Sentences with phrase «good public school in every neighborhood»

That's equality of educational opportunity, a good public school in every neighborhood.

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Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboSchools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

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.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

There are so many Buffalo public school parents that know it's a good old boy neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and the money makes a difference.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

We need better schools with more accountability, public safety, and improved quality of life in the neighborhoods.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

In high - poverty neighborhoods of Los Angeles, students attending Alliance College - Ready Public Schools have good reason to be hopeful about life after high school.

They consist of four public and six private schools, all in well - to - do suburban neighborhoods in California (median household income of $ 90,000).

When his stepfather got a better job, with an American oil company, the family (Ann gave birth to a daughter in 1970) moved to a nicer neighborhood and Barry was enrolled in a public school.

What about parents who are committed to staying in our chosen school — typically the traditional public school in our neighborhood — but want to help it get better?

So you use all kinds of connections and networks to get your kid into a good school, as opposed to what should be the case in public education; you go to the school in your neighborhood and its a good school.

«I believe that it is a public duty to provide a good public school with adequate resources and a rich curriculum in every neighborhood.»

All free public Alliance charter schools outperform their neighborhood schools and have been recognized as among the best in the nation...

A citywide committee, born out of this partnership, is developing policy recommendations for how Denver can diversify their neighborhoods and better integrate their schools.73 Denver Public Schools has witnessed marginal improvements in school diversity since implementing these rschools.73 Denver Public Schools has witnessed marginal improvements in school diversity since implementing these rSchools has witnessed marginal improvements in school diversity since implementing these reforms.

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

It also upped the ante in the ongoing battle between the politically powerful union and well - monied charter schools — one in which charter schools such as Success Academy locate in black and brown low - income neighborhoods and continually outperform public schools in wealthier public schools districts.

Meanwhile, choice has had the effect of producing many competing schools while destroying what ought to be the bedrock of early education, the solid, well - run neighborhood public school with its coherent and clear ideas of what children need to know to be responsible citizens in a democracy.

Charter schools are serving more minority students because that is their mission: to open in under - served neighborhoods to provide a better education for kids that are not being served well by traditional public schools.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush came up with the idea of grading public schools in the late 1990s as a way to provide the public with a better understanding of how their neighborhood schools were performing.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

In South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolIn South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin their neighborhood public schools.

How closing schools hurts neighborhoods I Can't Think I Wish I had a Pair of Scissors So I could Cut Out Your Tongue An Interview with Zoe Weil Little But Lucky Make School A Democracy No Forced School Closures Oakland Must Again Commit to Creating Small Schools Oaktown Oaks thrived for decades: Small schools kept community alive Opposition to School Closures Impressive Fight: Professor Our Non Negotiables: What We Stand For SA's growing numbers of very large and very small public schools is raising concerns about kids getting lost in crowded campuses Small High Schools Post Big Gains: 5 Questions with Gordon Berlin Small Schools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District Consolischools hurts neighborhoods I Can't Think I Wish I had a Pair of Scissors So I could Cut Out Your Tongue An Interview with Zoe Weil Little But Lucky Make School A Democracy No Forced School Closures Oakland Must Again Commit to Creating Small Schools Oaktown Oaks thrived for decades: Small schools kept community alive Opposition to School Closures Impressive Fight: Professor Our Non Negotiables: What We Stand For SA's growing numbers of very large and very small public schools is raising concerns about kids getting lost in crowded campuses Small High Schools Post Big Gains: 5 Questions with Gordon Berlin Small Schools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District ConsoliSchools Oaktown Oaks thrived for decades: Small schools kept community alive Opposition to School Closures Impressive Fight: Professor Our Non Negotiables: What We Stand For SA's growing numbers of very large and very small public schools is raising concerns about kids getting lost in crowded campuses Small High Schools Post Big Gains: 5 Questions with Gordon Berlin Small Schools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District Consolischools kept community alive Opposition to School Closures Impressive Fight: Professor Our Non Negotiables: What We Stand For SA's growing numbers of very large and very small public schools is raising concerns about kids getting lost in crowded campuses Small High Schools Post Big Gains: 5 Questions with Gordon Berlin Small Schools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District Consolischools is raising concerns about kids getting lost in crowded campuses Small High Schools Post Big Gains: 5 Questions with Gordon Berlin Small Schools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District ConsoliSchools Post Big Gains: 5 Questions with Gordon Berlin Small Schools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District ConsoliSchools: The Myth, Reality, and Potential of Small Schools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District ConsoliSchools Study Shows Why Cliques Thrive in Some Schools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District ConsoliSchools More Than Others The Power of 12 The True Cost of High School Dropouts U.S. News Ranks America's Best High Schools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District ConsoliSchools for Third Consecutive Year What Does Research Say About School District Consolidation?

