Sentences with phrase «of public school parents favored»

The results of the 1992 Gallup Poll indicated that 71 % of public school parents favored requiring public schools to use standardized tests to measure the academic achievement of students.

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Across the street, on the west side of Broadway, StudentsFirstNY, the local branch of Michelle Rhee's school - reform group, organized public school parents in favor of the Common Core.

A group of parents filed the challenge, claiming the formulas discriminate against charters in favor of traditional public schools.

Among public school parents the margin was greater, 69 percent to 22 percent in favor of the union.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

More than 80 percent of parents surveyed support allowing parents to choose their child's public school, and more than 70 percent favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

The public continues to oppose allowing parents and students to choose a private school to attend at public expense, but with 50 percent opposed to public funding of private school attendance and 44 percent in favor, it is apparent why this is a hotly debated issue.

Nearly 80 percent of parents of school - aged children support allowing parents to choose which public schools their child should attend and more than 70 percent of parents surveyed favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

PDK asked a nationally representative sample of the American public the following question: «Do you favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense?»

The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

In an article for Education Next, Stuart Buck and Jay Greene argue in favor of special ed vouchers that would give all parents of special needs students the ability to enroll their children in private schools without having to convince public school officials of the need for a private placement.

Now we have a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California asking, «Do you favor or oppose providing parents with tax - funded vouchers to send their children any public, private or parochial school they choose?&Public Policy Institute of California asking, «Do you favor or oppose providing parents with tax - funded vouchers to send their children any public, private or parochial school they choose?&public, private or parochial school they choose?»

Meanwhile, the parents of nearly 10 million school children across America have opted out of the traditional public school system in favor of private schools, charter schools or homeschooling.

Polling in Texas consistently shows that significant majorities of voters favor finance plans that include school choice alternatives that would allow parents to transfer their children out of under - performing schools to other public or private schools.

For instance, in late April the California Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Anaheim parents who want to use the state's parent - trigger law to turn a traditional public elementary school into a charter school.

Public opinion favors reform, and parents opt out of the system through private schools and by homeschooling.

He wants to focus on accelerating academic achievement and luring middle - class parents — many of whom have removed their children from the county's schools in favor of private schools or other jurisdictions — back to the public school system.

When Board member Robert Cotto spoke, there were audience members dismissing him for not being a parent; no such criticism was levied against other Board members — most of whom do not have children currently attending Hartford Public Schools — who happened to be in favor of approving plans for a new charter school.

Strong majorities of adults (65 %) and public school parents (71 %) favor providing more funding.

However, parent and families» decisions about schools happen in the context of State over-investment and policy in favor of public school choice programs and under - investment in other public schools with high proportions of low income and Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino children.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, if these schools had been non-charter public schools, they would have been targeted for punishments such as firing the entire staff, notifying parents that they could choose to go to another school, closing the school, state takeover, conversion to charter schools, or taking away public governance in favor of private management.

Last week the organization released the results of a poll finding that 78 percent of parents support a charter school opening in their neighborhood and an equal number of parents favor more public school choices, regardless of where they live.

In a nationally representative 2016 poll conducted by Braun Research Incorporated, 82 percent of African - American parents favored allowing parents to choose their public school.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicSchools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicschools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicSchools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicschools even more public funds.

Parents, teachers, school administrators, public education advocates and experts all speaking in favor of the legislation that would drop the use of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests from Governor Dannel Malloy's teacher evaluation program.

Low - performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate - backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students — in short, the public — are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.

63 percent of Americans, 55 percent of public - school parents, 73 percent of Republicans, and 55 percent of Democrats favor the «idea of charter schools» (PDK / Gallup 2014, p. 19, table 18b).

50 percent of Americans and 56 percent of parents favor a proposal that would «give families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition» (Education Next 2014).

In that survey, there was a direct correlation between respondents» perceptions of surrounding public school quality and support for charter schools: the worse parents believed their traditional schooling options to be, the more they favored charter schools.

Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina poll of African - Americans (June 2016) found 56 % favor public charter schools and 59 % favor school choice.

It is interesting to note that most of these important bills have been proposed by Republican members of the Connecticut General Assembly, but an increasing number of Democratic legislators are standing up and speaking out in favor of Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

Nationally, support for charter schools was particularly strong for Hispanic, black and low - income parents, with 84 percent of Hispanic, 82 percent of blacks, and 86 percent of low - income respondents favoring public school choice.

Additionally, parents and other community members not in favor of such court mandates could pull their students out of the public schools if they have the resources.