Sentences with phrase «to leave public schools»

A third possibility is that, so long as only a few students leave a public school with scholarships, the program could have effects on resources.

Yes, even if students leave a public school system, fixed costs mean vouchers increase, not decrease expenses.

The gains occur immediately, before any students leave the public schools with a scholarship, implying that competitive threats are responsible for at least some of the estimated effects.

Students who leave public schools to attend independent charter schools effectively take their state tax dollars with them.

After the first year of the analysis, resource and composition effects may occur as students who receive scholarships leave the public schools for private schools.

A number of white families left the public schools in these communities in the 1960s and 1970s to start these small, private academies, many of which still thrive.

A triple - difference estimate indicated the bonus program also substantially reduced the likelihood of teachers leaving the public school sector.

Our results confirm that the least - effective principals are least likely to remain in their current position and most likely to leave the public schools entirely.

«I'm scared of what will happen if more and more parents leave the public schools,» she says.

These critics ask us to leave public schools alone apart from creating voluntary national standards — speed zones without traffic tickets, as it were.

When students leave public schools using vouchers that cost less than what was spent on them in the public school a net saving occurs.

That bill would have offered tax credits to businesses that establish scholarships helping low - income students who want to leave their public schools for private ones.

Others are concerned that only the relatively more economically and academically advantaged students enroll in charters, leaving public schools with more concentrated poverty and students who tend to have more learning difficulties.

Jurisdictions that already have excess capacity as a result of children leaving the public schools for charters ought to be required to allow those facilities to be used by charter school students rather than remain underutilized.

Ethnic composition of the student body is also an important determinant both of the probability of leaving the public schools entirely and of switching from one school district to another.

Less experienced white teachers are also more likely to leave the public schools altogether if they come from schools with higher concentrations of African - American and Hispanic students.

Opponents worry that vouchers will actually leave public schools worse off by draining them of funds and encouraging the best students and the most involved parents to flee a failing school.

Opponents also argue that choice policies will lead to «creaming,» in which well - off students disproportionately choose to participate in choice programs, leaving public schools worse off.

In Indiana, researchers found that students lost ground in math — as measured by test scores — in the first two years after leaving public school, but began to improve after four years if they stayed with the program.

Students who leave a public school district to attend a charter school — an independent public school that operates free of district oversight — take with them a slice of state aid that would have gone to the local district.

money, follow the money: These charter school proponents would love to privatize and monetize everything in sight - including your children's future - as they increasingly suck up your tax dollars and public buildings and public resources for their own ideological and profit - making ends — leaving the public schools starved.

Evangelicals usually leave public schools reluctantly and see Christian schools as a stopgap measure in these «troubled» times.

As for Jasey, who left her public school job in New Jersey for a $ 125,000 - per - year teaching post at a charter school in New York, she is hopeful that American Teacher will promote dialogue and impart «a new appreciation for how complicated and how difficult the job is, as well as the broad range of talent required to do it well.

One student reports leaving his public school to enter BASIS.

After all, if education dollars follow the student, rather than going directly into the public school, then a portion of the money available to educate a departing student will indeed leave the public school.

If anything, the higher level kids will start leaving the public schools due to testing and monotony.

These students» departures, because of the skewed demographics that exist as a result of decades of de facto and de jure segregation laws, left the public schools less racially stratified as a result.

Another concern: students with special needs who leave public schools also leave behind critical federal protections provided by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which work to guarantee that disabled students receive the educational services to which they are entitled under federal law.

There were objections to money leaving public schools when students left for other options, fears that the established, successful curriculum would disintegrate, and concerns that students would not receive certain specialized services.

A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says many of the nation's state voucher programs — as well as many private schools — aren't providing parents with the information about how leaving the public schools may affect the federal protections available to children with disabilities.

Welner takes issue with one of these, arguing that Florida's OPPAGA study is based on questionable assumptions regarding the number of students who were induced to leave the public school system because of the STC program.

Over the last six years I've watched dozens of talented, intelligent teachers leave the public schools in the Bronx neighborhood where I teach.

In his willful distortion of the facts, Mr. Grace states that when a child leaves the public schools to enroll in a charter school, the district gets to keep that child's state Education Cost Sharing allocation and «distribute most of that surplus among their other schools.»

Last summer the Indianapolis - based Friedman Foundation for Education Choice commissioned a study of why parents leave public schools for private schools.

We can eliminate the possibility of student - body composition and resource effects by concentrating solely on the FTC program's effects during the 2001 — 02 school year, after the program's announcement but before students could actually leave the public schools with a scholarship.

Every student who leaves a public school in an LEA receiving impact aid reduces the funds available in that account for division among all other LEAs relying on it.

According to Spitzer - Resnick, a child who leaves public school for a private school program forfeits all state and federal rights to special education.

For example, losers may be less likely to be found than winners, because students who lose the opportunity to attend a charter or pilot school may be more likely to leave the public schools altogether.

Yet Ravitch sees no hope for choice and competition in education, asking us to leave public schools alone apart from articulating voluntary national standards without holding anyone accountable for meeting them.

Voucher students experienced «modest annual achievement losses» in math, especially in the first two years after leaving public school.

When those students left public schools using vouchers worth an average $ 3,702, either the state, the public schools, or both retained a portion of the difference for each departing student.

The report asks, «If a significant number of students left a public school district for any reason from one year to the next, is it feasible for the district to reduce the costs of these items commensurate with the decrease in its student population?»

In some cases, charter schools are absorbing nearly all of a district's state education aid, leaving public schools entirely dependent on local property taxes, Â capped each year at a 2.5 % increase, and undermining the equalizing intent of the Education Reform Act of 1993.

Students who leave the public schools with a voucher are considered to be parentally placed in the private school, and thus forfeit many of the protections provided to students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), including a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).

With very few exceptions, private schools are not unionized, and every time students leave their public schools, fewer unionized teachers are needed.

However, states like Pennsylvania have stringent laws where approval must be given at the state level before your child can leave the public school system.