Sentences with phrase «traditional public school issues»

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Another major issue still unresolved, according to Tom Precious of The Buffalo News: whether to drive more money to charter schools, as Senate Republicans want, or into the traditional public school systems, as Assembly Democrats insist upon.

Heastie told reporters that his members were willing to accept the tentative deal that settles outstanding issues, including traditional public schools vs. charter school funding — a big sticking point for the Democratic conference.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Mayor Bloomberg put on a full - court press yesterday to close a deal raising the cap on the number of charter schools — dispatching two of his top deputies to Albany to help resolve the sticky issue of having charters share space with traditional public schools.

Ideally, to examine the issue of segregation, we would pose the question, Are the charter schools that students attend more or less segregated than the traditional public schools these students would otherwise attend?

The only issues on which charter school parents are either less satisfied or more concerned than traditional public school parents are is the availability of extra-curricular activities, school facilities, and the location of their child's school.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

The findings, which will be published in the spring issue of Education Next and are now online at www.EducationNext.org, show that students attending charter high schools in Florida and Chicago have an increased likelihood of successful high - school completion and college enrollment when compared with their traditional public high school counterparts.

If cost and location were not issues, just one - third of parents say they'd pick a traditional public school over a private school (31 %), public charter school (17 %), or a religious school (14 %).

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A 2009 Stanford University report, lauded as most authoritative research yet on the issue, concluded that 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of traditional public schools.

Outside of those guidelines, which deal with issues such as fiscal requirements, student progress, and non-discrimination, the school is free to innovate in ways traditional public schools can not.

«Reforming our broken school funding system isn't a partisan issue, and a comprehensive, data - driven look at how we fund traditional public and charter schools in our state is long overdue,» said Rick Johnson, former Michigan House Speaker.

But, as Ms. Fariña confirms, the issue pervades all public schools, both traditional and charter.

Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report «showing» that charter schools — autonomous public schools of choice — do not work as well as the traditional district public schools.

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.

Yes, not having adequate funding has an effect on decisions regarding expansions for schools that don't have enough room, updating security systems which are critically important with the increase of school shootings or improving infrastructure issues that charter schools inherit from previously closed traditional public schools.

While the funding increase to make expenditures at schools of choice more aligned with traditional school district expenditures is laudable, these changes do not address the fundamental issue of funding inequity: that public schools of choice are not included in ECS and their students are therefore at risk of being treated differently under challenging funding conditions.

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).

But the supposed financial efficiency of charters is muddled by the fact these schools don't have to provide many of the services traditional public schools provide, such as transportation, a hot lunch, and personnel to attend to the needs of students who struggle with English or who have the most challenging physical and emotional issues.

The most authoritative study on the issue — out of Stanford University in 2009 — found that only 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and that 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of traditional public schools.

«Charter schools have helped educate children that probably wouldn't do as well in traditional public schools, such as children with substance abuse issues or children with learning disabilities,» said Bennett.

More funding for charter schools has been a contentious issue because both traditional public schools and charter schools compete for the same limited pot of education dollars from the state.

In this oped Marguerite Roza describes one critical issue underlying the fall 2015 Seattle Public Schools teachers» strike that neither the Seattle School District nor the Seattle Education Association, the teachers» union, took on: the built - in inequities across schools created by the district's outdated, traditional paySchools teachers» strike that neither the Seattle School District nor the Seattle Education Association, the teachers» union, took on: the built - in inequities across schools created by the district's outdated, traditional payschools created by the district's outdated, traditional pay scale.

When New York City parents talk about school choice, the assumption is that they are deciding between a traditional and a charter public school (with private religious and independent schools as a separate issue).

An analysis being issued today suggests that, at their best, charters are doing that job well, outperforming most traditional public schools that serve children in poverty...

In order to better understand these issues, CCSA began work to investigate differences between charter and traditional public school suspension rates.

The issue assesses the current state of charter schools, noting who is being served by these schools and how charter school students fare compared to their peers in traditional public schools.