Sentences with phrase «traditional public schools systems»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

(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.

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?

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.

It was a mother, Virginia Walden Ford, whose activism forced the reforms that are slowly improving D.C.'s traditional public school system and bringing high - quality options into the poorest neighborhoods.

The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

Early concern was that the creation of charter schools would lead to «cream skimming» of whiter, wealthier and higher achieving students from the traditional public school system.

(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:

To argue that charter public schools are taking money from the traditional public school system doesn't make sense; they are a part of the public education system.

The pockets of what Green, citing David Cohen, refers to as «coherent» teacher preparation initiatives are small and scattered, serving a small fraction of U.S. schools and teachers, and operating largely outside of the traditional public schooling system built to serve the urban poor and their suburban and rural neighbors.

There is the risk that some charters will fail, that a shift in funding will hinder the traditional public school system, and that the efforts of long - established labor unions will be left at the door.

But critics, including education historian Diane Ravitch, a New York University professor and former assistant U.S. secretary of education who is speaking at UW - Madison on Tuesday, say choice programs have drained resources from the traditional public school system without producing conclusive evidence that they are any better at educating students, particularly low - income ones.

District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) is the local, traditional public school system of Washington, DC.

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

Real change will require the traditional public school system to own up to its own deficits.

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

The result is a compromise bill that gained unanimous approval from the House Education Committee and the public support of both charter proponents and their counterparts in the traditional public school system.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

I wondered, were the school reformers going to do the following: Return or ramp - up the old model of resource and self - contained classes within the traditional public school system?

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.

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.

In the section about D.C., the report goes so far as to credit charter schools with contributing to «dramatic improvements» in the traditional public school system, a statement that doesn't take into consideration how demographic changes have improved D.C. school results.

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 laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

However, subsequent chain of events have made its goals crystal clear — allow the Bridgeport Public School to be decimated, undermined; and then, point to the failure of the traditional public school system in Bridgeport.

Meanwhile, the parents of nearly 10 million school children across America have opted out of the traditional public school system in favor of private schools, charter schools or homeschooling.