Apart from giving new start - ups an initial period of time to establish themselves, it is appropriate to hold the average charter school, serving similar students, to the same standards as
other public schools in that community.
«This year's conference theme, Making a Difference, speaks to the enduring impact of charter public schools - now serving more than 630,000 students attending 1,275 charter
public schools in communities across the state.
Because we knew the addresses of respondents in advance of the survey, we were able to link individual respondents to
specific public schools in their community and to obtain their subjective ratings of those schools.
African Americans and Hispanics are much more likely than whites — about 30 percent of both black and Hispanic respondents compared to only 15 percent of white respondents — to believe that using standardized tests to measure student learning is important to
improving public schools in their community.
More than half of Americans say that spending on
the public schools in their community should increase, compared with 38 percent who say it should stay the same and only 10 percent who say it should decrease.
The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «
the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»
Well, as EdNext has found, 70 % of parents routinely say
the public schools in their community deserve an «A» or «B»; more to the point, Gallup reports that 76 % of parents say they're satisfied with their child's school.
• How about
the public schools in your community?
Do you think
the public schools in your community generally promote the values that youthink are most important, or do you think that the values emphasized at school oftencome into conflict with your own?
When asked about
the public schools in their community, no less than 55 percent give such favorable assessments.
A slight majority of those surveyed, nonetheless, think that
the public schools in their community are improving.
Forty percent of the public give
the public schools in their community an A or a B, while a quarter give them a D or an F. African Americans assign lower marks: only a quarter give their local public schools an A or a B, while a third give them a D or an F. Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (Q. 2).
Sixty - two percent of public school parents give
the public schools in their community an A or B grade, compared with far fewer nonparents (45 %).
More than 40 percent of the parents polled had considered moving out of Boston to send a child to
a public school in another community for better educational prospects.
Know of something awesome going on at
a public school in your community?
On choice, a majority of Americans surveyed — 64 percent — say parents should be able to choose
any public school in their community for their child to attend.
The plaintiffs in McDuffy — all from economically disadvantaged districts - asserted that the state's school financing system «effectively [denied] them the opportunity to receive an adequate education in
the public schools in their communities».
A number of white families left
the public schools in these communities in the 1960s and 1970s to start these small, private academies, many of which still thrive.
Developed by the Georgia School Boards Association, VILLA (Volunteer Instructional Leadership Learning Academy) offers parents the opportunity to learn more about
the public schools in their community.
Let us hope Governor Malloy learned something these past few days about the role of
public schools in their communities.
In a 2012 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup national opinion poll of parents, «Public Education: A Nation Divided,» parents were asked to identify the main issue that
public schools in their community must address.
Brown outlines examples of the «State - sanctioned sabotage of human potential» — in the form of inequitable funding and resourcing of
our public schools in communities of color.