Sentences with phrase «traditional schools fall»

A central rationale for providing these alternatives is that traditional schools fall short in educating children from low - income households and communities, children of color and children with special needs.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

Over 90 percent of the school's students live below the poverty line; most have a history of serious disciplinary issues and have fallen too far behind at traditional schools to catch up.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

The case was brought last month by the parents of three white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades school serving about 300 students in grades K - 5.

With the majority of students and parents I interview, however, I find they fall into the second category, that the traditional concept of what the «school day» is could use an overhaul.

The Telegraph has reported that the new GCSE's, which grade pupils on a 9 -1 system opposed to the traditional A * - G, will make it more difficult for schools to reach national benchmarks, with more than half expected to fall short.

The trap that most schools fall into is that they use technologies to replace traditional learning methods, or using technology just for technology's sake.

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a «patchwork of solutions» to cover their operating costs, find adequate school facilities, and transport students.

Both those sums fall well below the roughly $ 8,000 a year the state spends per pupil in traditional public schools.

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a

And yet, in traditional school most assessment falls to the teacher and most student work is written for only the teacher to see.

Although summer meant school time for many youngsters in Los Angeles, it is traditional to think of fall as the time when education begins with a clean slate.

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Only 23 % of traditional public schools fell below the 25th percentile.»

The first workshop is scheduled this fall with 40 teachers, representing eight schools - four charter schools and four traditional public schools.

In New Orleans, where 7,000 teachers lost their jobs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and traditional schools were replaced by public charter schools, the share of teachers who were black fell from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 2012.

We try to catch the students who have fallen through the cracks at traditional schools.

Falls Career High School, instituted 14 years ago, serves grade nine - through - twelve students who don't fit the traditional high schoolSchool, instituted 14 years ago, serves grade nine - through - twelve students who don't fit the traditional high schoolschool mold.

About 30 percent of students in traditional public schools would fall into that category.

When students fall behind in traditional schools, it can be difficult to make up missed credits while keeping up with the required coursework.

Last fall, multiple research studies found that virtual charter schools yield significantly worse academic results than traditional public schools.

Starting in the fall, teachers in D.C.'s traditional public schools will face another measure of how good they are at their job — and it will come from their students.

A Stanford University study last fall found that students in some subjects trailed their peers in traditional schools by as much as an entire academic year.

Cerf is among state leaders who have questioned the efficacy of traditional teacher college programs, saying that many schools fall short in preparing teachers for the realities of the classroom.

This fall portends a crossroads for DPS: will the district make more progress towards portfolio management or will it fall back to more traditional management of schools.

A Stanford University study last fall found that virtual charter pupils lag their peers in traditional, brick - and - mortar schools by as much as a full academic year.

We know that many students who do not succeed in a traditional school setting can fall behind and miss the chance to lead a successful, productive life.

We have to vacate the notion that the opening of these schools is really a political agenda designed to eradicate traditional public education and focus on what's working for our kids — regardless of the category the school falls under.

Last fall, state test scores showed that the elementary school had the highest math gains of any traditional school in the LA Unified district.

The meat is that charter school test scores usually do fall below traditional district school test scores, even after controlling for some student characteristics.

But the capacity issue is one that states will have to deal with anyway, especially as we move to the Hollywood Model of Education in which the traditional district model is ditched altogether; this is because states will have to expand its capacity in order to better oversee the variety of schools that will fall under its oversight.

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For school reformers and defenders of traditional public education these days, the Atlanta metropolitan area is better - known for the testing scandal that has engulfed Atlanta Public Schools, revealed the district's dysfunctional school governance, and led to Superintendent Beverly Hall's fall from grace.

The day - to - day operations of the district's 89 schools currently under traditional management (stretched across the 13 cities and the county's unincorporated areas outside of Atlanta) would fall into the hands of each school's principals and parents in a manner similar to that of the district's 12 charter schools.

In fact, when private school students on vouchers in Milwaukee were required for the first time last fall to take the standardized Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, they did not do as well as their counterparts in Milwaukee's traditional public schools.

A much - cited Stanford University study last fall found that some virtual charter students can trail their traditional school peers by up to an entire academic year.

A new science - themed D.C. charter school plans to open its doors this fall across the street from a traditional school that serves the same grade levels and has the same academic focus, highlighting a lack of coordination that has drawn increasing scrutiny in recent months.

If you study voucher legislation historically on a nationwide basis, given we only had an eight week uptake period and that uptake period did not fall within the traditional enrollment periods for schools, 4,000 students is incredibly impressive.

While King says he's working to improve attendance, he notes that these students would have much more difficulty in a traditional school where missing class means falling behind.

Johnson said many of the students she's worked with risked falling through the cracks of the traditional high school academic program.

Traditional public school enrollment, which ticked up last fall for the first time in four decades, dipped slightly to 46,191, down less than 1 percent (419 students) from last October.

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment.

If our society is to protect students who have fallen through, dropped out, or been pushed out of the traditional system from the perfect storm of educational and social failure, we must offer viable alternative schools.

Participants spend the summer and fall together, but by spring the program separates out traditional and charter - school candidates.

The crowding was exacerbated when the school moved this fall from a year - round schedule to a traditional academic year.

Intensifying the heated political clash between charter schools and traditional school districts is that overall spending on public education, for all schools, has fallen.

This summer and fall you will repeatedly hear that approving a charter schools constitutional amendment would steal resources from traditional Georgia public schools.

The Menomonee Falls School District is seen by many in the education field as a model for how data can be used effectively alongside traditional education work.