Sentences with phrase «as district schools»

The costs to run charters are approximately the same as district schools.

Parents are happier, and the program produces academic achievement at least as good as the district schools at less than one third their cost.

Or does it have to serve exactly the same percentages of special - needs students as district schools?

Another obstacle is securing space, as charter schools do not get state money as district schools typically do for facilities.

Yet public charter schools struggle with teacher hiring and retention every bit as much as district schools, often for very preventable reasons.

Public charter schools are bound by the same laws as district schools to accept all students, including those who require specialized instruction.

They also called on lawmakers to require that charter schools enroll as many English language learners, students with disabilities and homeless children as district schools do.

They also maintain that any funding disparities are justified, either because charters don't take on the same responsibilities as district schools or because they aren't controlled by local authorities.

But in those scenarios that result in surplus schools, little thought is given to the future of these properties after they have shut their doors as district school buildings.

First, charter school students are public school students who deserve the same access to quality facilities as their district school peers.

It's not all bad news: The overall suspension rate in charter schools as well as district schools has fallen since the 2011 - 2012 school year.

The lesson is not that district schools should receive less funding, or that charter public schools should receive as much as district schools.

As well as the district school school board, students participate on every advisory, curriculum and study committee.

SARANAC — A Cadyville woman has been arrested and charged with embezzling $ 50,000 from a fund dedicated toward raising money to build a playground at Saranac Elementary School where she also served as a district school board member.

Charter schools should also be supported financially at the same level as district schools, including funds for facilities.

New Orleans provides evidence that charter schools can maintain superior performance even when they are subject to many of the same rules as district schools.

Subject charter schools to the same procurement practices as District schools — so they can't make sweetheart deals with their own for - profit companies.

While serving at - risk students in one of the nation's highest - cost cities, charters get, on average, only two - thirds as much per - pupil money as district schools get.

Welcoming charter schools to the system while holding them just as accountable for student performance as district schools.

For example, charter school advocates took multiple turns on the fainting couch when Secretary Clinton made the entirely accurate observation that many of our «high flying» charter schools do not have the same student characteristics as district schools.

Phoenix is replicated in Lawrence as a district school part of the state turnaround initiative, an unprecedented collaboration.

Sigmund notes that public charter schools are bound to the same laws as district schools to accept all students, including those who require specialized instruction.

In 2006, the network joined with the nonprofit Civic Builders to construct a 125,000 - square - foot building in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx to house Icahn 2 as well as a district school.

Charters are permitted to ignore the law that requires them to educate the same number of high - needs students as district schools.

Achievement First wants a new law that they get funded exactly the same as the district schools — even if it means shifting the money in the district school to the charter.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

Finally, as a district school, we work hard to engage all our students with the goal towards graduation and post graduation plans.

In 11 of these, our schools have been treated exactly the same as the district schools: None of the T12 lights have been replaced (six buildings), or all have (one building), or some have (two buildings)-- or the building never had any T12 lights (two buildings).

About $ 5 million of that funding is for higher education programs, and the agency's k - 12 services cover charter schools as well as district schools.

The base funding for public education will grow substantially and will be the same for charter schools as district schools, greatly reducing the long standing funding inequity between charter public schools and traditional district schools.

You might say: Wait, yesterday you said that charter schools» staffs are pretty much the same as district schools.

-LSB-...] might say: Wait, yesterday you said that charter schools» staffs are pretty much the same as district schools.

According to the critics, «renaissance schools» were going to «destroy» public education and fail to serve the same high - need students as district schools.