Sentences with phrase «public alternative»

Public alternative schools and programs for students at risk of education failure, 2000 — 01.

Others seem to want the charter sector to permanently operate in parallel to a district sector, giving interested low - income families public alternatives to assigned government - run schools.

To justify tuition, they must be convinced that the overall education is significantly better than the free public alternative.

The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.

Another reason for the backyard rink popularity may be a lack of public alternatives.

Have they considered that a forgiveness deal would mostly likely reward those who'd borrowed to attend pricey private colleges or out - of - state flagships rather than those who chose cheaper public alternatives?

The 2008 AERO conference, «Moving from Ideas to Practice,» features Public alternative pioneer Deborah Meier, Albany Free School founder Mary Leue, No Homework and Recess All Day is published in German edition.

The spectrum of possibilities, for instance, might extend from a Debbie Meyers - type public alternative school, which has no principal and instead is staff - run, to a Sudbury Valley - type school that is entirely governed by the school's democratic meeting.

1997 AERO's Virgin Island Consulting Project trains staff at at - risk public alternative schools on the islands.

Here's their reward: 210 students have just found themselves school-less for next year, with the local public alternatives being some of the lowest - performing middle schools in the state.

Founded and operated Chicago High School for Metropolitan Studies (Metro), one of the earliest public alternative schools (1969?).

Should the state collect all local school taxes, add in state aid, and distribute the revenue among our 591 school districts and the various public alternatives available to families?

In addition to adding the solar pipeline data to Open NY, NYSERDA has added U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Alternative Fuels Data Center data on more than 20,000 public alternative vehicle fueling stations nationwide, including almost 1,000 biodiesel, compressed natural gas, E85 (ethanol) and electric charging stations in New York State.

Metro established both the credibility and the viability of public alternatives.

Given this background, students were asked to answer the following two questions: How does the education provided by this CMO compare to the available public alternatives?

The events grew out of a 2005 demonstration by Transportation Alternatives, a private group in New York City focused on public alternatives to automobiles.

They have helped start more than 100 educational alternatives, including alternative schools, democratic schools, Sudbury Schools, Public Alternative Schools, Charter Schools and homeschool resources centers.

«The Conservatives» mean - spirited stupidity in the last two elections has denied the public an alternative to Labour.»

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

The hearing officer said the parents» «hostility» to the district's proposed placement of their 15 - year - old son in a public alternative school would doom his education plan «to failure.»

One in four school children in the United States no longer attends his neighborhood school; fully 15 percent of all kids (more than 7 million) now participate in a public alternative school.

Beacon, a public alternative school, soon became a national model for advocates of what modern educators call «portfolio assessment.»

For many parents, educators, and policy - makers in the United States, charter schools - innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must «compete» for students in order to retain their charters - have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools.

Throughout the spring of 2004, over 100 students in a public alternative high school in suburban Seattle partnered with teachers and students from other area high schools to create a plan for meaningful student involvement in their school.

However, using proximity to public alternatives as an instrument for opting out of the assigned public school, the author finds no significant benefit of opting out on student achievement and that those who opt out of their default public schools often perform significantly worse on standardized tests than similar students who stay behind.