Sentences with phrase «attend a public charter school instead»

About 35 percent of school boundary neighborhoods are «majority» charter, meaning that more than half of students living in a school boundary attend a public charter school instead of the DCPS boundary school or a DCPS school from out - of - boundary.

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Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.

Ritter continues, «Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the levels of segregation for the students in charter schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially assigned public schools.»

For example, in 2011, AFT engaged the NAACP, now on the union's payroll, to file a lawsuit to keep some children in Harlem in their failing traditional public schools, instead of allowing them to attend nearby superior (non-unionized) charter schools.

David had a choice; he could have easily dropped out of school, but instead made the choice to attend a public charter school and get his life back on track.