Sentences with phrase «leave failing public schools»

Never mind that the body of empirical evidence suggests that choice helps not only the children who leave failing public schools but also those left behind.

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«If you happen to be born in the wrong zip code and go to a failing public school, you can get left behind and never catch up.

The No Child Left Behind Act requires that students in schools that fail to make «adequate yearly progress» for two years in a row be given the opportunity to transfer to another public school.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

«The public perception,» says Stanford professor Tom Dee who has researched the law, «seems to be that No Child Left Behind has failed, but the available research evidence suggests it led to meaningful — but not transformational — changes in school performance.»

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

Opponents worry that vouchers will actually leave public schools worse off by draining them of funds and encouraging the best students and the most involved parents to flee a failing school.

More than half of the Washoe County public schools had been labeled «in need of improvement» for failing to get enough students to proficiency on the state standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Law.

In my experience Rhee changed the conversation about education reform from one of a very big and gloomy confusion created by the No Child Left Behind Act that all public schools are failing to one about her.

Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

Those on the left, such as notable historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, oppose Common Core for its corporate backing and believes that the guidelines essentially set up students to fail, providing another reason for parents to abandon public schools for private alternatives

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.

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«While the intentions may have been good, a decade of top - down, test - based schooling created by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top — focused on hyper - testing students, sanctioning teachers and closing schools — has failed to improve the quality of American public education,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

They are the re-democratization of the public school, returning education to its roots in the family and the community, where schools that abuse their charter or fail to perform can be shut down or will simply wither away as parents leave them for other options.

School choice proponents say that charter schools and vouchers offer parents important options for their children's education — allowing them to leave their neighborhood schools in search of something better — and that traditional public schools have failed in many places.

In other words, as the corporate education reformers who have unsuccessfully attempted to do with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RTTT) by falsely highlighting so - called «failing» public schools, now want more of the same medicine with Common Core.

He shows his usual obeisance to the idea of making public education a market rather than a public trust, to blaming rather than respecting educators, and to ideas that have failed to help children everywhere they've been tried but instead, in their wake, have hurt kids by leaving public schools destabilized and their budgets drained.»

As Matt Yglesias very fairly pointed out, the author, Natalie Hopkinson, failed to cite student achievement data to back her claim that residential segregation and the expansion of the charter school sector have left many DC families with only «mediocre» public school options.

«It's past time to shut down the state's most consistently failing schools that leave so many students unprepared for the future,» said Ben DeGrow, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

When the data is analyzed, the Vallas Turnaround Model is not a tribute to improving public education, but a lesson in privatization by replacing failing public schools with failing charter schools and creating a two - tiered education system where certain students get access to higher performing institutions, while leaving all the other students behind.

While Connecticut's privately owned charter schools left the legislative session with a higher reimbursement rate for each student, more money for school equipment, and funds to expand the number of charter schools, Governor Malloy and the legislature failed to come up with the money need to maintain existing services at Connecticut's public magnet schools, let alone fill the extra magnet school classrooms that have been built and are ready to be used this coming September.

Let's have questions answered like whether the public schools students left were failing schools, whether the private schools students attended as a result of the scholarship were high performing schools, what percentage of each private school is attended by students receiving a scholarship, what is the true fiscal impact to the state of Indiana.

They did so because if the bill failed, it would go to a ballot measure — and, in a national atmosphere in which support for charters was rising among both Republicans and Democrats as well as championed by the Obama administration, the union leaders were convinced that such a ballot measure would pass and leave lasting damage on Massachusetts» public schools.

It's ironic that many Florida parents who use the Corporate Tax Credit Voucher, to leave their failing D or F schools, are not aware that private school they choose is not any better than the public school they are leaving.

The British Columbia Teachers» Federation and the Surrey Teachers» Association filed a grievance alleging the B.C. Public School Employers» Association and the Board of Education of School District No 36 (Surrey) had failed to provide supplemental employment benefits to birth mothers in relation to both maternity leave and parental leave.

Labour Law: Supplemental Employment Benefits Re Maternity / Parental Leave British Columbia Teachers» Federation v. British Columbia Public School Employers» Association, 2014 SCC 70 (35623) Nov. 14, 2014 Karakatsanis J. — «The Court of Appeal erred in failing to give deference to the Arbitrator's interpretation of the collective agreement and in failing to recognize the different purposes of pregnancy benefits and parental benefits.