Sentences with phrase «more successful public schools»

After all, many of them are half - empty as parents find seats in more successful public schools, either charter or traditional.

Not exact matches

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

He also said the district needs to return to «neighborhood schools» and «promote charter schools which are generally more successful than the traditional public schools.»

«Some studies have shown that menthol smokers have had less successful rates of quitting smoking than non-menthol smokers, feel less confident in their ability to quit, and have more relapses and quit attempts than non-menthol smokers,» says Olivia Wackowski, MPH, a tobacco specialist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, in New Brunswick.

In Finland, world renowned for its successful public school system, I talked to leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling schools turnaround and become more successful.

It means that traditional public schools are really capable of making significant progress if only they become more open to learning from successful charter schools.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

Given the need for more high - quality schools, we should be open to finding ways for any high - quality public - school operator to be successful, whether they are stand - alone charter schools, EMOs, franchises, networks, or CMOs.

The nation's Catholic schools appear more successful than public schools at closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged 8th - grade students, according to a study released here last week during the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association.

I visited a couple of successful Cleveland public schools during my visit — successful in educating poor children — and while principals in each of those schools said they could use more money, neither said that money — or their students» lack of it — was their major challenge.

I assured the board that I wanted what they wanted: a better public school system to help all of our children to be more successful.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

The proposal, which is to be discussed in a series of public meetings this month, includes shrinking the size of the school board and electing its members differently, and giving successful schools more freedom in how they operate.

Last year, in the midst of a very successful year for the system in terms of student achievement, more than 20 Chicago Public School students were killed in gun violence.

But if Indianapolis is going to fully seize this moment and give dramatically more kids better educational opportunities, we need to invest more public resources in the most successful programs and schools, regardless of whether they are run by or part of a traditional school district.

Indeed, the charter schools across this country have turned out to be more diverse and more successful than our regular public schools, and certainly even than the private schools.»

«It is exciting that new charter schools are replicating best practices and expanding access to highly successful public school models for more families in California.»

The Administration will invest more than $ 216 million this year to assist in the planning and implementation of public charter schools and dissemination of their successful practices through the Charter School Grants Program.

The move toward more high - quality charter schools began with the state's successful bid for Race to the Top money and accompanying legislative changes, plus the commitment to create a public - private fund to incubate new high - quality charter schools and scale up top CMOs.

I would further resign myself to concluding that 17 - year - olds across all three major racial sub-groups have shown little to no improvement in terms of NAEP scores over the last 30 + years, which suggests that public high schools are not doing a more effective job with a student population that has, over time, come to school less - prepared to be academically successful.

Despite successful growth in numbers and quality, the charter sector faces future challenges public charter schools will not meet these challenges by doing more of the same.

Charter schools, which educate a fraction of students compared with traditional public schools, appear to be more successful at preparing graduates to complete college.

One study that controlled for these factors found that the charters touted as successful — KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disSchools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disschools in their host districts.

Americans sent a clear message that they want their public schools to deliver far more than successful test takers.

Following the release of E4E - Chicago members» policy paper on school climate and culture, Chicago Public Schools highlights some of its more successful...

* Charter middle schools that hold lotteries are neither more nor less successful than traditional public schools in improving student achievement in reading and math.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

Green Dot had a vision of creating small, successful charter schools and in doing so, demonstrating to the school district and the public - at - large that there was a more effective way to provide public education to low - income, high - risk youth.

He has led successful statewide political campaigns for more charter public schools and easier passage of local school bonds.

If the union boss is successful in his mission, taxpayers will be soaked even more than they are now and many of our most vulnerable children will be forced back into failing public schools.

The time is now for policymakers to stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, and thousands of school hours, on a useless standardized testing scheme; and to instead invest our scarce public dollars in programs that actually ensure that public schools are have the capacity to support and prepare students to have more fulfilling and successful lives.

Charter schools got their start in Minnesota more than 20 years ago as alternatives to public schools, where teachers could experiment with methods that could reach wider use if proven successful.

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A South Carolina Public Charter School, MMC prepares students for successful academic and professional... Read more»

The voucher students were more successful in part because of more efficient teaching, which maintained math and Telugu language scores on par with public schools while allocating more time for English, Science, Social Studies, and Hindu.

While public schools seem to be working to do their part in incorporating affordable measures that involve technological literacy among their students, one key factor to a successful adoption of student devices — whether purchased by the schools or provided by the parents — is a strong support system from a well - known and... [Read more...]