Sentences with phrase «like most public school»

Indeed, like most public school students across America, pupils at Sylvanie Williams get tested often — although Hardy is trying to balance the «data - driven instruction» with a strong social justice curriculum.

And like most public schools in rural areas, these private schools would face significant challenges recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, providing differentiated and challenging content, providing support for students with special needs, and more.

Like most public schools, her school did not have adequate funding for technology, so she applied for and was awarded a technology grant valued at over $ 25,000 for her classroom.

Like most public schools, they are open to any child living within a certain district, including children with special needs.

I.S. 318, like most public schools, succeeds because the community invests in it, without expecting perfection.

Like most public schools, too, it is sadly focused on test results, with a selection seemingly designed by sales rankings.

Not exact matches

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Like most in that larger movement, Reconstructionists are fed up with what they perceive to be humanistic values eroding politics, public schools and the economy.

For the most part we homeschool our kids when we don't like the public school's teachings.»

Most see home education as another valid education choice like private or public school - they understand that like all choices home education not for everyone!

Lib Dems privately recognise the deeply illiberal record of the last three years of the coalition, but insist that they were wiser to spend political capital on measures with potentially big public support, like free school meals, rather than matters like legal aid or judicial review, which are completely alien to most people.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

«Most research has focused on single environmental factors like air pollution or toxins in water,» said Jyotsna Jagai, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and lead author of the study.

(Note that the names used in the profiles are fictitious, since Christian schools, like most public institutions, are sensitive about their public image.)

Like district schools, charter schools receive most of their funding from public sources and are subject to state regulation.

Also in these ranks: leaders like former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (Milton Academy and Harvard), former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (St. Albans and UPenn) and, of course, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, the lone public school graduate among these (Northern Valley Regional in affluent Bergen County and Stanford), who has also been the most vocal supporter of school choice.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

But most public parents have no incentive to be well informed about specific private schools (or even other public schools), so it is not surprising that they can't point to specific schools where they'd like to send their kids.

Like most school choice supporters, I support public schools whenever they work effectively.

«Many people go there to see what they'd like in their own green schoolyard,» she says about this «Mercedes model,» but the Tule Elk outdoor redo cost a half - million dollars more than it did a decade ago, far beyond the means of most public schools today.

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

Like many of the most encouraging public - school reforms, these efforts have been organic and highly decentralized.

This puts the lie to the oft - repeated claim of critics like National Education Association president Bob Chase that school choice is «siphoning money from the communities and public schools that need it the most.»

Consider that Nevada's system, like many similarly structured DB plans offered to most public school teachers throughout the country, is structured to:

And most importantly, the way charter schools are funded is unreliable and inequitable — like all other public schools, it's truly and fundamentally broken.

Seattle Education has timely blog posts about Seattle's public school system, and like most of the regional blogs, they provide excellent information for the country about education reform.

Like many charter operators, Green Dot has had financial help from outside foundations, help that isn't available to most public schools.

Before the storm hit in August 2005, New Orleans public schools were like most cities and followed the 100 - year - old «One Best System.»

If we wanted to push respondents toward Approach B, we could replace «invests» with «at the public expense» and employ additional shenanigans like the AFT poll did (e.g. - «choose the schools with the most enriching curriculum and most effective teachers»).

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 1.9 to $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating most teachers» aides positions in classrooms or cutting early education programs being considered.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

In fact, like most charter schools, even those in public - private partnerships, receive on average 30 % less per pupil than their traditional school peers whose management has no accountability or incentive to improve student outcomes.

Dr. Neill testified that exit exams fail to address the serious problems many Maryland public schools face, noting, «Maryland, like most states, has gaps in educational access, quality and outcomes.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Although I think the wording of the charter school question may have skewed the results a bit (after all, «Somewhat Opposed» and «Somewhat Support» are two ways of saying the same thing, like a glass half - empty or half - full), it's not surprising that a majority are skeptical of charters, since most of the survey participants work in traditional public schools.

«Parents are looking for a place where students feel welcome, they feel like a part of the family, they feel a part of a community, they are able to develop closer relationships with teachers, and they want them to know who they are,» says Evelyn Castro, Principal of Ednovate College Prep charter school when speaking about one of the most important things parents want in a school and how sometimes a smaller charter public school can provide that.

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.

Once you know the history of standardized tests in public schools, you can never fall for Coleman's absurd assertion that, «boycotting standardized tests may seem like a good idea, but hurts black learners most.»

Like most urban districts, teachers in the New Orleans Public Schools for decades worked under union - negotiated contracts.

Others inside the movement say charters «have hit a wall» — that too many are operating like traditional public schools, with unimpressive results because they've done little or nothing to innovate and adopt the most promising classroom practices.

By Fordham's own, constant admission, most states have cruddy standards, and one major reason for this is that special interests like teachers» unions — the groups most motivated to control public schooling politics because their members» livelihoods come from the public schools — get them neutered.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

First - hand accounts like that make me — as both an educator and a parent of three children of color in public schools — especially concerned about current efforts to eliminate one of the most useful tools we have for gauging student and school progress.

When Georgia leaders wrote a groundbreaking formula in 1985 to change the way the state subsidizes public schools, most students were writing term papers on typewriters and only dreamed of using a «videophone,» like the one in the futuristic cartoon show called «The Jetsons.»

They look to hire the most qualified staff but will sometimes hire someone uncertified in a pinch when they can't find a certified person who is willing to lose union protection or wants to be paid like traditional public school teachers....

Opponents, like those in Boston, say charter schools are threats to the very idea of public schooling — they weaken neighborhood schools by reducing enrollment, capturing their funding and prioritizing high - ability students instead of those most in need of educational improvements.

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.

Very much like Al Gore touting public education (being a product of the most exclusive private schools) Danny talks the talk when he trolls for votes but does not walk the walk.

Under defined benefit pension plans, like the ones serving most public - school teachers, teachers receive retirement benefits according to their own salary and their own years of experience.

Publicly funded, but in most cases privately operated, charter schools like Alliance are poised to become a much bigger part of the USA's K - 12 public education system.