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Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

The parents of public school students say 66 - year - old Cathie Black lacks the required educational experience or academic credentials to be even a teacher, much less direct the 80,000 teachers of 1.1 million students.

On Friday, Moskowitz released an «open letter» to de Blasio, detailing his «poor management and lack of control over the governance of city schools [and] his neglect of public charter school student needs.»

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

The next problem is the lack of a comprehensive vocational education program for Buffalo Public Schools and the inability for Buffalo students to participate in BOCES programs located in the suburbs.

The absence of high - performing public schools, and the lack of emphasis on American civics or expectations for good citizenship, will hurt our nation's youth and will certainly handicap our Hispanic immigrant students and their families most by impeding the assimilation process.

In surveys with 300 New York City public school teachers that included an open - ended question about the largest threat to school safety, the most common response was a lack of cohesive culture and positive relationships between staff and students.

Independent schools often have excellent facilities, such as labs, computers, sports fields, and theaters that public schools lack due to underinvestment, and strong faculty interested in teaching a more diverse group of students.

The CSD schools operated with a severe funding disadvantage from the outset, receiving little more than the Base Student Cost (BSE) allocation, with no support that would make up for their lack of municipal tax revenue that is the largest source of funds for South Carolina's traditional public schools.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

At the Atlanta public school where she also worked as an instructional specialist, she was surprised by the lack of intentional education about race, even though the student population was 100 percent African American.

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.

Here in Miami - Dade Public Schools, we must add to this most difficult equation low family incomes, poor nutritional habits of students, extreme heat, no use of the indoor gymnasium, large classes, lack of adequate fountains for students to keep hydrated, and lack of classroom space.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government public policy professor Christopher Avery, who recently co-authored a study on the lack of high - achieving low - income students at top schools, said that even at selective institutions, «diverse» still does not imply total representation.

Every parent and student in Connecticut should be outraged over the continued lack of oversight and special benefits provided to charter schools in Connecticut — to the detriment of more than 500,000 students in the state's public school system.

Charter schools face many of the same problems as public schools, including insufficient funding and a lack of resources for serving needy students, a report released last week concludes.

Dissatisfied with his lack of progress under his Individualized Education Program (IEP), his parents withdrew him from public school in 2010 and enrolled him in a private school specializing in serving autistic students... Drew's parents believed that under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), they were entitled to reimbursement from the Douglas County School District for the cost — $ 70,000 per year — of Drew's private educschool in 2010 and enrolled him in a private school specializing in serving autistic students... Drew's parents believed that under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), they were entitled to reimbursement from the Douglas County School District for the cost — $ 70,000 per year — of Drew's private educschool specializing in serving autistic students... Drew's parents believed that under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), they were entitled to reimbursement from the Douglas County School District for the cost — $ 70,000 per year — of Drew's private educSchool District for the cost — $ 70,000 per year — of Drew's private education.

For instance, most private schools in the Milwaukee voucher program «lack the full complement of educational programs that students with disabilities are entitled to if they receive their education in the public sector,» and as a result, students with disabilities have been discouraged or excluded from participating.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

The profound lack of knowledge about public education, as reflected in comments about public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high - quality education for more than 50 million students.

Building Inequality: How the Lack of Facility Funding Hurts New York's Public Charter School Students

Teachers unions across Washington opposed the initiative from day one, saying it diverts money from the traditional schools, the schools lack a consistently high success rate for students and the measure allows out - of - state operators to run schools within the public school system and without traditional oversight.

Too often charter schools, like other public schools, lack the specialized knowledge to know how to serve students with disabilities, especially severe disabilities, and to meet their needs directly, rather than serving them through a private placement outside of the school.

Disappointed by the lack of rigor in the U.S. public education system but encouraged by the small number of countries that have dramatically improved student performance, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley set out to uncover what is happening in their public schools that we could — and should — be doing in our own classrooms.

The court noted that paying for special education services in private schools was required only after it was first determined that a public school lacked the ability or desire to meet the needs of special education students and that this requirement was intended to benefit children, not to aid or promote private schools.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

We will push back against proposals that would undermine a public school system that serves nearly nine of every 10 students in America, or any plan that lacks accountability for the expenditure of tax dollars.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

After 40 years working in California public schools I've observed that most probationary teachers are non-reelected because an administrator didn't get around to evaluating properly, or the teacher was too outspoken about student rights and lack of resources or the administration didn't expend time or resources to help the teacher succeed.

The task force, chaired by Joel Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, cites mediocre U.S. showings on international assessments; high dropout rates, particularly among black and Hispanic students; poor civics performance; limited study of foreign languages; and lack of college preparedness as evidence that the nation's security is at risk.

Public school systems enroll any student who comes into the district's attendance zone from ages 5 to 21 — no matter their handicapping condition, lack of prior education, first language, or even disciplinary or criminal record.

The co-founders of KIPP, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, were appalled at the lack of meaningful consequences for students who misbehaved when they were novice teachers in the Houston public schools.

It is noteworthy, however, that Polk School Board member, Billy Townsend, keeps pointing toward an exhaustive report done by Stanford University that clearly tracks all students across multiple grades to build a robust picture of student growth (or lack thereof) on standardized tests, which, as anyone in public education knows, is the only metric deemed worthy of consideration by the Florida Legislature.

Duncan decried the lack of black teachers, noting that when he headed up Chicago Public Schools, most of the students were black, but many schools lacked a single black male tSchools, most of the students were black, but many schools lacked a single black male tschools lacked a single black male teacher.

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligSchools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligschools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

The NAACP report documents the consequences of this abandonment: inadequate funding of urban schools, a lack of accountability and oversight for charter school, most of which are concentrated in urban communities, the disproportionate exclusionary discipline of Black students, high teacher turnover, and an absence of teachers of color in both charters and traditional public schools.

Yet, in our public schools serving students of color and low - income students, classrooms are overcrowded and lack adequate resources, students and teachers face degrading environments, and schools use harsh, punitive discipline practices that deny students the opportunity to learn.

It is not about teachers or students who are underperforming, but rather the lack of resources allocated to public schools.

(See: Building Inequality: How the Lack of Facilities Funding Hurts New York's Public Charter School Students).

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

With the Malloy administration continues to use the State Department of Education to undermine Connecticut's students, parents and public schools, the lack of outrage on the part of many of Connecticut's elected officials is truly stunning!

Black students and families are the main consumers of public charter schools in New Orleans and have been most vocal about the lack of diversity in the teaching staff and school leadership as well as a lack of local control over the city's schools.

Because of limited funds and a lack of mandates, teachers encounter fewer special needs students in private schools than in public schools, so if you specialized in special education, you might not find many available positions in the private sector.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

It's shocking, especially when more than 50 percent of students in traditional public schools lack proficiency and charter schools are providing children of greatest need with the only choices they've ever had.»

In addition, voucher programs have proven ineffective, lack accountability to taxpayers, deprive students of rights provided to public school students, and threaten religious liberty.

The Court said that «public school students are entitled to equal enjoyment of the right to education, and a system of school financing that relied on local property tax revenues without regard to disparities in town wealth and that lacked significant equalizing state support was unconstitutional.