Others are concerned that only the relatively more economically and academically advantaged students enroll in charters,
leaving public schools with more concentrated poverty and students who tend to have more learning difficulties.
«If you take out the kids who have (parental) backing, that
leaves public schools with a big hole.»
In a 2008 study, we examined whether the academic achievement of special education students was affected by the number of options they had to
leave their public school with a voucher.
A third possibility is that, so long as only a few students
leave a public school with scholarships, the program could have effects on resources.
The gains occur immediately, before any students
leave the public schools with a scholarship, implying that competitive threats are responsible for at least some of the estimated effects.
Students who
leave the public schools with a voucher are considered to be parentally placed in the private school, and thus forfeit many of the protections provided to students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), including a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).
Students who
leave the public schools with a voucher forfeit many of the protections provided to students under IDEA because they are considered parentally placed in private schools.
«The charter school comes in takes the best and brightest and
leaves your public schools with those hard to teach students.
Contrary to the claims of the powerful charter school lobby, the charter initiative has
left public schools with a higher and higher percentage of challenging students and fewer resources to offer them.
Students who
leave the public schools with a voucher are considered to be parentally placed in the private school, and thus forfeit many of the protections provided to students under IDEA.
Not exact matches
«It makes sense to spin off the mobile - phone business using a
public offering that would
leave SoftBank in control and provide SoftBank
with more cash to pursue its strategy of investing in companies
with potentially high growth prospects,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross
School of Business.
With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll in their programs, there isn't much room
left for nonprofit
schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the
public about their offerings.
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.»
I once spoke
with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she
left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my
public high
school, so what was the point?»
(I'd
left a
public high
school with a total population of 1,000 and would later step into an enormous human ant bed crawling
with 4,600 students.)
They tend to withdraw into gated communities,
with private security guards and «enclaves of good
schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most
public undertakings —
leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»
With one in three children now
leaving primary
school classed as obese (
Public Health England), it's no surprise that the UK government is taking action.
-LSB-...] No Child
Left Behind,
public school lunch periods are shorter than ever,
with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire -LSB-...]
Though they differ a bit in the years during which they require a child to be
schooled — children may be required to start
school at age 5 — 8 and not allowed to
leave until age 16 — 18 — they all require
public schooling or acceptable substitutes (for example, private
school, homeschooling),
with criteria set by the state for how this works.
Her
public school internship had
left her
with the question of whether there was a form of education which would better meet the needs of children.
To qualify for
leave under the FMLA, an employee must have worked for over 12 months for the state or federal government, a
public school or private employer
with more than 50 employees.
I also considered the fact that higher - risk foods like carrot sticks, hot dogs and grapes are commonly found in kids» lunches, and that, thanks to No Child
Left Behind,
public school lunch periods are shorter than ever,
with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire meal.
Volunteer Margarita Roman,
left, dispenses oranges to a parent at Calmeca Academy during the Brighton Park
school's weekly «Healthy Kids Market,» a food pantry run by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in conjunction
with Chicago
Public Schools.
Four years later, Tough — now the proud parent of a
public school first - grader — is back
with a new book that picks up where its predecessor
left off.
You take Dem votes, fool them
with a light skim of progressivism, then let»em be screwed in their apartments and in their
public schools, which matter more to them than a paid family
leave program they're actually paying for.
When a student
leaves a
public school and enrolls at a for profit
school all the money goes
with that student.
«One year ago,
with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were
left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in
public schools,» he said.
The No Child
Left Behind Act previously required all
public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing
with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»
But it's precisely because we on the centre
left believe that active government along
with good
schools, hospitals and other
public services can transform lives, and make our country fairer and more prosperous, that we must ensure we pass the test of fiscal credibility.
Teacher and petitioner Emily James, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk
with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the efforts to get the city to provide paid family
leave for city
public school teachers.
Teacher and petitioner Emily James, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk
with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the problems
public school teachers face because they do not receive paid family
leave.
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew sits down
with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about the city's
public school teachers not having paid family
leave.
In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007
left New York City
public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession
with test prep rather than real education.
The new version would
leave the state
with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter
school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular
public school teachers.
The sophomore lawmaker also broke
with the president on arming teachers — «I don't support the mandatory arming of teachers,» she said — but
left the door open to supporting armed resource officers at North Country
public schools.
The days filled up
with school visits, speeches, reports, and meetings
with parents, farmers, and workers — an exhausting commitment to
public service that
left little time for his parents,
with whom he shared a house.
«This is important to the
public because impulsive behavior in adolescents is associated
with many mental health problems and, when
left unchecked, can result in violent acts, such as those resulting in tragedies recently observed on
school campuses.
'' You could literally walk into entire villages that would be permeated
with the smell of death just because of the extent of the destruction,» says David Bradt (pictured
left), a disaster epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of
Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, recalling his visit to Gujarat, India, where in 2001 an earthquake killed thousands.
March 29, 2012 • Workers walked off the job in Spain on Thursday, halting
public transport, closing
schools and
leaving hospitals
with emergency staff only.
The more the
public learns about the No Child
Left Behind Act, the less it agrees
with the annual testing requirements and other strategies used to implement it, an annual opinion survey on
public schools suggests.
The court voted 5 - 2 to end the Opportunity Scholarships program, which provides students who decide to
leave some of the state's lowest - rated
public schools with about $ 4,350 in tuition aid they can use in private or religious
schools.
These self - marginalizing alliances
leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood
public schools (and who've had it
with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform
with either indifference or as a threat.
CORE and its member districts have partnered
with TransformEd to assist member districts to fulfill
public reporting obligations under its federally - approved waiver from No Child
Left Behind
school accountability provisions (NCLB waiver), approved by the US Department of Education (USDOE) on August 6th, 2013.
Recipients are selected by lottery,
with priority given to students applying to the program from
public schools deemed in need of improvement (SINI) under No Child
Left Behind.
«In the K - 12
public arena,
school districts are expected to respond to mandates flowing from the No Child
Left Behind legislation at the federal level, along
with various state and local assessments,» he says.
Public school districts are thus
left better off both academically and
with respect to per - pupil funding.
For years, reformers of
left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing
public schools is to provide parents
with the opportunity to switch to private
schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better
public schools (through
public school choice).
The best I could come up
with at the end of last semester for my students, whom I absolutely adored, was that I felt like a bit less of a sellout for having
left teaching in the Boston
Public Schools in favor of the indulgences of Appian Way.
At the core lay a financial arrangement,
with D.C.
Public Schools paying the New Leaders» salaries during training and NLNS covering the program costs,
leaving Davis to raise a $ 1.5 million annual operating budget.
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.