Sentences with phrase «majority of public school parents»

The majority of public school parents oppose these strategies, and we know that none of them have worked to improve schools in Chicago or anywhere else in the nation,» said Julie Woestehoff of Chicago's PURE and a co-founder of PAA.

The majority of public school parents oppose these strategies, and we know that

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

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The majority of today's parents attended traditional public schools.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

Since the majority of schools have remained public, school choice — which allows parents to choose between schools in the state sector — appears to have contributed to the decline in achievement rather than privatisation.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

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.

Yet even with this ambitious effort — which far exceeds the outreach in the vast majority of cities — only about 140 parents sought transfers, says Lew Frederick, director of information at the Portland Public Schools.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

A similar pattern appears for the «parent trigger» proposal, which would allow a majority of parents whose children attend a low - performing traditional public school «to sign a petition requiring the district to convert the school into a charter.»

For public schools, following their lead would mean paying closer attention to that segment of the population who are not the parents of current students, the general tax - paying public, who provide the majority of support for the schools.

A clear majority (62 %) of parents said each public school teacher's impact on test scores should be publicly released, a policy opposed by a majority of teachers (54 %).

A new national survey finds that the majority of parents want public charter schools as an option for their child's education.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

The lineup sounds like the cast of a new «The Avengers» movie: a former CNN anchor, a former White House spokesman, and a legal team that won a landmark case in California installing a «parent trigger,» which allows public school parents to take over their schools by majority vote.

A majority of Americans support school choice, including the idea of providing tax - funded scholarships for poor parents to send their children to public, private, or parochial schools, according to a poll released last week.

Even if the majority of parents are reasonably happy with their public schools, a growing number are clearly interested in alternatives.

Parents had mixed feelings about OneApp, the unified enrollment system where families can sign up to attend a majority of the city's public schools and private schools that participate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The existing law - passed in 2011 - allows parents to convert a low - performing district public school to a charter if a majority of parents signs a petition, but local school boards have to sign off on the conversion.

Under I - 1240, conversion charters could happen in Washington, if a majority of teachers or parents at an existing public school sign a petition to initiate an application for charter status.

The law, formally called the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, enables a majority of parents at a low - performing school to force a major overhaul through a petition campaign, with reform options ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to converting the traditional public school into a charter.

The law enables parents to force a major overhaul of a low - performing public school if a majority of parents sign a petition.

In a recent 2013 Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup national poll on public education, the largest majority of parents ever recorded gave their community schools a grade of A or B.

Polling in Texas consistently shows that significant majorities of voters favor finance plans that include school choice alternatives that would allow parents to transfer their children out of under - performing schools to other public or private schools.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

On choice, a majority of Americans surveyed — 64 percent — say parents should be able to choose any public school in their community for their child to attend.

27a — 8 In the case of a proposal to establish a charter school by converting an existing public school or attendance center to charter school status, evidence that the proposed formation of the charter school has received majority support from certified teachers and from parents and guardians in the school or attendance center affected by the proposed charter, and, if applicable, from a local school council, shall be demonstrated by a petition in support of the charter school signed by certified teachers and a petition in support of the charter school signed by parents and guardians and, if applicable, by a vote of the local school council held at a public meeting.

The majority of those schools and their nonprofit board members do an excellent job of providing parents with a public school choice.

The school is nearly tripling its enrollment next year, and its plans for handling that growth formed the majority of a public hearing on the 2012 - 13 budget Monday night that took the form of a conversation between board members, the school business manager and a handful of parents and reporters.

California's educational establishment suffered a rare blow in 2010, when the state became the first in the nation to allow parents of students in underperforming schools to pull a «parent trigger,» a mechanism that allows a majority of dissatisfied parents to compel reform up to and including conversion of a failing public school into a charter.

Under «parent trigger,» if a majority of parents at a public school that is supposedly «failing» sign a petition, the school can be converted into a charter school.

A GOP - leaning polling group found two - thirds support for the strikers among Chicago's public school parents, and majority support among the city's voters — despite the condemnations issued by left - of - center pundits and editorial boards on the kids» behalf.

Strong majorities of adults (65 %) and public school parents (71 %) favor providing more funding.

Majorities of adults (55 %), likely voters (62 %), and public school parents (59 %) say it is a big problem.

In Connecticut, the SBAC disaster was slowed by a handful of dedicated and committed public school superintendents who recognized that parents had the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the destructive SBAC test, but the majority of local education leaders (and elected officials) kowtowed to the Malloy administration and engaged in an immoral and unethical effort to mislead parents into believing that schools had «no degrees of freedom» on the SBAC testing issue.

Public school parents continue to have trust and confidence in teachers, and the majority of parents believe their child has substantially higher well - being because of the school he or she attends.

A recent report from the Public Policy Institute reveals that the majority of California's public school parents are uninformed about the new tests their children took this pastPublic Policy Institute reveals that the majority of California's public school parents are uninformed about the new tests their children took this pastpublic school parents are uninformed about the new tests their children took this past year.

PAA proposes its «LSC model,» a form of elected parent - majority school governance, as an antidote to recent efforts of corporate school reformers to brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

This annual event is a one - stop shop for parents to meet the majority of charters schools in Memphis and consider how this public school options may be the best fit for their child (ren).

Refusing to recognize a parents inalienable right to protect their children from a testing scheme designed to fail the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children, Blumenthal and Murphy both voted NO on Senate Amendment 2162 to Senate Amendment 2089 to S. 1177 (Every Child Achieves Act of 2015).

Another option available for parents in a majority of public schools is something called an Intervention Assistance Team (IAT)- If you have significant concerns about your child's reading, request an Intervention Assistance Team (IAT) meeting.

Dear Editor: There is good reason why the parent trigger — a plan to allow a simple majority of parents at a failing public school to trigger reform options — is sweeping the nation.

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The bills are modeled after California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, which enables parents to force one of five types of major reforms on a low - performing public school if a simple majority of parents sign a petition seeking the change.