Sentences with phrase «than charter schools»

Public schools spend more than charter schools because public schools do more.

Parents are far more effective advocates for their children — and for other children in their community — than charter school leaders or policy experts or professional advocates.

This will have the effect of strengthening the grip of unions where teachers unions are more popular than charter schools.

If the educational goal is to close the achievement gap, then it will take something more disruptive than charter schools.

The city's traditional public schools use long - term suspensions more often than charter schools, imposing nearly twice as many in the past academic year, according to school data.

They should instead throw their mighty force behind traditional public schools which, thus far, have done better than charter schools.

«Maybe the biggest difference that I see with being a district school rather than a charter school is that we have so much support,» Hicks said about GALA.

New York City charters as a group, however, scored higher than charter schools in the rest of the state.

For example, the report doesn't consider that students who need special education services are more likely to enroll in district schools than charter schools and it costs more to provide those services to students.

Wilson feels that public schools, and families that go to them, have wrongly been labeled as failed schools, and that as a result the families and children that remain in those schools end up being seen as less than their charter school peers in the Rutherford County community.

In its purest and most honest form, that should also mean we support all school choice even if that means people decide on something other than charter schools.

«This proposal tells the people of this state that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children,» Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, said in a statement.

Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, the UFT's state affiliate, said: «This proposal tells the people of this state that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children.

Charter schools in LA also perform 2.6 % higher than charter schools across the state.

The SASS also suggests that magnet schools receive many more resources than charter schools, on average.

But with students walking freely across the campus, chatting or looking at their cell phones, the school looks shockingly different than charter schools like KIPP or IDEA, where rigor is often defined by conformity to a single teaching model and highly - standardized, test - driven learning environments.

They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more successful than charter schools.»

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

Lhota: «There's nothing more progressive today than the charter school movement throughout the United Staes.»

The available data indicate that this subset of K12 schools received an average of $ 7,393 in public revenue per student, which is 20 percent less than the charter school average ($ 9,258) and 37 percent less than the district school average ($ 11,708) for the same states.

Despite countless stories like Jamal's, in the end nothing — and I mean nothing — was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

But this is bigger than charter schools.

I, too, hope the NAACP remembers that «7 out of 8 Black public school students in America attend traditional public schools, so it goes without saying that the traditional public school system is far more responsible than charter schools for the inequities and outcomes of Black students.»

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* This story has been updated, at the authors» request, to reflect that «The Hangover» covers the teacher evaluation issue more broadly than charter schools.

However, in four states (Wyoming, Delaware, Missouri, and New Jersey) traditional public schools enroll at least five percent more students with disabilities than charter schools.

«The fact is that districts are more likely to scale improvement and provide sustainability than charter schools in urban areas.

«A recent report from GO, the main supporters of this policy, found that OUSD spends $ 1400 on average more per student than charter schools in Oakland do, and they see that as unfair.

It also frames Tuesday's choice as something larger than charter schools or traditional schools: an extension of a national debate about whether the public sector, including education, will be democratic and equitable, or privatized and outsourced to the lowest bidder.

The district school (Bernstein) is less poor and whiter than the charter school it is co-located upon.

So, to even make that argument you're admitting that public schools are worse than Charter schools, and will be for the forseeable future.

Jalayah completed the school year at Achievement First, but Cochrane said it was clear that she needed more resources than the charter school could offer.

El Camino Real Charter High School is offering its veteran teachers up to $ 30,000 if they retire with the district rather than the charter school.

According to Mathis, achievement scores at traditional public schools aren't much different than the charter schools.

Rice also pointed out that even the pro-charter CREDO report (2013), funded by charter advocates like the Walton Family Foundation, said ELL students do better in district schools than charter schools.

They were also doing better than charter schools.

But «clearly we're talking about more than charter schools.»

In fact, according to the Common Core of Data, magnet schools serve more total students (2.52 million) than charter schools (2.19 million).

«Why do state officials value conventional schools more than charter schools?

In fiscal 2011, traditional D.C. public schools received, per student, 43.9 percent more total dollars — private and public — than charter schools.

It's a great deal for people like DeVos who get a lot more than charter schools — the nomination is chief among the spoils.

Unfortunately, due to financial and logistical considerations, the placement option offered by the District for students with more significant needs is often back at a traditional school site rather than the charter school.