Sentences with phrase «by traditional school systems»

Our schools were initially founded to serve Catholic families and students who had been neglected by a traditional school system openly hostile to their faith.

Rounding out the opening convocation, Lynette Lauretig, Senior Director of Multiple Pathways in the New York City Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Readiness, and Eskolta Executive Director Michael Rothman, highlighted the value of every attendee's experience and commitment to the students failed by the traditional school system.

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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, FSchools 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, Fschools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, Feb. 3).

The advent of ISHSs is exciting because they not only provide access to students underserved by the current education system but also find ways to support these students in ways that traditional schools often do not.

Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, s a celebration of the public school system with its houses, grand dining halls and traditional games as codified for lower - class kids in the early 20th century by Frank Richards in his stories about Greyfriars and St Jim's in the Magnet and the Gem.

Public school teachers are almost universally covered by traditional defined benefit pension systems.

The «parallel system» approach to chartering's future rests on two mistaken assumptions: first, that by simply creating new schools and not purposely antagonizing the traditional system, chartering wouldn't attract the ire of defenders of the status quo; and second, that if chartering proved successful and popular, the sky was the limit on growth.

Many strong believers in school choice, myself included, were convinced that the competitive pressure exerted by charters would lead to a renaissance in the traditional system.

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

By almost all accounts, Baltimore's district - led portfolio system — traditional and charter school options, all authorized and managed by City Schools» central office — was workinBy almost all accounts, Baltimore's district - led portfolio system — traditional and charter school options, all authorized and managed by City Schools» central office — was workinby City Schools» central office — was working.

The ESD data include charter schools, traditional public schools, and selective - admissions magnet schools run by the Detroit Public School (DPS) system.

As the traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a system marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presides over this dual system, where the traditional D.C. Public Schools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter SchoolSchools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter Schoolschools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter School Board.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

Very interesting reading, however from my perspective all the if's and when's say that someone haven't noticed this is already happening outside the traditional school systems controlled and governed by the state one happen to live in.

As an example of the worth of heat pumps, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, ground source heat pump systems in schools in the USA reduce energy use by 25 per cent to 50 per cent compared to traditional systems and although no such similar study is available for the UK, the expectation is the same.

It also seems likely that different localities need different systems, and many might be best served by maintaining traditional public schools.

KIPP's staunchest critics have said they won't be convinced until the charter system replicates its success by taking over traditional, impoverished public schools.

We are parents, teachers, students and community members who are strong in our belief that all children, especially those historically underserved by the traditional system, have the right to attend excellent schools.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

As far back as 2007, a legislative report in California warned that the state's accountability system allowed traditional schools to shirk responsibility for low - performing students by referring them to alternative schools.

If traditional public - school systems work by spending someone else's money on someone else's children, taxpayer - funded vouchers allow parents to spend taxpayer money on their own children.

Falsehood 3 Anderson's «One Newark» plan is a conspiracy to «privatize» public schools by replacing the traditional system with charters.

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.

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

Blaming the failure of teachers on policies that allow charter schools to syphon off resources that they need to be better teachers was met with the response by DeVos that «traditional public schools and charter schools should be thought of as parts of the same public school system,» an accurate and valid response!

Golovich, who worked for ten years in the traditional public school system for the Vallejo Unified School District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attenschool system for the Vallejo Unified School District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attenSchool District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attendance.

In a recently published article «Public School Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, InSchool Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Inschool from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Inschool system in Indianapolis, Indiana.

But she also alienated many parents with her reorganization plan, known as One Newark, which replaced the city's tradition of neighborhood schools with a universal enrollment system that assigned students by lottery to traditional as well as charter schools.

The book's in - depth investigation of four schools shows how the traditional organization of schools can be replaced by purposeful systems that focus on high achievement for all.

Many charter schools are providing an excellent education (tuition - free of course) to students who have long been treated like second - class citizens by our traditional «one - size - fits - all» system.

Given the large and growing costs associated with maintaining teacher pension systems, and the lack of evidence regarding their efficacy, experimentation by traditional and charter schools with alternative retirement benefit structures would be useful.

Finally, charter schools can complement the public school system by supporting students not typically well - served in traditional public schools.

In The Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.

Are best practices being shared by various school systems, particularly among public charters and traditional public schools?

Whereas some educational systems favour traditional topics such as sciences and mathematics or new subjects inspired by technological developments, many educational researchers are calling for soft skills to be represented in school curriculums.

The state's 107 charter schools, including QEA, receive public funds but are run by separate non-profit organizations and intended to develop innovate teaching systems that don't exist at traditional public school systems.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

If Betsy DeVos becomes Secretary of Education, the department will be run by someone who not only lacks any meaningful experience with public schools, but is fundamentally opposed to the mission and scope of the nation's traditional public education system.

By mid-February, the district may end up ditching its traditional district model and becoming a system of charter schools.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

«Just as the traditional taxi systems revolted against ridesharing, so too does the education establishment feel threatened by the rise of school choice.

This week, as part of his proposed budget, the governor is tying a four percent increase in the $ 20 billion in subsidies given by the state to traditional school districts and charter schools to implementation of the new teacher evaluation system by next year.

In Baltimore, teachers are considering a contract — supported by union leaders — that would replace the traditional system of pay based mostly on length of employment with a system in which involvement in school improvement plays a big role.

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.

PEFNC's «public charter school accelerator» program seeks in increase the number of charter schools, which are public schools funded by taxpayers but operate outside the traditional public schools system.

The advent of ISHSs is exciting because they not only provide access to students underserved by the current education system but also find ways to support these students in ways that traditional schools often do not.

... Just as the traditional taxi system revolted against ridesharing, so too does the education establishment feel threatened by the rise of school choice.

«But even as many parents have embraced the new schools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasschools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasschools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasSchools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University has found.

Like traditional vouchers, ESAs remove public funds from the public system, resulting in fewer resources for the 5 million + students who are still educated by public schools.