Sentences with phrase «help failing public schools»

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.

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The subject of high - profile lawsuits and heated political rhetoric, vouchers tend to split people into two camps — those who believe they are a valuable tool for helping disadvantaged children escape failing public schools and those who charge that they strip funds from public schools...

Earlier this week, Stephanie Saul of the New York Times launched a full frontal assault on scholarship tax credit (STC) programs, accusing them of failing to help low - income students, draining public schools of needed funding, and of using public money for private purposes.

Moreover, the procedural approach makes no allowance for the possibility that public agencies may make decisions that are discriminatory, repressive, or otherwise fail to serve the public interest... It's not clear why we ought to be comforted by the fact that public officials are responsible, or why we ought not consider whether «nonpublic» schools may help redress such injuries.

Never mind that the body of empirical evidence suggests that choice helps not only the children who leave failing public schools but also those left behind.

One program offers a tax credit to help offset the cost of tuition for families who move their children from public schools designated as «failing» by the state to a private school.

In his 2015 State of the State address, Deal proposed an «Opportunity School District» (OSD) to help rejuvenate failing public schools and rescue children languishing in them.

(Its carefully wrought wording should help its chances of passage: «Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?»)

The Common Core test is designed to fail the vast majority of public schools students, including up to 9 in 10 students who aren't proficient in the English Language or require special education help.

We need to help our children who are stuck in failing public schools with no choices but to suffer or quit.

Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

«These schools will help close our state's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap by acting as a lifeline to the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

In June a new initiative, Great Public Schools Now, announced it will expand access for 160,000 students in failing schools in 10 low - income Los Angeles neighborhoods to successful schools it will help replicate or Schools Now, announced it will expand access for 160,000 students in failing schools in 10 low - income Los Angeles neighborhoods to successful schools it will help replicate or schools in 10 low - income Los Angeles neighborhoods to successful schools it will help replicate or schools it will help replicate or expand.

Yet the myth persists that this program helps low - income students escape «failing» public schools to attend «better» private schools.

Bender argued that targeted charter schools can help students of color who have been failed by the public school system, while Slekar said that school choice undermines the effectiveness of public schools, including their ability to address racial disparities.

Through your advocacy for public education, you can help shift the national narrative from «public schools are failing and choice is the solution» to a counternarrative with broader appeal.

Her sons attended Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing scSchool, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing scschool and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing sSchools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing schoolsschools.

What is clear is that many charter schools want to claim the mantle of being public schools, but the majority fail to take their fair share of students who need special education services, just as they fail to take their fair share of students who need extra help when it comes to learning the English language.

In one fell swoop, she plays the «poor teacher» card, blames legislators who try to help kids to escape their failing public schools (which her union rules over) and Republicans.

This year it resulted in shadow education secretary Tristam Hunt being turned away from an east London school, amid concerns they were breaking the law, and failing schools had to meet «public interest tests» before getting Government help.

In our bizarre newspeak world, the leader of a labor union who tries to force kids to stay in their failing public schools gets a «human and civil rights» award and the Walton Foundation, which gives millions to help free those kids, is vilified.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.

And he worked pro bono to help enact a «parent trigger» law in California, which allows parents to seize control of a failing public school and bring in new management or staff.

Taxpayer - funded vouchers have helped thousands of families escape failing public schools, but their structure limits their ability to create the kind of education market system that Milton Friedman advocated at the birth of the school - choice movement.

Klein and Duncan's conclusion that public schools must be failing because they don't perform the miracles they allegedly performed in the past has helped justify a rapid expansion of charter schools.

He shows his usual obeisance to the idea of making public education a market rather than a public trust, to blaming rather than respecting educators, and to ideas that have failed to help children everywhere they've been tried but instead, in their wake, have hurt kids by leaving public schools destabilized and their budgets drained.»

The Mind Trust supports the launch of fully autonomous Innovation Network Schools through the Innovation School Fellowship, a fellowship for individuals seeking to open new schools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sSchools through the Innovation School Fellowship, a fellowship for individuals seeking to open new schools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sSchools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their schoolsschools.

We also generally believe in voucher programs that would help children in poorer communities have the same opportunities to go to the same schools as their wealthier counterparts, almost always with a lower price - tag than simply sending them to failing public schools.

«We think we need to help work with the schools the reason those schools are performing at the level we would prefer, rather than say, «Oh, well all public schools are failing, let's throw the baby away with the bathwater and create unlimited charter schools,»» Schnellenberger says.

But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia learn to read.

They know that those schools take the same kids from the same neighborhoods and help them succeed where the public schools fail.

These efforts will help close our state's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap and act as a lifeline for the 65,000 kids still stuck in failing public schools.