The sessions, which ranged from how to better approach the Common Core to why more than 17,000 members of the New York
City charter community marched, were aimed at helping improve the way charters educate their students and advocate for their schools.
Not exact matches
U.S. — The Rudolf Steiner School — High School, New York (the first Waldorf school in the U.S., opened in 1928)-- The Redmont School, Alabama — The Aurora Waldorf school of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska — The Desert Marigold, Phoenix, Arizona — The Desert Star
Community School, Sedona, Arizona — The Enchanted Desert School, Tuscon, Arizona — The Camelia Waldorf School, Sacramento, California — The Cedar Springs Waldorf School, Placerville, California — The Davis Waldorf School, California — The East Bay Waldorf School — High School, El Sobrante, California — The Highland Hall Waldorf School — High School, Northridge, California — The Live Oak Waldorf School, Meadow Vista, California — The Marin Waldorf School, San Rafael, California — The Monterey Bay
Charter School, California — The Pasadena Waldorf School, Altadena, California — The Sacramento Waldorf School — High School, Fair Oaks, California — The San Francisco Waldorf School — High School, California — The Santa Cruz Waldorf School, California — The Sierra Waldorf School, Jamestown, California — The Summerfield Waldorf School — High School, Santa Rosa, California — The Valley Waldorf
City School of Los Angeles, California — The Waldorf School of San Diego, California — The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, California — The Waldorf School of Orange County, California — The Waldorf School of the Peninsula, Los Altos, California — The Westside Waldorf School, Santa Monica, California — The Denver Waldorf School — High School, Colorado — The River Song Waldorf School, Fort Collins, Colorado — The Shepherd Valley Waldorf School, Niwot, Colorado — The Shining Mountain Waldorf School — High School, Boulder, Colorado — The Tara Performing Arts High School — Boulder, Colorado — The Housatonic Valley School, Newtown, Connecticut — The Apple Blossom School and Family Center, Wilton, Connecticut — The Linden Hill School, Wilton, Connecticut — The Suncoast Waldorf School, Clearwater, Florida — The Waldorf School of Atlanta, Georgia — The Honolulu Waldorf School, Honolulu, Hawaii — The Malamalama Waldorf School, Keaau, Hawaii — The Kona Pacific School, Kealakekua, Hawaii — The Haleakala Waldorf School, Kula, Hawaii — The Sandpoint Waldorf School, Idaho — The Chicago Waldorf School — High School, Illinois — The Prairie Moon School, Lawrence, Kansas — The Waldorf School of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky — The Tidewater School, Elliot, Maine — The Waldorf School of Baltimore, Maryland — The Washington Waldorf School — High School, Maryland — The Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay, Belmont, Massachusetts — The Cape Ann Waldorf School, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts — The Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, Massachusetts — The Hartsbrook School, Hadley, Massachusetts — The Waldorf School in Lexington, Massachusetts — The Waldorf School of Cape Cod, Bourne, Massachusetts — The Detroit Waldorf School, Michigan — The Minnesota Waldorf School, Maplewood, Minnesota — The Twin
Cities Area Waldorf Schools, Minnesota — The Watershed High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota — The Shining Rivers School, St. Louis, Missouri — The Glacier Lifelong Learning Center, Kalispell, Montana — The High Mowing School — High School, Wilton, New Hampshire — The Pine Hill Waldorf School, Wilton, New Hampshire — The Waldorf School of Princeton, New Jersey — The Santa Fe Waldorf School, Santa Fe, New Mexico — The Aurora Waldorf School, West Falls, New York — The Green Meadow Waldorf School — High School, Chestnut Ridge, New York — The Hawthorne Valley School — High School, Ghent, New York — The Northern Lights Waldorf School, Wilmington, New York — The Rudolf Steiner School — High School, New York, New York — The Sunbridge College, Spring Valley, New York — The Waldorf School of Garden
City — High School, New York — The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs — High School, Saratoga Springs, New York — The Emerson Waldorf School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina — The Cincinnati Waldorf School, Ohio — The Spring Garden Waldorf School, Copley, Ohio — The Cedarwood School, Portland, Oregon — The Corvallis Waldorf School, Oregon — The Eugene Waldorf School, Oregon — The Portland Waldorf School — High School, Oregon — The Shining Star School, NE Portland, Oregon — The Swallowtail School, Hillsboro, Oregon — The Kimberton Waldorf School — High School, Kimberton, Pennsylvania (founded 1941)-- The Waldorf School of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — The Philadelphia Children's School, Pennsylvania — The River Valley School, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania — The Susquehanna Waldorf School, Marietta, Pennsylvania — The Meadowbrook Waldorf School, W Greenwich, Rhode Island — The Linden Corner School, Nashville, Tennessee — The Austin Waldorf School — High School, Texas — The Upper Valley Waldorf School, Quechee, Vermont — The Spring Meadow Waldorf School, Richmond, Virginia — The Bright Water School, Seattle, Washington — The Olympia Waldorf School, East Olympia, Washington — The Seattle Waldorf School, Washington — The Three Cedars School, Bellevue, Washington — The Whatcom Hills Waldorf School, Bellingham, Washington — The Washington Waldorf School, Washington DC — The Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School, Viroqua, Wisconsin — The Tamarack
Community School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin — The Three Rivers School, La Crosse, Wisconsin — The Youth Initiative High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin
Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj has joined with business and
community leaders in a legal challenge to what they say has been the siting of a disproportionate share of residential facilities in the borough, in violation of a «fair share» requirement contained in the
City Charter.
