Sentences with phrase «opinion about charter»

It is unlikely to change anyone's opinion about charter schooling's potential as a reform strategy, however, not least because of the lack of information about student achievement.

Despite that stability of public opinion about charters, aggregate support increased by 11 percentage points when respondents were told that Obama backed them (see Figure 4).

On the one side, Ednext shows that a large portion of the public has no strong opinions about charter schools.

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De Blasio and Cuomo have offered competing plans for how to fund universal pre-K in New York City, and now the difference of opinion between the mayor and governor about the role of the city's growing charter movement is crystallizing.

Fresh off the Legislature's second on - time budget in a row, Sen. Saland talks about the need to balance capital and administrative spending, explains the state budget's hold harmless rules and gives his opinion on the effectiveness of charter schools in New York and around the country.

The 2017 EdNext Poll — including the Trump Effect on public opinion about education Charter schools lose favor but opposition to vouchers declines; Opposition to Common Core plateaus and support for using the same standards across states gains ground

About 66 percent of Hispanics with an opinion on the issue indicate support for charter schools, while 68 percent of Black respondents hold the same position.

Our readers are more likely to have opinions on charter schools than the public as a whole (all but 7 percent take a position in contrast to the 39 percent of the public who take a pass on this item), but the ratio of support to opposition is roughly the same: about 3:1.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey of Public Opinion (see «The Persuadable Public,» features, Fall 2009) asked public school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and merit pay.

Among problems with accountability and transparency, many students also voiced their opinions about being educated in the charter schools.

Students have powerful ideas, knowledge and» opinions about topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, privatization, rural education, violence and safety, and year - around schools.

«Academics, attorneys, and activists can hold any opinion they want about public charter schools and other families» school choices,» said a spokesperson for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in an official response to the APcharter schools and other families» school choices,» said a spokesperson for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in an official response to the APCharter Schools in an official response to the AP story.

Nearly half of all surveyed have a positive opinion of charter schools even with no information about charter school provided.

WEA spouts the usual blather about how charter schools are not accountable, but of course the parents who send their kids to these schools of choice have a very different opinion.

Your Opinion Counts Chicago ACTS is conducting this survey as an opportunity for Chicago charter school teachers to voice their opinions about the teaching profession.

«The majority opinion in Montessori said nothing about whether a charter school could operate at more than one location, and as such, it necessarily stands for nothing as precedent on that issue,» Pellegrini wrote.

Like never before, we can hear students» opinions about topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, privatization, rural education, violence and safety, and year - around schools.

Only 27 percent actively opposed charters, which means almost as many Americans either don't like or don't have an opinion about these schools as those who do and support them.

Learn about the issues, programs and laws affecting charter schools and Advisory Legal Opinions interpreting charter school law.