Sentences with phrase «to run public schools»

A charter school is an independently run public school granted greater flexibility in its operations, in return for greater accountability for performance.

No single operating partner can or should run a public schooling system.

You can wish that educators were free to spend public funds and run public schools as they see fit.

The people running our public schools don't want to damage a student's self - esteem.

Perhaps educators and community leaders could partner and run public schools outside the traditional system.

Businesses can be contracted to run public schools based on alternative models of school organization.

The states are responsible for running public schools, and for the accountability, regulatory and registration frameworks for all school sectors.

You sound like a bitter old lazy typical government run public school teacher!

Since 1995, the board has approved plans for 159 charter schools, which are independently run public schools that operate free of most state regulations.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

Gov. Cuomo is expected to call for more of the privately run public schools in his annual budget address next week.

They also underestimate the costs of running public schools, though they revise their thinking rather substantially about the merits of spending increases once they learn the facts.

Labor groups representing educators at the city's traditionally run public schools and privately operated charters are set to merge, following a vote by Chicago Teachers Union members.

San Antonio's public school officials could learn from their peers in other U.S. cities where running public schools like charters empowers teachers, administrators, and parents, author David Osborne said Monday night at a panel discussion on public education.

Over the past two years, state regulators have reviewed 78 of Arizona's original charter - school operators, the first to be granted 15 - year contracts to create privately run public schools funded with state and federal money.

Vallas had floated the idea of the Christian Brothers running a public school as early as 1997, recalls Ed Siderewicz, a young Christian Brother who helped start the San Miguel Back of the Yards School, «but we shrugged it off as compromising our mission.»

Although still in its infancy, the CTA effort appears to signal a new approach toward the independently run public schools by a state labor organization that remains among the charter movement's strongest critics.

The mandate was to build schools that are defined mainly by what they are not: bland or bureaucratically run public schools.

Edison, which tried to run public schools at a profit, faltered.

Buried in a new report by the U.S. Department of Education is a comparison claiming to show that charter schools — independently run public schools free from many restrictions — have lower average test scores than regular public schools.

Looking closer at one of Idaho's rural communities, Bingham County in eastern Idaho has seen stagnant or declining enrollment in its district - run public schools over the last three years (Table 1).

Since the Mississippi Charter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for their kids.

Signaling the sensitivity of making even modest changes in how California runs public schools, the State Board of Education on Wednesday delayed action on an unusual request from San Jose Unified School District and its teachers union to change the length of probation for new teachers.

This interview with teacher Carrie Bakken addresses how a partnership handles running a public school.

He is a former co-founder of the Green Dot charter schools in Los Angeles and was chief executive of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, which runs public schools as a collaborative effort with the mayor's office and the district.

In 2016, a youth movement of over 1,000 autonomously run public school occupations (or encampments) swept into my field site.

«There's opposition because the charter school movement changes the fundamental power structure of public education, saying that entities other than school districts can successfully run public schools.»

Charter schools are independently run public schools exempt from many rules and regulations in exchange for increased accountability.

It displays a lack of trust in democratically run public schools and arts and music teachers.

School Board attorney Bill Aaron said the district would remove the banners from its six traditionally run public schools.

That money is transferred to a public school fund, where it contributes a tiny amount to the $ 5.4 billion cost of running public schools each year in Colorado.

The Malloy administration gave Jumoke / FUSE charter school company no - bid contracts to run public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and was granted management of a new charter school in New Haven.

The program, which received $ 217 million in the fiscal 2005 federal budget, provides start - up funding for the independently run public schools.

David Dunn, head of the Texas Charter Schools Association, has said that one of the greatest funding inequities of charter schools — which are privately run public schools — is on facilities.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

At many New York City - run public schools, a majority of students are not passing statewide tests.

«Take the roughly 1,700 public schools in Colorado, multiply that by 20 years, and the odds of a district - run public school being shut down by the state is 34,000 to one,» Medler said to the Post.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

He attended a regular district - run public school in Irvington, New York, a wealthy Westchester suburb where the median household income is nearly $ 100,000 and home prices routinely exceed $ 1 million.

True, the revenue amounts received by charters and TPS are more even once you exclude all of the ways that district - run public schools are forced to be inefficient.

Chartering, which crept on stage in 1991, subtly but importantly showed that entities besides districts could run public schools — and often run them better.

States would be allowed to continue restricting public funding to government - run public schools, as most do now.

He argued that teachers should be granted charters to run public schools of choice, free from the regulations that frustrate teachers, but subject to strict accountability requirements.