental advocacy, product development and partnerships with private finance providers, CCSA and our members will remain focused on this issue
to ensure that charter
school students receive the same funds
as their
traditional public school counterparts, and have more
alternatives to access working capital when they need it most.
DeVos is a Michigan billionaire who has labored tirelessly for decades
to promote
school choice, or
alternatives to traditional public schools, and is seen by critics
as the most ideological and anti-
public-education secretary in the more than 40 years of the department's history.
But the details of the long - awaited report also present a more nuanced picture of charter
schools in the state, indicating that they are almost
as varied
as the
traditional public schools to which they serve
as alternatives.
As parents dissatisfied with
schools in both districts flock
to charters, the debate continues: What is their impact on
public education, and can
traditional educational models amicably coexist with an
alternative movement that shows no signs of abating?
While being careful
to say that «providing more educational options isn't against
public schools,» she repeated hailed
alternatives to traditional school systems and bashed people who support them
as people who care only about «systems» and not individual students, and are only interested in sustaining the «status quo.»
When President Trump delivers his first joint address
to Congress Tuesday night, Denisha Merriweather will be there
as his invited guest — and her attendance offers a clue about how Trump might fulfill his promise
to spend $ 20 billion on expanding vouchers and other
alternatives to traditional public schools.
For the first time, the organization recognizes charter
schools as public schools that offer parents and students
alternative options
to traditional public schools.
Nerad announced a year ago the creation of a committee
to explore
alternatives to traditional public schools, partly
as a way
to keep middle class families from leaving the district.
Furthermore, their focus on charter expansion indicates that improving the
traditional public school system in the local area is not the top priority and that AF views charters
as alternatives to district
schools, not labs for innovation.
AF uses these features
to portray itself
as an exciting and innovative
alternative to traditional public schools.
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