Sentences with phrase «make bad charter schools»

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Cuomo and the teacher unions have been at war over the governor's proposed education - reform package that would revamp the teacher tenure and evaluation programs, make it easier to fire bad and lecherous instructors, and expand charter schools.

After six years of intense effort, when Bersin proposed under the No Child Left Behind law that charter school organizers be asked to make proposals for some of the worst - performing schools, a school board member called him a «Gauleiter,» which she «(inaccurately) said were «Jews who worked for the Nazis [to shepherd] their own people into the trains» to the concentration camps.»

The findings reported here indicate that it is unlikely that charter schools — a prominent effort to increase school choice, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds — are making the problem worse.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

Hill notes that charter schools are not solving the problem of school segregation, and, in some places, are making it a little worse.

Clearly, charter schools are not solving the problem of school segregation, and in some places they are making it a little worse.

All of the bad press makes it very hard to win support for the good charter schools, in terms of greater funding, facilities aid, or help in replicating.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

Much political capital has been made of a 2009 study of 16 states that found that only 17 % of charter schools were better than public schools, 37 % were worse and the rest were about the same.

Charters that have worked within Milwaukee Public Schools have a far better record then that of the 2R Charter schools housed under UWM and the City of Milwaukee, but to me the major culprit for making charters in Milwaukee look bad is the City of MiCharters that have worked within Milwaukee Public Schools have a far better record then that of the 2R Charter schools housed under UWM and the City of Milwaukee, but to me the major culprit for making charters in Milwaukee look bad is the City of MilSchools have a far better record then that of the 2R Charter schools housed under UWM and the City of Milwaukee, but to me the major culprit for making charters in Milwaukee look bad is the City of Milschools housed under UWM and the City of Milwaukee, but to me the major culprit for making charters in Milwaukee look bad is the City of Micharters in Milwaukee look bad is the City of Milwaukee.

To make matters even worse, charter schools would get a dramatic increase in funding even if they added no more students.

As readers of Wait, What know, the urban charter schools are actually making the racial isolation problem worse because all the charter schools are more racially isolated than the public schools in those same communities.

Nevertheless, charter schools have made segregation worse.

Whether in a traditional district or a charter school, tainted people always make systems look bad.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

Furthermore, it makes no sense to defund public schools, which 85 - 90 % of kids attend, for the benefit of the 5 percent that attend charters, when only a handful perform better than public schools, while most do the same — or worse.

So, to even make that argument you're admitting that public schools are worse than Charter schools, and will be for the forseeable future.

To make matters worse, many charters cherry - pick their students, leaving cash - strapped public schools with higher populations of students with special or high needs, further tipping the scales.