Sentences with phrase «same kids in public schools»

The best studies all say that KIPP gets hugely better results than the same kids in public schools.

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But at the same time, they're all the ones who have their kids in schools that cost twice what the public schools cost, and they don't see a contradiction in that.
My kids go to public school in San Jose and we get the same raised eyebrows.
For 20 years, I have deliberately invested my life in teaching public - school kids, coaching them, and advocating for the ones who don't have the same support that other kids have.
Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.
Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.
He liked the notion of low - income public - school students» getting the same kind of instruction as rich kids in private schools.
These children need and deserve the same support as all other public school kids and we hope this is the year they receive that support from those who represent them in Albany.»
So that was just one school district and I read later about another school district doing the same thing, also complaining about how much money it was «losing» by having the kids enroll in charter schools versus staying in the traditional public schools (TPS).
Helping these kids, many of whom are fleeing from violent and impoverished conditions in Latin America, gain the high - quality learning they need to succeed in this country is an opportunity for school reformers to humanely help these kids and transform American public education for all children at the same time.
If half the kids leave a public school system and half the money leaves too (actually, voucher money never equals the actual cost per student), there is still the same amount of money per student left in the public schools.
He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.
Even more shocking was Gov. Jay Nixon's decision that same month to veto legislation co-authored by his arch-nemesis, Rep. Maria Chappelle - Nadal, that would have allowed for kids in failing districts to attend higher - quality public and private schools in the area shows the callousness of state officials when it comes to providing kids with high - quality educational options.
Marshall Public Schools has the same challenge Albion did: convince parents to keep their kids in the local school.
Ultimately, Marshall Public Schools has the same challenge Albion did: convince parents to keep their kids in the local school.
More - closely monitoring the academic progress of students, essentially subjecting schools to the same Value - Added analysis that is now being applied to teachers and schools in traditional public school settings also makes sense, as does monitoring their graduation rates; a private school that doesn't make the grade shouldn't be a school that families should send their kids.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he quotes from Steven Brill's Class Warfare, which compares the teachers» contracts at Harlem Success Academy, a high - performing charter school in New York City, and a traditional public school that shares the same building and teaches kids from the same socio - economic background.
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