Sentences with phrase «not real public schools»

Charter schools are not real public schools.

As the State of Washington Supreme Court recently noted, it means charter schools are not real public schools.

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I believe the real issue is funding of any school that is not in the public or separate school sector.

Perhaps the mass media are the real public schools — the institutions in which the public is not only taught but brought into being as a public.

This country was founded on the Christian God and if you dare to read real hisotry books and not those in public schools, you will get quite a shock.

As silly as this article is, my 4th grader's public school recently pulled «Superfudge», a book by Judy Bloom, out of the curriculum because the characters talk about the fact that Santa isn't real.

JK If you're talking about public schools, schools supported by everyone's tax dollars, please explain to me why my tax dollar would go to promote the belief in a god that I don't believe is real?

The real curiosity, however, is that such advocates want the government and the public schools — the coercive, not the voluntary, elements of American life — to propagate the tradition.

It is about a bunch of high school graduates who couldn't or wouldn't get real midwifery training and made up a pretend credential they award to themselves to fool an unsuspecting public.

- and not wasting money fragmenting the NHS, and other services, or on vanity schools projects, but focusing on the real needs in adult social care and primary school places - and bringing public services together to save money and improve services.

The teachers are miserable and can't wait to get out and get a job in a real public school.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

At 1:30 p.m., parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for Quality Education call on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to fund «real» Foundation Aid for public schools and not «need - neutral» aid, lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

«What happens to 19 people on a metabolic ward may not apply to the general population out in the real world who are trying to lose weight,» says Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD, professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Loosely based on real - life events, «Won't Back Down» tells the story of a single mom who teams up with a disillusioned teacher to transform a failing public school into a charter school.

The principal of a traditional public school is not charged with coaxing capital funds out of voters, scoping out real estate, or overseeing construction.

Even if a charter or private school were no better than a traditional forced - choice public school, the fact that parents and students themselves choose the school may mean they perceive distinct advantages in it, real or not.

As for the latter, states must to find ways to get charter schools to a decent level of per - pupil funding, plus facilities funding, if not in comparison to traditional public schools then at least in terms of real dollars.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

In less prosperous schools and colleges, religion may, at day» s end, be the only real difference between public and private — and the return on that investment, while perhaps significant, can not be easily measured.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

It does not or can not change the very real fact that state law explicitly says charters are public schools.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

«Unless it includes the test results of every student in the private school, it will not be a true reflection of their success nor a real comparison with the public and charter schools,» Kussow said.

These challenges, while not unique to public charter schools, are clear indicators that real barriers exist to assure the equitable participation in and completion of a quality education for students with disabilities in charter schools.

Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «choice» and «achievement,» the real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!

«This will mean a real reduction in the public service portfolio,» he said, adding that it was likely to hit areas with few or no academies hardest as the money would not be replaced via individual school budgets.

I can not understand why some people are so dedicated to denying families like mine the simple ability to have a real choice between different public schools.

Bill Gates apparently doesn't want funding to go towards real public schools staffed by professional career teachers either, since the foundation met with CREEED as noted at the top of this post.

You do not serve an equal percentage of ELL and special education students as REAL public schools.

Real public schools can't just shut their doors without a full public disclosure.

Such a feat is not possible even for an experimental school with unlimited funding, let alone for public schools operating in the real world.

«The real issue in my belief here is not so much who's right or who's wrong, but it shows very clearly — to me anyway — that even though there's been some substantial funding reform in the state, we still haven't necessarily cracked the nut on how to treat state - chartered schools or public charter schools in general,» Deigan said.

She says that although traditional public schools have adopted site - based leadership in some cases, the local decisionmaking didn't come with any real budget authority.

Kooyenga and Weber revealed what the real Republican priority is for Milwaukee students, and it isn't about caring or improving public schools.

Real public schools have elected school boards with open meetings, not appointed boards accountable to share holders.

Real public schools don't secretly plan on closing.

If we don't continue to have real conversations about the state of education, we'll see more public schools closed and utilized for detention centers and jails.

The data supports Ms. Strauss» statement: «And then there was the subject that Obama did not talk about: the real reason that so many American public schools are troubled.

While both school districts and public charter schools that own their school buildings are exempt from real property taxes, public charter schools that lease their school buildings are not exempt from these taxes.

But the real estate developer hasn't weighed in with a comprehensive plan for public schools, or talked in much detail about education, since becoming a contender for the Republican presidential nomination.

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

The Hub works with Providence public high schools to provide high school students across the city with high - quality expanded learning opportunities (ELO) that not only garner them credit towards graduation, but provide flexible hands - on learning activities grounded in relevant, real world skills and professional experience.

The combination of not completing courses and getting a failing grade in courses they do complete means that K12 INC students are much less likely to graduate from high school than students who attend real public schools in real classes with real teachers.

Gary Rubinstein wrote recently that we can't be sure of the real attrition rate because some of the original 73 might have been excluded and replaced; unlike real public schools, Success Academy does not admit new students after third grade.

«Educators know that real accountability in public schools requires all stakeholders to place student needs, not profits, at the center of all efforts.

Like so much of corporate education reform, its real purpose is not to help the needy, but to steer the educational debate in the preferred direction of more privatization of public schools.

The attitude is that there is no real need for these programs in middle class public schools where the disruptive and / prone to violence students are not in normal classes.

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.