Sentences with phrase «within existing public schools»

States and localities were permitted to decide for themselves whether vocational education should be provided in separate schools or within existing public schools, but they tended to the latter as a growing consensus emerged on the ideal of a comprehensive high school offering differentiated instruction to all students under the same roof.

Charter schools have been encouraged to use available space within existing public schools.

The Integrated Day program was initially established within the existing public school system in 1989.

Not exact matches

The majority of the job opportunities at the intersection of social science and translational research are within academia — medical schools or schools of public health or social work — but job opportunities also exist at government agencies and private foundations and research institutes, Palinkas says.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

And it protects public education from a nightmare scenario already developing in many schools, described by one teacher from California and relayed by Weingarten to the audience: «Within a couple of years, «we start testing on standards we're not teaching with curriculum we don't have on computers that don't exist.»»

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High Sschool, Oakland Technical High SchoolSchool.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

I mean I went to a private K - 12 school that was literally founded because of the staunch racism that existed / exists within traditional public schools.

Still, fairly stark divisions have emerged within education reform over what role «the market» should play in determining what kinds of public schools should exist and expand.

PURE exists to support and assure a high quality public education for all children by informing parents about education issues and parents» rights, bringing parents into the decision making process, empowering parents in their role as advocates for their children, and assisting them in their interactions within the school system.

Parents deserve to know that rich public school options, such as Magnets, exist within their own district, that not all charter schools welcome or keep every child or that private schools accessed by Corporate Tax Scholarships may not be accredited.

These are all public schools within the district that exist to meet the needs of students.

Choice exists within public schools and provides opportunities for students to participate in a variety of educational programs that match their specific interests, aspirations, and preferred learning styles.

As the lead researchers on some of the most comprehensive (and controversial) national studies of charter schools, she and her colleagues have found that while charter schools seem to be doing slightly better than traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math, great variation exists within these results (CREDO, 2013).

Title II — establishing summer institutes within existing public institutions of higher education with funding increasing educational opportunities for all education professionals and high - needs service scholarships providing opportunities for experienced education professionals wishing to advance their education to fill identified needs in high demand subjects as well as high - needs schools and locations.

They act as if there were no underlying cause for the often - unsound educational practices, or frequently uneven teaching capacity that exist within our schools They confuse these symptoms of the problem with the problem itself, which is that our public schools have been persistently under - resourced, under - supported, and undermined for decades, including by many of the same people that now purport to «fix» them.»

They exist throughout Maryland and I believe, within larger public school systems.

· Ten Strands is working to leverage existing California state infrastructure and education initiatives within the nation's largest public school system to bring environmental literacy to its 6.2 million K - 12 students.