Sentences with phrase «competition for the public school»

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

Now the charter sector sees itself as competition for the public schools.

To me, healthy competition for public schools should come from high achieving charters with laudable outcomes.

A common argument of voucher school proponents is that these schools create competition for public schools, thereby increasing achievement across the board.

The plan promoted by Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos widened a divide in the school - choice movement and brought swift condemnation from people who support more competition for public schools in the form of charter schools but oppose sending tax money to private institutions.

Not exact matches

In the United States, which has muddled along in the middle for the past decade, government officials have attempted to introduce marketplace competition into public schools.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

LAS VEGAS — American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada (ACLUNV) is hosting a sex education essay competition for Clark County students attending public schools.

National Connections expects Eastern Christian to follow the same rules as members of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association and applied to that governing body for «standards of competition verification.»

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

D.C. Central Kitchen was the winning bidder for one of two contracted pilot programs intended to provide some competition for Chartwells, the giant food services company that has been providing meals of mostly processed convenience foods to the city's 122 public schools for the past two years.

Fourteen (14) pupils of the Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana, an international standard educational institute in Tema, have been deemed the favourites among the group selected to represent the Tema Region at the national level of «The Spelling Bee» Competition slated for February 2017 in Accra.

NYSUT even publicly lauded Republican candidate Rob Astorino for an open letter he wrote to teachers expressing his respect for their work after Cuomo characterized public education as a monopoly that he intends to break with stricter evaluations and competition from charter schools.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Central Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library will host an exhibition of work by four elite international architectural teams produced for the competition to design the new downtown University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

Powell also said charter schools provide important competition to traditional public schools to spur innovation and academic improvement for all students.

Society for Science & the Public and Regeneron are proud to announce the 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2018, the nation's oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.

Thanks to a personal connection, one of the most successful biotechnology companies in the United States is apparently the new title sponsor of the Science Talent Search (STS), the prestigious high school science competitions run by the Society for Science and the Public (SSP) in Washington, D.C. New York - based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. will invest $ 100 million over the next 10 years to become the third such sponsor in STS's nearly 75 - year - long history, according to several media outlets.

First established in 2003, the Research Education Office at the Child & Family Research Institute organizes education and networking events for trainees, coordinators and the public, including the annual Mini Med School series; administers trainee funding competitions; and manages the institute's summer student research program for undergraduate and medical students.

While these results support the contention that vouchers would improve the quality of education for the entire education system, it remains to be seen whether even the prospect of competition can provoke a public school response.

Having established that districts acknowledge charter schools and are aware that they compete with them for students, we then attempted to characterize public school districts» responses to the competition.

The multiplicity of ills facing our nation's public schools can depress even the most optimistic.How can we be hopeful when we have 30 million illiterate children?And it is no longer just the well - being of our poorest children that we need worry about; our top - performing public schools are no match for the international competition.

To explore the influence of school choice on district policy and practice, we scoured media sources for evidence of urban public - school districts» responses to charter competition.

Competition between charter schools and traditional public schools for students may induce a constructive reaction, an obstructive reaction, or no response.

In an obstructive response to increased competition for scarce public resources, public school officials may attempt to block the growth of charter schools by limiting access to buildings and information, adding burdensome bureaucratic requirements, or supporting legislation that would hinder the development of such schools.

Whatever their agendas, however, most supporters of school choice build their political case on the virtues of competition for public education as a whole.

«People are hungry for this,» says producer Hillary Wells, noting that when they initially put out feelers last year to see if public schools in Eastern Massachusetts would be interested in such a competition, more than 70 signed on in just two days.

Other people have avested interest in the public school system and resist the competition for students and funds that comes with private school choice.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

For competition to fulfill its promise as a reform strategy, traditional public schools must feel challenged.

For the comparison among charter, public, and private school teachers, I assumed that charter and private schools face more competition than public schools, since a greater share of charter and private schools get funding only if they attract students.

It also, the Court wrote, builds support for public schools, enables those communities that wish «to devote more money to the education» of their children to do so, and provides «opportunity for experimentation, innovation, and a healthy competition for educational excellence.»

Chanin could only reply: «There is no evidence that competition improves the lot for the 96 percent of the students who remain in the troubled Cleveland public school system with less resources and even worse problems.»

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In most states and districts, they provide very little choice for American families and very little competition for the regular public schools.

In a separate 2009 study, Winters also found that «the more students a public school lost to charters, the better its remaining students performed — probably because the school now faced competition from charters for enrollment.»

Nonetheless, our results indicate that private school competition, brought about by the creation of scholarships for students from low - income families, is likely to have positive effects on the performance of traditional public schools.

Because the loss of students to private schools may have negative repercussions for the heads of public schools, increased competition from private schools should have a positive effect on the efficiency of resource use in the public schools.

For more, read the study, «Does Competition Improve Public Schools?

The call for evidence comes as the FE sector is undergoing Area Reviews alongside increased competition from schools and universities, cuts to public funding, and demographic shifts.

He argued that such competition for those tax dollars would force public schools to improve.

This past spring, Figueroa was part of the Harvard team — including students from the Kennedy School, Law School, and Business School — that took first place in the Public Schools Urban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban education.

«Competition from private schools improves student achievement, and appears to do so for public school as well as private school students.

Yet Ravitch sees no hope for choice and competition in education, asking us to leave public schools alone apart from articulating voluntary national standards without holding anyone accountable for meeting them.

When told that some people say that a universal program «would introduce much needed competition to the public school system,» overall support for vouchers increases by just a few percentage points.

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

(Update: For a review of systemic effect research — how expanded competition affects achievement in traditional public schools — see here.)

Private school vouchers, which provide public funds for students to attend K - 12 private schools, are one example of an education reform that introduces choice and competition.

Given the significant growth rate and geographic expansion of private school choice programs over the past two decades, it is important to examine how traditional public schools respond to the sudden injection of competition for students and resources.

Proponents contend that charter schools expand educational choices for students, increase innovation, improve student achievement, and promote healthy competition with traditional public schools.