Sentences with phrase «charter authorizers»

The Indianapolis Business Journal quotes The Mind Trust's Founder & CEO David Harris about his concern over maintaining charter school quality as the number of charter authorizers grows.

In his zeal to lump charter authorizers in with other «regulators,» Greene makes some sweeping and unfounded claims.

It's a novel solution to an increasingly common challenge as charter authorizers push to close low - performing schools: What do you do with families that would be shut out?

How about Chicago's district — the only charter authorizer for the nation's third - largest city — which recently declared that buildings no longer needed by the district are off - limits to charters for 40 years.)

And I have personally been on enough school visits with charter authorizers to understand their fondness for «time - on - task.»

This language has raised concerns that Puerto Rico will open the floodgates to many charter authorizers like in Michigan — a state that has earned a reputation for having notoriously lax charter oversight.

From time to time accusations of improper conduct arise, and these are examined by charter authorizers who have the deepest understanding of what is happening.

This year, the state charter authorizer board approved no new applications, most notably Ohio's I Can Schools, whose middling results in student achievement in Ohio and Indiana culminated in the state's Charter School Authorizer Board's decision to reject its application to establish three K - 8 schools in Mississippi.

The Ultimate Choice: How Charter Authorizers Approve and Renew Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), which represents government and other entities that approve and oversee charter schools, today called on charter authorizers to be more proactive in closing failing schools and opening great ones.

We examined data on school authorizations, openings, closings, and enrollment, and reviewed information on Bay Area charter authorizers from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

Yesterday, I attended a public meeting of the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board in which the group approved a new charter school: Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School.

As one charter authorizer said: «If there's one thing I could change, it would be portfolio management.

The NACSA gathering allowed an opportunity to better understand the national charter landscape as a whole and the particular challenges that charter authorizers face in regards to -LSB-...]

Third, because of current federal and state law, the SEA must be involved in many activities, whereas independent charter authorizers and entities like Louisiana's RSD make the urban district expendable.

Since 2012, Louisiana has allowed for «local charter authorizers» to be approved by the state board for authorizing authority.

On Monday, the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board approved a new charter school: Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School.

There are many different charter authorizers, none of which is accountable for ensuring that each school is performing or that the market of options is functioning for families.

Meanwhile, a coalition of charter groups continues to work behind the scenes with the school district's charter division to figure out ways to simplify the procedures and language for the largest charter authorizer in the country.

«We have approved Spokane as the first school district charter authorizer.

The QPP project takes that a step further, looking beyond basic practices to more foundational conditions, such as the beliefs, approaches, and organizational structures that characterize strong charter authorizers.»

Big charter authorizers like KIPP have also recognized the error of their ways and adopted much stronger curricular materials.

And they aren't unlike what the best charter authorizers already do when their schools are up for renewal.

Local leaders also told us that they believe the governor is the only official who has the needed credibility and authority to weigh in on negligent charter authorizers.

High quality charter authorizers address this concern by doing a comprehensive review of schools before deciding whether to close them.

In Michigan, DeVos» home state — the state with the most for - profit charter management organizations — education research has found that most charter authorizers did a poor job of monitoring quality in the schools.

In a 2016 study examining the way charter authorizers approved schools in post-Katrina New Orleans, Tulane University's Education Research Alliance for New Orleans found that charter - authorizer discretion is critical to the success of schools.

State leaders, mayors, and others need to change state and local laws to ensure that districts and charter authorizers oversee schools responsibly, that families do not face large barriers to choice — such as inadequate transportation — and that someone is responsible to make sure there is a good school for every child.

Now, Nevada, North Carolina, Maine and Wisconsin are currently trying to set up state - level charter authorizers, according to Sarah Johnson, director of media and agency relations for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

What started as a complaint against a president who turned out to be a slow learner on ed - policy, turns into a plea for additional funding for charter authorizers so that they can do a better job of working with our schools on the hard job of defining «real» accountability.

State law allows charter authorizers to retain 3 percent of the state funding for the schools they sponsor, creating a strong disincentive for closing schools.

While massive application superstructures may be wholly manageable for established charter authorizers with philanthropic support and professional grant - writers, for instance, they may be far more burdensome for educators or innovators with a promising idea (the kinds of applicants who once launched YES, KIPP, Aspire, Uncommon, Success, Achievement First, Summit, and many other now familiar names).

A task force will be formed to look into whether or not the state needs new charter authorizers.

Flanagan said the report and a meeting he had with charter advocates earlier this year have prompted him to make charter authorizers more accountable for the schools they set up.

When we look at the data from the Texas Education Agency Charter Authorizer Accountability Report, there really isn't much of a difference academically.

First, the basics and headlines: For several years now, PCSB, the only active charter authorizer in the nation's capital, has made public the results of its «performance management framework.»

Where we differ is that you think all districts should completely replaced by outside charter authorizers.

• Manage the actions of the dozen charter authorizers, the Detroit Public Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something better.

Education reformers should have serious reservations about democratically controlled charter authorizers.

Similarly, Osborne's swift critique of policies allowing multiple charter authorizers to operate in one area doesn't engage with the legitimate concern that a single - authorizer environment can constrain school supply, homogenize offerings, and concentrate too much power in one government body.

They do great work to help charter authorizers significantly improve their practices.

(The only reform exceptions are the revolutionary RSD and its progeny and, indirectly, non-district charter authorizers.)

First, a centralized and muscular system of quality control, like PM, that is only established in urban districts clearly communicates to minority communities a lack of trust in their ability to judge quality as parents or even to judge it as decentralized charter authorizers.

D.C.'s charter authorizer cites low enrollment or inadequate academic achievement for many of the closures, but «financial and management deficiencies» contributed to at least 16 closures and «governance» problems to another 4 since 1998.

Here's a map from the new NACSA @qualitycharters report on state charter authorizers showing how many authorizers each state has.