The Donnell - Kay Foundation is undertaking a large - scale effort to create a new
system of public education delivery that would use different accountability metrics.
If chartering is to live up to its promise as an alternative to the district - based
system of public education delivery, authorizing must get more attention.
Not exact matches
Tinubu said that a proper
system of education and global health care
delivery are indispensable towards making Nigerian child relevant in the global context, stressing that the National Health Act, 2014, should exempt all pregnant women, the elderly, the disabled and children from paying for services in
public hospitals.
Texas's pre-K pilot program combines a mixed
delivery system comprised
of public and private providers and consultant services from a third - party expert, the Center for Improving the Readiness
of Children for Learning and
Education (CIRCLE) at the University
of Texas.
The solution isn't an improved traditional district; it's an entirely different
delivery system for
public education:
systems of chartered schools.
While expanding parental options for children's
education in Milwaukee, school choice has transformed
public education into a multi-sector
delivery system for the good
of everyone.
Current models
of the mass
education delivery system — traditional
public,
public charter, independent — just look and feel too much like they always have, when most everything else in modern society has progressed.
In the District
of Columbia, for example, where nearly 100 charter campuses are educating more than one - third
of the
public school students, charters are increasingly accepted as an integral part
of the
public education delivery system: Sixty - three percent
of D.C. residents know they are
public schools.
Bur in all three, chartering magnified the capacity
of a challenged district
delivery system to do things better, while furthering structural innovation within
public education.
Early
education is an established «diverse
delivery»
system: many types
of providers, including Head Start programs,
public schools, private childcare centers, and community - based nonprofits, are permitted to serve children.
Fifteen years ago, our book, Charter Schools in Action, foresaw this innovative governance and
delivery system for
education as a hopeful path to stronger student achievement and as an engine «to recreate the democratic underpinnings
of public education and rejoin schools to a vigorous civil society.»
Fuller said, «Just because I don't support the traditional
delivery system doesn't mean I'm an enemy
of public education.»
Just as I reached the conclusion that urban districts can't be fixed and, therefore, we need to create a new
delivery system for
public education in America's cities, a large and growing number
of reformers interested in teacher preparation believe that we can't trust the old
system to change adequately and that, instead, we need to create new pathways into the profession.
Having just completed a brutal round
of jousting in the interest
of public education reform during the Texas legislative session, I have a renewed appreciation for the obstacles we face in achieving meaningful systemic change in our
education delivery 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.
In addition to his K - 12
public education experience, Alan has also been the Program Director for the Center for Educational Leadership and Effective Schools at the University
of California, Santa Barbara where he collaboratively supported the
delivery of high quality services and research to school districts focusing on the rigorous examination
of strengths, building leadership capacity, and facilitating the potential
of systems for transformation.
Citizens, legislators, and regulators should separate the concept
of public education from the monopolistic
delivery system and embrace 21st - century methods
of connecting students with learning experiences.
Common challenges include: legal
education reform and preparing lawyers for a future that is already here; solving access to justice; defending the rule
of law; creating appropriate guidelines for social media, ensuring that its role in the court
of public opinion does not marginalize the legal
system; and narrowing the delta between current legal
delivery methods and customer needs and expectations.
Family child care providers are an important sector
of Massachusetts mixed
delivery system of early
education and care, serving more children than
public school preschool programs and Head Start programs combined.