Sentences with phrase «most other public schools»

Unlike most other public schools, charters have fiscal autonomy and make independent purchasing decisions on a wide range of operational and educational products and services.

On average, a charter school enrolls 372 students, about 22 % fewer than most other public schools.

Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.

Not exact matches

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

If the sexual abuse of minors is so grievous» and it most certainly is» why should its punishment be harsh for Catholic and other private institutions, but soft for public schools where it occurs more frequently?

With the rapid development of metropolitanism few American communities will escape the concomitant problems of residential segregation, deteriorating public schools, physical and social planning, and a host of other problems that will have to be solved by the people who move most decisively and swiftly.

It's probably not an possibility for most city dwellers, but our second homebirth was just on the other side of the fence from a public school (and recess ended just as active labor came on...)

Most kids give up exploring in public around school age, when it dawns on them that they don't see other kids rooting around in their trousers.

Eating is not permitted outside the cafeteria at Steinmetz or at most Chicago Public Schools, but Madon and other principals say they see students scarfing down snacks en route to classes and usually look the other way.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Although de Blasio asked the commission to concentrate on campaign finance reform, most members of the public who spoke at McKee High School on Staten Island addressed other topics.

When I graduated without medical school acceptance letter in hand, my interest in finding employment and their interest in adding a second science writer to their staff came together in the form of a job offer as public relations assistant, responsible for publicity in the engineering school and most other scientific disciplines outside the medical school.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

The PLCs also don't accept English - language learners, kids with discipline problems or most disabilities, or those with elementary - level reading and math abilities, as other public schools must, which muddies the comparison.

Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

April 25, 2016 — Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

But most public parents have no incentive to be well informed about specific private schools (or even other public schools), so it is not surprising that they can't point to specific schools where they'd like to send their kids.

This multi-disciplinary approach could also be seen in the creation of collaborations between HGSE and other schools at Harvard, most notably the Public Education Leadership Project which brought together the management training of the Business School with the education leadership of the Ed School.

Indeed, most of the «out of field» teaching in public schools would disappear overnight if states issued a single license in K — 12 teaching as they do in medicine, law, accounting, and other professions.

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

The «every school a charter school» idea is not new; others, most prominently Paul Hill of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, have been writing variations on this theme for some time.

But as Gonski's Panel notes Australia's public school system is underfunded compared to most other OECD countries.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

Public - school boards have over most of their history faced challenges from education professionals on the one hand and from larger units of government on the other.

Most striking of all, nearly three - quarters of public school students attend charter schools, proportionally more than in any other U.S. city.

Some critics allege that they force the most - selective public colleges to admit underprepared students from low - performing schools and to deny admission to better - prepared students; others complain that they don't do enough to promote diversity.

As the school's public face, each day the front office staff greets dozens of parents, community members, and other visitors; communicates with most of the staff; and answers countless phone calls.

While these schools receive public funds, they operate unfettered by most state and local district regulations governing other public schools.

As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.

Several states have freed charter developers from most regulations that otherwise apply to public schools, but in others, charter laws are more restrictive.

Most public schools in New Orleans are administered by the RSD, but among other public schools are those run directly by the traditional school district (the Orleans Parish School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (school district (the Orleans Parish School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

In other words, every public school in America would henceforth be judged primarily on its ability to drive up the reading and math scores of its most disadvantaged students.

Test scores showed students at most of these eight fledgling Washington schools are outperforming similar students at other public schools in the area.

Admittedly, the critical pedagogues have squarely confronted two of the most enduring issues surrounding the work of education: 1) To what extent should the mission of public schools be focused on character development, societal reform, and other such affective goals, as opposed to cognitive development and academic preparation?

For example, Victorian public schools have power over most of their own budget — including staff hiring - while other states, such as New South Wales, make large budget and staffing decisions centrally, leaving schools with minimal autonomy.

Teacher pension plans are already in bed with Wall Street; the «retirement security crisis» narrative ignores data showing that elderly Americans are doing better and better; today's defined benefit pension plans just don't work that well for most teachers; and the costs of today's pension plans are enormous and are affecting schools and other public services.

If the nation's public schools need to improve as much as most of the politicians and the nation's business leaders claim, then that immense task will only be successful if all the financial and other resources of government at the local, state and federal levels are coordinated to concentrate on that work.

Recent publications most notably include a book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press: March 2015), opinion pieces for the Huffington Post, and other articles.

And most importantly, the way charter schools are funded is unreliable and inequitable — like all other public schools, it's truly and fundamentally broken.

Each one of these was a lofty goal, but that last point may be the most telling as it implies precisely why traditional public schools were perceived by lawmakers as incapable of meeting the other goals: they were overregulated.

Given the small share of total education spending Gates could offer, most public districts refused to entertain the Gates strategy of smaller schools, others took the money but failed to implement it properly, and others reversef the reform once the Gates subsidies ended.

Most choose to take teaching jobs in the Greater Boston area, but some others teach in high - performing urban public schools elsewhere in the country, e.g. New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles.

Preventing summer slide is most effective when community organizations — including schools, public libraries, community centers, parent groups, social service agencies, and others — work together to encourage kids to read, make reading fun, and to reach families about the importance of reading over the summer.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

Classrooms at EL schools are by design much more engaging and interactive than classrooms in most other American public schools.

In a detailed 2010 survey, school and district administrators, policymakers and others declared principal leadership among the most pressing matters on a list of issues in public school education.

And it's worth noting that North Carolina spends more on public school funding at the state level than do most other states because we have a different public school spending structure here.