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He also said the district needs to return to «neighborhood schools» and «promote charter schools which are generally more successful than the traditional public schools.»

For starters, the school district's computer couldn't accept SOF's narrative - style report cards, which evaluated students» proficiency in the core competencies rather than giving them traditional numeric grades in individual subjects.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

But charters, which get significantly less funding than traditional district schools, are able to direct more funding into classrooms.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

This is the fifth time in as many months that state oversight officials have taken some kind of disciplinary action against virtual schools — which some research has shown perform markedly worse academically than traditional district schools.

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.

Sure, Success Academy Harlem 5 may have a lower level of violent incidents than the traditional district school with which it shares space.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

More than 200 people from the LA Unified world attended the forum, which featured a series of workshops and discussion panels aimed at sharing best practices between the district's charter schools and traditional schools.

The model has allowed Rocketship to save roughly $ 500,000 per year in traditional expenses, which it reinvests in higher teacher salaries (20 percent higher than surrounding districts), a two - hour after - school Response to Intervention program, leadership training, and Academic Deans.

In August, the Success Academy network, which serves a predominantly low - income and minority population, boasted that its test scores were higher than any traditional public school district in... [Read more...]

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Overall, 44 % of DC students are in charters, which draw from across the District, and many go to traditional public schools that are selective or located in neighborhoods other than their own.