Sentences with phrase «traditional public schools in their districts»

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

Established in 2004 as part of compromise legislation that also included new spending on charter and traditional public schools in the District of Columbia, the OSP is a means - tested program.

[10] Second, there is an ongoing to need to understand the implications of magnet schools for the traditional public schools in their districts.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.

I've been teaching sixth to ninth grade English and social studies in a traditional public school in District 13 for 4 years.

According to the Choice Watch Report released in 2014 by policy analysts Robert Cotto and Kenny Feder, in the 2011 - 2012 school year, 76 % of public charters, 64 % of magnets, and 56 % of technical schools in the Greater Hartford Area (GHA) had substantially lower enrollment percentages of ELL students than the local, traditional public schools in their districts.

Not exact matches

There are a few public charter schools in our district, a public International Baccalaureate school, as well as many traditional public schools.

Fields said it was important for the city to preserve traditional district public schools, especially in underserved neighborhoods.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Students at Success Academy, which is authorized by SUNY, outperformed not only students in New York City's traditional public schools but those in every other district in the state.

They analyzed nearly 70,000 school records for students in district - based traditional public kindergarten in New York City in 2009, and linked the records to demographic information and neighborhood characteristics.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter district and charter schools.

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets onlyIn terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets onlyin their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets onlyin most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

Next, we calculated the total number of charter schools and the total enrollment in charters and traditional public schools in each school district.

The D.C. metro CBSA contains 1,186 traditional public schools, 1,026 of which are in Virginia, Maryland, and even West Virginia; only 13 percent of the traditional public schools in the D.C. CBSA are actually situated in the racially isolated District of Columbia.

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.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.

In this study, we use detailed student - level data to compare patterns of entry, attrition, and replacement in 19 KIPP middle schools and in traditional public middle schools in the districts in which the KIPP schools are locateIn this study, we use detailed student - level data to compare patterns of entry, attrition, and replacement in 19 KIPP middle schools and in traditional public middle schools in the districts in which the KIPP schools are locatein 19 KIPP middle schools and in traditional public middle schools in the districts in which the KIPP schools are locatein traditional public middle schools in the districts in which the KIPP schools are locatein the districts in which the KIPP schools are locatein which the KIPP schools are located.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schoolIn early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter scPublic Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter sSchools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schoolin the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schoolin the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter scpublic schools and charter sschools and charter schoolsschools.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

Both Detroit's charter and traditional public - school sectors serve predominantly African American families (roughly 85 percent) with limited economic resources (in charters, 84.5 percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch versus 81.6 percent in district schools).

In January 2006, the Boston Teachers Union and the district were in negotiations to spend $ 100,000 to promote the virtues of traditional public schools to families choosing charterIn January 2006, the Boston Teachers Union and the district were in negotiations to spend $ 100,000 to promote the virtues of traditional public schools to families choosing charterin negotiations to spend $ 100,000 to promote the virtues of traditional public schools to families choosing charters.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

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.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

Families in poverty are more likely to have within - district traditional public schools within one or two miles, but these differences narrow at longer distances.

Also, the District of Columbia is alleged to have provided traditional public schools with supplemental funding, support for operational expenses, and in - kind services, such as security from city police, that it has not granted to charters.

In terms of retirement, the Miami - Dade County Public Schools teachers in voting districts 1 and 2 are particularly vulnerable if they remain in the traditional state pension systeIn terms of retirement, the Miami - Dade County Public Schools teachers in voting districts 1 and 2 are particularly vulnerable if they remain in the traditional state pension systein voting districts 1 and 2 are particularly vulnerable if they remain in the traditional state pension systein the traditional state pension system.

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 rateIn 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 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 graduation ratein order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

For example, the Civil Rights Project reports that, in the metropolitan area surrounding the District of Columbia, 91.2 percent of charter students are in segregated schools, compared with just 20.9 percent of students in traditional public schools.

As the traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a system marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

Smith, who has taught for more than a decade in both D.C.'s public charter and traditional district schools, immediately saw the benefit for students, but says she was most captivated by the opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole.

They need to advocate for policies that promote cooperative problem solving among school providers, including districts in cities where thousands of students still attend traditional public schools.

Research provides considerable evidence that such effects are significant in public education — among small public school districts, between public schools and Catholic schools, and between traditional public schools and charter schools.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

And second, though charters» current locations are partly based on student need, they also reflect political compromises: In many states, suburban Republican lawmakers have been happy to support charters so long as they don't threaten the traditional public schools in their own leafy districtIn many states, suburban Republican lawmakers have been happy to support charters so long as they don't threaten the traditional public schools in their own leafy districtin their own leafy districts.

For example, in that same year, each public - school student in a traditional school in the Cherry Creek School District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenschool student in a traditional school in the Cherry Creek School District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenschool in the Cherry Creek School District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenSchool District received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studDistrict received $ 1,074 more of the district's MLO revenue than a charter - school studdistrict's MLO revenue than a charter - school studenschool student did.

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.

In 2017, it is very clear that parents expect and demand public school choice and as Whitehurst states the «traditional school district model is no longer the monopoly it used to be.»

Most public schools in New Orleans are administered by the RSD, but among other public schools are those run directly by the traditional school district (the Orleans Parish School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (school district (the Orleans Parish School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).

As the leader of an entire district of charter schools in Lake Wales, I wanted the NAACP's education task force to hear from someone who has worked for nearly three decades in both traditional public schools and in charter schools, which are also public.

For two decades, education reform in America has focused on giving students choices beyond being assigned by home address to a single traditional district - run public school.

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.

IZZI HERNANDEZ - CRUZ is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of school and district performance metrics to support strong accountability and turnaround evaluation efforts in both traditional and charter schools.

New Orleans has long been in the spotlight for its near - total conversion from a traditional school district to a collection of schools run autonomously as public charters.

Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.