Sentences with phrase «standards than other public schools»

Ravitch laments charter schools» lack of accountability, but charter schools are held to greater accountability standards than other public schools.

Charter schools are already held to higher standards than other public schools in many respects.

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Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

When it comes to the new Common Core standards for our schools, standards that Connecticut has adopted and standards are requiring the state's public school students to take the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test rather than the Connecticut Mastery Test, Kantrowitz goes where few others dare to tread.

Michigan's charter high schools are making faster progress toward meeting state standards than other public high schools, though they still trail far behind.

Michigan's charter high schools are making faster progress toward meeting state standards than other public high schools.