Sentences with phrase «of the public school system»

State law states that charters are a part of the public school system and have to follow the same academic and financial standards, she said.

They also argue that the scholarship program pulls poor students out of the public school system in favor of private schools, diminishing funds to nearly 2.8 million children served by public schools.

The result is that good business managers can get a lot more money doing the same job outside of the public school system (see Figure 4).

I'm a product of the public school system, and I've spent most of my professional career working on education issues at the local, state, and national levels.

Employees of the public school system are physically concentrated in school buildings, making it easier for them to organize.

I strongly support small class sizes, arts, guidance counselors in schools — a real support of our public school system.

It's not the duty of our public school system to teach a child right from wrong, that duty lies in the home.

The impetus for the plot is one anyone with even the most basic awareness of public school system can support: Parts of the system are broken.

The selection has raised larger questions about who should finance education, how schools should be held accountable, and even how we define the value of a public school system.

The American school bus is a familiar icon of the public school system.

Will other schools that are free of the bureaucratic net of the public school system have such an effect?

The nation's focus is on performance now more than at any other time in the history of the public school system.

There is no evidence in the financials of public school systems that there are benefits to scale, at least financially.

He is, by contrast to his predecessor, a friend of the public school system and teachers.

In these communities, a voucher initiative would threaten the stability and finances of the public school system and undermine the performance of all schools in the area.

What's been the evolution of the public school system?

They operate independently of the public school system and are not required to follow some of the laws and regulations that public schools are required to follow.

To claim that charter schools are part of the public school system is shaky ground.

As a result, they have threatened to move out of the neighborhood or take their children out of the public school system altogether.

And just one more had taken advantage of the supplemental services provision to obtain tutoring from a provider outside of the public school system.

As a product of the public school system, I well understand the importance of providing every child a high quality education, and feel responsible to help children reach their full potential.

The legislature granted former Mayor Michael Bloomberg control of the public school system for seven years in 2002, and extended it for six more years in 2009.

In 1867 Dublin became part of the public school system as a two - room school until the first part of the present building was constructed in 1916.

I think the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) should be told — they've just called for a halt to the free school movement's sister movement in the US because among other things «Charter schools have contributed to the increased segregation rather than diverse integration of our public school system.»

Ms. Carnaghan was one of the top ten educators chosen from all levels of the public school system in Anne Arundel County.

In this piece the writers lament that they were «disenfranchised by the state takeover of the public school system for 22 years» and — even worse — «boldly disrespected during the past six years,» i.e., during the superintendency of Cami Anderson and Chris Cerf.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

Proponents see charter schools» freedom from regulation as a source of educational innovation, while also providing competition that may prompt innovation and improvement in the rest of the public school system.

San Antonio Independent School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez (center) speaks on the state of the public school system in San Antonio.

Remember: There are billions of dollars to be made from the privatization of our public school systems.

In the spring of that year, Cumberland mayor Daniel J. McKee posed a question: «What kind of public school system would we have if we could just build it from scratch?»

Or as Buttenwieser says, summing up what he thinks the degree is for: «It's training the next Arne Duncan,» referring to the U.S. secretary of education, who Buttenwieser says created many successful reforms in Chicago, where he served as CEO of the public school system before joining the Obama administration.

And today most Americans remain frustrated and confused about the quality of the public school systems.

Earlier this year, I wrote about a small, networked, eclectic tribe of educators who attended a conference at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, and who, with great energy and determination, pledged their shared commitment to bring about a different type of public school system by agreeing to the following core values:

Tutorial networks were first started at the margins of a public school system, where chronic deficiencies in structure, transient teachers, and regional poverty were invitations to try radical innovations, without disturbing the rest of the schools.

But this debate should not distract us from what is now the greatest obstacle to improving our public school system: the two - headed monster that rules over the administrative side of our public school system.

But despite those and other gains, Louisiana ranks near the bottom in the key education indicators that families and companies look to when gauging the health of its public school system.

Many urban school districts across the nation have become the scourge of the media and lawmakers who believe they represent little more than complete and utter failure of the public school system.

Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, s a celebration of the public school system with its houses, grand dining halls and traditional games as codified for lower - class kids in the early 20th century by Frank Richards in his stories about Greyfriars and St Jim's in the Magnet and the Gem.

Many also argued that they would get an inferior education, but that always seemed to be a secondary concern, and grimly amusing coming from advocates of the near - monopoly of a public school system whose failures were beginning to be lamented even by liberal observers.

Whatever works best, because the worst thing that will happen is we'll see an erosion of the public school system as each religious sect starts its own school board (and there goes integration).