Sentences with phrase «than local public schools»

Unlike the typical suburban middle class or urban family, rural families have few access points to schools other than their local public schools.

This is one situation where private schools can often offer more opportunities for creative endeavors than the local public schools.

As with traditional charter schools, the general idea behind cyber charter schools is to allow families and students to have a choice other than their local public school.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

Hentschke said charter schools also offer more college - oriented curriculums than local public schools.

How did Ms. Moskowitz, a hero to thousands of New Yorkers of modest means whose children have been able to get a better education than their local public schools offered, end up becoming public enemy No. 1?

(Just a quick reminder: charter schools are public schools intended to serve as «laboratories of innovation,» beholden to fewer requirements than local public schools with the hope they'll develop teaching and learning methods that are scalable to the larger public school population.

Apollo 20 schools receive $ 2,042 more in funding per student than local public schools.

Charter schools are typically hypersegregated by race / ethnicity and, in Connecticut's four largest cities, actually offer students, on average, a learning environment that is more or equally segregated by race and ethnicity than local public schools.

Vouchers don't provide an actual choice for students living in rural areas who have few, if any, access points to schools other than their local public schools.