Sentences with phrase «run public schools of choice»

He argued that teachers should be granted charters to run public schools of choice, free from the regulations that frustrate teachers, but subject to strict accountability requirements.

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Before charter schools, there were district - run magnet schools and other forms of public school choice, of which Shanker was an early proponent.

Whether district - run, state - run, or charters, all of these schools operate under a system of public choice without attendance zones.

Aspire Public Schools was selected to run a new elementary in south Los Angeles in the second round of the LAUSD Public School Choice initiative.

They brought with them pro-school choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operschool choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operSchool Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operschool run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.

Meanwhile, choice has had the effect of producing many competing schools while destroying what ought to be the bedrock of early education, the solid, well - run neighborhood public school with its coherent and clear ideas of what children need to know to be responsible citizens in a democracy.

Now that the Trump administration has made school choice a cornerstone of its education policy, we thought it would be worth exploring how charter schools work, who runs them, how they're funded and whether they work better than the traditional public schools they're often competing against.

In the fall of 2009, he created and implemented the strategy behind Public School Choice, a district - run program that allows school - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing scSchool Choice, a district - run program that allows school - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing scschool - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing schools.

The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll by StudentsFirst, a pro-school choice advocacy group run by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.

Evers is largely supported by public school advocates and Democrats while Holtz is running as a conservative choice, appealing to school voucher supporters and opponents of the Common Core State Standards.

Most of our nation's public school districts would incur staggering travel costs for students to implement «choice» or would have to run a complex and inefficient system of schools too small to offer comprehensive programs.

He cites a study that my research team recently completed of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), where high - stakes test - based accountability was added requirement to the long - running voucher program in 2010 - 11, and the achievement scores for voucher students surged in relation to the comparison public school students that year.