Sentences with phrase «students in the traditional public school system»

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

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He saw so many students who didn't thrive in such a large group, and he felt the traditional public school system precluded him from giving his students the attention many of them needed.

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income, predominantly minority school districts — find themselves with limited resources to offer their large student populations.

High - achieving students, especially those growing up in poverty, have not been well served by our traditional public school system, and I believe they deserve a place to go to school where they can learn to their full potential.

Golovich, who worked for ten years in the traditional public school system for the Vallejo Unified School District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attenschool system for the Vallejo Unified School District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attenSchool District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attendance.

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Denver Public Schools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the disPublic Schools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the diSchools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the dischools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the districin high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the districIn 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the dispublic and charter schools in the dischools in the districin the district.

Finally, charter schools can complement the public school system by supporting students not typically well - served in traditional public schools.

Today NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has an editorial in the Daily News in which she defends «public education» — and, more specifically, the City's traditional school system — from alleged accusations that «they are violent, dysfunctional and that their students leave school without any knowledge.»

Allison, whose organization has received millions from large corporate donors to push the implementation of school vouchers in North Carolina, sees the Opportunity Scholarships program as a salvation for students who are not doing well in the traditional public school system.

Our antiquated education delivery system should be allowed to evolve from a «school system» to a «system of schools», with comprehensive traditional public school choice, expanded charter school capability, access to more choices for special needs children, and a fully paid exit option for students in failing schools.

Every school enrolling publicly funded students — traditional public schools, charter schools or private schools in the choice program — should be part of this new accountability system.

While being careful to say that «providing more educational options isn't against public schools,» she repeated hailed alternatives to traditional school systems and bashed people who support them as people who care only about «systems» and not individual students, and are only interested in sustaining the «status quo.»

The District also is a national leader in school choice, with 44 percent of students enrolled in public charter schools and a lottery system that allows students to enroll in traditional schools throughout the city.

The premise that students moving to charter schools will cause financial quakes in traditional school systems also suggests we should accept another premise that public school systems are so inflexible they can not adjust their fixed and variable costs and still produce quality learning.

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.»

It matched «virtual twins,» students with similar backgrounds and test scores, some of whom went to charters and some of whom stayed in the traditional public school system.

Today, the on - time high - school graduation rate is 73 percent for D.C.'s African - American charter students and 62 percent for their peers in non-selective schools in the traditional public school system, D.C. Public Sschools in the traditional public school system, D.C. Public Scpublic school system, D.C. Public ScPublic SchoolsSchools.

That's because this system will be a major shift in how traditional public schools teach students and measure progress.

Like traditional vouchers, ESAs remove public funds from the public system, resulting in fewer resources for the 5 million + students who are still educated by public schools.

Further, charter schooling may produce improvements in the broader education system by creating an environment where schools must compete for students; to attract students, schools must maintain a high level of quality.2 And though results vary among schools, states, and student subgroups, on average charter schools achieve positive results relative to traditional public schools, particularly with traditionally underserved student groups.

The Professor Emeritus and Research Professor has co-authored numerous articles centering around Maine's Proficiency - Based Diploma Systems, Implementing District - Level High School Graduation Policies, Challenges Faced by Maine School Districts in Providing High Quality Public Education, Pathways to College Readiness in Maine, The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools, Maine's Improving Schools, and more.

Opponents of charter schools, which include many school districts, say they worry that an increasing number of such schools will drain vital dollars away from traditional public schools and create a divided system in which select students attend charter schools and students with special needs fill the traditional schools.

It is then incumbent upon the charter school community to redouble our efforts to make sure that proper accountability systems are in place which will ensure that charter schools generate significantly higher levels of student learning than has historically been available within the traditional public education system.