Sentences with phrase «debates over charter»

Third, I assess the effect of charter proximity on historically underperforming students at district schools, a population often referenced in debates over charter expansion.

A usually tame event for Buffalo schools parents turned into an ugly debate over charter schools.

One of the measures the union is watching seemingly has paradigmatic implications in the debate over charter schools and standardized testing.

Take the debate over charter schools: the battle lines have been the same for twenty years.

[1] For a long time, the debate over charter schools has revolved around the simplistic question of whether they are better or worse than traditional public schools.

These last findings suggest that information may actually polarize the debate over charter schools — and could also portend a major shift in the political landscape of school choice, note Howell and West.

To seize the high ground in the debate over charter schools, pro-charter forces lay claim to the South Bronx.

I remember that when I made my first attempt to go back to college four months after having my daughter Cereta in 1999, I read a book for one of my educational courses about the debate over charter versus traditional schools.

I remember when I made my first attempt to go back to college four months after having my daughter Cereta in 1999, I read a book for one of my educational courses about the debate over charter versus traditional schools.

The continued debate over charter schools, which are now permitted in 40 states and the District of Columbia, has political overtones.

But meanwhile, a debate over charter schools has been raging among the people commenting on this blog, and I can't resist wading in.

The debate over charter schools continues as the state forces school districts to share more tax dollars in capital money.

Not exact matches

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

If you are looking for a «bluffer's guide» to the debate over the UK membership of the EU then it can be found in David Charter's Au Revoir Europe: What if Britain Left the EU?

As the Buffalo Public School District works to improve its failing schools debate is growing over the strength of charter schools.

MIDDLETOWN — A proposal by the charter revision commission to eliminate the elected city treasurer post has initiated a debate over the merits of the position.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over education reform.

Last night, during the race's only debate, Hawkins continued to push for teachers and public schools over Common Core and charters.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

As the title implies, the book argues that the debate about charter performance is now over.

Even as public support for charter schooling has steadily increased over time (according to the 2015 Education Next poll the public supported charters by 47 % to 19 %), the media is filled with one charged charter debate after another.

looks at the role charter schools are playing in Boston and at political debates over whether there should be more charter schools there.

The heated debate over the growth of charter schools in Massachusetts continues to escalate, as advocates and opponents wrangle in legal suits and wage aggressive public relation campaigns to sway parents» opinions.

Most research on charter schools, and the most intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend them.

It may not be as sexy as the debates over vouchers, Detroit charter schools, «privatization,» or grizzly bears that have dominated the agenda over the past month or two, but the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) continues apace.

Throughout his discussions of the public, charter, and private sectors, Smarick makes a convincing case that the decades old debate over which sector performs «better» is the wrong way of evaluating performance.

Those holding the neutral position declined from 44 percent to 36 percent between 2009 and 2010, likely reflecting the heightened attention to charter schools in national debates over education reform (see Figure 2).

The results of this paper add evidence to the debate in the United States over the desirability of creating networks of charter and voucher schools.

In practice, this debate over the point of charter schools has itself reached a critical juncture.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

Over time, political debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized sector bent on homogenization.

While both President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan support charter schools, there continues to be a contentious debate over such schools.

The summer issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether charter schools should continue to expand in cities like Washington, D.C. so that a larger share of students are attending charter schools.

These findings shed new light on the public debate over the effects of charter schools on non-charter students.

The investigation has provided more fuel for the national debate over how charter schools use suspensions, expulsions and other harsh disciplinary practices to weed out students who need extra support and, in so doing, boost the schools» test scores.

As a researcher who studies both vouchers and other forms of school choice such as charter schools (independently operated public schools) I believe the new Louisiana studies are important to longstanding debates over the extent to which such choice enhances academic outcomes.

Good Morning Interesting article from The Advocate — debate over Einstein Charter Schools busing policy «pits school autonomy vs. parent choice.»

Interesting article from The Advocate — debate over Einstein Charter Schools busing policy «pits school autonomy vs. parent choice.»

The debate of charters over traditional public schools appears to be most heated in Rutherford County, a rural manufacturing community in the Blue Ridge Mountains foothills with unemployment rates nearly twice the state average.

Nationwide the charter school sector has grown over the past few decades amid a debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.

The debate over whether more charters should open up in the state and have access to a bigger stream of public money has fallen sharply down partisan sides in North Carolina, with the newly empowered Republicans supporting the expansion of charters and their access to public funds.

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.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.

Amid all the debate over state control and the big expansion of charter schools, Camden schools administrators were busy doing their homework this week.

You may have noticed a vigorous debate here in the columns and comment sections of the NewsJunkie, as well as the Mirror over proposals to open up more charter schools in Connecticut.

Charter schools remain among the most controversial and divisive subjects in the national debate over public education.

Education reform, largely a footnote in the presidential campaign, emerged at the tail end of last night's debate in a brief exchange between the candidates over whether D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee supports vouchers or charter schools.

NJ Spotlight Online learning in New Jersey's charter schools got a boost from the courts yesterday, but so did the debate over how much innovation the state should...