Sentences with phrase «like existing public schools»

Require that public charter schools receive funding based on student enrollment just like existing public schools;

Not exact matches

If the Success Academies and schools like it didn't exist, many of those hard - working, high - achieving students would be in chaotic, low - performing public schools.

Some, like the teachers unions, contend that choice programs exist in isolation from mainstream public school reforms and point to limited participation rates.

The WEA is attempting to define «public schools» as those that exist now, or those that are opened in the future that operate precisely like the current ones.

If all traditional public schools were up to standards like the ones I had the pleasure of going to maybe there would have been no need for charters to exist.

Driven by a desire to accelerate the privatization of public schools while the economic window of chaos still exists, the Broads, depends on legislation like the Parent Trigger, Broad, has resorted again to a WWII - style propaganda film: Won't Back Down is scheduled for release in Sept. 2012.

School board joint ventures and public - private partnerships, like the Toronto Learning Partnership, mimmick the CEA and simply pour more money into existing publicly - funded programs.

It was toward that end that he brought more than 100 charter schools to New York — with at least 100 more still on the way — deliberately concentrating them in high - poverty areas like Harlem and the South Bronx to create competition for existing public schools.

Unlike many public schools, most charters don't have the resources of a central district office — like recruitment teams or existing pools of resumes — to find new leaders quickly.

But instead of simply trimming existing teacher pensions, alternative benefit designs like 401 (k)- style defined contributions plans or cash balance plans would enable all public school teachers to accumulate savings toward a secure retirement, including those with shorter careers.

«Unfortunately, like the existing education funding policy, there are elements of the Local Control Funding Formula that perpetuate school funding inequities, and we will continue our work to achieve funding equity for all public school students.

More importantly, the voucher was baked into the existing budget for public education, allowing parents to take money the state would otherwise spend on schools and use it on things like private - school tuition, tutoring, and even homeschooling.

In exchange for increased accountability to the state, public charter schools are granted increased flexibility in curriculum and program offerings — paving the way for something like a YAP program to exist and serve some of our state's most marginalized communities.

Finch's talk at the New School will focus on the artist's various public and large - scale installations like A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a site - specific installation at the Morgan Library inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), a commission for the National September 11 Memorialand Museum composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny; and The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation on New York's High Line featuring an existing series of windows which Finch transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.

In neighborhoods with minimal resources, antigang outreach groups and families are trying to capitalize on the social connections that exist in what few public places there are — like schools, rec centers and parks — to avoid and replace gangs.

Sadly, although laws like the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, or AHERA, exist to regulate asbestos in public spaces like schools, agencies like the EPA are hamstrung to enforce laws due to budgeting and loopholes, allowing state agencies to apply for waivers when it comes to asbestos abatement.

100 Micron clear safety film is ideal to upgrade existing glass which doesn't meet safety requirements in public buildings like schools and hospitals for instance.