Sentences with phrase «traditional public education systems»

Liberals are correct: She represents a radical counter to traditional public education systems.

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

But is it enough to justify the traumatic disruption to the traditional public education system that charter schools have caused?

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.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has made clear her disdain for the traditional public education system, uses that term now to describe her critics, along with «sycophants of the system.»

As education journalist Valerie Strauss reported on her blog at the Washington Post, DeVos «made some controversial statements» about public schools, «calling the traditional public education system a «dead end.

That this was a conversation about a traditional public education system that we fight all the time.

If Betsy DeVos becomes Secretary of Education, the department will be run by someone who not only lacks any meaningful experience with public schools, but is fundamentally opposed to the mission and scope of the nation's traditional public education system.

It is then incumbent upon the charter school community to redouble our efforts to make sure that proper accountability systems are in place which will ensure that charter schools generate significantly higher levels of student learning than has historically been available within the traditional public education system.

Not exact matches

Similarly, we have a public education system which has been an effective agent in dissolving the ties and virtues of a traditional society.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige reaffirmed his support for public schools and the traditional separation of church and state last week, attempting to quell a furor over earlier, published remarks in which he praised the «strong value system» at Christian schools.

The solution isn't an improved traditional district; it's an entirely different delivery system for public education: systems of chartered schools.

Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education - reform emphases in recent years.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Current models of the mass education delivery system — traditional public, public charter, independent — just look and feel too much like they always have, when most everything else in modern society has progressed.

Independent public schools of choice could turn out to be as disruptive to traditional education systems as those crummy little Sony radios turned out to be to the vacuum - tube behemoths and as Honda was to Detroit.

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.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

For years, conservatives properly accused traditional urban school systems of being stubbornly resistant to change, but recent years have seen far more innovation in urban public education than in urban Catholic education.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Newer programs have developed accountability systems similar to those for traditional public schools: the state department of education oversees the choice program and participating private schools take state tests, receive letter grades from the state systems, and are subject to consequences based on those grades.

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.

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

It has become clear that traditional methods of investing in a world - class public education system are gone, and...

To argue that charter public schools are taking money from the traditional public school system doesn't make sense; they are a part of the public education system.

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.

In The Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.

The result is a compromise bill that gained unanimous approval from the House Education Committee and the public support of both charter proponents and their counterparts in the traditional public school system.

«There is a role for charter schools in California's education system, and that role should be performed to the same high standards of integrity, transparency and openness required of traditional public schools.»

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Today NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has an editorial in the Daily News in which she defends «public education» — and, more specifically, the City's traditional school system — from alleged accusations that «they are violent, dysfunctional and that their students leave school without any knowledge.»

«The mythical failure of public education has been created and perpetuated in large part by political and economic interests that stand to gain from the destruction of the traditional system,» the authors write in the book's intro.

I guess «Education» in this case doesn't mean the traditional public school system, because it is bleatingly obvious that the Mayor has little or no commitment to this institution.

But critics see charters as part of the movement to privatize public education, and the growth of charter schools has drained many traditional public school systems.

Our antiquated education delivery system should be allowed to evolve from a «school system» to a «system of schools», with comprehensive traditional public school choice, expanded charter school capability, access to more choices for special needs children, and a fully paid exit option for students in failing schools.

«Providing high - quality correctional education that is comparable to offerings in traditional public schools is one of the most powerful — and cost - effective — levers we have to ensure that youth are successful once released and are able to avoid future contact with the justice system,» wrote Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Erieducation that is comparable to offerings in traditional public schools is one of the most powerful — and cost - effective — levers we have to ensure that youth are successful once released and are able to avoid future contact with the justice system,» wrote Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General EriEducation Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

California's charter law, created in 1992, gives more flexibility to charter schools than to traditional public schools, creating a two - tiered system of education that has at times led to animosity and division.

As a former home - school parent / advocate, I wanted to be a part of a movement that provided additional FREE excellent education opportunities outside of the traditional public school system.»

In my experience, there are some aspects of KIPP that are truly outstanding, but KIPP can learn much about «systems» from traditional public schools, and where I teach, we do not have a strong special education program because of our belief that «hard work» is all you need and our school leader's philosophy opposing the idea of special education.

She also noted that «the expansion of charter schools has detrimental effects on traditional public schools,» because they siphon public education funds away from the traditional school system.

There is no doubt that these cuts will harm our public education system, for public charter schools and traditional public schools alike.

Further, charter schooling may produce improvements in the broader education system by creating an environment where schools must compete for students; to attract students, schools must maintain a high level of quality.2 And though results vary among schools, states, and student subgroups, on average charter schools achieve positive results relative to traditional public schools, particularly with traditionally underserved student groups.

The Professor Emeritus and Research Professor has co-authored numerous articles centering around Maine's Proficiency - Based Diploma Systems, Implementing District - Level High School Graduation Policies, Challenges Faced by Maine School Districts in Providing High Quality Public Education, Pathways to College Readiness in Maine, The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools, Maine's Improving Schools, and more.

According to Julia Sass Rubin, a parent and member of the grassroots group Save Our Schools New Jersey, a PAA affiliate, «If a traditional public school converts to a charter schools, it affects the education of every child in that community by drawing critical resources from the traditional public school system.

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.