Sentences with phrase «making existing public schools»

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Mike Reilly, president of Community Education Council 31, which represents the entire borough, believes Success hasn't made the move to Staten Island because existing public schools are doing well.

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Public schools as we know them today didn't exist at the time, and the historical record makes clear that most of the founders would not have supported a government - owned and government - run school system.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

As an organisation that exists to supply to schools and other public sector organisations, we are changing to meet these needs and to continue making the buying process as quick and painless as possible for schools and academies.

Meanwhile, also on Monday, studies of two existing voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana were released showing that after an initial backslide, students receiving vouchers make up ground and perform roughly as well as their public school peers after a few years.

This raises a serious problem, but on the whole it is an argument that is being made abstractly or on the basis of history - without considering the existing public school systems and how well they are presently carrying out this aim.

Even in the earliest days, Vander Ark said that the foundation would work with folks on both sides of the education - reform fence, helping existing public schools and districts whenever possible but also making sure they came under competitive pressure.

It also would have allowed an unlimited number of «conversion» charters: existing public schools converted to charters if they failed to make adequate progress on test scores...

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

The type of public schools that would exist under R - 55 are making amazing strides in helping underserved students in 40 other states.

The Cassandra S. Pinkney Foundation exists to support Eagle Academy Public Charter School and make possible its commitment to providing a high - quality education to every child.

Innovation Network Schools are public schools made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other districts the authority to convert existing district schools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulSchools are public schools made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other districts the authority to convert existing district schools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulschools made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other districts the authority to convert existing district schools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulschools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulschools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulations.

PURE exists to support and assure a high quality public education for all children by informing parents about education issues and parents» rights, bringing parents into the decision making process, empowering parents in their role as advocates for their children, and assisting them in their interactions within the school system.

Our report makes the case for why we need the arts and provides a snapshot for what exists now in Denver Public Schools.

In the recent era of tight public agency budgets, the community school approach has offered a strategic method for making tough budget decisions — making the most of existing resources.

Innovation Network Schools are new, autonomous public schools that were made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other school districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network Schools are new, autonomous public schools that were made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other school districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network schools that were made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other school districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network Sschool districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network Sschool in the districts to a new Innovation Network SchoolSchool.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

Among other things, the package would dramatically curtail tenure protections for new teachers and make it easier to fire existing ones; shift hiring and firing power from school boards to superintendents; pave the way for a significant increase in public charter schools; and create a program that uses the public school financing formula to pay private school tuition for certain low - income students.

Anywhere that charter schools exist, the public schools get those kids who couldn't make it or were rejected by the charter schools.

The vote was unanimous, with absolutely no discussion of how to make existing charter schools accountable for their activities or the fact that Connecticut's public schools are underfunded and additional funding will not be forthcoming anytime soon since Malloy's fiscal strategies have left the state facing a large budget deficit this year and a massive $ 1.4 billion budget shortfall next year.

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

[2] Furthermore, good learning conditions can not exist without good teaching conditions, and the most successful public schools have teachers» unions and effective local school councils that are responsive to their membership and that operate with democratic decision - making processes.

As it stands, existing approval and reporting policies make it difficult for schools, potential teachers, and the public to differentiate among programs for quality; 25 states have never identified a single low - performing teacher preparation program.103

UNC Wilmington's Watson College of Education hosted a conference on Monday that explored innovative practices in North Carolina's public schools — and how to make innovation a priority at a time when students must be prepared to succeed in a world and workplace that may not yet exist.

The recommendations made by the Governor regarding the Direct Aid to Public Education budget include technical adjustments to the Standards of Quality (SOQ), incentive, categorical, and school facilities accounts, as well as increased funding for existing programs.

However, rather than step up and address the major flaws with the existing failed funding system, Governor Dannel Malloy made a thinly veiled reference today, in his State of the State Address, that he plans to propose a new state education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

As Hurricane Katrina made landfall the city of New Orleans in September of 2005, destroying numerous structures and buildings that populated this vibrant Southern city, many of the city's public schools already existed in a state of disarray.

Appointing a charter school advocate, rather than someone committed to improving the existing public school structure is a major mistake, but focusing on charter schools» student make - up does nothing to clarify this issue,

Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including: $ 28 million for safety improvements at the state's mental health hospitals; $ 7 million for recruiting new public school teachers and retaining existing ones; $ 190 million from the state's emergency fund to address damages from the last round of wildfires; $ 15 million to expand programs that combat homelessness; and, $ 8 million to backfill tuition cuts made to state colleges and universities during the 2015 session.