Sentences with phrase «traditional school system»

That's a shame, given that the vast majority of low - income kids today, tomorrow, and 20 years from now are and will be served by traditional school systems.

Within traditional school systems, it's not hard to see why.

If we were talking about a city with toxic education politics and a hopeless traditional school system, we might have a different view.

How can the charter school movement lead the way in serving underserved students and have an impact on how traditional school systems address the achievement gap that persists nationwide?

«We are already seeing the effects of this agenda with the break - up of traditional school systems such as the growth in Charter Schools in the US, the Free Schools in Sweden, Academies in the UK, more recently Partnership Schools in New Zealand, and of course the Australian Government's IPS agenda.

In 1969, a concern with the deep inequity of students» experiences and opportunities in traditional school systems first drove social studies teacher Rick DuFour to begin advocating for the kind of reforms that would jell into his transformative model, Professional Learning Communities at Work, some 16 years later.

North Carolina's charter sector is also contributing to the racial segregation of our school system, and creating budget pressures for traditional school systems.

The Master of Education (EdM) program in Social Studies Education provides advanced study for educators who currently hold initial teaching licensure and are seeking coursework that can be applied to a professional license, are interested in teacher leadership, or would like to work outside traditional school systems.

Prudence dictates that institutions like traditional school systems should not be changed for trivial reasons.

An alumna of New York City's Stuyvesant High (NYC's most prestigious public magnet school) and John Hopkins, where she earned a Ph.D. in American history, Moskowitz has long argued — often with Mayor Bill de Blasio and the UFT — that NYC's traditional school system fails poor children.

The second camp envisions a vastly improved traditional school system, achieved through charter cooperation.

As he says in chapter five, describing the dysfunction of the progressive - designed traditional school system, «an important feature of this central apparatus [the bureaucracy] was its complete control over its schools» but, compared to the chancellor of Smarick's vision, the traditional superintendent has far less power.

For the first time, this action also put FLVS in competition for funding with traditional school systems.

A business's relative freedom from the constraints of traditional school systems allows it to reconstitute public schools with teachers and administrators who choose to do something different.

One key difference, however, is that the Barefoot - Hise proposal would order traditional school systems to share myriad funds currently not accessible to charters, including gifts, sales tax dollars and federal grants and reimbursements, at least one pool of which is used to offset the costs of school lunch programs, even though many charters do not participate in such programs.

Within days, announcements of corruption and malfeasance between New Orleans's rivaling charter and traditional school systems proved that immorality and incompetence is agnostic toward school type.

The premise that students moving to charter schools will cause financial quakes in traditional school systems also suggests we should accept another premise that public school systems are so inflexible they can not adjust their fixed and variable costs and still produce quality learning.

Unlike many traditional school systems where school leaders must follow a specific instructional program and adhere to district mandates, operators in the portfolio model have a great deal of autonomy in their decision making.

But if the idea is to blow up traditional school systems around the country this way, there may be as much cautionary tale in New Orleans as success story.

The New York City rent situation illustrates a conflict of interest in traditional school system governance.

And, of course, given that these are comparative measures, even a charter sector that isn't doing a great job can look good against the background of a low - performing traditional school system.

Much like publicly funded vouchers, digital learning options and traditional school system choice programs, charter schools are helping set the standard for choice - based education reform.»

Muhammed Akil is a fierce advocate for school choice and unflinching in his conviction that we must confront long - time failures of traditional school systems.

Many students still struggle to graduate on time within traditional school systems, particularly racial and ethnic minority students, English language learners, and students with disabilities.

Lest we forget, the pioneers of our movement worked in traditional school systems.

The expansion of public educational programs to enhance the traditional school system and combat rising inequality has been a signature of the de Blasio administration.

In the remaining two locations, Chicago and Milwaukee, black students attended slightly less segregated charter schools than they would have if they remained in public schools, though both traditional school systems contained very low percentages of white students (Zimmer, et al., 2009).

What if our traditional school systems are unwittingly contributing to the problem — and what if a relatively simple practice could help?

Of course, this isn't to say that policy doesn't matter at all, particularly at the state level where states can restrict many meaningful choices that would be helpful for a variety of learners, many of whom often are overlooked and poorly served by the traditional school system today as we wait for the disruption to touch the lives of all students.

While Baltimore provides a cautionary tale for urban district leaders implementing the portfolio strategy, it should not be seen as the death knell for reform within a traditional school system.

The big question is, how can it connect to the traditional school system about which Khan is so skeptical?

Working with hospitals, oil companies, and the Urban League, she says, she identified 240 potential board members in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina largely wiped out the traditional school system there.

Having held very different roles inside and outside our traditional school system, I've had a variety of perspectives on this impact.

Third, the traditional schooling system will never let performance - based funding start there; arguing for waiting is akin to saying «no.»

Very interesting reading, however from my perspective all the if's and when's say that someone haven't noticed this is already happening outside the traditional school systems controlled and governed by the state one happen to live in.

But it's impossible to look at the best charter networks up close and not see that their DNA is dramatically different from that of a traditional school system.

In light of the seemingly endless civil rights violations in the news daily, I was shocked to see our premier civil rights organization, the NAACP, call for a moratorium on the most effective vehicle for delivering better educational outcomes than our traditional school systems.

That is a difference between a traditional school system and one with so many charters.

Our schools were initially founded to serve Catholic families and students who had been neglected by a traditional school system openly hostile to their faith.

«It's lowering the budget for the traditional school system and what they need to provide for teachers and students.»

The freedom to employ non-unionized teachers is part of what sets the charter movement apart from the traditional school system, Cane said.

Charters began sprouting in New Orleans when the traditional school system was in tatters, said Jeanne Allen, president of the pro-charter Center for Education Reform in Washington.

That gap is due in large part to the fact that charters don't have access to the same funding streams [like school construction bonds] that traditional school systems have to build schools.

It's a sobering determination for places where money and time are being spent to overhaul the traditional school system.

The District's old school board had chartering power until 2007, when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty took control of the city's traditional school system.

«I don't feel that charters are going to go away, but I do believe they will become so hamstrung they will become like the traditional school system,» said Donald Hense, the founder of one of D.C.'s largest charter networks, at the National Press Club earlier this month.

Instead of a traditional school system, there is a system of schools in what officials liken to a fenced - in free market.

When two young women in the District of Columbia lose their way through the traditional school system, can their best friend help them get back on their feet again?