Sentences with phrase «urban charter movement»

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The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

It basically results in a charter movement that is designed to serve certain urban students with no - excuses - type schools.

The push for rural consolidation is all the stranger given the movement in urban areas toward smaller schools, including charter schools, so that classroom sizes are smaller and there is more accountability among students, parents, and administrators.

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.

It's time for the movement to embrace an inclusive «Social Justice Plus» strategy that aims to give urban students access to private, charter and suburban schools.

By allowing Catholic schools to receive government funding, a religious - charter policy could honor the traditions of both Catholic education and the chartering movement, allow these schools to carry on their service to the most at - risk urban students, and adhere to state standards, assessments, and accountability frameworks.

If anything, the District's flourishing charter movement will help Ms. Rhee by offering choice and competition while refuting some of the excuses used to justify the poor performance of urban schools.