More academies means more schools with "freedom" in this area.
Twelve more schools, with 9,259 planned seats, are under construction.
Many parents and carers could end up having children at two or more schools with different term dates.
This fall, the district will take over nine more schools, with charter operators — including well-known names like KIPP and Aspire Public Schools — running six of them.
Khan says the UK's Department for International Development was so impressed with the SRSP's work that it asked the NGO to build 100 more schools with UK aid.
But this week, the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, pushed back against those claims, joining children's advocacy groups in demanding that New York follow other cities in making in-classroom breakfast available at many more schools with children from low-income families.
Ever greater fragmentation and atomisation, more schools with unqualified teachers and no local oversight, the centralisation of power in an unwieldy Department for Education can only exacerbate the risk of further problems.
It needs investment – in training teachers and in giving them the tools they need: more schools with proper facilities, better connectivity and more innovation; computers, tablets, software and internet access.
If we can include more schools with different cultures into the present study, the results might be more generalizable.
During a speech earlier today, Obama gave details about the pledges from the tech companies, along with a commitment to connect more schools with broadband Internet.
