Sentences with phrase «leave a public school system»

However, states like Pennsylvania have stringent laws where approval must be given at the state level before your child can leave the public school system.

Leena Hasbini, a college counselor at a private high school in West Palm Beach, Fla., describes how students react to excessive testing — and why she left the public school system.

Welner takes issue with one of these, arguing that Florida's OPPAGA study is based on questionable assumptions regarding the number of students who were induced to leave the public school system because of the STC program.

Yes, even if students leave a public school system, fixed costs mean vouchers increase, not decrease expenses.

Lawmakers enacted the Opportunity Scholarship program back in 2013, which kicked off last fall offering $ 4,200 vouchers to students who want to leave the public school system and attend private schools — religious or not.

Without tinkering with the big federal education law, Trump and the Republican - controlled Congress could conceivably lean into the tax - credit idea, using the federal tax code to make it easier for students to leave the public school system.

Roughly the same dollar amount was reduced in the public schools» budget to anticipate the number of students that would be leaving the public school system to attend private schools with taxpayer - funded vouchers.

If half the kids leave a public school system and half the money leaves too (actually, voucher money never equals the actual cost per student), there is still the same amount of money per student left in the public schools.

Some families moved out of Chicago or left the public school system.

In anticipation of the number of students who will leave the public school system to take advantage of the school vouchers, the per pupil allotment of funds based on the Average Daily Membership (ADM) will be decreased by $ 11,797,941 in 2014 - 15.

Not exact matches

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

However, since we are now in the public school system we have another month of summer left to prepare.

It's time to cut our losses in order to salvage what's left of the public school system.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

would just love to divide and conquer the public school system, and us, as they try to destroy unions, pensions, and anything that smacks of the word «government» or «public» — leaving them in charge, God help us, as they bring in their charter school Trojan Horses, as they remove public ownership and public oversight of eduction in this city, and in this country.

The comptroller's action leaves the separate New York State Teachers» Retirement System — which covers public - school educators outside New York City — in a shrinking minority of funds still optimistically assuming they'll earn 8 percent.

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

Then, he took those lightweight twinkletoes and gave poor and working class New Yorkers the chance to send their children to mostly superior charter schools intsead of leaving them in the cesspools of the public system (and, in the process, forced the public system to get much better because of the competition.)

«Because of the dysfunctionality of the school system, it caused a wave of people over the years leaving the city because they weren't going to send their children to a dysfunctional public school.

The hard - left party has been bashing Mr. Cuomo since state lawmakers finalized a budget last weekend, labeling it «Cuomo's Inequality Budget» because it slashed some taxes, protected charter schools and did not create an expansive public financing system for statewide elections.

In a case of a little mistake turning into a major kerfuffle, the Chicago Public Schools system was left apologizing to families for sending an...

The state of Massachusetts introduced a system of standardized testing in its public schools three years before the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandated such practices for all 50 states.

Since leaving public service, Dr. Hovanetz has worked with a number of states on their accountability systems, and has established herself as one of the nation's leading experts on school rating systems.

Disadvantaged students shouldn't have to be recruited into a program like Prep for Prep and leave the public - school system to get a good college education.

Here's the core proposition: If all U.S. public schools embraced the same rigorous standards (for their curricular core), were assessed on the same tests, and had their results made public via a transparent system, then everybody would know how their own schools are doing and could decide for themselves whether to (a) leave things be, (b) demand a makeover, or (c) move their kids to other schools.

Moreover, in the public system, the ability of parents and students to ensure that they receive a high - quality education is constrained by the enormous obstacles to leaving a bad school.

While public schools in New Orleans educate mainly children from poor families, «several new schools are attracting families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago,» writes Danielle Dreilinger on nola.com.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

When Hurricane Maria struck the island Sept. 20, the nearly 1,200 schools in Puerto Rico went dark, leaving about 350,000 students in the public K - 12 system out of school.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

But for at least a subset of charter schools, researchers can come fairly close to running a clinical trial where some applicants are enrolled at charters and others are left in the public system purely by chance.

Other reformers (more often found on the left and in the center) have focused on the need to improve the existing public - school system through testing.

We're often accused of being hostile to the regular public - school system, but our real gripe is with its near - monopoly — which leaves it free to keep on serving the interests of its «stakeholders» rather than the students.

The left, meanwhile, will need to see that the dream of a single best public - school system, with the teaching profession largely held apart from the usual standards and practices of professional life, simply will not work in 21st - century America.

With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replacing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, states have gained substantial new freedom to reshape their school accountability systems, including criteria for how to measure and communicate school performance to the public.

While many in state capitols and Washington, D.C. are placing bets against state and national accountability systems that range from No Child Left Behind to Common Core State Standards, the public remains faithful to its long - standing commitment to hold schools, students and teachers accountable.

In 2010 or so (I may have the year slightly wrong), John left Edison for a job in international consulting, which put him — astoundingly — in the Middle East much of the time advising leaders there about how to organize their public school systems.

With each student in grades 3 through 8 now being tested annually in at least two subjects, and schools» progress assessed largely on the basis of the results, there is no corner of the American public school system left untouched.

As more white students left the public system, white taxpayers became reluctant to raise property taxes to fund their public schools.

The Department of Public Instruction developed the system — which identifies schools as «focus» and «priority» — to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which for the past decade has resulted in sanctions for certain schools.

Some see the school choice movement as a slowly rising tide that will eventually wash over all public education systems, leaving a path of wreckage in its wake.

Then, he got to the heart of it: «School choice allows children and money to leave the systems and that means there will be fewer public teacher jobs, lower union membership, and lower dues.»

There is the risk that some charters will fail, that a shift in funding will hinder the traditional public school system, and that the efforts of long - established labor unions will be left at the door.

Reign of Error begins where The Death and Life of the Great American School System left off, providing a deeper argument against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter - by - chapter breakdown, putting forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve it.

While public charter schools with strong accountability systems can provide excellent opportunities for children, this voucher plan could leave many students vulnerable to discriminatory practices, remove critical civil rights protections, and drain funding from public schools.

After an electrifying keynote by parent leader Rosazlia Grillier that left attendees standing in ovation, Jesse Sharkey of the Chicago Teachers Union facilitated a panel discussion during the Chicago Story plenary on current challenges facing the public school system and the difficulty for community voices to be heard.

A university professor and high school English teacher, Camangian was inspired to work in educational equity after feeling left out as a student of color in the public school system.

Today NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has an editorial in the Daily News in which she defends «public education» — and, more specifically, the City's traditional school system — from alleged accusations that «they are violent, dysfunctional and that their students leave school without any knowledge.»

Carranza announced earlier this month is leaving the district to become chancellor of New York City Schools, the largest public school system in the United States.