Sentences with phrase «system of public schools»

But in other cases, a local government could increase taxes all day and still not generate sufficient additional revenue to fund a truly free system of public schools.

Out of our clear differences, we are creating a dual system of public schools in black districts.

In a symbiotic and mutually reinforcing way, a robust public school choice system can help to attract young families to an urban area while an influx of young families can also create political momentum around more robust systems of public school choice.

[xxvii] Thus, when Congress authorized the admission of Washington, along with Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, into the Union, it also required the adoption of state constitutions providing «for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of said States, and free from sectarian control.»

DC and Milwaukee are both citywide programs, but DC is unique in its robust system of public school choice — roughly 35 percent of the control group in our study attended charter schools, for example.

At that time, the state of Texas had one of the most inequitable and unfair systems of public school finance in the country.

America lacks a theory that would explain how its current system of public schooling could function at an acceptable level.

Chief Justice Barbara J. Pariente of the Florida Supreme Court wrote in the majority opinion that the vouchers violate the state constitution's provision that requires a «uniform» system of public schools for all students.

A consensus will have emerged that a great nation must have a great system of public schools, not a patchwork of privatization and school choice.

Though it has taken a quarter - century — a snail's pace in the progressive's view of reform — chartering has enabled the development of stable but dynamic systems of public schools.

The fight for a unitary system of public schools and the rise of the dual system is chronicled.

Deregulated separate system of public schools usually operated by a board of directors independent of any school district.

Today in Part 4 of «Education Is My Right,» we will explore what education reformers can learn from this unique and innovative strategy which has attained such positive results that it is now being supported by educators and policymakers in Mexico's highly centralized system of public school education.

Research we've recently conducted in «high - choice» cities suggests that many parents, including those from very disadvantaged backgrounds, are actively choosing a school for their child, but too often these same parents are struggling to navigate an increasingly complicated system of public school options.

No part of the city's recovery has offered more hope, as well as evidence of solid progress, than the reform of our failed system of public schools.

«Establish general system of public schools»?

In more urban areas like Wake County and Guilford County, there is choice built into the system and families can choose from a number of public school options — a transparent and accountable system of public school choice that's worth building and investing on a larger scale to reach more students.

Although charter school students only make up about 5 percent of the 50 million K - 12 public school students in the country, charters have posed the only credible competition to the traditional system of public schooling.

Title V — to strengthen those state departments of education most in need of helping because the inequality that exists between states is a long - standing problem and funding improvements at that level helps move them closer to fulfilling their responsibility in providing a quality system of public schools.

Charter schools create a two - track system of public schools, described by the national NAACP as «separate and unequal.»

Thus, the drafters of our state constitution and the citizens in 1889 had one paramount goal, namely the ample funding of a uniform system of public schools.

In retrospect, it will mark a turning point in creating a more united system of public schools and blurring the difference between OPSB and RSD schools in New Orleans.

«Opening a parallel system of public schools that has the potential to take away from our current traditional system of schools is certainly not what's in the best interest of children,» KEA President Stephanie Winkler said during the committee meeting.

Historically, the United States has devoted itself to a comprehensive system of public schools, locally controlled and funded by public resources.

Fortunately, the lower court rejected this strained interpretation, holding instead that «the Nevada constitution requires the state to establish a non-sectarian system of public schools, but it is also empowered to encourage education by other means that are not limited to non-sectarian schooling.»

In order to establish a high - performing system of public schools, and to enhance the experience of Alabama's education for its students, parents, teachers, and administrators, Eagle Forum of Alabama recommends the following:

This is NOT the purpose of OUR free system of public schools as envisioned by our founding fathers.

Holding that the state's school finance system was rationally related to the constitution's requirement to provide «a thorough and uniform» system of public schools, the majority rejected the trial court's decision in its entirety.

The 22,395 - student Federal Way district, located between Seattle and Tacoma, declared in its lawsuit — filed Nov. 21 in King County Superior Court — that the formula violates the state constitutional requirement that the state create a «general and uniform» system of public schools.

President Barack Obama and former education secretary Arne Duncan are both supporters of charter schools, and even progressive stalwart Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a system of public school vouchers in a 2004 book.

At most, only one of the more than two dozen states that have tried statewide vouchers and tuition tax credits has yet to demonstrate convincing, measurable success with them, Given this reality, it is hard to make a case for substantially replacing our system of public schooling on a national scale.

There is no need to protect and defend a system of public schools if those schools fail to serve the purpose for which they were conceived and constructed.

The court also reminded plaintiffs that the Florida Supreme Court previously ruled they had no standing to sue against the tax - credit scholarship program and that the school choice program did not divert state funding or have any detrimental effect on Florida's system of public schools.

The Common School Era eventually gave way to the Progressive Era, and what would be recognized today as a system of public schools.

«Provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be open to all the children of the state and free from sectarian control, and said schools shall always be conducted in English.»

I grew up in a town where the philosophical commitment to creating a system of public schools to enhance the public good had largely been abandoned.

That's why the Wisconsin Constitution obligates our Legislature to create and nurture a system of public schools.

«The court finds that to maintain the status quo, that the state school fund must be used exclusively for establishing and maintaining a system of public schools, of course, in concert with the North Carolina Constitution,» said Judge Robert Hobgood.

A system of public schools which destroys rather than develops positive human potential now exists.

I look at how these schools fit into the system of public schools, and at what terms like public and private mean in terms of oversight and student rights.

The notion that private schools would inherently be any better than a system of public schools overlooks all the key factors — poverty being the first but not the only one — that affect our most troubled public schools right now.

Their complaint also claims the bill violates a constitutional requirement that lawmakers create a «uniform» system of public schools.

PAA has many concerns about charter schools, their effect on our nation's system of public schools, and how well they serve children and families.

We can do that through a unified, well - funded system of public schools.

Education for Change Public Schools» mission is to provide a superior public education to Oakland's most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on their students» academic achievement.

Conclusion The role of the Secretary of Education is to further the mission of the agency he / she leads, and to serve as the nation's highest profile supporter of our system of public schools.