Sentences with phrase «lawmakers public charter school students»

Now is the time to get engaged — now is the time to tell lawmakers public charter school students are not worth less!

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So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the monopoly school districts held over the provision of public education.

And second, though charters» current locations are partly based on student need, they also reflect political compromises: In many states, suburban Republican lawmakers have been happy to support charters so long as they don't threaten the traditional public schools in their own leafy districts.

Education policy changes made this decade by state lawmakers have helped create a trend in which enrollment in traditional public schools has declined while more students are enrolling in charter schools, private schools and homeschools.

Federal appropriations for programs that charters may not provide and gifts and grants specifically targeted toward traditional public schools that support innovative methods to boost student achievement could all be up for grabs by charter schools, if House lawmakers concur with the Senate's changes to H539.

In addition to seeking a change in the way the state uses data to measure student, teacher, and school performance, Mr. Schwarzenegger asked lawmakers to repeal California's charter school cap, expand public school choice, step up turnaround efforts for struggling schools, and enact alternative - pay plans for educators.

As public schools that are consistently getting results from our students, charters are the last educational program lawmakers should consider cutting.

The jesting began after a number of students from the Western North Carolina county emailed lawmakers about legislation affecting the state's charter schools and the funding they get from traditional public schools.

Since 2012, she has guided the legislative and regulatory efforts of a coalition of public schools, representing over half of public charter school students before Texas lawmakers.

The decision leaves school funding at the discretion of state lawmakers and does nothing to alleviate the disparity in funding for public charter school students.

Indiana lawmakers who supported last session's education overhaul have billed charter schools as a better alternative than the state's public schools for teaching low - income students.

Dusseault also thanked the Mary Walker School District for their partnership that helped ensure students in public charter schools could remain in their current learning environment while lawmakers worked to find a fix to keep public charter schools open.

CHARTER ASSOCIATION THANKS STATE LAWMAKERS FOR SEEING THROUGH THE NOISE OF CHARTER HATERS Lawmakers delivered a state budget supportive of all public schoolLAWMAKERS FOR SEEING THROUGH THE NOISE OF CHARTER HATERS Lawmakers delivered a state budget supportive of all public schoolLawmakers delivered a state budget supportive of all public school students