Sentences with phrase «city charters performed»

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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

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.

«There are high - performing charters that have opted out of this program, because the regulatory burden imposed by the N.Y.C.D.O.E. was too high,» Mr. Flanagan wrote, referring to the city's Education Department.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

Also at 10 a.m., dozens of parents will deliver letters to City Hall demanding that the de Blasio administration expand access to New York City's high - quality, high - performing public charter schools, Manhattan.

So we have in mind a trip the mayor has yet to take: a visit to a high - performing, New York City charter public school that sets high standards and demands achievement.

By Patricia Huertas When my oldest son, William, was entering first grade, I entered him in a lottery for one of New York City's high performing public charter schools.

Mr. de Blasio is a rare big - city critic of charter schools at a time when they are spreading rapidly in low - performing urban school districts.

In the final hours of the session, legislators agreed to extend mayoral control over New York City schools another year, after Mayor Bill deBlasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the cCity schools another year, after Mayor Bill deBlasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the citycity.

In the final hours of the session, legislators also agreed to extend mayoral control over New York City schools another year, after Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the cCity schools another year, after Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the citycity.

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.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

In New York City, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scoCity, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scocity's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scores.

The CREDO report on New Jersey charters said Newark has one of the highest - performing charter sectors of any city that organization has studied.

Richard Whitmire is author of On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cCharter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the ccharter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the ccharter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the country.

Brookings and CREDO are positively correlated; the more choice and competition a city has, the higher - performing its charter sector.

Success Academy charter schools are among the highest - performing schools in New York City.

Through its Renaissance 2010 program, the city is methodically closing its lowest - performing schools and then reopening them as charters, contract schools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the district.

And it is even more amazing considering that some of the highest performing charter schools, like Roxbury Prep in Boston or KIPP Infinity in New York City, serve very disadvantaged students.

But replicating high - performing charter schools, and expanding the city's private - school - scholarship program, could help too.

Warm results arrived this past winter in New York City from Stanford University economist Caroline Hoxby, who detailed how students winning slots via lotteries in over-subscribed charters out - performed applicants who remained in regular public schools.

According to a rigorous Harvard evaluation, every year Jefferson students gain two and a half times as much in math and five times as much in English as the average school in New York City's relatively high - performing charter sector.

But Cleveland also had a problem that might sound surprising: some of the city's highest - performing district schools and charter schools were underenrolled.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

The other half of Detroit's charter schools have outcomes that are statistically indistinguishable from the city's poorly performing traditional district institutions.

High - performing charters have accomplished great things for many, many inner - city kids, so my colleagues and I wondered whether they could do the same in rural areas.

Stellar results posted by high - performing charters are dismissed, while New York City mayor Bill de Blasio invests hundreds of millions of dollars in his signature «renewal schools» model largely without success.

After she visited a local KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) school and viewed the movie Waiting for «Superman,» the answer suddenly became clear: pull multiple San Antonio foundations together to attract more high - performing charter schools to the city.

Eva S. Moskowitz, 41, a former chairwoman of the New York City Council's education committee, was named the executive director of the new Harlem Success School, a charter school scheduled to open in September in Central Harlem's District 5, one of the city's lowest - performing distriCity Council's education committee, was named the executive director of the new Harlem Success School, a charter school scheduled to open in September in Central Harlem's District 5, one of the city's lowest - performing districity's lowest - performing districts.

A number of cities are showing that the charter sector is best able to reliably create and grow high - performing schools.

Do the many charter school success stories recounted in The Founders mean that high - performing charters will soon show up in every city?

Ten years later, it is one of the highest - performing charter schools in the city, serving 48 preschoolers and 291 students from transitional kindergarten through 6th grade.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

Icahn is among the city's best - performing charter school networks, trailing only Success Academy (see «What Explains Success at Success Academy?»

Of course the challenge to keep the city's current (and growing) group of charter schools performing at a high level is itself a formidable one.

I'm not sure I can prove it with hard data, but it sure seems clear to me that the cities and states with some of the highest - performing charter schools (Boston, Washington, D.C., New York State, Tennessee) are also home to some of the most thoughtful and effective authorizers.

Disclosure: Bellwether has worked with several high - performing charters schools in New York City but Success Academy is not among them.

That sort of deeper engagement will likely require Cleveland's charters to offer more as well, such as committing to share the responsibility of serving the city's special education students or working with the district to turn around its chronically low - performing schools.

«We see more and more charter school authorizers in cities with large charter market shares (like Washington, DC, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans) are starting to encourage high performing charter school operators to take over and restart low performing charter campuses.»

According to the CREDO report, they were already performing better than charters in other New Jersey cities.

Two high - performing charter networks in New York City — Success Academy and Icahn — both rely on a content - rich approach.

Here we describe how and why district - charter engagement happens, as well as its implications, by examining Cleveland, a city where the threat of a state takeover and the need to pass a new tax levy led the mayor and the district he oversaw to reach out to high - performing charters as part of his reform plan.

And although the sectors identified «exploring how charters can address the needs of the lowest - performing district schools» as a focus of the city's Gates compact work, they have not committed to enrolling proportional shares of special education students, like their counterparts in Denver.

And the Partnership's leaders are looking to the city's high - performing charter schools as a template for their revamped schools.

Parents are still choosing charter schools and demand is high, but we are seeing that in some «high - choice» cities even high - performing charter schools are having a hard time attracting parents away from their default neighborhood school.

Cities with smaller but higher - performing charter sectors, such as Boston or New York or even Washington, D.C., would be my first choice.

Its tight controls on entry into the charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector growth.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

Clearly, something needs to change in cities» stance toward both their lowest - performing and high - performing charters.