Sentences with phrase «by traditional public»

Education remains an overwhelmingly public sector enterprise — the vast majority of students are served by traditional public schools, alongside the growing ranks of public charter schools.

That was the shocking scene last week at a Harlem building shared by a traditional public school, PS 123, and a charter school, Harlem Success Academy 2...

Also, charter schools can re-vitalize many experienced teachers who have been weighed down by the traditional public school system.

Ideally, the resulting best practices they produce are meant to be replicated and scaled up by traditional public schools.

In its evaluation of charter schools released in 2003, the U.S. Department of Education found that charter schools were out - performed by traditional public schools in meeting state performance standards.

LAB is designed to educate high - need urban students, particularly those who are least well served by traditional public schools.

CPE finds that that while many schools of choice do an exemplary job, «the results aren't universally better than those produced by traditional public schools.»

Funded by taxpayer money, charter schools operate independently and are exempt from some of the regulations followed by traditional public schools.

Our belief and our hope is that anything that we do that we find successful and that our families think is needed can and should be adopted by traditional public schools — just as our model has been inspired by some of the best traditional public schools that we've seen.

At the same time, this may help explain why so many educators across the country take a dim view of charter schools, most of which enroll low - income students of color who have been underserved by the traditional public school system.

Twelve years ago, I joined the education reform battle in California because too many of our kids were failed by traditional public schools in our...

We actively recruit students who are the least served by traditional public schools and other charter operators, including English language learners and special education students.

You can not proclaim you want to help all kids succeed, and yet essentially argue that those long - mistreated by traditional public education should be left behind.

Charter schools are serving more minority students because that is their mission: to open in under - served neighborhoods to provide a better education for kids that are not being served well by traditional public schools.

Supporters say private schools offer an option for parents whose children have been failed by traditional public schools, but opponents note schools receiving public vouchers maintain policies that are openly discriminatory toward LGBTQ students and their families.

High - achieving students, especially those growing up in poverty, have not been well served by our traditional public school system, and I believe they deserve a place to go to school where they can learn to their full potential.

For example, in all three states, the programs are means - tested, and in all three cases the scholarship amounts are slightly less than half of the per - pupil revenue received by traditional public schools in these states.

Burke argued that many students are being failed by traditional public schools, and they deserve new options for schooling.

To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public schools during this period were more positive in schools with charter schools nearby than in schools not facing charter school competition.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

Cox hopes to attract those voters who have been unsatisfied or in some cases hurt by traditional public schools — a slice of the electorate he hopes could make a difference in 2017 when Republicans hope to run a competitive campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Not exact matches

Even though the traditional auto industry had endured its own near - death experience during the financial crisis, by 2010 General Motors had staged its own IPO, returning to the public markets after a government bailout and bankruptcy.

That's a departure from a traditional initial public offering in which a company and a few select investors first sell a limited amount of stock at a starting price determined by investment bankers who spend weeks gauging investor demand.

Here is a chart to show you the median valuation of late stage private tech companies compared to traditional growth rounds of capital led by VCs and also vs. the public markets.

Given the massive give away in tax cuts by Harper, I truly do not see how Canadians can expect to have the level of traditional public goods and services without some form of medium term deficit financing.

«By allowing investors and their financial advisers to efficiently learn about our REITs and invest directly, there is less cost involved in raising equity capital than there would be through more traditional public distribution formats,» said Amy Tait, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Broadstone, in a statement.

However, the increasing price of Bitcoin relative to traditional fiat currencies such as the Dollar and Euro may actually inhibit adoption by the general public.

Conversely, standard — or traditional — monetary policies used by central banks include open market operations to buy and sell government securities, setting the overnight target interest rate, setting bank reserve requirements and signaling intentions to the public.

On Tuesday, Ek's Spotify will pioneer a new way for companies to go public, volunteering itself as a guinea pig for the venture - backed economy by eschewing the traditional help of investment bankers.

Last week a controversial book of theology was condemned by well - established critics who cautioned the public that the book did not present Christian doctrine in an accurate, biblical, or traditional way.

On his return to England, Newman was approached by some Catholic parents and asked to found a school, along the lines of the traditional Public Schools but Catholic in character, and the result was the Oratory School, which still continues today and is the subject of Shrimpton's earlier work A Catholic Eton?

The public has been fascinated by these breaks with traditional Western science and has responded enthusiastically to the writings of those scientists who have come up with new views.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

Thus the ideology of secularism was born, replacing traditional legitimations of power by appearing in the mantle of science and by deriving its justification from the critique of tradition, thereby keeping actual power relations inaccessible to analysis and to public consciousness.26

In 1974, an ordinance declared the Ahmadis to explicitly be non-Muslims, and in 1984 Ahmadis were barred from practicing Islam in public (Ahmadis differ from Muslims because they believe Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, from the 1800s, to be a prophet; they are considered heretics by more traditional Muslims).

Political correctness has many forms, but they are united in a shared repudiation of anything solid and substantial in public life, whether in the form of nationalism or strong affirmations of constraints that human nature places on any healthy society, constraints that get articulated by all forms of traditional morality.

Recently, however, the traditional liberal Jewish opposition to the public display of religious symbols has been countered by a growing demand on the part of many Jews for «equal time» for specifically Jewish symbols.

Stop by the PUBlic House for a sophisticated but unpretentious twist on a traditional backyard party.

After seeing that some of our traditional contrarian strategies have had mixed results for second half bettors, we believed that we could create an excellent halftime betting system by capitalizing on public perception.

Our traditional Sunday morning Rudi Talks offered A Report on Current Public Waldorf Research by three educators in the field.

The folks over at the Harvard School of Public Health — led by Walter Willett — don't think the traditional USDA food pyramid (officially known as MyPyramid) doles out the best advice.

The decision by Spokane Public Schools to abolish the valedictorian system and traditional class rankings is defended as a way of reducing student stress («Spokane schools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, Feb. 3).

With voters harder to reach by traditional methods, SMS is one of the few ways to connect with the mobile - only segment of the public:

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

As to what the public should expect, he said they are coming out with a 10 track album together with a collection of choral songs — some of which are cover versions of traditional Ghanaian songs which audiences will be familiar with; as well as some original compositions by members of the choir.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«We're for accountability in charter schools just as in traditional public schools and assume that most candidates who aren't bought and paid for by the for - profit charter school operators will agree with us,» said WFP spokesman Dan Levitan.

The other measure, sponsored by Councilman Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, would have officers identify themselves by name, rank and command — and provide a business card — after encounters that amount to a traditional police stop, based on reasonable suspicion of a crime, or while questioning members of the public during an investigation.