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.
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.
They point out that Cleveland parents who don't like parochial schools can send their kids to the city's regular public schools, or to public charter schools and magnet schools.
Private schools (and some public and charter schools in areas where choice is available) can draw students and athletes from just about anywhere, while public schools are stuck with whatever happens to live in their district.
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Similarly, some parents choose to pay extra to send their kids to private schools over public schools.
For example, in education, charter schools gives traditional schools some competition, private schools give public schools some competition.
Statistical data indicate that more children attend private schools than public schools.
At no point in this process will comparing charters or private schools and public schools reflect the largest gains of school choice.
On the one hand, this change has expanded the opportunity for kids who wouldn't have had a chance to play otherwise: squash is now offered at more public schools, public clubs and non-Ivy League colleges.
This is in marked contrast to how the Catholic Church, several Orthodox Jewish yeshivas, the Boy Scouts, and numerous boarding schools, public schools, orphanages, and other institutions have reacted when it became clear that male children were abused under their care.
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Importantly, they find that the primary way that competition effects outcomes is by improving the performance of the nearby public schools, and not by outperforming the public schools.
But if we don't capitalize on the opportunity our public schools offer to manage this huge influx, if America walks away from its public schools because they're no longer full of white faces, then you can simply multiply all the problems I've laid out by a factor of five.
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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As well as TransMilenio, he built more than 200km of cycle paths, a network of public libraries and got private schools to run new public schools in the poorer south of the city.
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This year some 20% of its public school enrollment is expected to attend nonpublic schools, and the public schools themselves have enacted reforms that would have otherwise never been put in place.
These services may be for individual students, but public schools are a public good.
On each occasion, he has lauded the achievements of charter schools and chided public schools for their failures.
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Many families living in Manhattan must use private schools, as public schools are overcrowded and being downsized due to state deficits.
What is truly revolutionary about Crawford is the proposed remedy: Parents of kids attending failing schools would be permitted to take the pro rata share of public money spent on their children and use it to pay for them to attend other schools, public or private.
Mrs Laing said she appreciated the impact an extra public holiday would have on schools, public services and businesses.
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.
Private schools, private management of public schools and the production and distribution of textbooks are just some areas where public-private-partnerships are already active.
Countless parochial schools, which spend far less per student than do public schools, easily out perform their public-school counterparts.
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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Most of the 1.1 million children who attend city public schools walk or take public transportation.
The extraordinary community commitment to strong public schools has sustained Irvine public education through substantial economic and demographic changes.
After all, those schools have even less public oversight than the public schools.
Charter schools are similar to public schools in that they are free to attend and funded by taxpayer dollars.
And we'll encourage states to take a better approach when it comes to charter schools and other innovative public schools.
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Although charter schools claim to improve learning outcomes, studies have shown uneven results, even as the schools drain money from public schools.
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