Sentences with phrase «way regular public schools»

Not only are many charter schools enjoying success, but they are also held accountable in a way regular public schools are not.

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Back at the Amigos School in Cambridge, changes are also under way thanks to a program with the city's Department of Public Health that sends nutritionists to the school on a regular School in Cambridge, changes are also under way thanks to a program with the city's Department of Public Health that sends nutritionists to the school on a regular school on a regular basis.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

Most, however, offer a fairly traditional curriculum — more traditional, in many ways, than regular public schools.

They question the way levy dollars could be converted to a new purpose without consulting voters if a regular public school is converted to a charter school, as is allowed under the new law.

We plan to provide our community with regular updates on the state of Oakland's public school budget in a quick, accessible way.

A handful of states have enacted legislation that allows regular public schools outside the charter sector to obtain innovation status, which provides a streamlined way to obtain a multi-year package of policy waivers necessary to implement innovative strategies and new school designs.20