Sentences with phrase «over traditional public schools»

Given the superior achievement of charter over traditional public schools (documented below), how can their numbers be expanded?

One group found on average charters have a slight edge over traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math but acknowledged charter quality is uneven across the states and across schools.

Push over traditional public schools, there are a couple of new kids on the block and it doesn't look like they're going away anytime soon.

And the reason they have not been harmed is central to why, for nearly 20 years, I have favored education tax credit programs over both traditional public schooling and voucher programs.

Critics of public charter schools have long suggested that they have an economic advantage over traditional public schools because they have attracted financial support from philanthropies.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

Opponents like to say that big corporations are taking over traditional public schools — but this is just not the case.

Yes, charter schools have an advantage over traditional public schools because, among other things, they don't have to take students midyear — and because families who choose to apply to charters are more likely to be motivated and engaged.

For example, many of the foundations in our sample favored the funding of national over local advocacy organizations, charter schools over traditional public schools, and alternative certification programs over colleges of education.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schools.

Every student who chooses Hunter over a traditional public school takes that money out of the system.

We can't say for sure that charters would retain their productivity advantage over traditional public schools if they were funded on par with district - run schools, but it sure would be interesting to see what happens under something close to funding equity.

New York School Talk: Why did you initially opt for a charter over a traditional public school for your child?

The debate of charters over traditional public schools appears to be most heated in Rutherford County, a rural manufacturing community in the Blue Ridge Mountains foothills with unemployment rates nearly twice the state average.

The fact that ever - more Los Angeles parents are choosing charters over traditional public schools tells us far more about educational progress than any study ever could.

As CapitalNewYork reported, Gov. Christie responded to the Mayor, «thousands of your constituents are choosing [charter schools] every year over traditional public schools in Newark because they give their children a better chance at a brighter future.»

«I think it raises a red flag for the district as they move toward turning over traditional public schools into charter schools,» said Marytza Gawlik, who taught at Detroit's Wayne State University until this summer.

With the feds out of the accountability business and most states in full reconsideration, there is limited accountability exercised over traditional public schools.

And yes, charters that choose not to backfill have advantages over charters that do backfill, as well as over traditional public schools that backfill.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

You know, NYSUT has focused — as have parents — their attention on the governor in lots of different ways, including the fact that there's been lots of criticism about... preferring charter schools over traditional public schools.

Charter schools can use the facilities money for any purpose, and that funding stream can provide a crucial advantage over traditional public schools.

Teachers» unions and public - school advocates have railed against Cuomo, arguing that he's prioritizing privately run charters over traditional public schools.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).