Sentences with phrase «neighborhood public»

Children were identified through an intensive six - week selection process, working in partnership with neighborhood public schools located in distressed communities within four major metropolitan areas in the Eastern and Western U.S..

They attend neighborhood public schools.

When my two boys attended our neighborhood public school, I witnessed the dire results of budget cuts — programs like art, music, and electives were cut, class sizes increased, and teachers began leaving the profession.

Your neighborhood public library may purchase your book to show support for a local author.

«These schools follow a totally different set of rules than a neighborhood public school, but where's the accountability?

A magnet school is a public school that offers specialized curricula and programs not available in traditional neighborhood public schools.

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

Generally, within a 2.5 radius of St. Richard School there are a total of 21 neighborhood public schools serving elementary grades (Chicago Public Schools, 2016g).

The Broad plan, and others like it, funded by groups such as the Walton Family Foundation, are instead part of a coordinated national effort to decimate public schooling by rigging the system against neighborhood public schools and the students they serve.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.

She seeks out opportunities to meet with legislators and education leaders on education issues and stands up for children, their teachers, and their neighborhood public schools at rallies, hearings, meetings, and town halls.

Our neighborhood public schools are mandated by law and tradition to maintaining the highest levels of professional staffing, transparent and inclusive decision - making, fiscal responsibility, and accountability to taxpayers.»

Though there may be some small number of low - income families that have been given some financial support to escape a failing neighborhood public school, these voucher programs have disproportionately benefited wealthy families.

«All children deserve the choice of a good neighborhood public school,» the report says.

The neighborhood public school is often the center of a civic and cultural life, recognized as the key to each community's future.

That is significantly better than the average of the neighborhood public schools — at 11.4 percent, 24 percent and 3.4 percent proficiency for math, ELA and science — but they are not, even Woodward admits, good.

The bottom line, however, is that there are far too few seats in high - quality charter schools to serve every disadvantaged child in Washington, and those left behind at neighborhood public schools continue to be shortchanged.

And today, the most powerful and energetic movements for education justice — fighting for fair funding, strong neighborhood public schools, and restorative justice — are those that take an intersectional approach to organizing.

«We're taking taxpayer dollars and putting them in (charter schools)... but we haven't fully funded our neighborhood public schools... to where... they're not out of portable buildings.

DeVos is right: the choice to send your child to a private or charter school instead of your neighborhood public school is as easy as calling a Lyft or an Uber instead of a taxi — and that's not necessarily a good thing...

Across Nevada, zip code and household income continue to be indicators of the quality of the neighborhood public school that a child can attend.

«I'm very committed to the public schools and my kids go to the local neighborhood public schools,» Wilhelm said.

This week, we turn the spotlight to Bob Nardo, Head of School for Libertas School at Brookmeade, a neighborhood public charter school offering a Montessori component to students in Frayser.

«I do think we need to come up with strategy to promote our community to make that choice, the choice to go to their neighborhood public schools.»

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's insistence on increasing funding for charter schools has more than a dozen Democratic legislators questioning whether they can support the next state budget if it means their neighborhood public schools are flat - funded or cut.

At a time when state budget cuts are currently hurting students and teachers at neighborhood public schools, CEA President Sheila Cohen said it would have been unconscionable for the state «to divert precious education funds to expand charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools and to the detriment of all students, but especially minority students in the state's poorest school districts.»

And we know the DeVos endgame — shut down our neighborhood public schools, and replace them with a patchwork of charters, private schools and online learning.

Without the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public schools.

«Since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011, Chicago has ordered the closings of dozens of neighborhood public schools while approving a new wave of publicly financed, privately operated charter schools, in a much - touted effort to improve education.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why this solution may not be feasible, but it sure would provide a disincentive to charters to NOT cull the cream of the crop from public schools then push the more challenging cases out of their schools and into neighborhood public schools, at least not midway through the academic year when the negative consequences of such outcomes are compounded because of the disruption this transience evidently brings to the student and her new schoolmates.

Recently, Chicago's two major newspapers made it very clear that charter schools can be very problematic and do not provide better academic results to justify additional millions of dollars that could be directed towards struggling neighborhood public schools («Chicago's Noble charter school network has tough discipline policy; critics say too many students are being expelled,»

Recently, Chicago's two major newspapers made it very clear that charter schools can be very problematic and do not provide better academic results to justify additional millions of dollars that could be directed towards struggling neighborhood public schools («Chicago's Noble charter school network has tough discipline policy; critics say too many students are being expelled,» Chicago Tribune, 4/7/14; «Charter schools show little difference in school performance,» Chicago Sun - Times, 4/7/14).

Currently, up to 25 % of teachers in charter schools are uncertified and are paid less than their counterparts in neighborhood public schools.

«Education savings accounts literally take money out of our neighborhood public schools and hand it over to subsidize private tuition, with zero accountability,» said Martin.

Charter school enrollment processes should be consistent with and as simple as those of neighborhood public schools.

He created numerous themed «academies» to «compete» with the local neighborhood public schools.

Learn more about the work we do to create more high - quality seats within our neighborhood public schools.

Ms. Sprowal describes how her son was pushed out of the school and eventually embraced by a neighborhood public school, PS 75.

Fighting for neighborhood public schools that are safe, welcoming places for teaching and learning;

She said, had she stayed in the neighborhood public school, she'd have dropped out and stayed out for sure.

As we ring in 2015, Democrats for Public Education offers the following New Years Resolutions - for those who believe in strong neighborhood public schools.

This bill would force school districts to divert more funds from neighborhood public schools to charter schools.

They want to improve their local neighborhood public schools by stopping budget cuts, reducing class size, de-emphasizing high stakes testing, offering... →

Rather than funneling tax money to private interests or to charter school operators that are not accountable to the public, our state must shore up neighborhood public schools where all students graduate from high school prepared for college or the world of work, no matter what the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they happen to be born.

«This poll backs up that we must support our neighborhood public schools.

They want to improve their local neighborhood public schools by stopping budget cuts, reducing class size, de-emphasizing high stakes testing, offering a well - rounded education and strengthening parent participation.

As we ring in 2015, Democrats for Public Education offers the following New Years Resolutions — for those who believe in strong neighborhood public schools.

The scholarship program has given opportunity to students from low - income families who are being failed by their traditional neighborhood public schools.

«After years of training teachers and managing neighborhood public schools, we realized that we have gained a significant amount of knowledge regarding school improvement that we wanted to share with others.

In light of the fact that the Dyett Hunger Strike is occurring in Chicago because an open enrollment neighborhood public high school is no longer a choice, we need to have the school choice conversation all over again... now.