What accountability measures are in place when you have one, two, three or four children leaving that school to go to a better school?
Strategies like closing a school for a time and reopening it under new management, or even shutting it down entirely and sending its students to a better school.
It wouldn't be to invest in more teachers or a better school system, or making college more affordable, or rebuilding our roads and bridges, and finding new ways to create cheap energy.
And parents in London and the North East were most likely to want to move to try to secure a place for their child at a better school - 46% said they were planning to do so.
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Schools also have to send parents regular reports, and parents are theoretically given the chance to transfer their child to a better school, or get money to hire a tutor, if their school fails to improve within the first two-to-three years.
Ms. AMY HANSON (Teacher, Northwestern High School): She's done a good job of trying to convey, like, we have all these changes because we're trying to be a better school, not because, you know, we're like trying to do this mean thing or like ruin your career.
And all students must have the option of leaving a poor public school for a better public school.
McCain told the crowd that if he becomes president, he will make sure parents are allowed to pick their children's schools -- whether a better public school, a private school or a charter school.
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Add it all up, and for most parents an excellent public school is a better deal financially and possibly a better deal educationally than the private school they would otherwise be sending their kids to.
Whether the institution measures its return on that investment in a higher ranking, a lower acceptance rate, a greater yield, a bigger endowment, a higher average starting salary, a better grad-school admission rate, or a greater percentage of alumni who donate, the student body it attracts initially is integral to any and all results.
Alternatively, a student may not have the economic resources or the access to loans and scholarships necessary to attend a better-regarded school.
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So the more parents are claiming free meals, the better a school appears to be doing in its annual "performance and assessment" report.
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Let alone at a school better known for its academic prowess.
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Other things constant, (1) kids with a better quality high school education are more likely to be prepared for the rigors of college life, and (2) kids that come from a more stable household and neighborhood environment as a youth are more likely equipped in terms of maturation to succeed academically in college.
School report cards could bring a better and fairer way of measuring school performance, although it is interesting to note that there are currently no proposals for report cards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - where league tables are no loner published.
"These plans will mean more leisure and recreation opportunities for Cirencester residents, along with a bigger and better new school building for Watermoor, " he said.
Like many 20-somethings, I went to a good college, got a job, struggled through the worst of the recession, and put myself back through school to make myself a better leader in the workplace.
They hotly deny that children learn better social skills on a school playground than at home.
The watchdog said just 54% of primary age children in Coventry attended a school rated good or better, compared with a national average of 74%.
In fact, his data shows that where people and policies favor the high-wage innovation workers, those with high-school degrees make a better income than those with college degrees do in the less favorable cities.
The CEO who speaks on behalf of a company that carries out his vision or the company that has spent the better part of the past ten years improving its internal initiatives and external messaging to show that they are better than a catty bunch of school kids in the lunch room.
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Four times a week for the better part of a year, Child Mind Institute psychologist Samantha Miller coached League School teachers on TCIT by following them around and discreetly whispering guidance.
Most parents have opted for local parochial schools, where the children are receiving a significantly better education than those in the public school system.
Dr James Hendron, a surgeon at Harvard Medical School, said better anti-rejection drugs would be needed if hand transplants were to become more common.
On a recent school district visit I had an assistant superintendent tell me that her school system better figure out how to meet the needs of these digital learners because they have access to so many free resources and experts and she fears that their institution might soon be obsolete.
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Most voters also placed a high priority on his proposals to lengthen the school day or year, to pay better teachers more money and to require a new competency exam for teachers.
Besides teaching better driving techniques, the school provides a vivid experience of how important snow tires are, an experience almost impossible to have anywhere else.
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