Sentences with phrase «than one's neighborhood school»

... You say you're a better school and you're a charter school and you're educating the kids better than the neighborhood schools are doing.

Three years ago, I was just looking for a better option than my neighborhood school.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Nor does it feed into any high school, because it's a District - wide school rather than a neighborhood school.

We are FAR more diverse than the neighborhood school I pulled my oldest child out of 10 years ago.

And it's a sad fact that the schools that do get closed almost always have some kids attending them — and these kids, too often, are the least fortunate youngsters of all, boys and girls whose families lack the means, the concern, or the savvy to access better options for their sons and daughters than the neighborhood school whose continued existence can not be justified on any other grounds.

Congress created the nation's only federally funded school voucher program in the District to give the city's poorest children a chance at a better education than their neighborhood schools offer.

In Hartford, 59 percent of the 6,158 city students who entered the school - choice lottery for the past school year were offered enrollment in a school other than their neighborhood school.

Increasing numbers of U.S. students, over time, are attending public schools of choice rather than their neighborhood schools, a federal study concludes.

No one stacks this study up against Arne Duncan's claims that Chicago's charters are dramatically better than neighborhood schools.

However, in practice, a complex state funding mechanism means charters may get slightly more, or substantially less, than neighborhood schools, based on their enrollment.

Washington, DC is a major school choice city, meaning many parents choose to apply to schools other than their neighborhood school.