Since 2001, a total of 33 empirical studies have looked into how education choice affects the academic outcomes in public schools and 31 found that
choice improves public school academic outcomes.
Providing lawmakers with the very best, most accurate and most reliable data is an imperative first step before any debate
on improving public schools occurs.
He ignores the wide body of research suggesting that school - choice
policies improve public schools by forcing them to compete for students that they used to take for granted.
These forums — which are still ongoing — were widely publicized, open to all and attended by both supporters and skeptics of the initiative to
improve public school enrollment.
According to the results from the 2007 - 08 Academic Performance Index, a statewide assessment, 12 of the 15 most
rapidly improving public schools that primarily serve poor students are charters.
There are many, proven ways to
improve public schools such as reducing class sizes, offering a well - rounded curriculum and increasing parental engagement.
Aside from the fact that this is a false choice (competition can actually
improve public school performance and school choice programs can save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondants toward Approach A.
The white school leaders that are trying to make change will be heartbroken if the years of work they put into
improving public schools don't pay off, but we will be crippled.
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) and D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) also are opposed to the voucher program, saying public dollars should go
toward improving public schools where they can help the most students.
In a paper released in March, he says that «every empirical study ever conducted in Milwaukee, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Maine and Vermont finds that voucher programs in those
places improved public schools.»
Aside from the fact that this is a false choice (competition can
actually improve public school performance and school choice programs can save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondents toward Approach A.
the taxpayer money should go
into improving the public schools, not into ghettoizing kids with the misfortune to have parents inferior to the wunnerful suzanne and marc.
Maine is now likely to be out of the running for this huge pot of stimulus funds for public education, and Maine's future taxes will go to the other states who are showing more innovation in
improving their public schools using the charter school model.
«Adam Haber, with his deep
roots improving our public schools and a successful business career, is the type of leader we need in the State Senate,» Schumer said in a statement.
Paterson said he thinks New York could have won $ 500 million to $ 700 million in the Obama administration's «Race to the Top» program to
improve public schools if the Legislature made two changes he urged: lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in the state from the current 200 and ending a measure that prohibits student...
The overwhelming defeat of private - school - voucher initiatives in California and Michigan last week shows that voters consider such proposals risky and that they would prefer to
improve public schools from within the system, voucher opponents said.
The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not
really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.
Three times as many Chicagoans side with the teachers union as with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on how to
improve public schools at a time when the two sides remain locked in contentious contract negotiations, a Chicago Tribune poll has found.
Charter schools are not the ultimate solution to bad public schools; rather, the solution lies in
improving public schools so that they have adequate resources, good teachers and a stimulating curriculum.
Among the many strategies for
improving public school teaching — performance pay, alternative certification, licensing exams, and professional practice schools — reformers have long neglected a potentially powerful one: teacher evaluations.
Its teaching staff is turning dedication into results: Barona's 125 - point jump on the state's Academic Performance Index (API) made it one of the
highest improving public schools in all of California.
Not only does school choice give low - income children the same choices and opportunities that children from wealthy families have always had, it
also improves the public schools, making them stronger and more effective,» Cruz said in the press release announcing the legislation.