Sentences with phrase «charter model»

This raises serious questions about the wisdom of the federal government pumping $ 3 billion into school turnaround efforts instead of using some of the money to replicate and scale up successful charter models.

«I wished I'd had the «no excuses» charter model for myself growing up,» she says.

Most reformers just want to replicate effective charter models.

In future work, we hope to provide additional evidence on the relative effectiveness of alternative charter models.

There are too few schools in the lottery study to generate an informative comparison of specific charter models or practices.

Latin Academies: Following on the academic success of Latin Academy Charter School, an APS middle school, visionary leader Chris Clemons has been approved to replicate his successful charter model in Fulton County.

Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «Schools that Work» tend not to fare nearly as well in later outcomes as they do on test scores.

Editor's Note: This is Part II in a four part series highlighting public education challenges in New Delhi and how the U.S. charter model may be influencing education reform across the city.

Rocketship schools can also be replicated more easily than other charter models because Rocketship's cost - efficient model enables each school to sustainably operate solely on traditional public school funding.

One will focus on character and leadership development, while the other two aim to replicate charter models that have already proven successful, such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP).

It doesn't make sense to just open the floodgates to unregulated risk and experimentation because children can't afford to lose years of learning when untested models fail, but we should be much more intentional about investing in, testing, and launching path - breaking charter models.

He first argues that all of the seven Cs principles are essential — that working with them is «more like multiplication than addition» — and makes the case for embracing the true charter model rather than a «charter - lite» approach of limited autonomy and accountability.

The flood of applicants includes eight Valley schools slated to lose federal funding because they didn't have enough low - income students, plus 16 others hoping to capitalize on the hybrid charter model.

It was also in 2010 that HCZ's charter schools were featured in the controversial hit documentary «Waiting for Superman,» along with two other prominent charter models.

«Arizona's charter model continues to set a national example of excellence,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter Schools Association President and CEO.

The standard charter model has become an enabler of a two - tiered education system, with an upper tier for the wealthier and more privileged and a lower tier for those minorities that accrue sympathy but not equal opportunity.

The proposed Classical Charter model is affiliated with the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan and is being pushed by powerful politicians around the state.

Meanwhile, Alabama will consider several charter models for its 2015 session.

The «no excuses» charter model bases its «success» on a rigid, inhumane, and miseducative classroom catechism that leaves children traumatized, passive, and less able to think for themselves.

«YES Prep and other high - performing public charter models demonstrate that students of all backgrounds can meet high expectations and thrive when teachers get the support they need, and when parents — of all income levels — have access to world - class public schools.»

While Moskowitz has found herself on the defensive at home, Success is still seen as a national charter model by many influential reform leaders.

The good news, I believe, is that more Democrats are realizing that the basic charter model makes it impossible for choice schools to retain their fair share poor and more expensive - to - educate students.

«I wouldn't equate that with the current charter model at all.»

However, based on the body of academic work that is currently available, we believe while it may be logical to allow online learning in certain circumstances, the cyber charter model is not the appropriate model.

The school founders deliberately chose to use the local charter model for the school in order to forge a collaborative relationship with New Haven Public Schools.

Baker calls the impact the «Collateral Damage of the Parasitic Chartering Model» and writes, «In previous posts I showed how the population cream - skimming effect necessarily leads to an increasingly disadvantaged student population left behind in district schools.

Their most notable disruption emerged only recently when the Blocks announced they would take their high intensity charter model — a dozen charter schools so far — and morph that into a separate network of private schools while still expanding the charter network.

The Mind Trust aims not only to grow the capacity of excellent charter schools in Indianapolis, but to bring the best charter models to the city — schools that show that all students, regardless of circumstance, can achieve great results.

-LSB-...] especially so given that the No Excuses charter model that has become the darling of ed reformers often comes up short at improving later life outcomes, while private school choice programs seem to fare better at improving high school graduation, -LSB-...]

«It makes sense to create more good schools for these communities with an understanding of the limitations of successful charter models.

This is Part 1 in a four part series highlighting public education challenges in New Delhi and how the U.S. charter model may be influencing education reform across the city.

«It should also be incumbent upon the schools to provide accurate information to families about the challenges associated with the virtual charter model.

The no - excuses charter model that is being considered below is one with a strictly enforced conduct code with very public punishments for a range of issues, big or small.

Charter School Fellowship: Talented individuals and teams seeking to develop or replicate charter models, outside of a partnership with Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), should apply to the Charter School Fellowship.

So the charter model is good for the few and bad for the many.

Meanwhile, in both voucher and charter models, schools simply spend the maximum amount the state provides them.

To see how charter schools are expanding to better serve preschool students, check out «The Charter Model Goes to Preschool» from our Winter 2017 issue.

Charter models that integrate teacher - directed and digital learning are on the leading edge of school reform

This year's class makes my point — a great cross-section of students, some with teaching experience, some with a business background, one in the Harvard Law School, and several from overseas — but all wanting to see how they could put to work the freedom and flexibility afforded by the charter model.

In this episode of the EdNext podcast, editor - in - chief Marty West talks with Ashley LiBetti Mitchel, co-author of «The Charter Model Goes to Preschool.»

«When all is said and done... the charter model is clearly superior.»

But closing weak schools is an essential ingredient of the charter model, a point of leverage largely absent in traditional districts.

That's not the case here: All of these preschool programs are high - performing, but none of them fit the traditional «no excuses» charter model.

The Charter Model Goes to Preschool Despite obstacles, innovative new programs expand access By Ashley Libetti Mitchel and Sara Mead

We share our findings in «The Charter Model Goes to Preschool,» which was released in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next.

The article, «The Charter Model Goes to Preschool,» co-authored by Sara Mead, appears in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next.

As states continue to expand their pre-K programs, the charter model can offer another attractive option for parents in an emerging publicly funded early - childhood system, not only expanding choice and access but in many cases improving quality.