Sentences with phrase «from neighborhood public schools»

This bill would force school districts to divert more funds from neighborhood public schools to charter schools.

Texas is a voucher - free state because vouchers divert much - needed funding from neighborhood public schools to private and religious schools, they provide no accountability to taxpayers, they allow private schools to pick and choose the students they want to accept and they don't improve student performance.

Vouchers siphon off scarce resources from neighborhood public schools, which accept all kids including many students living in poverty, to benefit private schools.

So - called Education Savings Accounts, reportedly under consideration by Republican legislators, are just another «back - door scheme» to take money away from neighborhood public schools, WEAC President Ron Martin said Thursday.

After this defeat, she shifted her focus to diverting taxpayer dollars from neighborhood public schools to for - profit charter schools.

Not exact matches

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

A second - grade teacher and an assistant principal have been removed from student contact at Jordan Elementary Community School in the Rogers Park neighborhood while Chicago Public Schools conducts an investigation into their conduct.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

After nearly 20 years of trying to redevelop the former public school he bought from the city at an auction for $ 3.15 million in 1999, Singer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming local elected officials and neighborhood groups have conspired to block the project.

This process presents a critical opportunity to discuss real neighborhood concerns and needs — from school overcrowding and pedestrian safety to sewers and public transit,» she'll say.

«Across neighborhoods of Wisconsin, from the North Woods to the cities, the results are striking,» says Dr. Kristen Malecki, assistant professor of population health sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

The researchers compared two groups of high school students from low - income neighborhoods in Los Angeles — 521 students who were offered admission to high - performing public charter schools through the district lottery, and 409 who were not.

Despite the location within walking distance of three public schools and a residential neighborhood, the company quietly won approval from municipal authorities to build a megastore...

BAA is Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, where students come from every neighborhood to explore their passion while also receiving a full college preparatory education.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Differ from other neighborhood public schools in that students are not assigned to them based on address.

To date, students from some two dozen public and private schools have participated in projects focused on everything from food insecurity to neighborhood walkability.

During the 1980s, the Chilean government decentralized the administration of schools, transferring responsibility for public school management from the Ministry of Education to municipalities (recognized neighborhoods in Chile around which municipal services are organized).

Washington — Here, on the second floor of a high school not far from some of the most crime - ridden neighborhoods in the nation's capital, a new generation of public servants is quietly being groomed.

If they put just some of that private tuition money into their neighborhood public schools, these places could go from good to great.»

«By diverting money away from public schools into private hands, it weakens our neighborhood public schools.»

«Sixteen percent of our kids graduate from four - year colleges, compared to less than 5 percent of public school kids in our neighborhoods; and it's only 3 percent of CPS Latinos and 4 percent of CPS blacks who graduate from college.»

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

I believe deeply that arts education is of great value in and of itself, not only instrumentally; I believe just as emphatically that education in the arts is the business of all of us, from the home and the family to the neighborhood and the village, from the P - 12 school system to higher education to lifelong learning, culminating in the great and defining legacy of our public culture.

Magnet schools are public schools that provide specialized curriculums and instructional approaches to attract students from a variety of neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, according to the Education Commission of the States.

In my years teaching in urban public schools, I saw many students experience extreme stress from living in poverty and also in gang - affiliated neighborhoods.

Vouchers enable students and their parents to use public funds to choose the school that is best for them, freeing them from the monopoly that neighborhood public schools have had for decades.

But in practical terms, what has now happened is that charters are draining resources from the traditional neighborhood public schools.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

«In the neighborhood where I live in Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she says.

It is so successful that even affluent Montgomery County, which usually resists departures from its highly rated public school programs, is trying to get KIPP to put a school in one of its low - income neighborhoods.

«The voucher floodgates are wide open as unaccountable private schools take tens of millions of dollars from students in neighborhood public schools,» said WEAC President Betsy Kippers.

She chose it because it was across the street from the Catholic school for boys that her son attends, also with a voucher, and it seemed better than a neighborhood public school that has failed for years to meet achievement targets.

TEAM Englewood Community Academy is a traditional Chicago Public School that accepts students from across the city of Chicago with most students coming from the immediate neighborhood.

The decision to close a school is frequently met with fierce resistance from the community, as closings have big impacts on neighborhoods where school buildings are important community resources and sources of neighborhood stability; where public schools are significant employers; and where distances to other schools can be substantial.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

The MPS district primarily oversees traditional public schools, including both neighborhood schools and a range of specialty schools and citywide schools, from language immersion to Montessori.

Home to more than 60 schools located in every neighborhood of the community, Des Moines Public Schools provides families with choices to meet the educational needs of students from preschool through college - level cschools located in every neighborhood of the community, Des Moines Public Schools provides families with choices to meet the educational needs of students from preschool through college - level cSchools provides families with choices to meet the educational needs of students from preschool through college - level courses.

in the 1970's, public schools known as magnets offered enrichment programs as an incentive to pull children from neighborhood schools.

Public charter schools, transit access, and violent crime rates Elementary school neighborhoods with the highest public charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary participPublic charter schools, transit access, and violent crime rates Elementary school neighborhoods with the highest public charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary particippublic charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary participation.

In most neighborhoods, most students who do not choose to attend their in - boundary school attend a public charter school (as opposed to a DCPS school from out - of - boundary).

About 35 percent of school boundary neighborhoods are «majority» charter, meaning that more than half of students living in a school boundary attend a public charter school instead of the DCPS boundary school or a DCPS school from out - of - boundary.

I look forward to boldly examine different citywide issues that are preventing Oakland public schools from serving their underprivileged neighborhoods fully, and problem solving with other TAG members to provide better neighborhood school choices for our children.

Parents Allege Massive Enrollment Fraud at Carpenter Community Charter in Studio City Los Angeles Unified will let schools use public records to verify student addresses after a high - performing charter in Studio City complained that scores of parents from outside the neighborhood committed fraud to get their kids admitted, officials said Monday.