Sentences with phrase «go to a charter school because»

I didn't want to go to a charter school because I thought they were creaming off top students and I do believe that children have the right to go to high - performing schools with high - quality instruction right in their own neighborhood.

Not exact matches

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

All our kids deserve to be taught by teachers who have gone through a rigorous process, but the Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.charter schools have trouble meeting them.schools have trouble meeting them.»

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.

This is going to be rough on progressives because in their narrative only middle - class racists want charter schools.

Maybe because I just spent the lunch hour listening to charter school teachers eagerly compare notes on professional development sessions like «Inspiring Enthusiasm for Mathematics» and «From Compliance to Excellence: going Beyond Special Education Regulations to Harness Student Potential.»

According to a Lusher Charter School parent, a teacher took the microwave she bought out of the teacher's lounge because no one who was for unions was going to have the luxury of using her microwave.

Because public charter schools» per - pupil funding is often inequitable compared to that of traditional public schools (about 75 - 80 % on average when compared to traditional schools nationwide), virtually all charter schools must use operational funding — money which otherwise would go towards educational purposes and classroom teaching and learning — to cover capital budget shortfalls.

What they may have is a school around the corner called a «charter school» that they can go to because it's a new school... but not necessarily a better school.»

I googled «Black leaders charter schools» and felt a small sense of relief come over me because I was going to get an answer.

... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to create high - performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.

I'm not going to engage in some debate of charter schools because there's evidence and research to support pretty much any philosophical inclination.

I go anywhere that people are willing to talk about what charter schools are doing to public education because of their lack of oversight.

I think having charter schools, having school vouchers, things of that nature are extremely good because unless you are competing for those students, it's very likely you're going to become complacent... We need to put the appropriate stimulation there to increase the competitive nature of education.»

This is particularly ironic and obnoxious because the charter school types are always going on about helping the needy and the deserving and how terrible it is that poor children have to put up with hellish public schools.

At the same time, the report identifies areas of focus as the sector has further to go in meeting the academic needs of all students, because there are still too many under performing charter schools in the state.

K12 INC fit right in because it offered charter schools a fake online curriculum to go with fake online testing.

Mayor Jeri Muoio said Wednesday, «because we open a charter school doesn't mean we are not going to try and support the existing public schools.»

«We we're running out of time to save charter schools because when the students of the charter school go on [summer] break, their school will be shutting down,» she said.

The charter school student body is always going to be easier to manage than its public school counterpart, because charter schools do not have a legal responsibility to accommodate any and all children who step across the threshold.

We're here today because parents and the public need to know what's really going on in schools run by the Noble Network, a charter school management company that has been called «a miracle,» a model that all schools should copy.

Board members disagreed with a separate staff recommendation to deny a new PUC charter petition because of concerns over how the school would be structured and gave the new school the go ahead to open.

Students in Muskegon Heights are going through a lot of changes this year, because the entire school district was converted to a charter school system.

Winners and losers can be assumed to be equally motivated because they both tried to go to a charter school.

The proof of this point is reported by Jon Pelto: charter schools go out of their to avoid helping English language learners and special ed students, because these cohorts are «difficult» and «costly.»

Ratliff added, «I think that what we're going to have to do as a district is figure out is how are we going to deal with the proliferation of charter schools because there's no rhyme or reason in terms of locations... In the long run we should be working with our charter schools to try to figure out ways that would make sense for further development.»

The gap grows significantly between kindergarten and fifth grade: 46 % of the growth occurs because charter schools are less likely to classify students as special education, and more likely to declassify them; 54 % is due to the number of new general education students enrolling in charter schools, not from the number of students with special needs going down.

If a certified charter school teacher (majority are certified) goes to work in a traditional public school instead (which they would because they are teachers), the public is still paying for the pension.

Because students attending charter schools carry with them funding that otherwise would go to their public school district, capping charter schools means that district leaders can predict yearly funding more easily based upon the number of charter schools authorized in their district.

They did so because if the bill failed, it would go to a ballot measure — and, in a national atmosphere in which support for charters was rising among both Republicans and Democrats as well as championed by the Obama administration, the union leaders were convinced that such a ballot measure would pass and leave lasting damage on Massachusetts» public schools.

Avalon School has earned several finance awards from the Minnesota Department of Education and from our charter authorizer because so much of our money goes directly to the classroom.

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