Sentences with phrase «achievement first charter school»

The Cohens have been strong supporters of Achievement First, where they helped fund the first Achievement First charter school in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Of course, this all comes on top of continued expansion of the Achievement First Charter School in Bridgeport.

Superintendent Christina Kishimoto — whose employment in this capacity with the Hartford Public Schools is over at the end of this school year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter school.

As the Courant article explained, «City school officials on Tuesday cited chronic absenteeism, declining enrollment and years of low test scores as reasons why Clark Elementary School should be converted into an Achievement First charter school.»

Lewis Fox Middle School in Hartford was closed and later replaced with an Achievement First Charter School

Major donors associated with ConnCAN, the Achievement First charter school chain and other corporate education reform entities have donated in excess of $ 250,000 to Malloy's Democratic State Central Committee in just the last four years.

It is interesting that New Haven is ground zero for Achievement First Charter School organization which is arguably the most prolific in opening new charter schools in Ct and surrounding states.

The proposal states that one paid year - long residency will be at an Achievement First charter school; the other will be at a Hartford Public School.

After all, his previous Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, had a personal financial stake in Achievement First Charter School Corporation while pushing cities around our state to authorize Achievement First schools, thereby presenting a clear conflict of interest.

According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.

Avni taught middle school science at the Academy of the Pacific Rim in Boston and helped found Amistad Academy, the first Achievement First charter school.

Previously, Erica was a Senior Director at Achievement First Charter School Network, where she started the Human Capital team and was responsible for supporting Achievement First's activities around Human Resources systems, talent strategy, employment policies, benefits, performance improvement, compensation, and Diversity & Inclusiveness strategy.

She spent last year teaching 3rd grade reading classes and Special Education at Achievement First Charter School in New Haven, CT..

At Fordham's upward mobility conference in Washington, D.C. last month, Dacia Toll, who heads the highly - regarded Achievement First charter school network, was admirably candid in noting her own conversion to content.

Last week, the Hartford Board of Education voted to expand its nationally recognized collaboration with Achievement First Charter Schools, and parents and students stand to benefit [Aug. 28, news, «Charter Gets Green Light»].

I think there is quite a bit of secrecy surrounding Jumoke and Milner Jumoke... while most of the Achievement First charter schools were exposed for their harsh disciplinary procedures for children as young as 5 - 6, Jumoke and its various spawn were never mentioned.

But unlike Connecticut's statewide data and the results from other urban school distrticts, the SBAC achievement results at Achievement First charter schools had incredible fluctuations between grade levels — differences that suggest that students in some grades may of had some «assistance» filling in the answers.

According to the data released by the Connecticut Department of Education on Friday, the variation between grades at Achievement First charter schools was massive, unusual and extremely suspect.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

Like New Haven's public schools, the Achievement First charter schools in New Haven failed to meet the state's required improvement goals.

Multiply this fee by the four Achievement First charter schools in Connecticut, and Achievement First Inc., the CMO, walks away with about $ 4.45 million in fees.

The plan, which is outlined in their 2010 Annual Report, is designed to increase the number of Achievement First charter schools from 20 schools to 35 schools in the next few years.

Over the past seven years it has created 19 Achievement First charter schools with about 5,400 students in Connecticut and New York.

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Last week, the Hartford Board of Education voted to expand its nationally recognized collaboration with Achievement First Charter Schools, and parents and students stand to benefit [Aug. 28, news, «Charter...

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

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behinFirst has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behinfirst time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behinFirst education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

StudentsFirstNY, a local chapter of the national reform organization, and Success Academy, the city's largest and most powerful charter school network, quickly joined suit, along with other charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First.

The letter was signed by Ms. Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools; Dave Levin, the co-founder of KIPP charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of AchievementCharter Schools; Dave Levin, the co-founder of KIPP charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of AchievementSchools; Dave Levin, the co-founder of KIPP charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievementcharter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievementschools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of AchievementCharter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of AchievementSchools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement First.

C.E.O.s for the city's other large charter networks, Uncommon Schools and Achievement First, did not reply to requests for comment about whether they support mayoral control.

Deshone Moise is a third - grader excelling at the Achievement First Apollo charter school in Brooklyn's East New York, one of New York's poorest neighborhoods.

On the one hand, she champions strong charter schools (such as Achievement First) that support the Common Core and a common curriculum and that embrace her model of teaching (see below).

Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

cohort 1, for example, is leveraging the program to build on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher in the South Bronx, N.Y., and as the founding principal of Bushwick Charter School, which is part of the Achievement First Network.

The school is part of Achievement First, a nonprofit charter school management system founded in 2003 by two University of North Carolina graduates (Class of 1994), Doug McCurry and Dacia Toll.

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theschools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theSchools that are now up and running across the state.

Although a number of recent studies analyze the relationship between charter school attendance and student achievement, this is the first analysis of the impacts of charter school attendance on educational attainment.

First, it is worth considering that charter high schools may raise rates of high school graduation and college enrollment directly, or indirectly through improved academic achievement.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable stSchools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable stschools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

The New York Times Magazine spotlighted charter networks KIPP, Uncommon Schools, and Achievement First in a major feature on how to close the achieAchievement First in a major feature on how to close the achievementachievement gap.

Students in these grades make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in traditional public schools, and the negative effects are not limited to schools in their first year of operation.

In addition to well - known charter management organizations like KIPP, Achievement First, and Uncommon Schools, new ones continue to emerge: Green Dot, High Tech High, Aspire, Noble Street, IDEA, and more.

Which means, a charter operator with campuses in multiple states, like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, or Rocketship Education, can not freely move a teacher or school leader between their schools in various Schools, Achievement First, or Rocketship Education, can not freely move a teacher or school leader between their schools in various schools in various states.

Take a moment to contemplate that fact: The positive impact of years of work done by thousands of educators to build networks like KIPP, YES Prep, Achievement First, Noble, Mastery, Uncommon, Aspire, IDEA, Harmony, and others is literally negated by the performance of virtual charter schools.

In his role with NewSchools, Jim currently serves on the board of directors for Achievement First, New Schools for New Orleans, Success Charter Network, and Uncommon Schools.

Among them are successful charter school networks across the country, such as Achievement First, YES Prep, KIPP, Rocketship Education, and IDEA Public Schools.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

First, charter schools must focus on student achievement and show their stuff on states» high - stakes exams.