Sentences with phrase «for regular public schools»

Wendy Lecker notes that the state of Connecticut provides more money for charters than for regular public schools.

Arkansas News Burea, August 25, 2011, asserted the main role vouchers should have is «providing new models for regular public schools to emulate, not about replacing regular public schools.»

Perpich never intended charters to be competition for regular public schools.

The money represents $ 107 million for regular public schools and about $ 6 million for district charter schools.

Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools

-- Why have federal funding cuts reduced aid for regular public schools, which educate 90 % of American students, while the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to send more federal money to charter schools, which educate less than 5 % of American students?

As NYSUT's policy and practice attest, we embrace high standards, accountability, and transparency for regular public schools and charter schools alike.

Circling back to the original question — what lessons does KIPP's success have for regular public schools — it's important to clear up one misunderstanding.

The data is examined according to school demographics and locale for regular public schools.

In most states and districts, they provide very little choice for American families and very little competition for the regular public schools.

Not exact matches

Uber's black cars (and regular cars and SUVs and taxis) offered free rides for families and students to and from any Boston public school, no promo codes required or questions asked, according to VentureBeat.

The Chicago Park District is canceling all its regular swim classes during the public schools «spring break to make room for the seven one - hour sessions planned each day.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

A half - pint carton of chocolate skim milk served in Chicago public schools contains about 120 calories, compared with 90 calories for regular skim milk.

I'm not a regular watcher of «Top Chef» on Bravo, so I may be the last one to know that this week the contestants took on the task of making lunch for a public school (in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign).

While members of the not - for - profit have been regular critics of Paladino and his role on the Buffalo Public School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable hoPublic School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable hopublic funds that could be used for affordable housing.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.

The city would be required to first look for space in regular public schools where new charters — or those wishing to expand — could be co-located.

The report shows that when fully accounting for pension and health cost liabilities, regular public schools cost $ 19,822 to $ 20,283 per student.

De Blasio also reversed Bloomberg - era policy that banned churches from using public schools for regular Sunday worship at nominal cost — something mostly taken advantage of by the right - wing Christian fundamentalist «church planting» movement.

Making life more affordable for regular New Yorkers and improving public schools are among top issues for Lancman, who has raised $ 427,849.

The group features the current Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John C. Brown, and conducts guided tours of the observatory and public lectures, as well as regular visits to schools with the inflatable mobile planetarium giving virtual tours of the night sky.

«Scientific data continue to support the premise that small to moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis are consistent with a healthy lifestyle for middle - aged and older adults,» said Dr. R. Curtis Ellison, professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine.

Five years of studies on charter schools prove they are meeting the needs of traditionally underserved children and forcing regular public schools to change for the better, the Center for Education Reform concludes in a report released last week.

The study, «Leveraging Local Innovation: The Case of Michigan's Charter Schools,» found that the schools have mostly seized on innovative practices already in use for years in regular public schools, rather than coming up with new ideas of theSchools,» found that the schools have mostly seized on innovative practices already in use for years in regular public schools, rather than coming up with new ideas of theschools have mostly seized on innovative practices already in use for years in regular public schools, rather than coming up with new ideas of theschools, rather than coming up with new ideas of their own.

Another new promising avenue for popular participation is Parent Trigger, whereby parents can petition to turn a regular public school into a charter school.»

For example, commentator Richard Kahlenberg has argued that «the big difference between KIPP and regular public schools... is that whereas struggling students come and go at regular schools, at KIPP, students leave but very few new students enter.

This for a place that promised longer days (an hour more than the regular public schools), an extra 25 days of school per academic year, tough discipline, uniforms, and rigorous academic standards.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

The charter school students are about as likely to be eligible for special education and for the free or reduced - price lunch program as are students in the regular Chicago public schools.

For when families are allowed to leave the regular public schools for new options — charter schools or (via vouchers or tax credits) private schools — the regular public schools lose money and jobs, and so do the incumbent teachers in those schooFor when families are allowed to leave the regular public schools for new options — charter schools or (via vouchers or tax credits) private schools — the regular public schools lose money and jobs, and so do the incumbent teachers in those schoofor new options — charter schools or (via vouchers or tax credits) private schools — the regular public schools lose money and jobs, and so do the incumbent teachers in those schools.

These data provide us with information on achievement, as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), before students applied and, even more crucially, with post-application achievement data for students who remained in Chicago's regular public schools.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

By allowing kids to leave regular public schools for alternatives and by forcing unionized schools to compete with nonunion schools, choice ensures that the unions will lose members and resources - and thus become smaller and less politically powerful.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

Even if not a public authority, given that a DPO is also mandatory for organisations that carry out systematic and regular monitoring of data subjects on a large scale, it is likely that a school would nevertheless fall within this category.

The treatment groups consist of schools managed by each type of private provider, and the comparison group includes the regular public schools with test scores below the median for all regular district schools, as discussed above.

Unlike regular public schools, which have the authority to seek taxpayer - backed bonds for renovating school buildings and new construction, charter schools have no such mechanism in place to offset their facilities costs, which often come out of their operating budgets.

This was not surprising, given that the main justification for the voucher program was the abysmal state of Cleveland's regular public schools.

For example, one study conducted in the Chicago Public Schools shows that preschool attendance is important for several reasons: (1) It sets up patterns for long - term school attendance; (2) children who regularly attend preschool perform better on kindergarten entry assessments tests; and (3) regular attendance enhances social - emotional developmeFor example, one study conducted in the Chicago Public Schools shows that preschool attendance is important for several reasons: (1) It sets up patterns for long - term school attendance; (2) children who regularly attend preschool perform better on kindergarten entry assessments tests; and (3) regular attendance enhances social - emotional developmefor several reasons: (1) It sets up patterns for long - term school attendance; (2) children who regularly attend preschool perform better on kindergarten entry assessments tests; and (3) regular attendance enhances social - emotional developmefor long - term school attendance; (2) children who regularly attend preschool perform better on kindergarten entry assessments tests; and (3) regular attendance enhances social - emotional development.

Most of the students who leave ALS schools for adult education programs have personal or family issues, worry that they will «age out» of public school at 21, or are frustrated with the time and effort it takes to earn a regular diploma, she said.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

With an average score of 258, DC students attending DCPS regular public schools fall roughly around the national average for sixth graders in 2015 (students nationally scored 281 on average in 2015).

The system routinely provides $ 29,000 for high - income students attending regular public schools.

Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.

For students from low - income families attending regular public schools, the improvement has been unremarkable.

Instead of funding a system of schooling that remunerates regular public schools based on enrollment, funding for K — 12 education in DC could go directly into a parent - controlled education savings account.

As the single strongest advocate for the public resources that benefit charter and regular public schools, NYSUT supports members with research, professional development, and advocacy.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to regular public schools.