More than 10 million children, about 17 percent of all school - age kids, have
left traditional public schools for private schools, charter schools or homeschooling.
They were able to compare charter students who had
left traditional public schools with «virtual twins» who had stayed.
While many of the students transferred into Little Rock charter schools that were racially segregated, these students generally
left traditional public schools that were even more heavily segregated.
As in most states, students in North Carolina can
leave a traditional public school and enroll in a charter, at will and for no monetary cost.
Another popular argument among critics of school choice is that there aren't enough spaces in schools of choice to absorb all the students interested in
leaving traditional public schools (notice how the critiques of school choice tend to cancel one another out).
Critics worried that charters would target more advantaged suburban populations, skimming off the students most likely to succeed and
leaving traditional public schools in low - income and minority neighborhoods even more isolated, underfunded, and burdened with the toughest student cases.
If a student
leaves a traditional public school and enrolls in a charter school, state and federal tax dollars would follow that student to the new school, with some exceptions.
When a student
leaves the traditional public school system for a charter school, the school district loses the average funding for a student.
Not exact matches
A ferocious critic of accommodationist Christianity, Bonhoeffer, within a short time of
leaving Berlin, had shed forever the martial nationalism that was Harnack's
public posture, as well as the softer type of political acquiescence that went with
traditional Lutheran «two kingdoms» theology.
Moving a small percentage of
traditional public school students into charter schools
leaves the majority of students in «broken» schools.
With so many races going on, the biggest problem facing candidates for the state house generally is getting noticed at all — national media certainly aren't covering them, and the slow decline of local news outlets doesn't
leave much room in
traditional public spaces.
A campaign arm of the rebranded,
left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect
traditional, union - controlled
public schools.
The deals show how little juice is
left for
public sector unions trying to deliver using
traditional tools at the bargaining table or in the political arena.
From the
traditional left of the party we saw John Gummer and Stephen Dorrell run the quality of life and
public services policy groups.
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.
Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of
public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child
Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.
Thus, even our analysis likely underestimates the true levels of racial segregation in the specific
traditional public schools that charter students are
leaving.
It is possible that parents whose children are at risk of dropping out are more likely to choose charter high schools in a belief that the
traditional public school environment would make it more likely that their child
leaves school early.
She worries that such schools are «draining funds from the
traditional public schools,» even though there is not a single state that takes money away from
public schools unless a child
leaves them for a school the parent prefers.
Funding for charter schools comes primarily from the states, so as charters expand, less money is
left for
traditional public schools.
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traditional public schools
Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the
traditional public school that he or she had
left.
What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child
Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American
public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the
traditional teacher.
In each case, a reasonable conclusion is that the average charter student
left a heavily black
traditional public school for a heavily black charter school.
However, a new CREDO study did indeed show that charters outperform
traditional public schools,
leaving the deniers with absolutely no credible defense.
It would be as if those who always thought the district was too large to be manageable suddenly got their wish,
leaving half the students in
traditional public schools and the other half to wherever their parents could find new slots to enroll them.
In some districts, this exclusivity, combined with aggressive expansion, is
leaving vulnerable children in
traditional public schools with inadequate resources.»
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.
You can not proclaim you want to help all kids succeed, and yet essentially argue that those long - mistreated by
traditional public education should be
left behind.
Before GaTAPP, charter school teachers actually had to
leave their jobs in order fulfill their student teaching requirement in a
traditional Georgia
public school.
Opening more competent charter schools would help students, especially those
left behind in
traditional public schools.
The effect of charter schools on
traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind
left behind?
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.»
The one major exception is special education students, who
leave charter schools at a much higher rate than either general education students in charter schools or special education students in
traditional public schools.
As charter schools have proliferated New Orleans and the country, many schools, including Success Prep, have largely relied on young, inexperienced teachers who tend to
leave the classroom sooner than their peers at
traditional public schools — an approach to hiring sometimes described as «churn and burn.»
The Rhode Island League of Charter Schools celebrates the successes and valuable learning opportunities charter
public schools provide for many students, but recognizes the decision of whether a
traditional or charter
public school is best for a child is a choice
left up to each family.
The Shanker myth also
leaves those who support
traditional public schooling, in its original form, stranded in a political no man's land.
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.
A committed educator who can not adhere to the strict schedule of
traditional public school should not have to
leave the profession.
But at the same time, a second study from the university released in tandem with the first shows that charter school students tend to be loyal to their schools: They were up to 80 percent less likely to
leave their charter schools than their peers at
traditional public schools.
According to a study on teacher turnover conducted on charter and
public school teachers in Los Angeles, it was determined that charter school teachers
leave at a 33 % higher rate than teachers at a
traditional public schools.
Charter school teachers in the 678,000 - student Los Angeles school district are up to three times more likely to
leave their school at year's end compared to their peers in
traditional public schools, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley.
Many high performing charter schools accept a large number of students in the early grades, but as students
leave a charter school for one reason or another, charter schools are allowed to
leave those seats open; clearly this can produce exceptionally low teacher - student ratios creating an uneven playing field for those in
traditional public schools that are held to a higher standard.
Close to a third of students in special education
leave their school by the fourth year of attendance, whether they are enrolled in charters or
traditional public schools.
[3] Deven Carlson, Joshua M. Cowen and David J. Fleming, «Life After Vouchers: What Happens to Students Who
Leave Private Schools for the
Traditional Public Sector?»
Nerad announced a year ago the creation of a committee to explore alternatives to
traditional public schools, partly as a way to keep middle class families from
leaving the district.
Traditional means for generating buzz about their books work great for extroverts or authors without children at home, but what about authors who are too shy to stand up in
public to discuss the topics of their books or don't want to
leave their children at home while they travel the globe promoting their books?
I would like to
leave Charter schools and move to
traditional public schools and want to know if that is an option.
The ride across to the island takes less than an hour by by
public ferry from the port of Padangbai, while
traditional boats regularly
leave; weather permitting, from Sanur beach for a much slower journey.
When the most conventional of the Turner Prize shortlisted artists is an installation artist whose work is created in situ by other artists, designers and members of the
public, you realise that contemporary art, or certainly the kind represented by this once controversial prize, is
leaving traditional media far behind.