For most of the 115,000 Mississippi families with students in failing public schools, moving to a neighborhood with better schools is out of the question.

The real questions in Arizona public education today involve how we will best utilize scarce resources in order to provide a quality education for EVERY student; the most effective ways to replicate successful, innovative schools; and the fastest means to develop these schools in the neighborhoods where they are needed most.

Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a cop out by those whose job it is to find good solutions for public schools.

LOS ANGELES, CA - On Saturday, Feb. 4, well over 5,000 parents, students and teachers from across Los Angeles joined education officials and leaders for the «Schools We Can Believe In» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school stSchools We Can Believe In» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school studentIn» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school stschools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school studentin every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school students.

Ever since my visit to St. Luke's School, an elementary school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public scSchool, an elementary school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public scschool in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public schools.

The recent election showed there is strong public support for improving district accountability, creating better educational outcomes, supporting students beyond the classroom, and making sure every child in every neighborhood has access to a great school.

Key Issues To ensure charter schools and neighborhood public schools function in the best interests of students, parents and community members, we believe that, like all public institutions, they must be guided by six basic principles of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, quality, oversight, equity and public control.

School choice proponents say that charter schools and vouchers offer parents important options for their children's education — allowing them to leave their neighborhood schools in search of something better — and that traditional public schools have failed in many places.

Our approach is paying off, as African - American and Latino student achievement is better than in traditional public schools on any comparison, be it by state, by district, and particularly by neighborhood.

But while I know from experience that nonprofit public charter schools can offer opportunity and hope in some of our most underserved neighborhoods, I've also seen how for - profit schools fail to serve students» best interests.

Great Public Schools Now supports the expansion of high - quality choices for students in high need neighborhoods, which includes charter schools as well as many other types of public opPublic Schools Now supports the expansion of high - quality choices for students in high need neighborhoods, which includes charter schools as well as many other types of public oSchools Now supports the expansion of high - quality choices for students in high need neighborhoods, which includes charter schools as well as many other types of public oschools as well as many other types of public oppublic options.

Our affluent children can attend well - appointed public schools in their neighborhoods.

Recently, Chicago's two major newspapers made it very clear that charter schools can be very problematic and do not provide better academic results to justify additional millions of dollars that could be directed towards struggling neighborhood public schools («Chicago's Noble charter school network has tough discipline policy; critics say too many students are being expelled,» Chicago Tribune, 4/7/14; «Charter schools show little difference in school performance,» Chicago Sun - Times, 4/7/14).

In the coverage of the new case, The Connecticut Mirror's Jacqueline Rabe Thomas highlights lead Plaintiff Jessica Martinez struggle to get her son Jose into a better public school: «Quality schools exist in our neighborhoods, too, but their doors are open only to just a few lucky few... Enough is enough... We are not buying the excuses any more, whatever they are, for why the students get the golden ticket to success and others get the wait list.&raquIn the coverage of the new case, The Connecticut Mirror's Jacqueline Rabe Thomas highlights lead Plaintiff Jessica Martinez struggle to get her son Jose into a better public school: «Quality schools exist in our neighborhoods, too, but their doors are open only to just a few lucky few... Enough is enough... We are not buying the excuses any more, whatever they are, for why the students get the golden ticket to success and others get the wait list.&raquin our neighborhoods, too, but their doors are open only to just a few lucky few... Enough is enough... We are not buying the excuses any more, whatever they are, for why the students get the golden ticket to success and others get the wait list.»

For example, a family that takes the time and effort to apply to a charter school, might be more involved in their student's education than a family that just sends their student to the neighborhood school, and that might be why we see choice school students performing better than the traditional public school students.

Specific Levers in ESSA: We encourage the Department to consider these implementation standards, particularly as you develop and refine your guidelines for successful grant applications, including the Full - Service Community Schools grant, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Promise Neighborhoods, as well as other opportunities that call for integrated and collaborative partnerships between schools, community organizations, and public agSchools grant, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Promise Neighborhoods, as well as other opportunities that call for integrated and collaborative partnerships between schools, community organizations, and public agschools, community organizations, and public agencies.

Instead of ensuring that every child has access to a high - quality, well - resourced public school in his or her neighborhood, too many students, particularly in low - income, Black and Latino communities, have been subjected to flawed «reforms» — such as school closures, school takeovers and vouchers — all of which have stripped the public's voice in local schools and have never lived up to their hype.

The exhibition highlights the best photography to date from nearly 30 budding young artists enrolled in neighborhood high schools including Kenwood Academy as well as other Chicago public high schools.

Look for homes in well kept neighborhoods, close to public transportation, near shopping and amenities and in school districts with good reputations.

It's easy to ignore public schools when you have infant children, but they grow up quickly and suddenly you find yourself living in a neighborhood where the public school system is not among the best.