Sentences with phrase «different than other public school»

Our children are no different than all other public school children.

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We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

Federal ADA regulations provide that a public entity, such as a school board, may not provide different benefits or services to individuals with disabilities or to any class of individuals with disabilities than is provided to others unless such action is necessary to provide qualified individuals with disabilities with benefits or services that are as effective as those provided to others.

State and federally driven mandates for curriculum, state testing, teacher certification, and fiscal management are no different for charter schools than they are for any other public school system.

This year's discussion about funding public schools wasn't significantly different than any other year.

And it's worth noting that North Carolina spends more on public school funding at the state level than do most other states because we have a different public school spending structure here.

The other 73 percent applied through a lottery to attend a school other than their in - boundary option, which breaks down across different options (aside from in - boundary) as follows: 46 percent of public school students attended a public charter school, 21 percent attended an out - of - boundary DCPS school, and the remaining 6 percent attended other DCPS schools [1](Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), 2017).

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Since 1983, when A Nation At Risk warned Americans that its public schools were failing at an alarming rate, reform has taken on many different forms, with some experiments yielding more success than others.