Sentences with phrase «charter schools blog»

This post first appeared in the National Alliance For Public Charter Schools Blog By Terry Ryan

The National Alliance For Public Charter Schools Blog By Angel Gonzalez When public conversation turns to charter schools, much of the attention is focused on urban students.

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Arne Duncan has $ 4 billion - plus to push privatization (on the day this blog is published, he will visit a charter school in Brooklyn that achieves remarkable results; I assume he will not visit the one in Queens that is housed in trailers in a muddy field, placed there to help a developer sell apartments in a not - yet - built building).

In her latest blog post, educator and education advocate Ann Cronin reports on Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and his administration's loyalty to the charter school industry and their latest attack on public education.

For the latest news and analysis on all things school choice related, sign up for email updates from Education Week's Charters & Choice blog:

This blog entry originally appeared on the blog of the George W. Bush Institute for National Charter Schools Week.

Cruz does misunderstand the significance of the charter school threat — and Sol Stern does an admirable job of explaining the danger of «public school reform schemes» in his blog — but for the most part Cruz avoids the elephant in the room: THE Catholic Church.

My blog silence these past few months has been due to my work on an education reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, and testing.

As I noted in a blog post yesterday, public school districts began innovating with blended learning before most charter schools did, but charter schools pioneering blended learning get far more attention for their innovations.

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.

Over the past three weeks, Fordham's Flypaper blog hosted the charter school wonk - a-thon, an exercise in punditry and policy analysis that exceeded all expectations.

This blog post is part of our Schools That Work series, which features key practices from Two Rivers Public Charter School.

He argued in an education blog that the board's position signaled the close of an «exhilarating chapter of reform» and suggested that the District should approve a second charter school authorizer that would be willing to take the city to the next level of growth.

In this blog post, Umut Özek, a principal researcher at AIR, describes a new study in which he and his fellow authors examined the disparities in teacher effectiveness between charter schools and traditional public schools in Florida.

Winner of a Gates - funded Next Generation Learning Challenges grant (and discussed in an NGLC blog), Cornerstone Charter Health High School is a Carpe Diem - like flex model featuring Apex curriculum.

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In a compelling recent blog post, Nathan Gibbs - Bowling warned that, as Washington State's new Teacher of the Year, he won't be taking positions on most of the hot policy topics of the day (Common Core, charter schools, etc.).

While I was on blog break in August finishing Letters to a Young Education Reformer, HBO host John Oliver did a segment making fun of charter schools.

Tony Bennett's emails instructing state education officials to reshape Indiana's A-F school rating system with one charter school in mind «reveal the sausage - making nature of the process,» blogs Greg Forster:

AFC Blog: Washington Supreme Court decides not to reconsider charter school ruling http://bit.ly/1lzy5Gb

Diane Ravitch's blog today is about the Scantron charter school test passage PURE exposed on PURE Thoughts.

In a blog post, he contended that I - 1240 would be vulnerable to a constitutional challenge because it directed money from the «common school fund» to public charter schools outside the control of the local school board.

And earlier this fall, the Washington Post's «Answer Sheet» blog focused on the growing controversies surrounding charter schools observing:

John Merrow wrote on his blog a few days ago, referring to our inaugural Independent Charter School Symposium.

CSDC Board Vice Chair Ember Reichgott Junge Guest Blogs for Clinton Foundation (Hanover, MD, September 7, 2012) CSDC Board Vice-Chair Ember Reichgott Junge celebrates the 20th anniversary of the opening of the very first chartered school in the nation in a special blog that appeared today for the Clinton Foundation.

Mark's work has included lobbying the State government, writing letters and op - eds in the local paper, and, while City PTA president, blogging about charter schools and other education issues on the Albany PTA Blog at the Times Union website.

I'm getting motivated to turn to a Charter School to prove my point.and blog the results daily.

Fraud in testing, special education found at ReNEW charter school - The Second Line Education Blog

Today, Sharon volunteers at school, serves on a district - level committee, conducts independent research about school issues, and blogs at the Perimeter Primate, Charter School Scandals, and The Broad Rschool, serves on a district - level committee, conducts independent research about school issues, and blogs at the Perimeter Primate, Charter School Scandals, and The Broad Rschool issues, and blogs at the Perimeter Primate, Charter School Scandals, and The Broad RSchool Scandals, and The Broad Report.

Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public school advocate pointed out the harsh reality in her blog yesterday, Connecticut Governor Malloy Increases Funding for Charters, Cuts Funding for Public Schools;

Beginning this week, the Arizona Charter Schools Association will publish profiles of the winners on the Association's blog.

(Hanover, MD, April 25, 2012) Veteran Education Week reporter Sean Cavanagh discusses CSDC Board Vice-Chair Ember Reichgott Junge's new book, «Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story,» in his April 19th blog post.

Vesia Hawkins a former Metro Nashville Public Schools student, parent and staffer, says to the local NAACP Nashville chapter in the blog Volume and Light, «Metro Schools is not a district with a charter problem.»

Since then, in newspapers and in blogs, she has critiqued groundbreaking research revealing the high attrition rates at KIPP charter schools, a finding that was later confirmed in academic studies.

On July 29, education blogger and professor Julian Vasquez Heilig released «breaking news» on his blog, announcing that the NAACP was calling for a moratorium on any new charter schools across the country.

We were sitting around the office trying to come up with ways to draw more attention to the stories of New York and Connecticut charter schools on our blog.

Sharon writes and researches three blogs, The Perimeter Primate, Charter School Scandals, and The Broad Report.

Chartering Quality is a blog devoted to improving public education and expanding opportunity through smart authorizing of charter schools — autonomous, accountable, public schools of choice.

The views expressed on this blog do not reflect the views of LAUSD, UTLA or Charter Schools.

As first reported by the School Data Nerd blog, Celerity Troika and Celerity Dyad charter schools ranked 10/10 at serving students with similar demographics.

In response to the L.A. Times» September 25th blog post, discussing academic performance at L.A. Unified magnet schools and independent charter schools: It's great news that LAUSD is recognizing the academic success at non-traditional, innovative school models such as magnets....

As I noted in an earlier blog post, «Communities of color have chosen — no longer can charter advocates [and their funders with «dark money» pockets] make the false claim that they are representing the majority of families of color in urban school districts.»

Posted by Adam Hill on Apr 29, 2014 in Blog, Cornerstone Charter Health High School, Education Innovation Fellowship, Featured

As per an article published last week in The Columbus Dispatch, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) apparently rejected a proposal made by the state's pro-charter school Ohio Coalition for Quality Education and the state's largest online charter school, all of whom wanted to add (or replace) this state's VAM with another, unnamed «Similar Students» measure (which could be the Student Growth Percentiles model discussed prior on this blog, for example, here, here, and here) used in California.

In this blog, we try to highlight some of the positive things going on at charter schools that are featured in local media.

In a recent blog post, http://charteringquality.org/demystifying-school-choice/, Parker Baxter of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) made two good points.

As the CTMirror blog post explains, «West Hartford — which has 10,500 students — has too many of its minority students attending Charter Oak International Academy and Smith School.

Good Morning Check out Kim Martinez's AFC blog on a unique Arizona charter school — it's located «off the grid» on a Navajo reservation.

Former State Superintendent of Education and current A for Arizona Executive Director Lisa Graham Keegan wrote in the Fordham Institute's Flypaper blog that we need to be cautious with how we regulate charter schools.

Check out Kim Martinez's AFC blog on a unique Arizona charter school — it's located «off the grid» on a Navajo reservation.