Sentences with phrase «in failing public schools»

Also, voucher recipients aren't always trapped in failing public schools; in fact, some have never even tried the public system.

Another remedy may be expanding charter schools so that parents of children in failing public schools who can't afford private school have other options for their children.

So I guess his answer is to ignore successful private institutions and force kids to stay in failing public schools... because, well, they're public.

Put another way: Are we really expected to believe that everything other than poverty is what's causing problems in failing public schools?

This is particularly true for parents who are disadvantaged or trapped in failing public schools, for they have the most to gain from new opportunities.

In the case of children in failing public schools, this argument gains moral urgency.

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.

We do not need to «help these schools» (which are failing to educate our children); we do need to help our children who are stuck in failing public schools with no choices but to suffer or quit.

In Buffalo something tragic has been happening for years in our failing public schools and like stopping a stabbing or saving a drowning swimmer, hate him as you will, but Paladino joined the school board to take action in what he saw as a tragedy.

The Republican presidential nominee and founder of Trump University accused Democrats of trapping black and Hispanic youth in failing public schools and offered the postern door of school choice through a proposed block grant, voucher - like program in which per pupil expenditures would follow students to the school of their parents» liking.

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.

«This a complete slap in the face of every child and parent involved in a failing public school in urban areas,» Williams argues.

Ever since the Obama administration filed suit to freeze Louisiana's school voucher program, high - ranking Republicans have pummeled the president for trapping poor kids in failing public schools.

NASHVILLE — After clearing two legislative panels last week, a bill that would let low - income parents with children in failing public schools use taxpayer dollars to attend private institutions faces its next test this week.

Establish in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

Cutting funding for these reforms before the ink is dry on last year's law would be a huge blow to the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools, for whom the reform law was a lifeline.

In 2006, the court had struck down the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program for students trapped in failing public schools (see «Florida Grows a Lemon,» legal beat, Summer 2006).

Eligible students now include children with special needs, children in failing public schools, children currently in or adopted from foster care, children of military personnel and children living on Tribal lands.

Cuomo's announced program fails to offer a choice to children trapped in failing public schools.

In 2013, Alabama adopted the Alabama Accountability Act, an education reform measure that includes two new school choice programs that extend a lifeline to Alabama students trapped in failing public schools.

Mississippi Congressmen Gregg Harper, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo all supported this legislation while Rep. Bennie Thompson voted against it.Under this program, low - income students in Washington D.C., usually stuck in failing public schools, can receive scholarships to attend the private school of their choice.

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.

Instead of complaining about stranded costs, districts should be worried about the students who choose charters to avoid being «stranded» in failing public schools.

And it's the teachers unions in every state leading the charge to keep the poor trapped in their failing public schools, doing whatever it takes to keep them from getting a voucher to attend a better private school.

Created in 2008 and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

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.