Sentences with phrase «good public schools instead»

I can't understand why kids are so reluctant to use easy cost saving measures like community college (instruction just as good as four year), testing in lieu of classes for credit, summer classes, good public schools instead of private, online courses (more convenient but NOT easier).

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All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Instead of confronting the public school system or arguing before school boards for better teaching methods, we might do best by setting up small schools in which we try out our methods.

Instead of giving 1 percenters a massive tax break they don't need, I am using my platform as a celebrity to advocate for LGBTQ equality, women's health, and better public schools.

Instead, Monday's celebration at McKinley High School was for the launching of «My Brother's Keeper,» a new initiative in the Buffalo Public Schools designed to intervene in the lives of black and Hispanic youth and set them on course toward a better future.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

A well - publicized critique of the CREDO approach relates to their use of «virtual control records» that are generated from the records of up to seven public school «virtual twins», instead of one - to - one matching.

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

Instead, we try to help citizens make sense of the conflicting opinions and perceptions about public education and create the conditions that will lead to better public schools.

Bernal hopes that by listening to what teachers have to say and pursuing needed changes to school finance law and assessment, the state could be a better friend to public education instead of continual adversary in the eyes of educators.

Congress would better serve ALL children by directing funds to make public schools stronger and safer instead of creating a new voucher or tuition tax credit program.

If we care about equity in our public schools, we need to stop looking at which bureaucracy is administering and instead look at who the school is serving and how well those kids are doing.

Instead, the Consortium expects its innovation to extend to public schools as well.

Instead, we, as parents, have found our own extra-curricular activities for our child, mostly corporate - sponsored and parent - sponsored, but keep our child in public schools, trying to get the best of both worlds.

Instead of escaping to better opportunities, those children are worse off, consigned to public schools that have been drained of badly needed resources.

Sure, we collect lots of funding from West Van homeowners, and could have a set of uber luxury public schools with sweeping views and grand pianos in the foyer, but instead that money pays for everyone's good schools across BC.

But instead of acting in their best interest, he's eager to restrict their freedom and consolidate the power of the public - school powers that be.

Instead they are required to navigate the education marketplace, choosing between neighborhood schools that have been creamed of their best students and the new experimental start - ups that on average perform worse than traditional public schools.

Instead of trying to expand the pot of money that is provided for primary and secondary education in Connecticut, thereby helping all public school children, some charter school supporters have changed their strategy and are now pushing to modify the state's school funding system so that when a child shifts from a public school to a charter school all of the state money associated with the education of that student would shift as well.

It held that the retroactive removal of the tenure system did not further the important state interest of improving education and instead was antithetical to the goal of developing and retaining a cadre of good public school teachers.

DeVos is right: the choice to send your child to a private or charter school instead of your neighborhood public school is as easy as calling a Lyft or an Uber instead of a taxi — and that's not necessarily a good thing...

The Gates Foundation has avoided systematic efforts to achieve equity of resources for schools and the children who attend them; instead, it asserts that teacher effectiveness is the best lever in this regard, and it has focused most of its research and advocacy on promoting public investment in systems that measure and promote teacher effectiveness.

The increasing number of state legislators, auditors, comptrollers, parents, students and academic institutions that are calling for more accountability in the charter sector are right: If we are committed to a public education system that strives to serve all children, with the understanding and the expectation that each and every one matters, has potential and deserves the resources and opportunity to succeed, then we must rein in the current growth model of charter expansion, and insist instead on a well - regulated and equitably resourced system of public schools that works for all children.

Instead of enforcing a moratorium, let's work together to improve low - achieving public schools and expand those that are performing well.»

Gary Rubinstein: Why I did TFA and Why You Shouldn't Owen Davis: Teach for America Apostates: a Primer of Alumni Resistance Jesse Hagopian: Seattle Public Schools should avoid «Teach for Awhile» program Alex Caputo - Pearl: Teach for America Shows the Downside of Quick Fixes in Education Camika Royal: Swift to Hear; Slow to Speak: A Message to TFA Teachers, Critics, and Education Reformers True Confessions of a TFA Dropout Julian Vasquez Heilig: Teach for America: Feel - good Spin vs. Dose of Reality From a Corps Member Why I'm Quitting TFA The Atlantic: I Quit Teach for America Jameson Brewer: Hyper - accountability, Burnout and Blame: A Former TFA Corps Member Speaks Out Matt Barnum: It's Time for Teach for America to Fold — former TFAer Noam Hassenfeld: This Former TFA Corps Members Thinks You Should Join City Year Instead

Instead, the charter community would be better served by highlighting our state's shamefully low public school spending levels and calling for increased investment that will left all boats.

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.

spends money on things such as public policy schools instead of improving their science departments and keeping good faculty members.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»