Not exact matches
But a decade ago several trends in American
education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated
public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the
traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban
public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and
public sectors.
CityBridge
Education represents the early stage of the school development pipeline: In partnership with D.C.'s
traditional public (DCPS) and charter
sectors, we incubate and launch new schools and transform existing ones.
It wasn't until reformers created nondistrict charter - school
sectors — a space for
public education outside of the
traditional system — that we saw a proliferation of high - performing high - poverty schools.
But in a
sector of
public education with far less oversight than
traditional school districts, it's easy to see how a teacher could find herself fired and out of options.
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.
During this week, families, schools and organizations hold unique events, meetings and activities representing all
sectors of
education, from
traditional public schools, magnet schools,
public charter schools, private schools, online learning academies and homeschooling.
CityBridge
Education will pursue this goal through school creation — incubating and launching new schools and transforming existing ones, in partnership with the
traditional public (DCPS) and charter
sectors in Washington, D.C..
Opportunities such as the TFA conference are too rare — Educators and experts from the
traditional public school
sector and from the charter school community focusing on common special
education challenges and shared solutions.
A 2013 study by the Center for Research on
Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University analyzed the charter
sectors in 27 states and found that, on average, charter schools have significant positive impacts in both math and reading for black students in poverty, Hispanic students in poverty, Hispanic English language - learners (ELLs), students in poverty in general, and ELLs compared to their
traditional public school peers.
That's Mike Thomas of the Foundation for Excellence in
Education (FEE) arguing that Florida should allow more rapid expansion of the charter
sector not despite, but because of the «spectacular» negative impact this expansion is having on
traditional public schools and the children who remain in them.
Education remains an overwhelmingly
public sector enterprise — the vast majority of students are served by
traditional public schools, alongside the growing ranks of
public charter schools.