Sentences with phrase «of traditional public»

Home buyers in the District face a complex system of traditional public schools, public charter schools and magnet schools with a range of quality from low performing to high performing schools found in every ward.

It also allows the company to avoid some of the most frustrating aspects of a traditional public debut.

More important, Scott and Corcoran have been no friends of traditional public schools.

Off - hand, it seems to me that the gap identified in the demographic data shows the limits of what brochures, pamphlets and websites can achieve — the operational limits of traditional public legal education.

Basalt Regional Library in Colorado is combining the best of both a traditional public library and the ever more popular seed library.

Conversely, EOS tokens owners act as shareholders of traditional public companies, that way the owners are able to cast votes and participate in the governance of the blockchain, in proportion to the their stake.

Yet defenders of traditional public education are not winning the high ground.

In doing so, potential recruits dissociate the network from the convoluted requirements of traditional public schools, a factor that is considered a deterrent, as discussed as earlier in this paper.

With these factors in mind, many Yale graduates drift toward alternative educational opportunities in order to avoid the complicated and controlling stigma of traditional public schools.

After all, it is one that actually casts defenders of traditional public education as crusaders against plutocrats who simply want to bash teachers, end public education and abandon democracy.

Covering the third largest school district in the country showed me the brokenness and inequity of the traditional public school system.

Why are school reformers succeeding in winning the policy battle for overhauling American public education while defenders of traditional public education practices failing?

,» called NHA a «cautionary tale» about the replacement of traditional public schools by charters (Singer, 2014).

This isn't to say that defenders of traditional public education aren't concerned about any of this.

In Los Angeles, a leaked draft of a plan to dramatically expand charter school access in America's second - largest school district has become a lightning rod development for advocates of traditional public schools.

Second, we examine policy debates and key actors working in the education field, specifically the rise of student and teacher accountability, school choice, and the increasing polarization between Education Reformers and supporters of traditional public schools.

According to that DPI report, more than 50 percent of traditional public school students today would be considered low - income, compared to less than 30 percent of charter students.

«We are moving forward to require that charter schools receive the same level of oversight, civil rights protections and provide the same level of transparency, and we require the same of traditional public schools,» NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock said in the statement announcing the resolution.

Unless families opt out of traditional public schooling altogether — by applying to a public charter or magnet school, choosing to homeschool, or electing to pay tuition at a private school — they're limited to their child's assigned school.

But perhaps the most disturbing outcome of all, although one anticipated and welcomed by the pro-market ideologues, is the undermining of traditional public school districts.

As more charters experience success, the greater the potential for the closure of traditional public schools, thus, job loss.

For example, the majority of Texas charter schools serve a significantly greater percentage of minority and low - income students, and many of these students have dropped out of traditional public schools.

As long as there is a demand for these schools and families continue to support them by attending, why should we take your advice, Jim, close down charter schools and force families back to the one - size - fits - all paradigm of traditional public education.

Nonetheless, after some high - performing charter schools adopted longer schedules, a number of traditional public schools followed suit.

All told, the parents of roughly 10 million children have opted out of the traditional public school system.

So he began searching for successful turnaround plans that could be accomplished within the parameters of traditional public schools.

Each of these charter holders has a larger enrollment than 75 percent of all traditional public districts, yet spend about three times more on administration than districts (see Table 3).

Smarick, too, calls for the replacement of traditional public school districts:

They argue that using student test results to assess teacher quality is unfair, and that school choice has taken the more motivated students out of traditional public schools.

In addition to establishing a minimum bar for academic achievement, CCSA's Minimum Criteria for Renewal enables us to look across a continuum of performance to identify schools that are far exceeding the performance of other schools serving similar student populations and compare charter performance with that of traditional public schools.

They are often designed to serve low - income and / or at - risk students who are falling through the cracks of the traditional public school system.

The lack of public discourse has stoked some parents» concerns that there is an effort underway to advance charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools.

«We were the highest - growth school of all traditional public high schools in Denver,» she said.

On the flip side, opponents of charters and other taxpayer - supported forms of school choice are predicting the destruction of traditional public schools under DeVos» leadership.

The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.

Despite the trendy popularity of charter schools in some circles, their wholesale replacement of traditional public schools is unnecessary.

In Michigan, nearly 75 percent of charter school students are eligible for a free or reduced lunch, while 48 percent of traditional public school students are eligible for the subsidy, according to data from the Michigan Department of Education.

The most authoritative study on the issue — out of Stanford University in 2009 — found that only 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and that 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of traditional public schools.

Nationally, charter schools have no greater record of success than public schools although the student population of charter schools is more select than the population of traditional public schools.

At a time when state budget cuts are currently hurting students and teachers at neighborhood public schools, CEA President Sheila Cohen said it would have been unconscionable for the state «to divert precious education funds to expand charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools and to the detriment of all students, but especially minority students in the state's poorest school districts.»

Charters are tuition - free public schools open to all, independent of the traditional public school systems, and free to choose their own educational programs while being held accountable for improved student performance.

the majority of charter schools in California are founded as start - up, or new, schools, there's a growing number of those that are conversions of traditional public schools.

Because I was a public school educator, the assumption was that the only model of education I'd ever support was that of a traditional public school.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Comparisons were made based on subject, grade level and subgroup and showed in 82 of 96 comparisons, the percentage of charter school students making learning gains was higher than the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.

H. R. 2218 provides federal support to fund construction and / or renovation costs for charter schools at a level not provided for traditional public schools, despite the fact that many of the traditional public schools throughout the country are overcrowded, and these facilities are where the vast majority of students are educated.

Comparisons are also included in the report based on the percentage of charter school students making learning gains and the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.

She also promoted charter school legislation that offers students choices outside of traditional public schools.

United Teachers Los Angeles President Alex Caputo - Pearl said the appointment of a non-educator was evidence that the nonprofit's focus would be on creating charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Carr also explained that local school districts aggressively engage in competitive grant programs because in a time of austerity, it's imperative they find other revenue streams to support the needs of their traditional public schools.