Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.
Bryn Austin from Harvard's School of Public Health mapped all the schools in Chicago--kindergartens through high schools, public and private--and also mapped where the fast-food restaurants are located in the city.
And that is that in most states you now have a mechanism where you set up a public school -- so this is not private schools, these are public schools receiving public dollars -- but they have a charter that allows them to experiment and try new things.
At the top of the list are charter schools--public, innovative, accountable for results, operating free from most bureaucracy and attended by choice.
Unlike charter schools they are essentially corporate-built public schools that are bound by union contracts and state regulations.
As a result, some students and their families are taking on more debt or are opting for lower-priced public schools or two-year institutions.
Schools are a high priority to many folks considering this category, and the best American K-12 public schools tend to be found in the Upper Midwest--the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Some measure of the challenges that await Black are the apparent gap between the best of the charter schools and the run-of-the-mill public schools where too many teachers think of tenure as a sinecure that spares them the need for serious innovation on the educational front.
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Countless parochial schools, which spend far less per student than do public schools, easily out perform their public-school counterparts.
However, successive and continuing government policies (and again this is an international phenomenon) of privatisation, contracting out, public-private partnerships, the private finance initiative, academy and free schools - all aspects of the private provision of public services - have increasingly entwined the public and private sectors and now focused attention on how far freedom of information should reach.
How might our shared built environment -- our homes, hospitals, schools, workplaces and public spaces -- be shaped differently if women were behind half the proverbial blueprints?
Why, ask the suburbanites, should they pay for the facilities they have chosen to avoid: inner-city schools and public housing?
State high school associations nationwide are debating whether to split public and private schools in the playoffs, particularly in football, because of private-school dominance that the public schools say is unfair because they, unlike their private colleagues, can recruit, er, attract players from outside a geographical boundary.
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With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--SAT scores, SAT participation rates and graduation rates.
We launched Race to the Top -- the most meaningful reform for our public schools in a generation -- to invest in innovative State plans that support and improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--college entrance exam scores (SAT or ACT, depending on which is more common in the state), exam participation rates and graduation rates.
Frank Wilson, now the recruiting coordinator and running backs coach at LSU, said he has known Green-Ellis since he was athletic director for the New Orleans public schools and Green-Ellis was a high school star there.
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Most of the health care funding would be contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which funds a lot of the programs that get the most use, like public schools, low-income heating assistance, unemployment insurance, job training, and public broadcasting, so it would be a very high-stakes game.
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Mr Lyscom says that schools' educational work is a public benefit - and that independent schools have sought to make facilities available to the wider community.
Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
But the public school system proves that this is untrue: inner-city Catholic schools far outperform public schools, despite much lower budgets.
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Some popular culprits, such as short-termism in the City and a fondness for takeovers, or the public schools and anti-business snobbery, he dismisses out of hand.
Substantial public-sector borrowing to finance public-sector spending and investing - even public-sector investment in roads, or schools, or universities, or airports, all of which would arguably increase the productive potential of the economy - is viewed as dangerous and poisonous: the conventional government view is that way lies the road to bankruptcy of the state.
In a 2007 survey by the Department of Education, 88% of home-schooling parents said that their local public schools were unsafe, drug-ridden or unwholesome in some way.
Florida reveals the next stage: linking vouchers to the performance of public schools in order to shake up the public-school system throughout the state.
Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high-school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
How was this unlikely partnership between under-performing public schools and a wealthy former music executive formed?
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Chartered K-12 public schools still receive state funding, but are freed of a plethora of regulations facing state government entities.
Without nationwide standardized testing, the data simply would not exist to make the case for or against charter and non-unionized public schools.
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