Sentences with phrase «whether charters educate»
But if school - level flexibility is essential, we should stoutly defend it for all schools — whether charters educate 10, 50, or 100 percent of students.
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Points of contention concern funding levels and whether charter schools serve a proportionate share of children who are expensive to educate, especially children with learning disabilities.
If you see education reform as a social justice or civil rights crusade, you will care mightily about whether every charter is educating its share of kids with disabilities and whether enough «people of color» are running these schools.
«Whether a teacher works in a traditional, charter, virtual or private school, they need the peace - of - mind of solid protection so that they can focus on educating children,» said Beckner.
New Jersey's ongoing debate about whether traditional public schools or charters do a better job educating students got some provocative new data yesterday, courtesy of a study from Stanford University that came down on the side of the charters — particularly in Newark's embattled school district.
It is not about whether charter schools are good or that charter schools are successfully educating their students.
Local school districts have no say in whether charter schools are created, where they are located, which children they educate or refuse to educate, nor do local boards of education have control over any other charter school policy or practice.
Other questions raised by QUEST include whether charter schools will be required to increase programming for students with higher needs and English Language Learners so that they take in an equal share of these more costly - to - educate demographics.
They decided, with no educational data to back their decisions, that charter schools, regardless of whether they worked for children or not, whether they served America's need for an educated populous or not, would become stand - alone schools that could be run with little accountability, certification, or even democratically elected boards.