Sentences with phrase «only public school alternative»

Online schools often become schools of last resort, and for many families they are the only public school alternative available.»

Not exact matches

Yet, if the only alternative is to turn pre-schoolers over to the same people who run the public schools, we seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

It is only to say that some potential applicants might be more effective teachers than the alternatives that are currently available to public schools.

They claim that alternatives serve only to steal time and attention away from solving the real issues that face public schools.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

The decision was perhaps the biggest advance yet for a movement that embraces not only vouchers, but also an assortment of new arrangements in public education, among them charter schools, corporate management of public schools, open enrollment, and other alternatives to traditional schools.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

For far too many families, especially poor families, charters are the only alternative to neighborhood public schools that are little more than a public embarrassment.

Only when that has failed, should alternative measures be invoked, including state takeover and expanded use of public charter schools with consideration provided to hiring a qualified private contractor.

Tennessee will include all public schools within this framework, excluding schools that only serve K — 2 students, or adult high schools, or schools that only serve students with special needs and / or disabilities, or alternative schools, or CTE schools.»

Should the public charter school choose the supplemental funding, the public charter school may only expel a student for a reason expressly allowed in law and must provide a disciplinary alternative education program or juvenile justice alternative education program, as applicable.

While being careful to say that «providing more educational options isn't against public schools,» she repeated hailed alternatives to traditional school systems and bashed people who support them as people who care only about «systems» and not individual students, and are only interested in sustaining the «status quo.»

We believe that our students» success has shown that alternative schools not only need to challenge their students to reach a high academic bar, but that they must also be held accountable for delivering results on par with public school systems.