Sentences with phrase «charter school band»

The Samuel J. Green Charter School band pauses at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr..

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In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

The high - achieving California charter schools I mentioned are perhaps the most successful to date because they have banded together.

The full - time virtual charter schools that care about quality need to band together and create a membership organization and take responsibility for their industry's results.

With Catholic schools closing across New York City and enrollment plummeting 35 percent over the last decade alone, Queen of Angels and five other Catholic schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx have banded into a «network» — another charter term — of six schools and 2,100 students to try to reverse course.

That's when parents banded together to form a charter school.

From robotics to orchestra, from drama to rock band, there is something for everyone at Vision Charter School.

Teachers band together at any time to create small schools, typically three to twelve teachers each, that are licensed (or chartered) by the school district and rent space from the district.

Sarah Darer Littman also examines the activities of Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and his band of education reform and charter school aficionados who have been given control of Connecticut's public education system.

«Over the years, we have seen our state's public charter schools answer the State Board of Education's call, band together and successfully improve outcomes for students.

OSSE's investigation found that D.C. charter high schools have «few students within the highest bands of absenteeism» and «much more stable patterns of attendance in the past three years than high schools in DCPS.»

It clearly displays that it is a 501 (c) 3 non-for-profit CMO, and states that because it is often easier for a group to work together to run a charter school, they banded different individuals of different areas together to run multiple charter schools («FAQs»).