Sentences with phrase «as traditional public»

Although critics frequently claim that charters aren't held to the same standards as traditional public schools, the opposite appears to be true in Washington D.C. OSSE's report makes clear that several of the city's traditional high schools have chosen to ignore the district's graduation requirements, while charters only hand out diplomas to students who earn them.

When coupled with the fact that there is no transparency or accountability in terms of how charters spend taxpayer dollars are the very reasons why we need to put the brakes on charter expansion and require them to serve the same student populations and be just as accountable as traditional public schools.

Many charter schools already use school site - based budgeting, providing track records as the traditional public school system looks to this type of funding model.

Legislature Expands Risky Experiment of Education Privatization As Traditional Public Schools Suffer, Florida Center For Fiscal and Economic Policy, August 2011

Charter schools should be governed by the same federal and state laws as traditional public schools and held to the same level of accountability as traditional public schools.

If there are more applications for admission to a particular school, a lottery is used to determine which students are enrolled and charter schools are subject to the same system of state accountability as traditional public schools.

Rhonda Dillingham, executive director of the N.C. Association of Public Charter Schools, one of the state's leading advocates for the growing charter industry, declined to address the specifics of the McIntosh case, but agreed that charters operate under the same requirements as traditional public schools in meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

Critics argue the achievement levels at charter schools are about the same as traditional public schools, but Kirkwood says most charter schools are outperforming the district averages in Rochester.

The public agrees that charter operators should play by the same rules as traditional public schools when it comes to transparency and accountability.

If the seven largest charter holders spent the same on administration as traditional public districts, the state would save $ 54 million annually.

Public charter schools are subject to the same academic standards as traditional public schools and hold teachers to the same certification requirements as other public schools do.

Under I - 1240, charter schools must meet the identical academic benchmarks and student performance assessments as traditional public schools.

Charter schools are generally not subject to the same regulations as traditional public schools, and only 90 percent of the schools employ unionized teachers.

They're subject to the same academic standards as traditional public schools, and their teachers have to meet the same certification requirements as teachers in other public schools.

Public charter schools must meet the same academic standards as traditional public schools, and their teachers must meet the same certification requirements as teachers in other public schools.

As public schools, charter schools are required to enroll and serve students with disabilities in the same manner as traditional public schools and in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws.

He also believes California's charter schools must be held to the same accountability and transparency standards as traditional public schools.

Officials from traditional school districts say that charter schools shouldn't get the same level of funding because charters are selective in their admissions process and aren't held to the same standards as traditional public schools.

O'Farrell and other charters aren't bound to the same rules as traditional public schools when it comes to hiring and firing, and are free to create their own policies when it comes to discipline or curriculum.

Teachers at charter schools must be certified under the same qualifications as traditional public school teachers.

As public schools, charter schools are subject to the same federal requirements as traditional public schools.

One well - regarded study found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.

According to the report, «African - American and Latino charter students almost twice as likely (19 percent) to apply to [the University of California system] as their traditional public school peers (11 percent).»

In other words, the voucher only increases, as a matter of law, the same amount as traditional public school funding.

«As our traditional public schools struggle with budget cuts, they also have accepted thousands of students in need from Puerto Rico, and have not received one dime in additional state educational funding,» he said.

The bill would also allow the cyber programs to receive the same per - student public funding as traditional public schools.

Charter schools are public schools that receive money from local, state and federal taxpayers but don't have to play by all the same rules as traditional public schools.

Charter schools must meet the same academic requirements as traditional public schools but are also directly accountable to parents.

The NEA believes all charters should fall under the same rules as traditional public schools, which, in effect, would make them no different than traditional schools.

Most, but not all, charter schools are open - enrollment, meaning they accept all of the same students as a traditional public school.

ALEC's «Virtual Public Schools Act,» for example, even allows virtual schools to be paid the same amount per pupil as traditional public schools even though operations like K12 have no bricks and mortar school house or desks or air - conditioning or gyms, etc., to maintain.

Charter schools did not invent this idea, and, in fact, charter schools don't do nearly as much for children and families as traditional public schools.

A Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that makes certain that charter schools are subject to the same public records and open meetings laws as traditional public schools.

Public charter schools must meet the same state and federal academic standards as traditional public schools, but they are subject to additional rigorous academic, financial, and managerial requirements as specified in their charter contract — and to ongoing monitoring to evaluate their success in improving student outcomes.

Charters follow the same academic standards as traditional public schools, but because they are independent of the district, they allow more freedom in student instruction.

Charters are free public schools that are independent of local school districts but still follow the same academic standards as traditional public schools while allowing teachers much more freedom in student instruction.

Charter schools adhere to the same open admission and enrollment standards as traditional public schools.

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.

Charter schools receive state funds based on the average daily attendance of students (same as traditional public schools).

In addition, using CCSA's own performance metric, the Similar Students Measure (SSM), charter public schools serving African American students were more than three times as likely as traditional public schools to consistently outperform their predicted performance in a single year and overtime.

As traditional public schools wither and close, more and more families are drawn to the unregulated private sector.

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.

The charters will get the money for these programs because they receive the same per student allotment as all traditional public schools, but they will be under no obligation to provide the services.

When Pennsylvania recalculated charter schools» AYP using the same formula as traditional public schools, a much lower percentage of charter schools (both bricks - and - mortar charters and cyber charters) reached AYP than traditional public schools.

«This study reveals in unmistakable terms that, in the aggregate, charter students are not faring as well as their traditional public school counterparts.»

As you might be aware, even though charter schools are public schools, we are not funded equally as our traditional public district school counterparts.

In addition, individual schools are evaluated and assigned a school grade using the same standards and criteria as traditional public schools.

Nor would the charter - managed schools be subject to the same level of oversight as traditional public schools — an accountability model that has proven highly problematic in North Carolina in recent years with the closure of several schools thanks to financial fraud and governance problems.

Some charter schools are effective and have long waiting lists, but substantive education research more generally shows charters are a mixed bag — as variable in quality as traditional public schools.

The United Federation of Teachers yesterday proposed state legislation that will require charter schools to accept and keep comparable numbers of high - needs students as traditional public schools or risk reductions in state funding, state renewals, expansions or new schools and — for repeated offenses — forfeiting their charters.