Sentences with phrase «badly run charter»

School - choice supporters believed parents and students would reject badly run charter schools and allow only the best to remain open.

Not exact matches

In a PRIVATE club with membership and a charter you may conduct yourself as you see fit, but in a place of public accomadation run by an organization that takes public monies and pays no taxes that action would be considered at best unethical and at worst illegal.

It wasn't a bad idea when Charter Schools were run by the Board of Ed.

De Blasio also said Thursday night that greater equity between «good» and «bad» public schools would mean parents wouldn't have to choose privately run charter schools over traditional schools.

That's not only bad for students; it also threatens charter schools» ability to reach the next level of scale and quality they'll need to survive over the long run.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

In addition to running against the basic logic behind charter school reform, allowing low - performers to keep operating is bad for students.

However, charter schools must be intentional about their efforts and simultaneously commit to police themselves or run the risk of rightfully earning greater regulatory oversight to address bad actors.

Charter schools are public schools that use a mix of taxpayer funds and privately raised dollars to run their schools, said Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District, which took over the city's worst - performing and flood - wrecked schools.

Yvette King - Berg, executive director of the Youth Policy Institute that runs the Monseñor Oscar Romero Charter Middle School on the campus of Berendo Middle School, warned that charter programs shouldn't use Prop. 39 to co-locate at a district school and then come in with a bad atCharter Middle School on the campus of Berendo Middle School, warned that charter programs shouldn't use Prop. 39 to co-locate at a district school and then come in with a bad atcharter programs shouldn't use Prop. 39 to co-locate at a district school and then come in with a bad attitude.

So, roughly one in five or one in six Philadelphia charter schools are doing worse than the district - run schools.

The charter sector — like the district - run sector — has good and bad actors, high - performers and low - performers.

Research suggesting that vouchers or charter schools perform badly or well is seen as fueling either a Leviathan government that maintains iron - fisted control of schools or a Wild West scenario in which private school providers run amok and the only consumers who count are those with cash in their pockets.

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

In addition, a recent review of the public high schools in New Haven versus the two New Haven based charter high schools, both run by Achievement First, revealed that Achievement First HAS AN EVEN WORSE RECORD than the public schools when it came to keeping high school students enrolled.

And yet, last month, Chicago Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard announced 18 more closures, turnarounds and other interventions, and, this week, a plan to open 12 new charter schools, giving contracts to charter networks that already run some of the system's worst schools.

In 2013, Tennessee created the Achievement School District to take over the state's worst - performing schools; the district now runs 27 Memphis schools, 20 of them charters.

Unfortunately, looking at the spring 2010 test scores, voucher students performed much worse than students in the New Orleans RSD — both its traditionally run public schools and public charter schools.

Tennessee's legislature had just passed a law allowing the state's education agency to take the reins of the state's worst - performing schools and either run them directly or hand them over to a charter operator, a move that stood to drain potentially millions of state - aid dollars from the already financially struggling district.

Now charters are a mix of a few good ones, a lot of bad ones, and many that are run unnecessarily like military schools for the poor.

«Forty - three percent of students in Milwaukee currently attend a privately run charter or a voucher school already and 75 % of these students perform no better and some perform worse than our public schools,» Mizialko said.