Sentences with phrase «leaving public schools worse»

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.

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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.

All of my public school teachers — the good, the bad, and the easily forgettable — were fully credentialed and would have been deemed highly qualified under federal law had they lasted in the profession until the onset of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

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.

And they're schools that are open to students, which students can choose, but very often they're worse than the public school that they're leaving.

We have spent so much time talking about what's wrong with our schools, and fighting for alternatives to it, that we have understandably left too many parents with the impression that we have given up on public education — or even worse, their kids.

The worst fear of those of us who opposed the measure — that Question 2 would dismantle public education, district by district, and leave charter schools free from accountability to the communities in which they reside — will not come to pass.

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

It found that students who used vouchers did not see academic gains in their new schools and that they performed worse, on average, than their matched peers in the public schools that they left.

Most recipients are not leaving the state's worst schools: Just 3 percent of new recipients of vouchers in 2015 qualified for them because they lived in the boundaries of F - rated public schools.

To make matters worse, many charters cherry - pick their students, leaving cash - strapped public schools with higher populations of students with special or high needs, further tipping the scales.