Sentences with phrase «turning urban public school systems»

The report is chilling in its description of how school closures and privatization are destroying America's big cities and turning urban public school systems into institutions of last resort.

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But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

There's long been an assumption that white parents in urban areas have turned to private schools in part to separate their children from the growing black and Latino populations in the public school system.