Sentences with phrase «charter applicants»

And while he agrees charter openings have slowed of late, he says the quality of charter applicants is on the rise.

These figures plot reduced - form ever offer effects by grade and 4th grade cohort for charter applicants.

The state requires charter applicants to have the support of three licensed teachers.

The approved charter applicants exhibited the capacity to succeed under the charter bargain: autonomy for school leaders in exchange for clear accountability and high expectations for students.

She said districts have vetted charter applicants carefully both for quality and how the proposed schools fit with existing needs.

The ASD has a strong desire to see qualified charter applicants succeed in the proposal process.

Meanwhile, recent months have seen a tightening of charter scrutiny under North Carolina's State Board of Education — an influential panel of gubernatorial appointees and elected officials that has the final say on charter applicants — following a spate of high - profile charter closures, most due to financial problems.

Hawkes, the charter advisory board member who received heat from Sen. Jerry Tillman for the board's poor approval rate of charter applicants in the prior year, acknowledged the recent failures of StudentFirst in Charlotte, Concrete Roses STEM Academy and Entrepreneur High School.

Cobey adds that he hopes new charter applicants get the message that the process will be «rigorous.»

Some switches are driven by charter applicants who enter one of Boston's three exam schools in grade 7.

There are no significant contrasts for middle school charter applicants.

The DOE said it has attempted to fully comply with complex state law on the issue and has provided space or rental assistance to eligible charter applicants.

Authorizers are charged with evaluating charter applicants, awarding and overseeing charter contracts, assessing whether the school is improving student achievement and fulfilling the goals in its charter contract, renewing charter contracts for schools that perform, and closing schools that do not.

At the first sign of trouble, their inclinations turn to micromanagement (in the guise of «greater oversight»); when screening charter applicants, they look for the safe and trusted.

The second middle school row excludes switches between 5th and 6th grade for 5th grade charter applicants, as well as switches to exam schools in 7th grade for all applicants (these schools start in 7th).

As charter applications in Boston have soared, the difference in baseline achievement between charter applicants and non-applicants has narrowed.

For a given charter applicant, the charter risk set is the list of all lotteries to which the student applied in a given year and entry grade, among the lotteries included in the charter lottery analysis.

Before they moved to charter schools, recent charter applicants in Boston did have higher achievement than the average BPS student, but the difference was less than one - sixteenth of the black - white achievement gap in math and one - ninth of the black - white achievement gap in English.

As Fordham's Michael Petrilli and Amber Northern put it in the report's foreword: «The factors that led charter applicants to be rejected may very well predict low performance, had the schools been allowed to open.

If the first charter applicants in Washington state are mostly new to the field, then the job of reviewing them will be more difficult, since they haven't run charters before.

By strengthening charter applicant requirements, Florida lawmakers can bring down the closure rate by making sure only strong schools open.

Find out more about Public School Choice and read profiles on the other charter applicants.

Brannon called the SBE a «firewall» for unstable charter applicants, and that given the risk — financially and academically for sometimes struggling students — it's imperative state leaders get it right.

Through our QualityStart program, the NJCSA stands ready to help charter school founders & developers at any stage in the process — from those just gathering the support and community engagement to begin the application to those experienced developers looking to replicate a successful school in New Jersey; from already - approved charter applicants preparing for their first year to operating schools weathering the challenging (and rewarding!)

Board gives the thumbs up to another NHA managed charter applicant; thumbs down to two other applicants

although she said she wrote a letter of support for a prospective charter applicant.

That's because five schools tapped for opening by Hawkes» board, which makes recommendations on charter applicants to the state board, were overwhelmingly voted down by the State Board of Education (SBE).

Financial sustainability is now required of charter applicants, she said.

Thus far, it is the only new charter applicant to reapply after being denied by vote of the SRC at its February 22 meeting, obviously taking to heart the encouragement expressed by Commissioner Bill Green just after that vote.

We expect members of our authorization team to bring with them a wealth of experience in curriculum and instruction, school operations, finance, and the communities being served, as well as the ability to evaluate the capacity of each potential charter applicant to execute their plan and make a difference for Tennessee students.

On March 15, 2017, the OCC published additional documents providing details on the proposal and the evaluation process for charter applicants, and explaining the proposal was limited to entities «engage [d] in a limited range of banking activities, including one of the core banking functions, but does not take deposits and is not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).»

For example, charter applicants that have been previously vetted and operate outstanding schools could be pre-qualified or fast - tracked so that they don't have to resubmit the same paperwork or follow a pre-established process each time they seek to start a new school.

If the district board again denies the application, the charter applicant may again appeal to the state board.

The state board could order the local board to approve a charter application, but it could not require the local board to actually open a school or agree to all the terms of the charter applicant's proposal.

If on the second appeal the state board finds that granting the charter is in the public interest, it may reverse and remand to the district board «with instructions to approve the charter applicant.»

This, said the charter applicants, was «not acceptable.»

D.C.'s authorizer now asks, in a roundabout way, if a charter applicant can «fire» its CMO.

The sample analog of equation (4) for charter applicants» middle school math scores appears in Panel A of Figure III.

The estimated effect of a pilot offer on time spent in high school is similar to the corresponding first stage for charter applicants, while the pilot middle school first stage is larger.

In the name of of promoting collaboration between district and charter schools, the bill would require a charter applicant to hold a meeting with the local district superintendent.

Columbia, South Carolina — During the South Carolina Public Charter School District (SCPCSD) May 11, 2017 Board of Trustees meeting, one charter applicant — Polaris Tech, was approved to open.

Several charter proponents said the Georgia legislation was driven by a concern that charter applicants were not being given a fair hearing by local districts.

«The longer I deal with [charter schools], the longer I see the importance of governance,» said State Board of Education chair Bill Cobey as members discussed the various concerns presented to them over the latest group of charter applicants.

In fact, there is even confusion over whether a district can require a charter applicant to provide any information about its parent organization, according to Alice Miller of the California Charter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the closures.