Sentences with phrase «of traditional public schools»

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

More specifically, while 80 percent of traditional public school teachers are white, white teachers represent 71 percent of the teaching workforce in charter schools.

Moving a small percentage of traditional public school students into charter schools leaves the majority of students in «broken» schools.

That idea that publicly funded charter schools could suck the resources out of the traditional public school system is one reason why they're being challenged in court.

In truth, research has shown charter performance to be similar, on average, to the performance of traditional public schools.

If the efforts are successful, then the quality of traditional public schools will increase relative to what it would have been in the absence of competition from charter schools.

Those against the law also raised the familiar criticism that charter schools would be free to use the new local dollars without the accountability and oversight required of traditional public schools.

That said, this holds true of traditional public schools as well, many of which can be allowed to fail for years on end.

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

Advocates of traditional public schools wanted that included and they have said they also would've liked for the new accountability measures on charter schools to go even further.

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

What other policy has produced comparable gains for African American students at a fraction of the cost of traditional public schools?

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

One of the main contributors to this lack of safety that, in my experience, is rarely explored, is the sharing of traditional public school space with charter schools.

The city still has a handful of traditional public schools, and the array of more than 70 charter schools can hardly be called a system, though that's beginning to change.

It will be vouchers, school choice, charters, and lots of traditional public schools being closed.

The alliance says that one - half of the country's charters are in cities, although just one - quarter of traditional public schools are.

About 28 % of teachers living with school - age children have used or currently use private schools, charter schools, or home schooling alongside or in lieu of traditional public schools.

Prior studies examining this question have focused on the district level or explored the effects of charter schools located within several miles of a traditional public school.

These realities have a particular impact on charter schools that generally receive approximately 80 percent of the funding of traditional public schools.

In contrast, charter schools are, on average, about a quarter of the size of traditional public schools.

A committed educator who can not adhere to the strict schedule of traditional public school should not have to leave the profession.

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.

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

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

Specifically, students with disabilities represented 8 to 12 percent of all students at 23 percent of charter schools compared to 34 percent of traditional public schools.

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.

«Indeed, these changes appear to be part of a sustained pattern to privilege Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools with space and resources at the expense of the traditional public schools with which they share buildings,» de Blasio wrote.

The Competitive Effect of Vouchers on the Performance of Traditional Public Schools in Hamilton County, Ohio

the gradual undermining of traditional public school districts and, in turn, the increased segregation of some of the nation's most vulnerable students in traditional public schools that no longer have the resources to serve them.

That rankles supporters of traditional public schools such as Gonzalez Petkovich, who say too many charters are fly - by - night companies that are only in it to grab taxpayer money and don't offer a well - rounded education.

At Bridge PSL public schools the learning gains increased by 100 %, with students learning at twice the speed of their traditional public school peers, the equivalent of an extra full year of schooling.

Quality research shows that the Florida's tax credit supported choice program is improving achievement for the students who participate as well as improving the performance of traditional public schools with whom they compete.

In fact, many of the traditional public schools in the Table 22 CRP sample are located in states like South Dakota, North Dakota, or Nebraska — states that don't even have charter school laws!

The problematic figure in this table is the percentage of traditional public school students in hypersegregated schools used as the point of comparison.

Whether or not we believe that charter schools are more segregated than traditional public schools depends largely on which set of traditional public schools serve as a comparison.

Mine too, but not for the same reasons as Greene, one of the blogosphere's staunchest defenders of traditional public schools.

The Houston, Denver, and Lawrence school districts were trailblazers in implementing a suite of new reforms within the constraints of a traditional public school system.

A 2009 Stanford University report, lauded as most authoritative research yet on the issue, concluded that 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of traditional public schools.

While 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.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

For example, about 12 percent of the parents of traditional public school students attained a college degree or higher, compared with 35 percent of the parents of charter school 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,» said Roslyn M. Brock, NAACP chair, in a statement after the 63 - member national board vote.

Since taking control of the traditional public schools 18 months ago, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee have pushed for major reforms.

Education historian Diane Ravitch argues parent trigger laws can only benefit private management companies who would run the charter schools opened in place of a traditional public school.

Today, nearly 10 million parents have opted out of traditional public schools for private schools and charter schools or homeschooling.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.