Sentences with phrase «with failing traditional public schools»

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Allen writes that «with 91 percent of Harrisburg's traditional public schools failing (10 schools out of 11), a budget that's a complete mess and only one charter school operating and approved during the last decade, it's troubling to keep reading the same story — «Harrisburg School Board rejects charter school applicaschool operating and approved during the last decade, it's troubling to keep reading the same story — «Harrisburg School Board rejects charter school applicaSchool Board rejects charter school applicaschool applications.

In The Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

Our antiquated education delivery system should be allowed to evolve from a «school system» to a «system of schools», with comprehensive traditional public school choice, expanded charter school capability, access to more choices for special needs children, and a fully paid exit option for students in failing schools.

It fails to recognize the education industry as a marketplace because it has always been the 800 pound gorilla and that marketplace has been static for decades with primarily the rich disavowing traditional public education along with some religious groups — together comprising a significant but relatively unchanged level of public school non-participation.

An alumna of New York City's Stuyvesant High (NYC's most prestigious public magnet school) and John Hopkins, where she earned a Ph.D. in American history, Moskowitz has long argued — often with Mayor Bill de Blasio and the UFT — that NYC's traditional school system fails poor children.

When weighing finances with philosophies, if students aren't failing in the traditional schools, most parents believe the public schools are good enough and offer their children socializing experiences that they can't get in schools that are too small.

Although I have children with very different needs, it was obvious that traditional public schools in Houston were failing to provide either of them with the education they needed, and charters have offered them a chance to achieve more.

In the second study, the Associated Press says charter schools are among the nation's most segregated — «an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.»

MILWAUKEE (AP)-- Charter schools are among the nation's most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds — an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.

In 2003, the Louisiana State Legislature created Act 9, which allowed for the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to seize responsibility of a public school deemed failing and establish and govern the RSD, with the BESE able to continue to oversee the operation of traditional schools or create charter schools (Louisiana Legislature, 2003).