Sentences with phrase «bad public schools»

They are praised by supporters as offering a choice to parents whose children would otherwise be trapped in bad public schools.

Some may fail, as do some of our existing public schools; the difference is that bad public schools stay in business.

They live in a city with one of America's highest poverty rates and worst public school systems — Rochester, NY.

If we want to «do something» about the very worst public schools in the country, we have to pursue a «both, and» strategy, not an «either, or» one.

And its using these false measures of proficiency to «prove» how bad public schools are so they can be replaced by for - profit charters that will reduce the quality of kids» educations to generate profits.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program gives low - income families in bad public schools tuition vouchers for private schools.

Use second or third grade students at bad public schools as your test subjects, a different group for each test, and re-write until the students can understand it on their own.

Look, I know it's not what you were taught in the horrifically bad public school you attended.

As chronicled here and elsewhere, Indianapolis Public Schools exemplifies the problems of the nation's worst public school systems.

But critics of school choice policies argue that these reforms will lead to increased segregation by race and class as more motivated families move to better schools, leaving the most disadvantaged students behind in the worst public schools.

And in an early test of their market - share strategy, Carroll and company decided to spend all of Gilder's money at just one school, offering $ 2,000 to 153 students, a third of the student body, at Giffen Elementary, «one of the worst public schools in New York State,» according to Forbes magazine, which featured the program on its cover.

While NCLB has serious flaws, it has nonetheless brought overdue attention to the plight of low - income and minority students and helped push some of the nation's worst public schools to improve.

«In the neighborhood where I live in Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she says.

And what I have worked on through my work with the Children's Defense Fund and my work on education in Arkansas and through my time as first lady and senator is to continue to say charter schools can have a purpose, but you know there are good charter schools and there are bad charter schools, just like there are good public schools and bad public schools.

Charter schools are not the ultimate solution to bad public schools; rather, the solution lies in improving public schools so that they have adequate resources, good teachers and a stimulating curriculum.

First, it is a way to fracture the Democratic coalition by appealing to African American voters who are dissatisfied with bad public schools and would like an opportunity to send their children to good private schools.

The tension is especially acute for black parents whose children are trapped in the worst public schools.

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Authorizers have closed at least 55 charter schools since they came on the scene in the mid-1990s, which is never done with even the worst public schools.

Louisiana's voucher program is adjusted for family income and is intended above all to give a shot at a decent education to underprivileged minorities, who are more likely to be relegated to the worst public schools.

In one speech, he railed against the city's public schools pointing out that «55 public schools in this city have been rated as failing» and «there is only a 60 percent graduation rate, and it's one of the worst public school systems in the country.»

In thinking about the explanation for this counter-intuitive result, it is important not to confuse your idea of a bad public school with the worst - of - the - worst inner - city schools that are the subject of horror stories.

Even graduates of the worst public schools know about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases Plessey vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education.

One of the legitimate problems I've seen is that bad private schools rarely close (neither do bad public schools).

Voucher pupils who would've enrolled in the worst public schools may have achieved different results, but there was no credible way of measuring those results.

Under the proposal, which would require legislative approval, Wisconsin would for the first time have a system to reward the best and reform the worst public schools — including charter schools and private schools that enroll publicly funded voucher students.

As an extension to our Average Student Loan Debt Per Graduate by School by State study, which shows the student loan debt per graduate from over 1,200 schools in the nation, we decided to rank the best and worst public schools, private schools, and all schools overall.

Since moving back to New York I'm must say this is the worst public school I have enrolled my child in.