Sentences with phrase «failing public schools their children»

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

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As a result, the poor are forced to send their children to public schools, many of which are failing, by any standard, to provide a useful education.

When the public school fails to meet the needs of a gifted child, parents can either homeschool or look for a private school.

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

Limiting children to failing public schools is a disservice to the entire Syracuse community.

Supporters of strengthening charter schools say they offer children at failing public schools a chance out of poverty.

Cuomo's announced program fails to offer a choice to children trapped in failing public schools.

As Buffalo Public school parents kicked off a campaign Monday to demand transferring their children out of failing city schools, one school continues working on its turnaround plan.

«New York is learning what happens when the Mayor prioritizes his personal national ambitions over running New York: crime is on the rise, public schools are still failing our children, and Bill de Blasio's signature initiative, Vision Zero, isn't working,» Laska said in a statement.

He tells WBFO News now is the time to review every possibility in an effort to turn around failing city schools and refresh education for Buffalo's public school children.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

When families inquire about the school, Hecker's assistant asks families to what public school their children would be assigned and then walks them through the voucher application if they're assigned to a failing one.

The subject of high - profile lawsuits and heated political rhetoric, vouchers tend to split people into two camps — those who believe they are a valuable tool for helping disadvantaged children escape failing public schools and those who charge that they strip funds from public schools...

The No Child Left Behind Act requires that students in schools that fail to make «adequate yearly progress» for two years in a row be given the opportunity to transfer to another public school.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

The second, Martinez v. Malloy (led by the legal team behind Vergara v. California), contends that, in Connecticut, «inner - city children are compelled to attend public schools that the state knows have been failing its students for decades.»

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

Also likely to fall would be the Florida A + program, which provides up to $ 3,472 for children who attend chronically failing public schools.

Party leaders have failed to respond adequately to the question of why poor minority parents should be required to send their children to failing public schools when luminaries like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Ted Kennedy saw fit to send their own children to private schools.

«The public perception,» says Stanford professor Tom Dee who has researched the law, «seems to be that No Child Left Behind has failed, but the available research evidence suggests it led to meaningful — but not transformational — changes in school performance.»

When the opportunity arose, Canada, who had watched public schools fail for decades, jumped at the opportunity to deliver a great school to large numbers of poor children.

While we live in a market - driven economy ~ where winning and wealth accumulation are desired outcomes ~ education advocates on all sides of the political aisle currently assert that public schools are failing our children ~ especially minorities and low - income students.

Unlike the majority of NYC charter schools, which are primarily filled with Black and Hispanic children opting out of their local, failing public schools, Hunter's problem is the reverse.

Those parents who qualify for public school choice and supplemental services are the least likely to know it; fewer than one in ten parents with children in schools that failed to make adequate progress could correctly identify their school's status.

That decision raised questions about whether their children are genuinely assigned to a «failing» Cincinnati public school and thus eligible for a voucher.

Though Marshall lives in Cincinnati and his children have been assigned to a so - called «failing» public school under Ohio's voucher law, he's not eligible for EdChoice tuition assistance.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

Never mind that the body of empirical evidence suggests that choice helps not only the children who leave failing public schools but also those left behind.

The filmmakers maintain that public schools have failed the nations children and future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears that young people pose a threat to society.

Under NCLB, if a school has failed to meet the law's accountability provisions two years in a row, parents have the option of sending their child to a higher - performing public school within the same district.

* Fordham Industries makes no claims as to political feasibility, impact on educational freedom, immediate assistance to children in failing schools, parental rights, religious educational options, pedagogical diversity, educational innovation, public value conflicts, size of the tax burden, fairness to private school families, student achievement, or civic values.

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They tell us that children must be able to «escape» their «failing public schools.»

Thus the Washington charters offer encouraging news for those concerned primarily with ensuring that inner - city children have viable alternatives to failing public schools.

One program offers a tax credit to help offset the cost of tuition for families who move their children from public schools designated as «failing» by the state to a private school.

A ruling against the tax credits would jeopardize not only the hopes children desperate to escape failing public schools, but also educational support for more than 15,000 other students.

More than half of the Washoe County public schools had been labeled «in need of improvement» for failing to get enough students to proficiency on the state standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Law.

Although Deming focused on public charter schools rather than pivate vouchers, the logic is essentially the same: expand the horizon of low - income children beyond their toxic neighborhood and failing school, and you change their lives.

The traditional arguments in favor of school choice - that it will allow children to escape failing schools; that it will improve public education through competition - are well known.

And, because far fewer schools will be labeled as failing, fewer children and their families will be given at least the opportunity to transfer to a higher performing public school in the district.

What happens if all the high - performing schools in a district are full and can't take the children who were granted public school choice because their own school failed two years in a row?

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

In his 2015 State of the State address, Deal proposed an «Opportunity School District» (OSD) to help rejuvenate failing public schools and rescue children languishing in them.

Unfortunately, for every year a child who wants access to a public charter school who is stuck on a waitlist or without a school nearby, we're failing to follow through on the vision lawmakers had twenty years ago.

And the president's proposal to allow $ 1 billion in federal funds to follow poor children to the public schools of their choice — while thin on details — sounds a lot like a proposal that failed to pass the GOP - led Senate in 2015.

Thus, the Voucher Programs that exist essentially offer parents the option to remove their children from failing public schools or public schools that can not meet the needs of the student, and instead, enroll them in private schools.

Yes, and once the flotsam of emotion surrounding public education is washed away, there is only the clear truth: Public schools are failing too many childpublic education is washed away, there is only the clear truth: Public schools are failing too many childPublic schools are failing too many children...

The report surveyed over 300 New York City public school teachers and found that they concluded that punitive approaches toward children, such as aggressive policing, suspensions and other reactive strategies, actually undermine the human right to education by failing to address the causes of conflict and criminalizing students.