Sentences with phrase «neighborhood schools»

This includes setting high expectations and providing support for students with disabilities to learn in general education classes in neighborhood schools.

If we return to a system of neighborhood schools, that learning experience will be lost.

One caveat is that it doesn't reflect demand for neighborhood schools from those who live within a school's boundaries.

The truth is, polls and surveys show that the first choice of most parents is to send their child to a high - quality neighborhood school with adequate resources.

According to a recent national study, two - thirds of charters are performing worse or the same as traditional neighborhood schools.

They're also taking some of the best students from neighborhood schools, attracting them to the charter schools.

Since then, I'm proud to report that tests scores and graduation rates at neighborhood schools are increasing and the dropout rate is down.

What is your opinion about smaller, K - 8 neighborhood schools as a solution to big, anonymous middle schools?

Any new students would attend the next closest neighborhood school.

If street culture is the problem, then assigned neighborhood schools are not the solution.

The data show clear, dramatic differences between the charters and the local neighborhood schools.

He attends a struggling neighborhood school where 43 percent of the students are reading and writing at grade level.

The new focus on neighborhood schools will alleviate the «harmful effects of racial isolation,» the agreement states.

Others contend that public funds are being shifted away from struggling neighborhood schools and instead given to private schools that are held less accountable than their public counterparts.

Poor black kids trapped in failing neighborhoods schools, that's the biggest race problem of today.

Successful inclusion practice includes welcoming students back into neighborhood schools after they have attended schools in special settings.

Our schools now have the same state report cards as public and charter schools, allowing for comparisons with other neighborhood schools.

Since then, she has overseen the creation of new schools, implemented a rigorous evaluation of charter and other operator - run schools while also advocating for strengthening strong neighborhood schools.

As such, the lack of transportation made attending the low - performing neighborhood school and the high - performing magnet school in my community equally impossible options.

What choice often amounts to is an escape hatch that doesn't lead to a quality neighborhood school.

His victory over a well - funded darling of the «reform» movement shows that voters will go to the polls for candidates who support neighborhood schools.

Across our network of public neighborhood schools, we have created regular opportunities for targeted problem - solving and feedback.

About half of all families prefer district - run neighborhood schools for a variety of reasons.

They include students who fail to meet the academic standards of selective high schools or who return to neighborhood schools because of excessive attendance problems at out - of - boundary schools.

A better solution for black and brown residents is to differentiate resources to make neighborhood schools better.

Slowly change existing neighborhood school boundaries so that they cover more mixed income housing and / or can allow for more students to choice in from outside the boundary.

With award - winning neighborhood schools located throughout the district, there's always an excellent choice around the corner.

Also, she said a new neighborhood school - assignment plan has increased stability and enrollment, and that new buildings and technology are coming online.

The $ 125 million measure is slated to improve neighborhood schools, including updating computer technology and science labs and acquiring, constructing, and repairing facilities.

By 2001, there was less than a 15 percent chance you did, which reflects a variety of influences, including elimination of many neighborhood schools.

When you cut the data to look just at urban charters, the percentage beating the surrounding neighborhood schools rises to 40 percent.

None of this is to say that any parent wants to look far and wide for a quality school or wants neighborhood schools to be replaced.

Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them and at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.

He describes key components of a successful inclusion model, including neighborhood school placement, continual planning, a problem - solving mindset, and commitment to making inclusion work.

In reality, there are few neighborhood schools, particularly those who serve marginalized communities that meet the needs of parents.

Creating great neighborhood schools here is personal for me.

He called school closures «a violation of our human rights,» since many communities are left without neighborhood schools after districts shut them down.

Like magnets, charters have the ability to promote integration because they do not operate like a typical neighborhood school, but that was never really their purpose.

There are many successful schools and classrooms that do not label themselves as blended learning schools, they are simply neighborhoods schools that use innovative instructional models.

In fact, many magnets are the victims of their own success: by the 1990s most neighborhood schools had the science labs and computer technology that had once made magnets unique.

It «appears» to do better than some of its other urban neighborhood schools because it refuses to provide educational services to the full range of students who make up the community.

The remaining questions are whether school districts will let New Leaders run their own neighborhood schools — and are the New Leaders fellows really ready for the job?

Families have a go - to website to learn about designated neighborhood schools, compare choice schools and programs, and find answers to enrollment questions.

All three have seen the power of communities to transform neighborhood schools.

Successful neighborhood schools that provide outstanding education for students who reside in their neighborhoods should be supported for the niche they serve.