Sentences with phrase «many kids in charter schools»

«There are over 100,000 kids in charter schools, over 40,000 on waiting lists, which tells me that there is a crying need on behalf of parents to make sure there kids get a good education,» Flanagan said.

«Ninety three percent of the kids in charter schools are minorities that finally got a chance to succeed, and we shouldn't be kicking them in the butt, pardon my language,» he said.

«If we double the number of kids in charter schools from 100,000 to 200,000, we get every kid off the waitlist and into a school they deserve.»

The AFT correctly reports that most kids in charter schools seem to do about as well as in district schools, controlling for demographic factors.

«You can't learn about charter schools by studying 3 percent of kids in charter schools, because charter school students are only one and a half percent of American students,» says Hoxby.

Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.

Yet on key comparisons, especially by students» race, there is no statistically significant difference between the performance of kids in charter schools and traditional public schools.

he charter killer bill did give an extra dose of motivation to parents and kids in charter schools.

Nobody is suggesting we FORCE parents to put their kids in a charter school.

«Kids in charter schools are being treated like second - class citizens when it comes to funding.

A lot of parents have had kids in charter schools by now, and the global attack on the principle comes across as simply ill - informed and ideological.

Not exact matches

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

«All of the kids on the team do well in school, and I think that it is important for us to keep our grades up to stay on the team,» said Brent Bell, a 17 - year - old from Lincoln who attended Lincoln High before starting his senior year being home - schooled through the Horizon Charter Sschool, and I think that it is important for us to keep our grades up to stay on the team,» said Brent Bell, a 17 - year - old from Lincoln who attended Lincoln High before starting his senior year being home - schooled through the Horizon Charter SchoolSchool.

It does not matter if your kids are in public school, charter school, private school, or home schooled.

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Goin said she feels very lucky that her three kids attend Larchmont Charter in part because of the garden and fresh meals that are cooked for school lunch each day on the campus.

Fields lives in the South Bronx, and three of her kids receive free lunches at their local charter school.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

A number of Assembly members who haven't spoken out against efforts to limit charter schools have long waiting lists in their districts of kids wanting to get into those schools.

«Most kids who attend a charter school in New York come from low - income families of color who can't afford to move into a better school district.

Silver and the Democratic - run Assembly now have to decide between low - income, mostly minority parents demanding charter schools as an option for their kids, and the teachers unions, their longtime allies, which are trying to rein in charters.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

The charter concept is a promising one, but only if the charters commit to helping the kids who can't make it in regular public schools.

Thousands of city charter school kids got a day off school to take part in a huge rally on the steps of the Capitol that called for an end to the «failing schools crisis.»

«Our kids are in a great school and quite simply we're hoping that everybody else gets the opportunity to do the same,» said Nina Zito, 44, of Manhattan, whose two daughters attend a charter school.

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, shown last year, said in a statement on Wednesday, «In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.&raquin a statement on Wednesday, «In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.&raquIn the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

If charter schools are so bad, why are parents enrolling their kids by the droves in them?

«The [charter school] kids if they were in a public school you would have to pay for them.

Matthew Titone, who has 954 students on waiting lists in his district on Staten Island's North Shore, said charter schools in his area «do excellent work serving kids with special needs.»

MISTER «ED»: Bill Clinton, surrounded by charter kids in Harlem yesterday, says opening more charter schools is «the right thing to do.»

By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands more kids in the Bronx the chance to participate in a program or attend a school that could change their lives.

People need to remember, she added, that there are families that have kids in both public schools and charters.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

Consider a math competition, said the dean of an all - boys, entirely African American charter school that seemed to have little in common with Powell: «Kids respond well to that.»

Compared to the general Nevada funding formula or the formulas that govern most district and charter schools nationally, the Nevada ESA program looks positively progressive in giving more money to kids starting off with less.

Despite a record of supporting charter schools, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton questioned their effectiveness in her campaign by saying that they «don't take the hardest - to - teach kids or, if they do, they don't keep them.»

At Valor Collegiate Academies — two charter schools on one campus in Nashville that serve grades 5 through 8 — the core philosophy is that «really strong SEL work is very advantageous to kids also doing well academically in school,» says Todd Dickson, who founded the schools with his twin brother, Daren.

• More than half of the charter kids studied live in poverty — higher than the traditional public school rate.

Today, almost half of the city's public school enrollment is in charters, even more kids are on charter waitlists, and PCSB has the authority to continue growing its portfolio.

For instance, in our second school, Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, opened in 2002, we tested all the kids coming into that ninth - grade class in the summer, and it was dschool, Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, opened in 2002, we tested all the kids coming into that ninth - grade class in the summer, and it was dSchool, opened in 2002, we tested all the kids coming into that ninth - grade class in the summer, and it was dismal.

«There are very few good options in school nutrition, and most schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food nearby.

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

But I'm convinced that, at this point in time, the way to create lots more «high - quality seats» for lots more kids is to make sure that charter schools and private school scholarships receive funding parity with «the system.»

Charters and vouchers, for example, have not succeeded in extending school choice to many more millions of kids because the structural rigidities, ingrained practices, and adult interest groups that dominate the system haven't let that happen.

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

While charter schools were taking root in D.C. and around the country, it seemed few people were starting charters that would recruit the kids we wanted to serve: kids who were behind in school, who had been suspended or expelled, who had been locked up.

Choice among schools is a fine thing, and the U.S. has made major strides in widening access for millions of kids via vouchers, charters, tax credits, savings accounts, and more.