Sentences with phrase «charter schools system faced»

Thursday, the fledgling public charter schools system faced the justices for a second time to defend against another aggressive maneuver...

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All of the factors facing Cleveland — low academic performance, financial strain, enrollment loss, charter school competition — are familiar to many urban school systems.

If charter, district, state, and civic leaders in Detroit can pivot quickly from their various postures over the Free Press series and start addressing the very real problems that parents face in district - run and charter schools alike, they will have a good chance at building a vibrant system of choice for their city.

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white.

Like most of the students in this charter school system, she faced challenges with achievement and maturity.

Your organization is also focusing on legislative change in regards to small school accountability; changes in rules that will help to minimize the risk of failing to meet state standards faced by smaller charters due to lower student accountability group ratios than what is typically found in larger school systems.

This black - and - white take on charter schools (and many other programs) does a disservice to the complex, multifaceted problems that face our education system.

Critics noting charter schools that are «poorly regulated,» «without effective oversight,» or «lacking strong accountability» simply highlight a reality facing any publicly funded system of education.

Building a system of mutually complementary charter high schools is a challenge (like special education and student discipline) that the charter movement must now face.

The Professor Emeritus and Research Professor has co-authored numerous articles centering around Maine's Proficiency - Based Diploma Systems, Implementing District - Level High School Graduation Policies, Challenges Faced by Maine School Districts in Providing High Quality Public Education, Pathways to College Readiness in Maine, The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools, Maine's Improving Schools, and more.

In addition, more than 40 percent of schools face restrictions from state laws in the areas of charter contract revisions (the inability to make changes outside of renewal) and staff compensation (including requiring schools to participate in the state retirement systems).

Throughout the day, attendees heard from Assemblymember Blanca Rubio (D - 48) about the role charter schools play in the public education system, as well as met with legislators to advocate for urgent legislative priorities and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the charter community.

The evolution that transformed New Orleans» public schools into an entirely choice - based structure demands that many charter schools and other schools of choice that may have previously engaged in exclusionary practices toward special education students (Wolf, 2011) must now serve students across the spectrum of academic and developmental abilities while still facing the pressures of demonstrating progress in a struggling school system.

Waiting for Superman features Geoffrey Canada, a controversial education «reformer» who promotes anti-union sentiment and charter schools as a solution to the struggles that face our public education system.

Home buyers in the District face a complex system of traditional public schools, public charter schools and magnet schools with a range of quality from low performing to high performing schools found in every ward.