Sentences with phrase «to send one's children to charter schools»

Choice is not about sending all your children to a charter school over your boundary school.

Additionally, 30 percent of parents said they would be interested in sending their child to a charter school.

One approach might be to boost the number of conservative and Republican voters who send their children to charter schools, but this is problematic for two reasons.

And among those polled, parents were three times as likely to want to send their children to a charter school rather than a district school, with 21 percent choosing a district school.

Parents also can help by refusing to send their children to charter schools with union teachers.

We want to have the support and confidence to be able to send our children to a charter school if this is the one that works for our children,» Jocelyn Peralta, whose children attend a charter school in Pacoima, said on election night at Gonez's campaign party.

In 2016, we found that teachers were just as likely to homeschool their child or send their child to a charter school as other parents were.

Despite the sudden closure, Markowitz said she would consider sending her children to another charter school.

The reading passage for that question included this statement: «Multimillionaire Charles Mendel sends his children to a charter school because he believes that that charter schools deliver the highest quality education.»

I am sure that state legislatures would not spend taxpayer money on charter schools and parents would not send their children to charter schools without the power of the term that the «school reformers» use:» failing pubic schools».

If you are a Black, Hispanic, or Native American parent, and your zoned option is predominantly Black, Hispanic, or Native American, your best option is to send your child to a charter school if you value their overall growth, excellence, and the culture of the building they are being educated in.

Since many parents have experienced traditional public schools, there are those who have chosen to send their children to charter schools as a result of expectations not being met.

As an active parent in the community, Lanier said she was apprehensive at first about sending her child to a charter school.

These parents are more likely than the general population to be liberal; less likely to be Christian; more likely to be atheist; and more likely to send their child to a charter school.

We also don't know the public - private school break out of the respondents, or how many were sending their children to charter schools.

2) Families that send their children to charter schools are making a choice that best fits what they seek in an educational experience.

«Parents have reasonably good judgment about their kids... If you send your child to a charter school and you feel that things aren't going that well, you take your kids out of the charter school and go back to the regular public school.»

«We know we still have huge numbers of parents who want to send their children to a charter school but don't have access to one; that needs to change.

Do you want to send your child to a charter school, but feel the drive's too long?

On the other hand, there are many pros to sending your child to a charter school.

In fact, in the same survey, 51 percent said they would prefer to send their child to a charter school.

However, this ranking exists because over 50,000 Chicago families have continued to choose to send their children to charter schools, despite the obstacles I mentioned.

«We have no way of knowing how many parents would want to send their children to charter schools in areas where there are currently no charter schools.»

The resolution fails to acknowledge a simple reality: over 60,000 Chicago parents have chosen to send their children to charter schools, and thousands of students continue to languish on charter school waitlists.

A large majority of residents from Alderman Sawyer's ward are unhappy with the current state of public schools in Chicago and support having the option to send their children to charter schools.

Over 60,000 Chicago parents, including over a thousand from Chicago's 6th aldermanic ward, have chosen to send their children to charter schools.

These self - proclaimed «school reformers» use the term «failing pubic schools» to convince well - meaning but uninformed parents to send their children to charter schools that increase their children's segregation and treat their children as second class citizens, incapable of individuation and critical thinking.

Until the 1990s, families didn't have the option to send their children to a charter school.

In Michigan, state funding follows the student, so a local district loses funding if a family relocates, or chooses to send their children to a charter school or a school in a neighboring conventional district (permitted under a cross-district «schools of choice» program).

This session the Legislature chose to invest in charter students, chose to support charter teachers, and chose to honor the choice a parent makes when they send their child to a charter school.

Dr. Fuller points out the number of black families who choose to send their children to charter schools is growing, with nearly 200,000 additional families enrolling over the past five years.