Sentences with phrase «regular public schools in the city»

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

New N.Y.C. Mayor Rescinds Co-Location Agreement With Some Charters New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is backtracking on existing agreements that allow several charter schools to share space (or co-locate) in the same buildings with regular public schools in the city.

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Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.

The city would be required to first look for space in regular public schools where new charters — or those wishing to expand — could be co-located.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

A teachers» union survey of New York City public schools has shown that in mid-September nearly half of the city's schools had overcrowded classes and the number of overcrowded special education classes in regular schools had more than doubCity public schools has shown that in mid-September nearly half of the city's schools had overcrowded classes and the number of overcrowded special education classes in regular schools had more than doubcity's schools had overcrowded classes and the number of overcrowded special education classes in regular schools had more than doubled.

Unfortunately, charter schools and regular public schools have some information recorded differently in the New York City database, and these differences cause charter schools» numbers of special education and English language learner students to be understated.

Back at the Amigos School in Cambridge, changes are also under way thanks to a program with the city's Department of Public Health that sends nutritionists to the school on a regular School in Cambridge, changes are also under way thanks to a program with the city's Department of Public Health that sends nutritionists to the school on a regular school on a regular basis.

Warm results arrived this past winter in New York City from Stanford University economist Caroline Hoxby, who detailed how students winning slots via lotteries in over-subscribed charters out - performed applicants who remained in regular public schools.

But the students in the college - bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

Learning Together, Lessons in Inclusive Education in New York City This report examines a group of programs in NYC public schools that prove that integration of children with special needs into regular classrooms is not only possible but also desirable for children with many different types of disabilities and with differing needs....

In some expensive cities like New York, however, KIPP is still spending less per student than regular public schools are.

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.

Sometimes students in regular, old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.

The charter school chain Ms. Moskowitz runs — which receives city tax dollars and often shares space with district public schools but is privately managed and does not employ unionized teachers — greatly outpaces regular district schools in terms of standardized tests.

Released in the wake of last week's report about charter schools in New York City, the study found that compared with the academic progress that students made in regular public schools, students in charter schools in Massachusetts gained an additional one and a half more months of learning per year in reading and an additional two and a half more months of learning per year in math.