Sentences with phrase «from regular public schools»

They also worry that charters will take money away from regular public schools.

This will divert many millions of dollars from the regular public schools.

State and federal funding enables charter schools and private schools to draw students from regular public schools.

If that meant departing, even radically, from the regular public school system, then so be it.

We journalists tend to focus on exam results because so many of our readers say that is what they want, and such information is relatively easy to get from regular public schools.

The funds for charter schools are removed from regular public schooling budgets and paid to various private firms and organizations (and sometimes other parts of a state's education system) to provide a wider choice of schools.

For example, Memorial Charter Academy, which converted from a regular public school into a charter school in 1995, is on the restructure list.

The teacher unions are also battling against charter schools - which, while public, need not be unionized, and which draw students and money away from the regular public schools where union members teach.

One oft - stated concern about charter schools is that they will draw away the highest - achieving students from the regular public schools around them.

Standard value - added analyses, which are often used to evaluate charter schools, rely entirely on an unusual group of students who switch from regular public schools to charter schools late in their elementary - school careers.

After a dark history of excluding students with disabilities from regular public schools, Congress in 1975 passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, guaranteeing all children, regardless of disability, the right to a «free and appropriate public education» in the «least restrictive environment.»

President Trump is violating his pledge to respect state and local control of education by proposing to shift funds from regular public schools to charter schools and private schools.

«An expansion of the charter school cap would draw even more money away from the regular public schools, where, of course, the overwhelming number of the students in Massachusetts go,» Gosnell said.

Newly - elected State Senator Marc Panepinto says the fight isn't over better schools but over money going to private groups trying to shift dollars from regular public schools.

L.A. Unified currently has 23 charters that converted from regular public schools.

Although the share of this group, heavily weighted toward schools with a religious focus, has been relatively constant, the growth in other schools of choice shows a clear trend away from the regular public schools.

Critics of charter schools say, among other complaints, that they drain money from regular public schools, skim talented students and nudge out disruptive ones.

A major criticism by Hasse and others is that charter schools will drain sorely needed money from regular public schools, on the order of $ 75.5 million statewide over the next four years, based on projections by the state Office of Financial Management.

Opponents worry they will take money away from regular public schools.

He wants to take $ 1.4 billion from regular public schools to finance this shift.