Sentences with phrase «traditional public school alternatives»

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The aim of these recent suits (contrary to the claims of outraged separationists) is not to restore traditional religious teaching and practices, but to purge away a «counterreligion,» an alternative system of belief that the plaintiffs claim public schools are inculcating.

Cuomo and Flanagan also want to make it even easier for charter schools to reject, and even kick out, students who don't do well academically and might tarnish the pretty statistics charter schools often paint to suggest they present a much better alternative to traditional public schools.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

In the 25 years since Minnesota passed the first charter school law, these publicly funded but privately operated schools have become a highly sought - after alternative to traditional public education, particularly for underserved students in urban areas.

Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.

We find at least one piece of evidence of competition awareness in all 12 cities, indicating that traditional public - school leaders generally acknowledge students» alternative schooling option of attending a charter school.

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

Alternative routes to certification are programs that prepare people to be public school teachers outside of a traditional undergraduate or graduate program.

Competition from charters and other schools of choice is one proven way to do that, so continuing to grow alternatives to traditional public schools should remain at the top of our priority list.

One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public schools when a charter school opened nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public school to the charter school.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

Charter schools have become a popular alternative to traditional public schools, with some 5,000 schools now serving more than 1.5 million students, and they have received considerable attention among researchers as a result.

Alternative certification and charter providers are good; traditional preparation and traditional public schools are bad.

The decision was perhaps the biggest advance yet for a movement that embraces not only vouchers, but also an assortment of new arrangements in public education, among them charter schools, corporate management of public schools, open enrollment, and other alternatives to traditional schools.

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 graduaAlternative» 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 graduationSchools 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 graduationschools 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 graduaalternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Charter schools have emerged as the most widely discussed alternative to traditional public schools.

Just as information on state and national ranking lowers evaluations of the public schools, it increases the willingness of the public to support alternatives to the traditional public school.

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income,...

No fewer than 26 % percent of respondents living with school - age children have used an alternative to traditional public schools at some point in those children's education.

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income, predominantly minority school districts — find themselves with limited resources to offer their large student populations.

According to the author of the ECCI, Russ Whitehurst, DPS has «a good mix and utilization by parents of alternatives to traditional public schools.

In a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public school.

Set up as alternatives to traditional public schools, charter schools typically operate under private management and often boast small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.

The lack of a statistically significant association between racial imbalance scores for any group and the availability of alternatives to traditional public schools is consistent with the hypothesis that charter schools and affordable private schools are not a necessary component of choice - based racial imbalance in public schools.

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.

For many parents, educators, and policy - makers in the United States, charter schools - innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must «compete» for students in order to retain their charters - have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools.

Along with the cuts, among the steepest the agency has ever sustained, the administration is also proposing to shift $ 1.4 billion toward one of President Trump's key priorities: Expanding charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools.

Charter schools are created to provide alternatives to traditional public schools.

The proposed cuts in long - standing programs — and the simultaneous new investment in alternatives to traditional public schools — are a sign of the Trump administration's belief that federal efforts to improve education have failed.

Enrollment in charter schools, publicly financed alternatives to traditional public schools, has been growing in recent years.

Since taking charge in Raleigh, conservative lawmakers have been steering public dollars into a range of alternatives to traditional public schools that march under the banner of «school choice.»

Proponents contend that charters offer alternatives to traditional public schools that better match children's needs and inject healthy competition in the system while adhering to some of the same accountability mechanisms.

This year's eight fellows were selected from a pool of over 1200 applications from teachers and instructional specialists serving in traditional public and charter schools, as well as alternative and private schools; from nearly every state, grade level and instructional area, and who teach in a wide variety of urban, rural and suburban settings.

Public funds should remain in public schools and should not be used to support private or parochial schools.Alternative Education Alternative educational opportunities should be made available to students for whom the traditional classroom setting is not the optimal learning enviroPublic funds should remain in public schools and should not be used to support private or parochial schools.Alternative Education Alternative educational opportunities should be made available to students for whom the traditional classroom setting is not the optimal learning enviropublic schools and should not be used to support private or parochial schools.Alternative Education Alternative educational opportunities should be made available to students for whom the traditional classroom setting is not the optimal learning environment.

Conceived as a way to teach a small segment of the home - schooled and others who need flexible schooling, virtual education has evolved into an alternative to traditional public schools for an increasingly wide range of students — high achievers, strugglers, dropouts, teenage parents and victims of bullying among them.

While charters remain a small slice of the public school system, they nonetheless occupy a far larger position in the public policy landscape and continue in many states to attract controversy because of their role as alternatives and competitors to traditional schools.

First lady Melania Trump and Queen Rania Al - Abdullah of Jordan paid a visit to an all - girls D.C. charter school on Wednesday, an event that served to promote the empowerment of young women and to highlight the Trump administration's interest in promoting alternatives to traditional public schools.

Certified teachers remain one of the best options for boosting student performance, as school districts and the public consider alternative choices to traditional schooling.

Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.

The schools will serve as an alternative to traditional public schools in an area where many parents have lost faith in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Charter schools provide an alternative approach to education in traditional public schools (TPS).

Would parents choose to opt out of the traditional system if spots were available in alternative public schools?

Some parents will choose home school, private school or public charter schools as an alternative to the traditional public school setting.

No one has ever said that these alternatives to traditional public schools are perfect or should operate with impunity.

Though our governmental advocacy, product development and partnerships with private finance providers, CCSA and our members will remain focused on this issue to ensure that charter school students receive the same funds as their traditional public school counterparts, and have more alternatives to access working capital when they need it most.

Overall, the GAO found that Black students, boys, and students with disabilities were all disproportionately disciplined in the 2013 - 2014 school year (the latest available data) and that disproportionality is widespread and persistent despite the level of school poverty, type of disciplinary action, or type of public school attended (e.g., traditional, magnet, charter, alternative, or special education).

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.

Charter schools were authorized by the Texas Legislature in 1995 to provide an alternative to traditional public schools.

DeVos is a Michigan billionaire who has labored tirelessly for decades to promote school choice, or alternatives to traditional public schools, and is seen by critics as the most ideological and anti-public-education secretary in the more than 40 years of the department's history.

But the details of the long - awaited report also present a more nuanced picture of charter schools in the state, indicating that they are almost as varied as the traditional public schools to which they serve as alternatives.