To perform all duties as prescribed in the
City Charter and any other duties prescribed under law; to receive Calendars and notices of meeting of all
City Agencies required to refer matters to the
Community Boards pursuant to the
City Charter and to inform the Board members of such Calendars and notices; to attend any meetings required by the Mayor and / or the Borough President pursuant to the
City Charter or to designate his / her representative or representatives to attend.
At 9 a.m., hundreds of
charter school parents from Brooklyn join state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, New York
City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. and other Brooklyn
community leaders at a rally to celebrate the impact of
charter schools on Brooklyn's
communities, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn.
The Queens Borough Board's evaluation of the proposed amendments is part of a six - month citywide public review process that began in late September as mandated by the
City Charter, and includes separate reviews by
Community Boards and Borough Presidents, as well as by the
City Planning Commission around mid-December.
Charter advocates, who feel they have gotten short - shrifted by the
city and state, say they would look to run candidates to grab control of the
community boards, whose elections would be held in May 2018.
With the 2016 legislative session just getting underway, parent advocates who live in low - income
communities across New York
City and have children who attend both district and
charter schools wanted to make sure their voices were heard.
«As parents and as a
community, we have to be open to all possibilities, but my position is that
charter schools are just one possibility,» said
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, whose district includes Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill.
New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant
community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York
City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring
charter school teachers into the union.
«We have a very, very strong
charter school
community around the state and particularly in New York
City.»
James Merriman, C.E.O. of the New York
City Charter School Center, said, adding that the question «worries everybody» in the local charter com
Charter School Center, said, adding that the question «worries everybody» in the local
charter com
charter community.
The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and
communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and
city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and
charter schools.
They have offices in six
cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for
community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run
charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.
«We have a few
charter schools that are serving our
community's needs, and if they no longer serve that need then I wouldn't be opposed to Success Academy coming to Staten Island,» said Sam Pirozzolo, vice-president of the New York
City Parents Union, a volunteer organization that has been a vocal supporter of the
charter school movement.
Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's
community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the
city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and
charter schools, and that both have faults.
Those leaders did as they were asked on Wednesday, releasing a statement in support of mayoral control on behalf of the Coalition of
Community Charter Schools, a group that has had a complex relationship with
City Hall over the last several months.
Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services,
Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim
Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner
City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo
Community Center, Old First Ward
Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the
City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park
Community Center, Seneca Babcock
Community Association, Seneca Street
Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley
Community Association, Westminster
Community Charter School, Westside
Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences,
Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).
All Queens
Community Board members are appointed by Borough President Katz, pursuant to the
City Charter, with half of her appointees nominated by the
City Councilmembers representing their respective
Community Board Districts.
The Borough Board is chaired by the Borough President under the New York
City Charter and comprised of the borough's
City Council members and the chairperson of each
Community Board in the borough.
All Queens
Community Board members are appointed by the Borough President, pursuant to the
City Charter, with half of her appointees nominated by the
City Councilmembers who represent the districts within each
Community Board.
City school officials have withdrawn a controversial proposal to co-locate a
charter school at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school
community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to oppose it.
