Sentences with phrase «[cyber charter school»

SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

Jennifer Schnidman Medbery knew that teaching math at a New Orleans charter school would be tough, even though the school, Sci Academy, had attracted a «dream team» staff.

IHSNO is an open - enrollment charter school with 565 students and claims to be the only high school in New Orleans to offer the rigorous International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP), which requires students learn a foreign language.

She is also invested in various economic development projects that support charter schools, healthcare clinics, and food grocers.

The start - up will begin working with four private partner schools in the fall, then partner with up to 10 schools, including at least one charter school, the following year.

For several years, Erdoğan and his allies have accused the elderly Gülen, who has been in the United States since 1999 and runs a large network of charter schools here, of plotting the subversion of the Turkish state.

Medberry was recruited in 2008 to teach in a New Orleans charter school, when she realized standards that measured student achievement hadn't been updated in generations.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

In 2015, Gates spoke out in favor of national Common Core standards in grades K through 12 and charter schools.

The state has revoked the teaching license of Christopher Fisher, 31, who was a social studies instructor at Quantum High, a charter school in Boynton...

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

Zack serves on the non-profit boards of the East Palo Alto Charter School and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

(His Democratic opponent, future charter school CEO Eva Moskowitz, beat him by 52 percentage points.)

The GOP's Biggest Charter School Experiment Just Imploded How a washed - up lobbyist built a charter school...

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Ben also serves as Chairman of the Board of KIPP New Orleans Schools, the largest charter school operator in New Orleans.

Shockingly, the charter school has carved out an exemption in the dress code so menstruating students can tie their school sweatshirts around their waists «to hide the blood stains.»

In 2011, Canyon joined Agassi Venture to invest in the construction of charter schools in the United States; an investment that they expect will generate between $ 300 million and $ 50 million in profits, and opened their first school in 2012.

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to «frack» Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling.

The Bradley Foundation is a top funder for groups affiliated with charter schools nationwide.

The Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools 2018 ranks 819 public, separate, francophone, independent and charter schools based on seven academic indicators derived from provincewide test results.

Its top recipient is the Charter School Growth Fund, a group that provides start up money for new charter school nationwide.

She served as a Trustee of Achievement First Bushwick Charter Schools (Brooklyn).

They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more successful than charter schools.»

Charter schools and private schools follow the direction of BPS.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Charter schools and private schools followed suit.

Matti Kauftheil, a junior at Woods Charter School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, wrote in an email that they were in awe seeing people registering to vote and calling their representatives.

He currently serves as the board chair for Kansas City - based charter school Citizens of the World and as a commissioner for the Housing Authority of Kansas City.

He also sits on the board of the Great Oaks Foundation a lead not for profit charter school organization, sits on the boards of various other not for profit organizations and heads the grant board for a private foundation he founded.

The first is tonight with three short plays by students from Dillard High School and Coral Springs Charter School.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

If, now that Congress has killed the program, their parents flee to charter schools, «choice» will not be the culprit.

Ravitch contends that voucher programs and public charter schools have failed to demonstrate measurable educational gains.

(CNN)- The football coach at a publicly funded charter school in Arizona has been suspended after directing a player to lead a team prayer.

Nova, a highly rated public charter school with a classical curriculum, had educated six of my seven children over the years.

Nova Classical Academy, a K — 12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first - rate education for their children can only dream about.

I taught for a while at a Muslim charter school in the Bay Area.

One family we know... He is a climatologist, she is a history teacher at a charter school.

And if followers of a particular religion, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, any of them, feel a dire need to have school calendars coincide with their religious calendars, then it's called a charter school.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

@Jeff I for one support all of the experiments with vouchers, charter schools, etc..

Public school reform, private school access and charters schools are all part of the solution.

A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

Charter schools have been very popular in the black community and generally beneficial for black students:

That is one reason why in education, for instance, vouchers are to be preferred to charter schools and other devices that invite extensive government regulation and co-optation.

, who won the most expensive House race in the country, supported insertion of «Creationism» and «12 Christian principles» (akin to the Ten Commandments) in the curriculum of a public charter school whose board she served on, we are in danger.

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»