Sentences with phrase «than the traditional school system»

In light of the seemingly endless civil rights violations in the news daily, I was shocked to see our premier civil rights organization, the NAACP, call for a moratorium on the most effective vehicle for delivering better educational outcomes than our traditional school systems.

In D.C. in 2011 - 2012, the same year that charter schools were 72 times more likely than the traditional school system to expel a student, there were six charters that issued zero suspensions or expulsions, and 15 others that issued five or fewer.

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He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

Meanwhile, for those students for whom online education shines, we are starting to partner with schools and school systems to provide avenues to allow appropriate students to take their math classes from us rather than in a traditional classroom.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

The Telegraph has reported that the new GCSE's, which grade pupils on a 9 -1 system opposed to the traditional A * - G, will make it more difficult for schools to reach national benchmarks, with more than half expected to fall short.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

But I can't help but notice that all of these strategies are making deeper, faster inroads in the charter schools sector than in the old traditional public school system.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

For years, conservatives properly accused traditional urban school systems of being stubbornly resistant to change, but recent years have seen far more innovation in urban public education than in urban Catholic education.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

DPS» adoption of the LLN allows the district to shift more toward an authorizing body and service provider rather than a traditional command - and - control school system that emanates from the Superintendent's office with a focus on ``

DPS» adoption of the LLN allows the district to shift more toward an authorizing body and service provider rather than a traditional command - and - control school system that emanates from the Superintendent's office with a focus on «one best system» which we know does not work if you want a diverse set of great schools.

CBL is most prevalent at the high school level because the students have varying interests or logistical situations in which a CBL approach makes more sense than the traditional system.

High school teacher and instructional coach Tony Winger laments how traditional classroom grading practices lead to grades becoming a distraction from learning — a commodity students feel they work the system to attain — rather than a clear message to students and parents.

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

So why can't charter schools — with more autonomy and less accountability than traditional systems — leverage these advantages and provide a new path for labor and management interaction?

CCSA is serious about ensuring that the movement creates significantly better learning opportunities than are available within the traditional public school system for our students.

«CCSA is committed to creating significantly better learning opportunities than are available within the traditional school system.

California's charter law, created in 1992, gives more flexibility to charter schools than to traditional public schools, creating a two - tiered system of education that has at times led to animosity and division.

As voters decide whether to allow more charter schools, a Globe review has found that the schools enroll English - language learners at much lower rates than those in traditional systems, even as many charter schools have been stepping up efforts to recruit more of the students.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

More than a dozen states now grade their public schools using the traditional A through F system.

California's charter schools are serious about ensuring that the movement creates significantly better learning opportunities than are available within the traditional public school system for our students.

It is true that the evidence is that Connecticut Mastery Test scores are marginally higher in charter schools than in the nearby traditional public school systems.

Ever since the compulsory state government education system was created more than 150 years ago there have been important educational pioneers who have disagreed with the traditional authoritarian approach of most schools.

«But even as many parents have embraced the new schools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasschools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasschools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasSchools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University has found.

Moreover, the Connecticut Attorney General has acknowledged in these same court papers that to fund a system of magnet and charters would be more expensive than providing adequate support to the existing traditional public school system.

The city's public charter schools, which had higher scores than the traditional system, made their biggest gains since 2009.

It is then incumbent upon the charter school community to redouble our efforts to make sure that proper accountability systems are in place which will ensure that charter schools generate significantly higher levels of student learning than has historically been available within the traditional public education system.

Traditional school systems are more likely to employ general human resources personnel rather than full - time recruitment managers, thus leaving many of these schools out of Yale's «On - Campus Recruiting Program.»

If the focus and curriculum are appealing to you, or you like the idea of a school that has more autonomy than a traditional school in the system, you might prefer a charter.

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