Sentences with phrase «kids attend public charter schools»

I am a parent of three — two kids attend public charter schools, and one attends a traditional public school.

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By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands more kids in the Bronx the chance to participate in a program or attend a school that could change their lives.

William is worth just as much as Deputy Mayor Buery's son, and so are all of the kids who are still waiting to attend public charter schools.

We have all endured a million speeches along the lines of «charter schools [or vouchers] are well and good for the kids who attend them but they» re no solution to the problems of public school systems that will forever be attended by the overwhelming majority of kids.»

For kids with disabilities, 16 percent of those attending charter schools were proficient in reading, compared with 10 percent of public - school students.

For example, I read about a district in San Diego that was losing $ 65.9 M per year to charter schools because the kids are signing up and attending local charter public schools.

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

Are there differences between the kids who go to charters, and those who attend public schools in New York?

Our state is a leader in funding private school vouchers and charter schools with taxpayer money to the detriment of the more than 90 percent of Hoosier kids attending public schools.»

In 2015 he wrote, «financially unable to move to a town like Maplewood or attend a private school, getting into a Newark public charter school was the only option to ensure that my kids received the education they deserve.»)

Yes on 2, despite outspending the «no» camp 2 - 1 couldn't find a message that worked, and was never able to counter the single argument that most resonated with voters against charter schools: they take money away from public schools and the kids who attend them.

Furthermore, it makes no sense to defund public schools, which 85 - 90 % of kids attend, for the benefit of the 5 percent that attend charters, when only a handful perform better than public schools, while most do the same — or worse.

At least the usual opponents of charters tacitly acknowledge that charters are helping the kids that attend them, just not ALL public school children.