Also in the race are attorney Marc A. Landis, who represented Upper West Side parents in their fight to keep a
charter school from opening in a public school building, and
Community Board 7 member Mel Wymore, who would be New York's first openly transgender
City Council member if he won.
Assembly member Mark Gjonaj has joined with business and
community leaders to fight what they say has been the siting of a disproportionate share of residential facilities in the borough — in violation of a «fair share» requirement contained in the
City Charter.
A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of
communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of
charter - school parents across the
city.
Menin was the only candidate to advocate «absolutely» for a
City Charter revision to give both the borough president and
community boards greater binding authority.
The process has become a major issue in
Community Board 10, where the
city has partnered with NYCHA and the Harlem Children's zone to build a $ 100 million
charter school on 93,000 square feet of open space at the St. Nicholas Houses.
You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner -
city Baltimore
charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and
community.
A full - scale transition from a government - run monopoly to a competitive marketplace won't happen quickly, but that's no reason not to begin introducing more competition... We pursued that goal in New York
City by opening more than 100
charter schools in high - poverty
communities.
Three types of organizations operate
charter schools in New York
City: nonprofit
community - grown organizations (CGOs), nonprofit
charter management organizations (CMOs), and for - profit education management organizations (EMOs).
At the same time, in
cities where
charter sectors have blossomed (e.g., New Orleans, Detroit, Newark),
communities are demanding more democratic control.
For all these reasons, and despite my own affection for the idea of all -
charter systems, the
charter community in most
cities is failing to achieve the goals assumed by the tipping point strategy.
Another incident occurred in the spring at
Community Preparatory Academy (CPA), a
charter that shares space with Ambler Avenue Elementary in Carson, a
city of 90,000 - plus people.
Sixth - graders at Genesee
Community Charter School, an Expeditionary Learning School in Rochester, New York, shared their research with the
city council — and got results.
Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same
community school district within New York
City where at least one
charter school served students in the same grades.
Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse
charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pa
charter schools like Capital
City has sprouted up in big
cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont
Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pa
Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network;
Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect
Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pa
Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York
City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).
Washington, D.C., or any other
city, can harness the benefits of a
charter district structure while still maintaining a set of rules that meets the needs of the
community.
Commissioned by Baptist
Community Ministries (BCM) in 2010, this report examines how philanthropic organizations in four American
cities — Albany, N.Y.; Denver, Colo.; Harlem, N.Y.; and Houston, Tex. — have affected the
charter sector.
While I don't know if this is right for every
community, the DC
charter community is providing a lot of great options for tens of thousands of children, and they have undoubtedly made DC a better
city.
100 Black Men of America 826 America's Promise Alliance Big Brothers Big Sisters Black Alliance for Educational Options Boys & Girls Clubs of America The Business Roundtable California
Charter School Association California
Community Foundation Challenge Success
Charter School Growth Fund Children's Defense Fund Citizen Schools
City Year The College Board Colorado Children's Campaign Communities in Schools Conncan DonorsChoose.org Education Equality Project Education Reform The Education Trust Educators 4 Excellence Edutopia
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011
City - Based
Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011
Charter Philanthropy in Four
Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and
Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the
Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010
Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and
Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
He has worked for over 20 years supporting mostly
charter community schools in Oakland, New Orleans and New York
City, and he's even consulted on education issues in the Middle East.
The template for the approach is the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a 97 - block neighborhood in New York
City that combines
charter schooling with a full package of social, medical, and
community support services.
Unlike school vouchers for low - income students,
charter schools in disadvantaged
communities, or bonus pay for teachers in inner -
city schools, digital learning is not designed for just one slice of the population.
Read more about how the Park
City charter school
community came together now!
Along with Highville
Charter School, Achievement First Amistad Academy and Elm
City College Prep and Brass
City Charter School in Waterbury, our state's largest school district stands out for the ways in which
charters are connected to the
communities they serve.
The New York
City Coalition of
Community Charter schools hosted a Fall Kickoff meeting on Wednesday, September 16th.
Northeast
Charter Schools Network Connecticut State Director Jeremiah Grace said, «We could not be more excited for the Brass
City Charter School
community on this well - deserved honor.
She taught junior high school math in Los Altos, California, before attending law school, and she served as a public defender for over six years in New York
City before joining the
charter school
community.
It was an opportunity for the
community to meet their legislators and express the positive impact
charter schools have had on the Park
City.