Sentences with phrase «attend traditional district public schools»

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They need to advocate for policies that promote cooperative problem solving among school providers, including districts in cities where thousands of students still attend traditional public schools.

A similar pattern appears for the «parent trigger» proposal, which would allow a majority of parents whose children attend a low - performing traditional public school «to sign a petition requiring the district to convert the school into a charter.»

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.

The study, just completed, compared test scores of 46,000 charter school [fourth - grade] students in 20 states and the District — almost every student attending the special schools with fewer restrictions than traditional public schools.

Over the years, Tanaisia has attended both public charter and traditional district schools, which has allowed me to fully see the differences in opportunities that are presented at each type of school.

While Congress and the Obama administration have pressed the Bureau of Indian Education to overhaul operations at the schools it oversees on or near American Indian reservations, more than 90 percent of the 950,000 American Indian children attend traditional public schools run by local districts.

In 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.»

We know this because of the more than 63,500 students attending F schools in traditional public school districts, three - quarters of those children — more than 49,000 students — are poor enough to receive free or reduced price lunches.

Because the vast majority of our nation's students still attend traditional public schools, we believe in finding solutions to empower students in the district context.

Opponents of charter schools, which include many school districts, say they worry that an increasing number of such schools will drain vital dollars away from traditional public schools and create a divided system in which select students attend charter schools and students with special needs fill the traditional schools.

The majority of students in Chicago, Newark, N.J., Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and other cities where public school districts have been devastated by the cycle of resource extraction cited by Moody's, continue to attend traditional public schools.