Sentences with phrase «struggled in traditional public schools»

Voucher advocates say the options are good for families with children who may be struggling in a traditional public school.

«They were really struggling in the traditional public school setting.

The Washington public school system needs more innovation, especially to meet the needs of low - income, high - risk children from communities of color struggling in traditional public schools.

This flexibility allows public charter schools to better meet the individual needs of students and create customized learning environments that can help students succeed — especially those who are struggling in traditional public school settings.

Not exact matches

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

In a move being watched nationally, Massachusetts has begun enlisting its best charter - school operators to help turn around several struggling traditional public schools.

Action: 51 % of the parents in a «struggling» traditional public school * sign a petition, the «Parent Trigger» and determine the fate of the school for everyone else's child.Possible results:

But, not unlike many traditional public schools, they frequently struggle to consistently and effectively meet the needs of students with disabilities and, in particular, students with more significant disabilities.

Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.

We recognize that students who have struggled to succeed in traditional public school settings need non-traditional supports.

Dora posted an analysis of the initiative by local education expert Dr. Wayne Au, who points out that charter schools are undemocratic, take funds away from struggling public school districts, and — contrary to assertions in the initiative's language — are not better than traditional schools.

Supporters say the schools, which are granted greater flexibility in curriculum than traditional schools, are a means to boosting performance in areas with chronically struggling public schools.

Although this bill has created a visceral reaction among those of us who have dedicated our lives to improving the outcomes in the most struggling of schools through traditional public education, this letter avoids emotionalism and rests on logic and facts to persuade you to reject HB 5105.

«Historical data indicates that making AYP under NCLB has been a significant struggle for Pennsylvania charter schools, with a consistently lower percentage of charter schools making AYP than traditional public schools,» the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, which also filed a legal brief in protest of the change, said in a statement.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, «Like their traditional public school peers, students at Utah's charter schools struggled to reach new performance benchmarks in math, science and English.

They argued that the charter school would drain off resources and support from traditional public schools in the area that are already struggling.

According to Mike Duggan, the executive director of Domus, their students are young people «who have struggled, mightily in the traditional public school system, as well as at home and in the community.»

dogmatic effort to... short - circuit community participation in school governance, (ii) evade its responsibility to assist struggling schools before summarily seeking their closure often to improperly make way for charter schools, and (iii) co-locate other favored programs without regard to squeezing out the students in «traditional» public schools from any fair allocation of school resources.

«As our traditional public schools struggle with budget cuts, they also have accepted thousands of students in need from Puerto Rico, and have not received one dime in additional state educational funding,» he said.

Although some individual charter schools have their struggles, the study suggests that students who attend charters generally may be better off than if they had gone to traditional public schools in their communities.

She remembers the lack of attention her son received in his traditional public school and the frustration she felt as administrators and educators told her she was overreacting to her son's behavioral and academic struggles.»

Most of the state's charters serve minority student who live in cities where the traditional public schools struggle.

«That's scary to me,» said Charlotte parent LauraLee McIntosh when she learned of Ridnouer's involvement in the state's Innovative School District, a controversial program that would allow outside groups — including private nonprofits like AAC and, possibly, for - profit companies — to take over struggling traditional public schools.