Sentences with phrase «strict discipline code»

The schools that don't do well are because of the challenges in the community and charters prove this by excluding the highest need students, requiring lottery applications to get in and using strict discipline codes to kick out troublemakers.

To hold traumatized students to a strict discipline code — and thus remain apathetic regarding the mental health disparities stratified by race and social status — is at best reckless negligence.

Potter points to the Blackstone Valley Prep schools in Rhode Island as an example of a program that has managed to create integrated schools while also embracing more structure than progressive schools like Bricolage, including uniforms, a longer school day and a strict discipline code.

Like many freshmen at a Noble network high school, Morgan Redd was often frustrated with the privately run charter's strict discipline code.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg inherited a more dangerous school system than de Blasio and implemented a strict discipline code under which suspension rates skyrocketed.

That's what our kids are up against,» said Wilson, who decided to move Ascend away from the «no excuses» charter school model, in which students are punished for even minor infractions under strict discipline codes, in favor of a school culture that embraces social and emotional learning.