Sentences with phrase «traditional public education say»

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Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

«The public wants public schools,» Mulgrew said, adding that he believes reform groups are trying to denigrate traditional public education, partially by changing teacher protections.

«I don't know how raising an extra $ 50 million for traditional public school and school improvement organizations is taking money away from public education,» Bradford said.

«Some 96 percent of students in public education attend traditional public schools,» Magee said.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

The supporters of the charter school moratorium made two arguments: the charter schools are not as good as people say they are, and if the charters schools expanded they would hurt the education of students in the traditional public schools.

Now in its sixth year, that turnaround approach is seen by some as a first of its kind — both for its academic results and, education experts say, for the inclusive and pragmatic way it got traditional public schools, charters, nonprofits, and families to work together.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

Fuller said, «Just because I don't support the traditional delivery system doesn't mean I'm an enemy of public education.»

«Our results certainly challenge the traditional view of public education as «unreformable,»» the study's director, David Grissmer, said in an accompanying press release.

Ashton said her experience teaching found the challenges to urban education more about the adults than the children, and she saw charter schools as a viable alternative to traditional public schools.

He also asked if the public would recognize «joined italics» — one of the two possible types of cursive that Charlotte Webb, prekindergarten - through fifth - grade English language arts coordinator for the education department, said third and fourth graders would be required to learn — as traditional cursive.

And they enjoy, for the most part, the same protections and immunities from lawsuits that traditional public school districts have, said David Anderson, who worked as the Texas Education Agency's general counsel for two decades.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

And yet he has said that he supports a moratorium — a repeal, if you will — on the approval and expansion of public charter schools, a sector that affords families zoned for long - struggling traditional schools the opportunity to have access to high - quality public education.

Randi Weingarten's recent claim that the charter school movement drives segregation and is built on racism is almost like saying that Brown vs. the Board of Education didn't happen because of the same antics happening in traditional public schools.

Evaluating teacher - training programs — regardless of whether they produce teachers through alternative or traditional routes — is «one of the toughest areas to get ahold of,» said Representative Rob Eissler, Republican of The Woodlands, who has headed the Public Education Committee in the Texas House since 2007.

«Regardless of whether a child attends a traditional public or charter school, they deserve the best possible education, and that starts with establishing a school funding program that's data - driven and works for all students,» said Mary Kay Shields, president of CS Partners.

But critics, including education historian Diane Ravitch, a New York University professor and former assistant U.S. secretary of education who is speaking at UW - Madison on Tuesday, say choice programs have drained resources from the traditional public school system without producing conclusive evidence that they are any better at educating students, particularly low - income ones.

After a career in traditional public education, Dr. Nichols said that she was attracted to the administrative position at IPA because of the single - gender model focused on equipping girls for academic success in high school, college, and in life.

«AB 913 would also protect funding for public education by applying to charter schools the requirements that have proven effective in minimizing conflict of interest in traditional public schools,» Rivas said.

«Pursuing Innovation gives us a comprehensive look at the current state of innovation in K - 12 education through the lens of competition, and the results are clear: Traditional public schools to which students are assigned by address are on the way out,» said Friedman Foundation President and CEO Robert C. Enlow.

E4E has given me a place where I can say that it isn't okay that students in many districts don't have the same materials and resources that students in many other traditional public schools have and where I can advocate on behalf of students who need additional resources to access education.

D.C. Council member David Grosso (I - At Large), who chairs the council's education committee, said he wasn't aware of the specific complaints against BASIS DC but made clear that the law applies to all of the city's traditional public schools and public charter schools.

Critics say the schools detract from public education by pulling funds from traditional public schools.

Charter school supporters say they are providing opportunities for students in areas with poor traditional public schools to have a better alternative to get an education, and some have even framed it in language of civil rights.

The new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, supports steering public dollars away from traditional public schools, saying tax - funded religious schools are a way «to advance God's kingdom.»

«We're increasingly recognizing the importance of physical activity for children even as the academic demands placed on them are cutting into the traditional programs of recess and physical education,» said Gerd Bobe, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, an expert in public health nutrition and behavior, and principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute.

Union leaders say they'd like to see a superintendent with a career in education; a history of collaboration with various local groups, including employees; and a commitment to focusing on the success of traditional public schools.

But if we're really concerned about quality — responding to Shelton — Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform Now (DFER), said we need to call for a «moratorium on the traditional public schools that have been failing [our children] for generations.»

School choice proponents say that charter schools and vouchers offer parents important options for their children's education — allowing them to leave their neighborhood schools in search of something better — and that traditional public schools have failed in many places.

But Clinton, who boarded Air Force One with the president for a campaign stop in North Carolina immediately after her speech, also disappointed some of the union's three million members when she said that as president, she would look to both charter schools and traditional public schools for models of what is working in education.

That rankles supporters of traditional public schools such as Gonzalez Petkovich, who say too many charters are fly - by - night companies that are only in it to grab taxpayer money and don't offer a well - rounded education.

«Working together with traditional public schools, our goal is to ensure that ALL Tennessee students are receiving a high quality public education, «Bugg said.

That comment was praised by teachers» unions, who jeered at Clinton in a speech this past July at the National Education Association convention where she said charters and traditional public schools should share ideas.

The goal of charter advocates, Castrejon said, is not to undermine traditional public education but to support a range of successful schools.

At a time when state budget cuts are currently hurting students and teachers at neighborhood public schools, CEA President Sheila Cohen said it would have been unconscionable for the state «to divert precious education funds to expand charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools and to the detriment of all students, but especially minority students in the state's poorest school districts.»

«When charter schools come into an education marketplace, they provide incentives to the traditional public schools to increase achievement levels,» he said.

But opponents criticize charter schools for being unable to serve students with special needs, sucking resources from traditional public schools and what some say is a system that privatizes public education.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

This isn't to say that defenders of traditional public education aren't concerned about any of this.