Sentences with phrase «rather than a neighborhood school»

Increasing numbers of U.S. students, over time, are attending public schools of choice rather than their neighborhood schools, a federal study concludes.

Nor does it feed into any high school, because it's a District - wide school rather than a neighborhood school.

Not exact matches

City Councilman Robert Jackson told the standing - room - only crowd at Thursday's meeting that he has many questions about the choice proposal and how to improve the neighborhood's schools, and he urged parents to work together to find answers rather than battling each other.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

The DOE developed the new rezoning plan after parents panned the city's first proposal, which sent some TriBeCa children to P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village rather than to TriBeCa's P.S. 234 and also displaced students in the Village and Chelsea from their neighborhood schools.

However, if the concentration of minority or low - income students in a school results from the purposeful choices of parents rather than from neighborhood segregation, the adverse effects may be fewer.

Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says, school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.

The system attaches funds to individual students, rather than to schools or school districts, and then allows students to choose any public school in the district, with neighborhood students» having preference at each school.

This evidence strongly suggests that the return to neighborhood schools was not the underlying cause behind the increase in parent involvement at the time neighborhood elementary schools were re-established; rather, the increased effort of school officials at getting parents involved appear to be the source of the increase, an effort that benefited the schools undergoing busing for integration even more than the resegregated neighborhood schools.

Rather than being located predominantly in residential neighborhoods, many schools will migrate to commercial streets, where they can capitalize on transportation networks.

Tennessee adds another flavor, trying to serve entire communities rather than creating a loose array of ASD charters — so they provide neighborhood preference even in their charter schools.

Nonetheless, Dodenhoff straightforwardly reports that «just under 35 percent of MPS parents actively choose a school for their child, rather than simply opting for the default neighborhood school.»

Because recessions may affect student outcomes through channels other than school budgets (such as parental employment or neighborhood crime), the Shores and Steinberg result likely reflects all ill - effects of the recession rather than those through reduced per - pupil spending per se.

The associations between home life and school performance that Coleman documented may actually be driven by disparities in school or neighborhood quality rather than family influences.

Although Deming focused on public charter schools rather than pivate vouchers, the logic is essentially the same: expand the horizon of low - income children beyond their toxic neighborhood and failing school, and you change their lives.

In 2012, former NYC chancellor Joel Klein (and Michelle Rhee, and Warren Buffett) half - jokingly floated the idea of «banning» private schools and assigning children to schools randomly (rather than by neighborhood or test score).

Second, I verify that my analysis shows spillover effects of charters, rather than a potential performance bump due to students switching between district and charter schools in their neighborhoods.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

Let schools change naturally, as their neighborhoods are changing naturally, rather than try to «change the direction of the river»?

Charter schools are not the answer, but for those of us last - in - line for delivery of great neighborhood schools, maybe we have a better chance, rolling our own dice rather than playing in a game historically fixed against us.

Pushing the free market farther still, the board has urged district elementary schools to compete with one another for enrollment, rather than simply serving all students in the neighborhood.

We need to double down our support for the only choice available to all families — our neighborhood public schools — rather than invest our time and money in a charter school that won't promote equality.

Of the 321,056 or so Idaho K - 12 students, approximately 20 percent attend a school of choice rather than their traditional neighborhood school.

They argue the money could be better spent on bringing innovations to traditional public schools, rather than picking «winners and losers» and propping up a specific few nonprofit charter operators, whose «schools of hope» could essentially replace failing neighborhood schools.

As a result of this business first mentality, rather than properly fund neighborhood schools, officials in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York and even right here in Connecticut push a political agenda in which underfunded community schools are closed and replaced with privately - run «schools of choice.»

Rather than opening a new school from the ground up, this time UCLA leaders wanted to partner with an existing neighborhood school to help stop the pattern of enrollment decline.

As schools of choice, charters, like magnet schools, could be accessible to students from across a geographic area, rather than limiting enrollment based on what neighborhood a child's family could afford to live in, the way many traditional public schools do.

Imagine an American city where parents have a choice of where to send their children to school, rather than being stuck with whatever's in the neighborhood.

Rather than funneling tax money to private interests or to charter school operators that are not accountable to the public, our state must shore up neighborhood public schools where all students graduate from high school prepared for college or the world of work, no matter what the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they happen to be born.

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In a telling comment, one departing ASD chief, charter founder Chris Barbic, admitted that it is harder to succeed in «a zoned neighborhood school environment,» rather than when he was able to cherry - pick charter students.

Their tactics are intentionally disruptive and invite instability: frequently opening and closing entire schools rather than fostering stable, successful neighborhood schools and cycling through a procession of short term teachers, seeking to fire, instead of develop, a large number of teachers.

Rather than state takeovers — which remove local control and accountability — as the go - to solution for troubled districts and schools, strategies like student - centered education, including project - based instruction, and wraparound services focused on student and family well - being, should be deployed to fix struggling schools and stabilize neighborhoods.

Last Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer published what was intended to be a feel - good story about a family that chose an inner - city neighborhood school rather than a well - regarded charter school and wound up happy with their experience.

Its school construction program, for example, is aimed at returning students to their neighborhood schools rather than their being bused elsewhere.

She's also from a poor neighborhood, attending an exclusive school on a scholarship, and aware that she's seen as someone to «fix» rather than as someone with something to give.

«We found out that a brand new high school was being built, so we deliberately chose to have a new home built in the Fieldside neighborhood near the school rather than buy a new home that was already complete in another part of St. Charles,» Stephanie Dantzler said.