Sentences with phrase «like traditional district public schools»

Charters receive per pupil funding from the state like traditional district public schools but differ in not being able to receive funding for facilities and can not sell bonds and pass overrides.

Not exact matches

High - quality charter schools like these are the norm, giving families access to local, public, and effective educational options in communities where traditional district schools aren't meeting the needs of students.

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.

The truth is that all charters schools are public schools just like traditional district schools.

Like traditional school districts, we receive public funding and are accountable for strong academic results and sound financial practices.

When families, when these military families were asked where they would like to send their children to school, 68 % of the respondents said something other than a district public school, a traditional public school.

Right now, local school districts get money for their traditional public schools from a variety of funding sources — many of which require the schools receiving the funds to provide certain programs (things like Head Start, More at Four, and Junior ROTC).

The gap between traditional K - 12 public school special education enrollment and charter special education enrollment in LEA and LEA - like charter schools is only 1.5 % (LEA charter schools enroll 8.7 % of students with disabilities compared to 10.3 % statewide; LEA - like charter schools serve 10.2 % compared to 11.7 % in Los Angeles Unified School Distschool special education enrollment and charter special education enrollment in LEA and LEA - like charter schools is only 1.5 % (LEA charter schools enroll 8.7 % of students with disabilities compared to 10.3 % statewide; LEA - like charter schools serve 10.2 % compared to 11.7 % in Los Angeles Unified School DistSchool District).

Charter - school growth has also weakened the finances and enrollment of traditional public - school districts like Detroit's, at a time when many communities are still recovering from the economic downturn that hit Michigan's auto industry particularly hard.

«Charter schools are public schools that are tuition free, just like traditional district schools.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

TCGDC looks like no other school in the District, charter or traditional public.

take funds out of district budgets» but in N.J. school aid passes from traditional schools to charters, just like special education out - of - district placements, which is a dumb and divisive way of funding alternative public schools.

Oliver doesn't want to «take funds out of district budgets» but in N.J. school aid passes from traditional schools to charters, just like special education out - of - district placements, which is a dumb and divisive way of funding alternative public schools.

«That's scary to me,» said Charlotte parent LauraLee McIntosh when she learned of Ridnouer's involvement in the state's Innovative School District, a controversial program that would allow outside groups — including private nonprofits like AAC and, possibly, for - profit companies — to take over struggling traditional public schools.