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A weekend article by Brian Lockhart (click for article) reveals that this past October Pryor called Connecticut's Office of State Ethics to informally discuss whether, as Commissioner, it would be a conflict of interest for him to take action that would directly benefit Amistad Academy, Achievement First or the ten charter schools that Achievement First runs in Connecticut.

Achievement First runs two charter schools in Bridgeport.

Achievement First runs two charter schools in Bridgeport with plans to expand.

Not exact matches

Although he does not speak specifically of prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic modes of experience, the same sequential patterns are reflected in his description of the first cycle of intellectual progress, which runs «from the achievement of perception to the acquirement of language, and from the acquirement of language to classified thought and keener perception» (AE 31).

You would think this should not be a notable achievement for someone who runs a bread blog, but this polenta and rosemary sourdough is the first loaf of bread I've made since we brought Maple home...

The chapter entitled The Politics of Power analyses the achievements of the London mayor's first four years, but concentrates rather heavily on the run - ins with the Met rather than some of the successes in policing.

Though the report is said to be preliminary and has not been made public, a copy gleaned by The aL - hAJJ indicate, among other factors, to contribute to the President's first run victory include, his persona and youthfulness, impressive achievements in the area of infrastructural development, relative stable economy and most importantly advantage of incumbency.

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 the state.

Education Week, the newspaper of record for American education, ran 63 stories mentioning «achievement gaps» in the first six months of this year.

First, we made a straightforward comparison of the average test - score gains in classrooms run by TFA and non-TFA teachers, controlling for a variety of factors known to influence academic achievement, including students» backgrounds, the students» previous performance on the TAAS, characteristics of their schools, and characteristics of their classmates.

There also appears to be illegal in - kind corporate contributions from Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that runs Achievement First Bridgeport.

NBC Connecticut ran a great story on Achievement First Hartford's seniors.

If Achievement First wants to be a private school management company, that runs schools using private school policies, that is their right, but in doing so they void their right to be funded with taxpayer funds.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

readers know, Achievement First Inc. was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and the office responsible for reviewing charter school operations is run by Morgan Barth, a former Achievement First, Inc. employee who taught and served as an administrator illegally during 6 of his years at Achievement First, Inc..

Six years earlier, in 1999, the first group of students to enter KIPP Academy middle school, which Levin founded and ran in the South Bronx, triumphed on the eighth - grade citywide achievement test, graduating with the highest scores in the Bronx and the fifth - highest in all of New York City.

Achievement First schools accept students through a lottery open to all public school students in the city or district they are in (AF runs schools in New York City and in Connecticut so the charters are different in NYC).

In addition, a recent review of the public high schools in New Haven versus the two New Haven based charter high schools, both run by Achievement First, revealed that Achievement First HAS AN EVEN WORSE RECORD than the public schools when it came to keeping high school students enrolled.

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

While suspensions were shockingly high in some urban areas, the magnitude of suspensions was the most extreme at the charter schools run by Achievement First, the charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

These schools — run by Achievement First — have shown repeated success in bringing academic excellence to public schooling through standardized curriculum and utilizing aggressive testing.

Achievement First, Inc. is run by a corporate board and not a board of education made up of the citizens of that community.

Many were concerned that Pryor, a key player behind Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and Connecticut, would use his position to take over neighborhood schools and hand them over to his friends and colleagues in the Charter School industry.

For example, Achievement First, the charter school management company that runs 20 schools in New York and Connecticut would be one of the entities likely to be given control of «Commissioner's Network» schools because they have deep pockets and are favored by the commissioner of education who helped to form the company and served as one of the company's Directors for eight years until he resigned to become Malloy's commissioner.

Uncommon Schools, Success Academy, Achievement First, Coney Island Prep, Williamsburg Charter High School, South Bronx Classical and Atmosphere Academy are just some of the charters — independently run schools free to make their own rules — in session right now.

Jeff Klaus is connected to the CEO of Achievement First — the privately - run, for - profit charter school company which was slated to get $ 10 million of state money if Malloy's original bill was passed.

Amistad Academy in New Haven and Achievement First Hartford Academy are both public charter schools run by Achievement First, with very similar enrollment numbers in the early grades.

Answer: Because Achievement First is only running programs that address a small demographic of Bridgeport's student population.

However last week, the Hartford's School Board, the same ones who have been so outspoken about the fact that the City of Hartford doesn't have enough money to run its present schools, voted to allow Achievement First to expand their Hartford Academy program to the ninth grade in the fall of 2012 and then add the remaining three grades in subsequent school years.

Achievement First presently runs 20 schools but their goal is to grow to 35 schools in the coming years so that they can be larger than «95 percent» of school districts in the United States.

Achievement First — the Charter School Management Company that runs the plurality of charter schools in Connecticut --(as well as some of the state's independent charter schools) serve less Latino students then they are supposed to if they are truly there to provide equal opportunity for all children.

Readers of this blog will recall that I've raised serious concerns about how charter schools, especially those run by Achievement First, have managed to «cream off» the best students which has helped explain their «better performance».

Of course, as readers will already know, Stefan Pryor, our State's Education Commissioner, is well aware of all of this information as he helped to create Achievement First and was one of its Directors until he resigned to take on the role of running Connecticut's public education system.

In turn, the Amistad effort spawned the creation of Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that now runs 20 charter schools in Connecticut and New York.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy lobby group that was created by the same donors who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor; develop Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that now runs schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

Achievement First has been running great schools serving low - income kids in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island for 15 years.

And yet, a place like Achievement First has built such incredible wisdom and capacity for running great schools, what might it mean to combine that wisdom with a fresh approach to doing school?

The effort to run over the will of the local community and hand Clark Elementary School over to a charter school management company is being led by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and Morgan Barth, Pryor's «Turnaround Director,» who illegally worked as a teacher and administrator for Achievement First, Inc before being appointed to his present position by Pryor.

As parents and children at Bridgeport's «new» Dunbar School will come to find out, the discipline policies at the schools run by FUSE / Jumoke are similar in scope to those used by Achievement First, Inc..

Public opposition to another privately run, publicly funded charter school in New Haven has led to the City's pro-charter superintendent of schools withdrawing his plan to turn over even more scarce public funds to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Elementary schools run by Achievement First also were also at the top of charts for young children, with rates ranging from about 20 percent to almost 24 percent in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven.

Amistad Academy, a New Haven high school run by the charter management company, Achievement First, loses 51 % of their students between 9th and 12th grade.

With the school run by those associated with charters, it is likely that Relay's students are being trained in ways similar to the ways teachers at Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First experience.

The whole approach is a statement about how Achievement First, Pryor and the other reformers look down on all that «extra» academic training that regular administrators are supposed to be getting before running our schools.

Achievement for All Children, a new non-profit closely aligned with the charter school operator TeamCFA, was selected to run the first school.

The charter schools run by Achievement First include far fewer Latino students than are in the surrounding community, have far few students who are not proficient in the English language and far more students who go home to households where English is the primary language spoken.

And in his initial action under the new law, Commissioner Stefan Pryor, a key player behind Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and Connecticut, uses his position to take over a neighborhood school in Hartford in order to hand it over to a colleague in the Charter School industry.

Achievement First would also have undoubtedly be given «their share» of schools to run.

As good luck may have it, acting would bring him his first achievement; first - time representative Alexandre Arcady ran an advertising seeking a young man with a French - Algerian (or «pied - noir» in France slang) accent for his film Le Coup dom Sirocco.

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