Sentences with phrase «existing public school system»

Survey Question # 5: In order to improve public education in America, some people think the focus should be on reforming the existing public school system.

Which approach do you think is preferable — reforming the existing public school system or finding an alternative to the existing public school system?

Others believe the focus should be on finding an alternative to the existing public school system.

What is strange about the debate over teacher policy, however, is that it has taken place largely within the confines of the existing public school system.

When presented with the choice of reforming the existing public school system or finding alternatives, 71 percent of those responding to the 31st edition of the Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitude Toward the Public Schools indicated that the focus should be on reform.

This raises a serious problem, but on the whole it is an argument that is being made abstractly or on the basis of history - without considering the existing public school systems and how well they are presently carrying out this aim.

The publication of an article by Mayor John O. Norquist of Milwaukee calling for the existing public school system in urban areas to «ultimately be scrapped» has caused a stir in the Wisconsin city.

The Integrated Day program was initially established within the existing public school system in 1989.

In my travels around North Carolina — to the state's three largest school districts — I ask school board members, legal and education experts, and charter advocates to explain how a state that doesn't seem to adequately fund its existing public school system can afford to add a competitive new one.

«I, like I think most of the other governors, are desperately concerned about opening up choice to public or private school and the choice of a voucher or any similar thing, with cannibalizing the existing public school system, about taking resources that are already really too limited.»

... The proposal at hand would completely disrupt and destabilize the existing public school system already struggling to rebuild.»

Ok now assume that this charter school by its existence is able to attract Money from wealthy philanthropists, and talented, highly motivated teachers, and that neither the money or the talented teachers would have gone to the existing public school system but rather are incremental resources that come into the system as a result of the charter school's existence.