Sentences with phrase «as failing traditional public schools»

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It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

That said, this holds true of traditional public schools as well, many of which can be allowed to fail for years on end.

Teachers unions and traditional public school advocates accused him of not listening to them, of failing to slow down and assess what was and wasn't working as the state implemented the Common Core (which was first introduced by his predecessor).

Nationally, charter schools got started in 1991 as an answer to a failing traditional public school system.

As long - failing schools were closed and charters expanded enrollment, all public school students — charter and traditional — started improving their math growth and proficiency scores.

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.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

It fails to recognize the education industry as a marketplace because it has always been the 800 pound gorilla and that marketplace has been static for decades with primarily the rich disavowing traditional public education along with some religious groups — together comprising a significant but relatively unchanged level of public school non-participation.

In the meantime, she sees charter schools as the best hope for Mississippi parents like her who feel trapped in failing traditional public schools.

During my years of teaching I watched the entire understanding of what was traditional in our city's lowest - income schools get sold to the public as FAILING: in just a few short years it was impossible to find advocates who would argue that they were not.