Sentences with phrase «even traditional district schools»

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Even though charters in his Harlem district have greatly outperformed students in nearby traditional schools, Perkins has proposed legislation that would cripple the charter - school movement.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

The D.C. metro CBSA contains 1,186 traditional public schools, 1,026 of which are in Virginia, Maryland, and even West Virginia; only 13 percent of the traditional public schools in the D.C. CBSA are actually situated in the racially isolated District of Columbia.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

Emanuel continued to promote charters using the bully pulpit, and CPS was approving more charters even as the district was closing traditional schools.

Even when it leads to a GED, adult education can severely limit students» options and is not viewed by the Orange County school district as a desirable outcome for students young enough to attend traditional schools.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

The creation of turnaround districts by states, indeed even the serious contemplation of such a move, suggests a real restlessness with the ability of traditional K — 12 governance to act on persistent school failure.

The challenges of implementing such a schedule for parents, administrators, and even some teachers have caused some Colorado school districts to return to the traditional schedule instead of the alternative 4 - day schedule.

Even for middle - class households with the wherewithal to relocate, the reality that districts often arbitrarily change their zoning policies — especially based on the clout of the families who live in a particular area — means that simply moving residences doesn't guarantee that those families will get into one of the few high - quality traditional schools for which you made such a move.

As you might be aware, even though charter schools are public schools, we are not funded equally as our traditional public district school counterparts.

Comparing Newark to New Orleans, Neerav posits that a strategy of closing traditional schools and replacing them with a district comprising new, predominantly charter schools might have yielded even better results in Newark.

The meat is that charter school test scores usually do fall below traditional district school test scores, even after controlling for some student characteristics.

Etcetera: For the past two years, Dropout Nation has argued that President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan should structure future Race to the Top grant competitions to include reform - minded traditional districts, along with charter school operators, and even community groups.

The process of selecting charter operators became even more important this year when the RSD became the first all - charter - school district in the country, though traditional schools still operate in the city under the Orleans Parish School school district in the country, though traditional schools still operate in the city under the Orleans Parish School School Board.

For families who can't afford to move to a «better» school district, and even for families who can, charter schools empower all parents with the ability to ask one simple question; «What is the best academic setting for my child — the traditional zoned public school or the charter public school?

In a report on school safety released last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter schools were «safer» than traditional district counterparts not by comparing raw data from the Big Apple's school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident reports over a period of several years.

But Missouri offers few options for kids to escape failing or even mediocre traditional district schools — and shuts them down when possible.

Superintendents like Mr. Ricci and some school board members lament that traditional districts have fixed costs that they must meet even with the loss of funds going to charter schools.

Meanwhile restrictions on the expansion of school choice — including charters and even ability to choose courses while in traditional districts — is even more problematic for college - educated families as it is for those from poor households.

For most of the past three decades, districts such as Carmel - Clay, Hamilton Southeastern, and Westfield - Washington have only had to provide teaching and curricula to the children of executives and middle managers of such Fortune 500 outfits such as drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co., and healthcare giant WellPoint, who fled from the Circle City for traditional district schools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disschools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disSchools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister districts.

Even though charter schools serve our neediest children and vastly outperform traditional district schools, they are still ripped off.

«From all accounts, the new endeavor is booming, and we are even outgrowing our current facility from the positive word spreading to districts about the great opportunities being offered for students not fitting into a traditional school setting,» Doye said.