Sentences with phrase «traditional public schools in their communities»

Although some individual charter schools have their struggles, the study suggests that students who attend charters generally may be better off than if they had gone to traditional public schools in their communities.

Not exact matches

«All decisions by the DOE to co-locate schools are viewed by communities as the City giving up on the extant traditional public school,» the elected officials wrote in a joint letter last week to Chancellor Carmen Fariña and PEP Chairperson Vanessa Leung.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

In Michigan, public universities, community colleges, intermediate school districts, and all traditional K — 12 districts, called «sponsors,» can authorize an unlimited number of charter schools in Detroit and elsewhere in the statIn Michigan, public universities, community colleges, intermediate school districts, and all traditional K — 12 districts, called «sponsors,» can authorize an unlimited number of charter schools in Detroit and elsewhere in the statin Detroit and elsewhere in the statin the state.

While their fees are often lower than other private and parochial schools in their communities, they are not free, unlike charter and public schools, and financial assistance is not widely available, unlike traditional private schools.

As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

High - quality charter schools like these are the norm, giving families access to local, public, and effective educational options in communities where traditional district schools aren't meeting the needs of students.

Bubbling opposition to the idea of a phased - in approach that entails co-locating charter schools within traditional public schools and allowing the charters to expand one grade at a time — a tactic that charter operators endorse as a way to gradually build community support and resources, but local school districts are reluctant to participate in.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

The failure of many traditional attempts by schools to engage students as partners in education leadership or «democratic education» lies in the mixed messages of many communities» agendas for public education.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

While many communities seem willing to cede the cause of educational innovation to charter schools, CCE specifically partners with public school districts to negotiate opportunities for our MA PLN schools to innovate in the context of traditional districts.

Leaders in nine communities across the U.S. have signed on to a District - Charter Collaboration Compact, an initiative to highlight new ways that public charter schools and traditional public schools are working...

The debate of charters over traditional public schools appears to be most heated in Rutherford County, a rural manufacturing community in the Blue Ridge Mountains foothills with unemployment rates nearly twice the state average.

In some of New Jersey's most troubled and disadvantaged communities, charter public schools are succeeding in closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterpartIn some of New Jersey's most troubled and disadvantaged communities, charter public schools are succeeding in closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterpartin closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterparts.

Poor and middle - class urban families long ago recognized that education is critical to revitalizing communities and helping their kids be prepared for successful futures in an increasingly knowledge - based economic future — and have long - concluded that traditional public education practices such as zoned schooling and ability tracking no longer work (if they ever did in the first place).

CCSA released three new accountability tools that provide a variety of school level data for every traditional district school and charter public school across the state, online in one location for families, teachers, charter school authorizers and school communities for critical decision - making purposes.

In fact, traditional public schools, M.A. Jones E.S. and F.L. Stanton E.S in Atlanta, Georgia both have strong community support and partnershipIn fact, traditional public schools, M.A. Jones E.S. and F.L. Stanton E.S in Atlanta, Georgia both have strong community support and partnershipin Atlanta, Georgia both have strong community support and partnerships.

School districts and their local partners in inner cities and rural communities are overcoming poverty and family breakdown to create high - performing schools, including charters and traditional public schools.

More than 5,900 in pre-K attend traditional public schools, and about 600 attend pre-K in community - based child care centers, according to city data confirmed by the D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter School public schools, and about 600 attend pre-K in community - based child care centers, according to city data confirmed by the D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter Schoolschools, and about 600 attend pre-K in community - based child care centers, according to city data confirmed by the D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter School Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter SchoolSchools and the D.C. Public Charter School Public Charter School Board.

While some suggest that these demographics indicate charter schools are contributing to the resegregation of public education, charter school advocates counter that charter enrollment resembles the demographic breakdown of traditional public schools in their surrounding districts and neighborhoods, and note that communities often intentionally establish charter schools to reach large numbers of underserved students (NAPCS, 2012).

Rotberg cites studies showing, «In some communities, charter schools have a higher concentration of minority students than traditional public schools,» while «In others, charter schools serve as a vehicle for «white flight.»

Largely because of these differences that allow for localized control and the flexibility to create schools that function best in unique communities, charter schools have been shown to be generally more effective than traditional public schools.

The NAACP report documents the consequences of this abandonment: inadequate funding of urban schools, a lack of accountability and oversight for charter school, most of which are concentrated in urban communities, the disproportionate exclusionary discipline of Black students, high teacher turnover, and an absence of teachers of color in both charters and traditional public schools.

Several of Edwards allies in the education community — particularly the teachers unions and traditional public school advocates — still indicate they want White replaced.

Meanwhile, parents and families learned about traditional literacy from community partners, including Families In Schools, Los Angeles Harbor College, and our local County of Los Angeles Public Library.

According to Mike Duggan, the executive director of Domus, their students are young people «who have struggled, mightily in the traditional public school system, as well as at home and in the community.»

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

We're visiting 16 cities and 39 traditional and charter public schools across the country, representing the full K — 12 spectrum in urban, suburban, and rural communities.

dogmatic effort to... short - circuit community participation in school governance, (ii) evade its responsibility to assist struggling schools before summarily seeking their closure often to improperly make way for charter schools, and (iii) co-locate other favored programs without regard to squeezing out the students in «traditional» public schools from any fair allocation of school resources.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

In its race to meet a looming deadline to apply for a competitive federal grant, the State Board of Education adopted a series of legislative proposals to overhaul how Connecticut's charter schools are funded — proposals that are neither realistic nor reasonable and that could ultimately siphon money from communities for traditional public schools.

This past school year, Allie had a role on Teach For America's San Francisco team as a community coach for first and second - year corps members who were teaching in traditional public and charter schools throughout the city.

People find it surprising that Malcolm X, in the 1960s, advocated for community schools — schools wholly apart from the traditional public schools in Harlem.

In some communities, traditional public schools are meeting the needs of local students.

Charter schools, which create an alternative to the traditional school model and shift the structure of the public institutions through which public dollars flow, can also generate their own advocates in the communities they serve.

While many charter schools outperform traditional public schools, particularly among some student groups and in some communities, oftentimes the average achievement level of both charter school and traditional public school students is low.

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 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 schools, it affects the education of every child in that community by drawing critical resources from the traditional public school system.

The Washington public school system needs more innovation, especially to meet the needs of low - income, high - risk children from communities of color struggling in traditional public schools.

Traditional public, conversion charter, career tech center, open - enrollment charter, virtual and private schools - all these represent school choice in action, and all are serving the needs of students, teachers and communities.

This study confirms, yet again, that California's public charter schools continue to gain momentum in serving traditionally underserved communities and serving them significantly better, while enrolling a higher proportion of significant subgroups than traditional schools.

Research from MIT, Stanford and Harvard have repeatedly documented that in states with comprehensive charter school laws, public charter schools outperform traditional public schools, especially those serving students who are low - income, living in urban communities, are children of color and are English - language learners.

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.

Or, as they say, «when compared to their peers in traditional public schools in our same communities» they have done much better and deserve more of the money that was meant for the urban district schools.

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