Not exact matches
On the
other hand, options
for disabled students to
leave and take resources with them might motivate
public schools to attend to the needs of their students more closely and serve them better.
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.
Washington plays a role here, too, since the focus of the No Child
Left Behind Act on low achievers and troubled
schools, coupled with state and federal funding streams
for special education, means that
schools serving high achievers don't receive money that
other public schools often do.
Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular
public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to
leave, substitutes capital
for labor, and in
other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.
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.
For example, Victorian
public schools have power over most of their own budget — including staff hiring - while
other states, such as New South Wales, make large budget and staffing decisions centrally,
leaving schools with minimal autonomy.
Some of this revenue comes from fee -
for - service after -
school programs.34 * Meanwhile, in the district's highest - poverty
schools — mostly located in Southeast Washington —
schools had to pay
for some of these same programs with
public dollars,
leaving less funding
for other resources, staffing, or education or enrichment activities.
Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among
others, numerous practical tools to redesign
schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal
for Every
School: Transforming
Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X
for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring
schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
schools from the brink of doom to stellar success»
for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing
Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Work
Schools; Importing Leaders
for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best; the
Public Impact series Competencies
for Turnaround Success;
School Restructuring Under No Child
Left Behind: What Works When?
Just two weeks into the
school year, Kinston Charter Academy's 230 students were
left to scramble
for a new
school — at either one of the local
public schools or at the
other local
public charter
school, which is also having financial problems.
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.
By fully funding QBE and many
other previous strong moves supporting charter
schools and
other public schools, Governor Deal is
leaving Georgia with the legacy as the «Education Governor» among many
other richly deserved accolades
for our state.
Politicians and pundits, some misguided,
others malicious, have called
for reforming
public schools, but
leave educators out of the reform plans.
Eighty - five percent of Colorado teachers and
other school employees will
leave public employment with insufficient retirement savings and no Social Security benefit
for that work.
There were objections to money
leaving public schools when students
left for other options, fears that the established, successful curriculum would disintegrate, and concerns that students would not receive certain specialized services.
I mean, why else would a former METCO kid, whose parents decided to CHOOSE a different educational path
for him because the Boston
Public Schools were an UNDERPERFORMING HOT MESS and enter him into a LOTTERY to get the chance to
leave the district and eventually graduate from Brookline High
School suddenly hate the idea of giving
other families the chance to opt - out.
They are calling
for fair funding and an end to the inequality that
leaves Rochester charter
school children with only 68 cents on the dollar compared to
other public school children in the city.