Although she favors a one high school alternative, School Supt.
Mr. Proctor, who in-line skates with his wife, oversees about 3,400 students in a high school, middle school, alternative high school, and four elementary schools.
She attended a state school in the capital, Luanda, at a time when there was no private school alternative, according to the journalist and anti-corruption campaigner Rafael Marques de Morais.
"We may have to eliminate extra labs for remediation, or cut our high school alternative school, or our elementary programs for students who did not perform well on standardized tests.
In some areas, the study notes, not a single charter school outperforms the traditional school alternative -- and in some places, more than half are significantly worse.
With the vast majority of children's time spent in school, alternative strategies to re-introduce physical activity back into schools are necessary.
Recognizing his passion for helping kids, in 1990 former President George Bush appointed Governor Schwarzenegger Chair of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, in which capacity he traveled all 50 states and recognized the overwhelming need for more after-school alternatives.
The state, especially New York City, has a rich history of public school choice -- alternative and magnet schools and now small high schools -- that are models.
