Sentences with phrase «charter school district does»

The South Carolina Public Charter School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, or immigrant status in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

The South Carolina Public Charter School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

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If you are applying as a charter school, independent school, or Bureau of Indian Education school and do not have a district superintendent, have the principal or head of school sign this agreement instead.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

He does this because NYSUT stopped endorsing him and he rakes in tens of thousands of dollars from the charter school industry, despite not have a single charter school in his district.

Heastie noted Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a staunch support of charter schools, does not have any in his district.

Matthew Titone, who has 954 students on waiting lists in his district on Staten Island's North Shore, said charter schools in his area «do excellent work serving kids with special needs.»

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

Charter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district sCharter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district scharter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district schools.

In his 2010 campaign book, the New NY Agenda, Cuomo called for making schools more efficient — notably by removing unfunded mandates, requirements the state puts on district but does not pay them to meet — and for an increase in charter schools.

Mr. Green, too, campaigned vigorously, emphasizing the work he had done in education, primarily in establishing a charter school in the district.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

Michelle Arellano, the chapter leader at Manhattan's PS 138, a District 75 school that is co-located with a Harlem Success Academy charter school, said it's clear to her that charter schools are not accepting the same high - needs students enrolled in her school and that her school does not have the resources it needs.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

Teachers who want to do professionally creative things, who've been limited by the stifling nature of large bureaucracy in some school districts, can find a good fit in charter schools.

That difference was the result of some $ 5,500 per student in local tax dollars going to district schools that charters such as Omega did not receive — all this in addition to money for facilities and other outlays that were also denied to Ohio charters.

Before adding more charters or other new schools, the district should wait for the data to come in to justify doing so... We challenge Superintendent Tom Boasberg and our board to commit to a level playing field so neighborhood schools receive the same resources as charter and innovation schools.

Choices for families who don't want to have to take sides in the charter wars: Some school districts have tried to see charter school operators as potential partners rather than competitors.

The idea is to get charters and district schools, and stronger and weaker schools — schools that don't generally cross paths — to share ideas and goad each other to improve.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

What if cities (rather than school districts) were to create corporations, authorize them to do financing, and assign them the task of managing the public - school facilities portfolio so that both district and charter schools could be housed?

By serving an entire region or market's group of charter schools, the real - estate trust would look familiar to state officials and to lenders: a single entity that grasps the intricacies of real - estate finances and serves the individual needs of multiple schools, as school districts do.

In fact, in Boston charter enrollment does not even present a net cost to the school district.

The fact that 72.6 percent of Ohio's charter schools operate in urban areas likely has something to do with the fact that the state's suburbs continue to opt out of enrolling students from other districts.

School districts — and boards — generally haven't known what to do with these charter schools.

It is difficult to pin down the relative quality of charter and district schools with confidence without studies that use admissions lotteries to compare the achievement of students who win charter - school admission to those who don't.

It means its subscribers don't care if a school comes from the district sector or the charter sector — what they care about is if the school is doing right by kids.

Since charter schools do not receive any facility funding from the state of Texas, without our district partnerships our growth model showed that we could only fund raise enough to open 11 campuses.

And while districts could theoretically pursue rezoning on behalf of local charter schools, they reportedly hesitate to do so.

But that option is only helpful when districts identify «surplus» space, and charter operators report that many have been unwilling to share their facilities or consolidate under - enrolled schools in order to do so.

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

Minnesota reviews and authorizes in - state districts and charter school providers on a three - year cycle, but does not review individual courses.

Even within contentious Santa Clara County, where most of the San Jose — area superintendents are doing their best to stiff - arm charter schools, the Franklin - McKinley school district brings in charters as welcome partners.

Did you know that 46 % of all California school districts and direct - funded charter schools report that their student are involved in full or part time online or blending learning?

However, we find that charter parents vary more in their satisfaction with the location of their school than do parents of students in district schools.

In sum, charter parents are more likely to identify serious problems with student behavior at their children's schools than are private - school parents, but less likely to do so than district - school parents.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

Charter parents also vary more in their satisfaction with teacher quality than do district - school parents.

On most matters, charters and district schools are equally varied, but we do see greater variation within the charter sector in parents» satisfaction with school location and teacher quality.

According to a report by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the school district, which funded the campus, has more control over student enrollment than the charter management organization does.

Charter Schools Do Not Appear to Discriminate Against Special Education Students Students with disabilities more likely to remain in charters than in district Schools Do Not Appear to Discriminate Against Special Education Students Students with disabilities more likely to remain in charters than in district schoolsschools

Charter - school parents report fewer social problems than do district - school parents.

The studies, «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Schools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SSchools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's Sschools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SchoolsSchools?

Some charters outperform peer district schools, some do about the same, and some underperform.

With the frequent reports of school districts doing a poor job of fulfilling their authorizing duties and school districts» authorizing over half of the nation's charter schools, it is easy to see how the real power of the chartering strategy is being negated.