While charters are still a part of the public school system, vouchers operate outside the bounds of public education.
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"For all young people to be able to reach their full potential, we need to rid ourselves of this idea that an education system familiar to those who attended school towards the middle of the last century is the only way forward, " she said.
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But this is what I have to deal with when I come back to my neighbourhood: people struggling to eat, people struggling to get a job, kids put out of school and an education system that is failing.
If the moves in those other states are any indication, collective-bargaining is next in line followed by the expansion of school choice and the injection of more corporate money and influence into the public education system.
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One of the most pressing problems in our education system today is the high number of students who do not complete high school.
Instead of a uniform school system, charters represent an enterprise where education happens better, quicker and more efficiently.
Today, about 90% of children in the school system are white, according to the Texas Education Agency.
Charter schools, part of the public school system but founded by parents and teachers and free from most education regulations, have shown how much better the same amount of money can be utilized.
The House of Commons education select committee recently called for a pay system that reflected the different contributions of school staff.
At the end of the day, however, she has concluded, after all the policy fumblings of the past couple of decades, that the public school system and its custodians and employees are best suited to make education decisions that will benefit the nation and its next generation.
"China's government directly manages the country's education system, " says Liu Ji, executive president of the China Europe International Business School (ceibs) in Shanghai, a venture funded by the city's municipal government and the European Union.
"Consider the consequences of continuing to subject young people to an education system rooted in the Victorian era as a preparation for a post-school period of study and work in a digital age, " she said.
If, as many Scots believe, their education system is markedly superior to that of the English, why are so many Scottish children leaving school without qualifications?
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