If that meant departing, even radically, from
the regular public school system, then so be it.
Not exact matches
Many of the parents who initially supported the idea of integrating special education students into
regular education classrooms in Portland are now worried about how the Portland
Public School System is doing it.
Only two
schools in the entire state earned the top designation under Arizona's
school ratings
system unveiled Oct. 15 — in a place that's home to 1,800
regular public schools and about 500 charter
schools.
Unified open - enrollment
systems that encompass as many choices as possible from the
regular public, charter, private, and virtual
school universes are essential to the expansion of choice and competition in K — 12 education.
The
system routinely provides $ 29,000 for high - income students attending
regular public schools.
EdSource Today is tracking the six unified districts — Elk Grove, Garden Grove, Fresno, San Jose, Santa Ana and Visalia — and the Aspire
Public Schools charter
system as a
regular feature of our coverage of the Common Core State Standards.
Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing
school finance
system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined
regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.
We're often accused of being hostile to the
regular public -
school system, but our real gripe is with its near - monopoly — which leaves it free to keep on serving the interests of its «stakeholders» rather than the students.
Instead of funding a
system of
schooling that remunerates
regular public schools based on enrollment, funding for K — 12 education in DC could go directly into a parent - controlled education savings account.
Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter
schools, pending an overhaul of a funding
system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to
regular public schools.
We have seen urban
public schools successfully adopt many charter
school «secrets,» including the nine - hour
school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago
public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C.,
system); and the
regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston
system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).
At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter
schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the
regular public system.
«Otherwise it creates a downward spiral, where every
public school has an incentive to convert to a charter and / or every family has an incentive to choose a better - funded charter
school, leaving fewer and fewer students — and less and less funding — in the
regular school system to cover the legacy costs.»
Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the city's
public -
school system by promoting privately managed charter
schools to replace
regular public schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.
About 93 percent attend
regular public schools and 7 percent attend
schools administered by the U.S. government's Bureau of Indian Affairs, a
system of 184
schools for educating American Indian students spread over 23 states.
The funds for charter
schools are removed from
regular public schooling budgets and paid to various private firms and organizations (and sometimes other parts of a state's education
system) to provide a wider choice of
schools.
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