Sentences with phrase «pressure from charter schools»

As long as it remains so, traditional public schools are unlikely to feel much pressure from charter schools to improve their academic performance.

Not exact matches

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

Competition from early adopters, coupled with performance pressures arising from accountability reforms, will force all schools — including private schools and low - tech charter schools resting on their laurels — to consider technological solutions.

And, most important, to the extent the charter schools did well, and we believed in our bones many would, they would put pressure on the public schools to stop making excuses about why they weren't successfully educating kids from poor communities.

The pace of public school closings has been increasing during the past decade, driven largely by dwindling enrollments in urban districts hit hard by budget pressures and competition from public charter schools.

In the face of pressure from local district supporters, two housing developments that had planned to provide land for charter schools instead gave it to district schools.

This may be because having a charter school in the same building places the same amount of pressure on a district school regardless of charter performance, whereas those district schools located near to but not in the same building as a charter feel stronger pressure from high - performing charters.

And he adds there's continued pressure on the District's budget from charter schools in the city - which receive a portion of the school system's revenue.

When public schools are shielded from competition with better performing private and charter schools, school administrators can succumb to pressures from teachers» unions rather than from parents who demand superior performance.

This investment was partly prompted by the pressure from No Child Left Behind but partly emerged in response to the states» own need to better track students as they move through and among traditional and charter schools.

More than one in 10 D.C. public schools will close as part of a plan Chancellor Kaya Henderson put forth Thursday, a retrenchment amid budget pressures, low enrollment and growing competition from public charter schools.

School districts may suffer net financial losses to charter schools and, although some supporters have argued that competitive pressures from charters can force public schools to improve their own performance, the evidence for such outcomes is unclear.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

That prospect was clear this month in Massachusetts, when voters refused to agree to raise a cap on charter school expansion, and Moody's, the rating agency, applauded the move, saying it would allow urban districts to maintain their current financial operations without added pressure from charters that could create virtually insurmountable money problems.

And the Orange County School Board is asking the superintendent to look into allegations from ProPublica that public high schools are pressuring low - achieving students to move to alternative charter schools in order to improve their graduation rates.

The demand is likely in response to opposing complaints — from parents organized by McKinley's Parent Teacher Association — that Parent Revolution staffers and volunteers lied about the terms of the charter - school petition, telling them it was only for beautification and pressuring them into signing.

It is a disturbing yet telling commentary that the House Chair of the Education Committee, State Representative Andrew Fleischmann of West Hartford, and his colleagues buckled to the pressure from Governor Dannel Malloy and the charter school industry.

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