Sentences with phrase «traditional public school system»

Most charter schools have been successful because their leaders have had the ability to innovate in ways their counterparts in traditional public schools systems can not.

The current superintendent has also worked extensively with charter schools, which compete for funding and resources with traditional public school systems.

Is the exploration of new markets more prominent where traditional public school systems have been resistant to change or where they have begun to incorporate charters into more diverse portfolio systems?

However, it does not mean we throw away the entire traditional public school system.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

Critics say new charter schools drain money from traditional public school systems and are largely unaccountable.

This past summer, Weingarten unveiled her latest line - of - attack, calling charters the «slightly more polite cousins of segregation,» since many of them enroll high numbers of low - income, minority students who have been underserved by traditional public school systems.

I would like to see the conversation move toward a more productive place that takes into account all the implications of introducing choice into traditional public school systems, not just the potential benefits for some students and families.

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.

But I can't help but notice that all of these strategies are making deeper, faster inroads in the charter schools sector than in the old traditional public school system.

Nationally, charter schools got started in 1991 as an answer to a failing traditional public school system.

Apparently dismantling traditional public school systems and creating collections of charter schools across cities.

The state's 107 charter schools, including QEA, receive public funds but are run by separate non-profit organizations and intended to develop innovate teaching systems that don't exist at traditional public school systems.

The rise of the charter movement here coincides with President Trump's push to use «school choice» to disrupt traditional public school systems.

It is true that the evidence is that Connecticut Mastery Test scores are marginally higher in charter schools than in the nearby traditional public school systems.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia said some of her members are deeply angry about charter schools because of the way they have siphoned money away from traditional public school systems.

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.

Unfortunately, in the traditional public school system the union & it's protectionist politics are the most important thing.....

But at 19, the Sudanese immigrant had just two years to learn the language and pass five Regents exams before he would age out of the traditional public school system.

«And we have quite a bit of dysfunction in our traditional public school system.

I do think, though, that if we try to make rules so that nothing ever goes wrong, we're going to look a lot like the traditional public school system.

Madeleine Sackler's film The Lottery endeavors to uncover the failures of the traditional public school system by following four families from Harlem and the Bronx who have entered their children in a charter school lottery.

I learned plenty about whether charter schools outperform district schools, and in which conditions, and whether competitive effects from charter schools can improve the traditional public school system.

And some visionary charter school leaders already see special education not merely as a political liability, which it is now more than ever, but as an opportunity to propel charters even further into the mainstream and to prove that charters can do special education better than the traditional public school system — unfortunately, that shouldn't be a very difficult feat.

Just as notably, the transformation is taking place not at charters but in the traditional public school system, an institution that many reformers have written off as too hidebound to innovate.

Many launched their careers in poor communities, where they grew frustrated with the traditional public school system's resistance to change.

He saw so many students who didn't thrive in such a large group, and he felt the traditional public school system precluded him from giving his students the attention many of them needed.

In the preceding analyses, we excluded charter schools so we could focus on choice policies within the traditional public school system.

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.

The success of these brand - name schools is having an impact on the traditional public school system.

JC and TM: The early adopters will arise from outside the traditional public school system.

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

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.

At the same time, even if we accept New Orleans as a success story, it's fair to ask whether similar success might have been achieved through a thorough reform of a traditional public school system.

«The chancellor is committed to the traditional public school system and making change from within,» Jeffries told The Post.

Educational choice programs — defined broadly as programs that provide parents financial aid to opt their children out of the traditional public school system — have been a topic of significant public discussion and debate in recent months.

Daniel Garcia spent 35 years in the traditional public school system, finishing his career as the principal of P.S. 130 in the Bronx.

Icahn teachers tend to be more experienced than those at other charter schools, and many of its administrators are veterans of the traditional public school system who Litt lured out of retirement by offering them the opportunity for the first time in the careers to do their jobs unimpeded by union work rules and red tape.

It would be an understatement to say that American families are dissatisfied with the nation's traditional public school systems.

The promising piece of that study is the fact that some charters are knocking it out of the ballpark, and their achievement is far above and beyond anything that the traditional public school system has done.

High - achieving students, especially those growing up in poverty, have not been well served by our traditional public school system, and I believe they deserve a place to go to school where they can learn to their full potential.

(Hanover, MD, October 27, 2011) CSDC Board Chair Tom Nida reflects on the decline and resurgence of learning and hope at his alma mater as a result of a unique partnership between a charter school operator and the traditional public school system in the following commentary in the Washington Times: College and careers come to Anacostia Charter and public - school partnership reignites...

The Houston, Denver, and Lawrence school districts were trailblazers in implementing a suite of new reforms within the constraints of a traditional public school system.

As the grandson of not one but two grandmothers who worked as educators in the traditional public school system, I was also once a part of the anti-charter cacophony.

Golovich, who worked for ten years in the traditional public school system for the Vallejo Unified School District north of San Francisco, was immediately put off by how CAVA administrators pressured teachers to take student attendance.

In a recently published article «Public School Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Wanting to demonstrate that it is possible to improve failing schools within the constraints of the traditional public school system, Grier chose the final option.