Sentences with phrase «regular public schools because»
4 Ironically, charter schools held an early promise of becoming more integrated than regular public schools because they were not constrained by racially isolating school district boundary lines.
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The school year begins in August, not September (when regular public schools start back), because SCN believes a longer school year benefits students, Sedlis said.
We journalists tend to focus on exam results because so many of our readers say that is what they want, and such information is relatively easy to get from regular public schools.
They also suggest that KIPP might be doing well because it attracts the most motivated parents, to which KIPP teachers reply that their students had the same parents when they were doing terribly in regular public schools.
Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.
«Regular public school parents are angry because they no longer have an art room, they no longer have a computer room — whatever space they had for extra activities gets given to the charters and then they have better facilities.
Studies comparing student achievement in charter schools with that in regular public schools are difficult to do credibly, however, because students who apply and their families are presumably more motivated to succeed in school than those who remain in regular schools.
Then, they need to have the resources to actually attend the charter, because unlike regular public schools, charter schools in North Carolina do not have to offer transportation or lunch to students.
Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools
The respected Stanford CREDO study in 2014 found that — nationally — neatly 40 % charters are worse than regular public schools, while fewer than 20 % are any better, and that mainly because they tend to be selective.
Charter school operators, who are in the business because they believe they can do a better job of educating students than the regular public schools, argue they sought to bring the benefits of their schools to the students most in need.
The court said charter schools were unconstitutional because they were being funded out of the same pot of money as regular public schools but without taxpayer control since they're not overseen by elected school boards.
(Current KIPP - type programs cost little more than regular public schools, but that's only because their teachers work about 60 percent more than regular public school teachers for only slightly higher pay.
Because charter schools work «without a district - like infrastructure, and often with less public money than regular district - run schools,» they struggle to meet the needs of students with severe disabilities, who represent a substantial financial investment (Prothero 2014).
We no longer advocate the CCSD Magnet Program because of the heartbreak we experienced at Hyde Park and are sending all three of our kids to regular public Middle Schools and High Schools from here on out.