Sentences with phrase «public charter schools because»

Parents and families choose public charter schools because they provide the best educational fit for their students.

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Many families choose to send their child to a public charter school because they are seeking a school that meets their unique needs.

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«This bill will help ensure that students and families who chose a public charter school because it best meets the needs of their children will not be financially penalized.

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Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

If public schools are in crisis, it may well be because school reform lurches from cause to cause, from standardized testing to differentiated classrooms, from all - inclusive public schools to charter schools and everything in between.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

That's because SA's a charter public school.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scPublic Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial sSchools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial sschools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scpublic, private and parochial schoolsschools.

Smikle is a favorite of the deep - pocketed charter school lobby (whose supporters include Bloomberg), which is very anti-Perkins because of his anti- charter statements, votes and public hearings.

I am voting Green because Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will fully fund our public schools, will stop the over-testing of our students, and will not open more privately managed charter schools.

Then, he took those lightweight twinkletoes and gave poor and working class New Yorkers the chance to send their children to mostly superior charter schools intsead of leaving them in the cesspools of the public system (and, in the process, forced the public system to get much better because of the competition.)

The actions could be a lifesaver for the popular alternatives to public schools because Bloomberg's likely successor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has vowed to impose a moratorium on co-locating charter schools in city facilities.

Why: The Buffalo Teachers Federation endorsed Howie Hawkins because he defends the right to education, calls for full funding for public schools and opposes the plans to turn Lafayette, Bennett, East and MLK into private charter schools, including giving these wealthy charters the public school buildings!

Powell said charters got their opportunity because of the failings of traditional public schools.

The appeal, filed in the New York State Supreme Court, claims that, «because freedom from bureaucracy and DOE oversight is the fundamental cornerstone to public charter school design, Success Academy NYC can not sign DOE's illegal contract.»

In response to a question on whether the state should raise its cap on charter schools, Mr. Hawkins said, «Public schools fail because we're the most - segregated state in the United States.»

The hard - left party has been bashing Mr. Cuomo since state lawmakers finalized a budget last weekend, labeling it «Cuomo's Inequality Budget» because it slashed some taxes, protected charter schools and did not create an expansive public financing system for statewide elections.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

This is clearly an inappropriate analytic strategy because the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school.

* Interestingly, among the 2,800 «private public schools,» we identified 79 charter schools that themselves qualify because they serve virtually no poor students.

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

The national charter movement grew because people from diverse perspectives agreed on the need for a new form of public school free of bureaucratic and union constraints.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

The city will start growing again, and the district at that point will have to start shoving the co-located charters off our school district property because we need the space for our public school population,» he said, also noting the legal challenges involved in trying that.

The analysis, which looked only at charter schools because of the prevalence of incentive programs in the independent public schools, found no impact on students» performance in mathematics.

Put it all aside because the fact is that full - time virtual charter schools, which are funded by public dollars, are on the defensive in the battle of public perception, which will, at some point, have public policy consequences.

In a separate 2009 study, Winters also found that «the more students a public school lost to charters, the better its remaining students performed — probably because the school now faced competition from charters for enrollment.»

However, our data do not tell us whether the charter presence is causing opinion to change or whether charters took root in these areas because of underlying public support for charter schools.

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

Charter schools have the potential to be more economically and racially integrated than neighborhood public schools because they don't have to reflect residential segregation.

«One child's public education should not be valued any less than another's simply because his or her parents choose a public school that happens to have the word «charter» in its name.»

Our graduation rates check out — because for years the DC Public Charter School Board has audited the transcript of every graduating senior.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

It is not possible to use this methodology to examine elementary schools because testing begins in third grade, so for those schools we compare test - score growth in traditional public schools and charter schools while taking into account student characteristics such as race, age, and special education status.

And when charters don't enroll high - cost special ed kids and suspend the kids that they don't want, district schools are left with a more challenging task because we do have to give them a public education, a free and appropriate education.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

The film burnished the claim by charter advocates that they were involved in «the civil rights issue of our time,» because they were leading the battle to provide more choice to poor and disadvantaged children trapped in low - performing public schools.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

A total of 34.6 percent of teachers in North Carolina's traditional public schools missed more than 10 days of work because of sick days or personal days, compared to 12.8 percent of teachers in the state's charter schools.

Because few charter schools are unionized, they hire and fire teachers and administrative staff without regard to the collectively bargained seniority and tenure provisions that constrain such decisions in many public schools.

Teachers unions have fought the proliferation of charters because they see the schools, which typically employ non-union teachers, as a drain on traditional public schools.

That's much higher than at most public schools, but I'll confess I still find it a bit disappointing because it means some charter graduates still struggle.

Because of the flexibility charter schools are given to innovate to serve their students, they are well positioned to give special needs children a world - class public education.