Create an Innovative Schools Fund: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will create an Innovative Schools Fund to
provide funds to states and school districts to implement plans to create a “portfolio” of successful public school
types, including charters, nonprofit schools, Montessori schools, career academies and theme-focused schools.
Such approaches have been adopted by a number of districts across the nation, including Chicago, which has
expanded not only charter schools, but also schools like the Austin Polytechnical Academy – a public high
school that partners with 37 companies to support hands-on student learning in engineering and advanced
manufacturing. In Thornton, Colorado, the school district and teachers worked together to close down a large,
low-performing high school and open 6 new small schools to let parents and students choose between schools
that focus on the arts or on technology, offer an International Baccalaureate (IB) program, or focus on
workplace internships or world languages. And in Ohio, the Knowledge Works Foundation has partnered with
urban districts across the state to create Early College High Schools that have seen dramatic gains in student
achievement and graduation rates. The Innovation Schools Fund will supplement state, local and private
funding for these efforts to broaden the numbers of public school choices available to students, and seek to
ensure that supported efforts are appropriately tailored to ensure the educational and economic success of
underperforming students in the district. Innovation Schools Fund monies will be focused on not only late-
stage planning and transition costs, but also can be used for supporting limited capital costs for the schools.
创建一个创新学校基金: 奥巴马和拜登将创建一个创新学校基金,为州和学区提供资金,以便展开创建“一揽子”成功公立学校的计划,包括特许学校、非营利学校、蒙特梭利学校、职业学院和主题学校。这些方法已经被遍及全国的一些学区所采纳。其中包括芝加哥;它不仅扩展了特许学校,还扩展了诸如奥斯汀工艺学院一类的学校——奥斯汀工艺学院是一所公立高中,和三十七家公司结成合作伙伴关系,方便学生学习工程和高级制造技术。在科罗拉多州的桑顿,学区(管理层)和教师们一起努力,关闭了一所大而低效的高中,代之以六所小的新学校,令家长和学生可以在多种学校之间作出选择:偏艺术或者偏技术的、提供国际文凭或者偏向于实地实习的,或者偏向于世界语言的。在俄亥俄州,智力工作基金会和各城区通力合作,创建了大预高中学校,并在学生成绩和毕业率方面得到了戏剧性的获益。创新学校基金将补充州、地方和私人资金,用于拓宽学生的公立学校选择,并争取保证这些被资助的项目是经过适当剪裁的,以确保学区里那些表现低下的学生在教育和经济上的成功。创新学校基金的资金不仅致力于后期规划和过渡费用,也可以用于资助财政有限的学校。
链接:
特许学校 Charter School
http://www.uscharterschools.org/
教育纲要可以根据社区需求剪裁。
大预高中 Early College High School
http://www.earlycolleges.org/
把大一大二和高中压缩到一起,修完后可以获得大专文凭或者大学一二年级的学分。
翻译难点:
supported efforts
被资助的项目
supporting limited capital costs for the schools
为学校支持有限的资金成本->资助财政有限的学校
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