Sentences with phrase «as conventional public schools»

They receive the same amount of provincial funding as conventional public schools, and are free to all.

Not exact matches

After all, charters are public schools too — and their students have as strong a moral claim on the public fisc as conventional pupils.

Bulky, hefty and downright expensive, conventional school textbooks may rank as the most outdated part of our nation's public education system.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

This is the case in Boston, where researchers» careful tracking of six charter high schools over the last decade has shown that those charters have a large and positive impacts on MCAS scores as compared to the city's conventional public high schools.

Research as well as conventional wisdom suggests that the bureaucratic nature of public schools is a major reason for their lower performance than that of private schools.

This directly contradicted the findings of the RAND report, which found that on average, «start - up» charter schools outperform conversion charter schools, as well as conventional non-charter public schools.

Defenders of the status quo fear charter schools because they see them as a threat to funding for conventional public schools, even ones that fail to educate students.

But the numbers for the conventional public schools in Milwaukee are very poor, as well.