Sentences with phrase «regular public schools educating»

-- Why have millionaires favored funding with their largesse charter schools for the few while disinterested in regular public schools educating most students?

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To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

That is the promise of American public education — that all students will be well - educated — not just those chosen by lottery for a charter school that may not turn out to be better than the regular neighborhood school.

-- Why have federal funding cuts reduced aid for regular public schools, which educate 90 % of American students, while the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to send more federal money to charter schools, which educate less than 5 % of American students?

• Thanks to federal legislation, nearly all children with disabilities are educated in public schools, often in regular classrooms.

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

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.

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.

As charters proliferate, regular public schools lose students and funding, and many charters try to avoid the students who are most costly and difficult to educate.

Now the trend is reversed: About 90 % of the students are educated in public schools, and most of these children spend some time in the regular classroom with students of their own age.