Sentences with phrase «largely independent public schools»

President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have been championing charter schools for months, creating what some advocates believe is the most forceful national momentum to expand the largely independent public schools since the first charter opened nearly 20 years ago.

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With $ 650,000 in hand, NRC staff formed the 14 - member, largely academic Committee on the Independent Evaluation of DC Public Schools, consisting of a variety of professors and researchers.

Charter schools, which are public schools allowed to operate largely independent of many traditional school district rules, are a major focus of the Obama administration's education plans.

Charter schools are independent public schools that receive state funding but are largely exempt from state education rules.

It also raises big questions about the city's experiment with independent charter schools, which have largely taken over public education in Orleans Parish since Hurricane Katrina.