Sentences with phrase «inner city charter»

Inner city charter school operators like Eva Moskowitz and Geoffrey Canada and the KIPP schools do a far better job — with fewer tax dollars — than traditional public schools.

«This report compiles skewed and incomplete data that, in the authors» own words, is largely based on «assumptions» and «suggestions,» and it neglects to take into consideration important factors, such as parental choice, the similarity of student populations between inner city charters and inner city traditional schools, and that charter schools intentionally locate in neighborhoods with the greatest need, a fact that we would hope champions of civil rights would celebrate, not condemn.

Not exact matches

She has served as an educator and instructional leader in inner - city public, bilingual and charter schools.

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The GOP leader maintained that he and his colleagues favor prolonging the program of mayoral control, but insisted they also wanted more charter school opportunities for inner - city students.

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.

But the bottom line seems to be that for inner city students, charter schools offer some systematic long - term improvement, which accounts for the long - waiting lists of students desperate to escape the public school monopoly.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

L.A. Unified has been losing students at a rapid clip since 2008, when five charter - management organizations — Green Dot, Aspire, Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, and Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools (ICEF)-- announced major expansion plans.

Schorr's critically acclaimed first book, titled Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner - City Charter School, was published by Ballantine Books in the fall of 2002.

In Washington, D.C., 93 percent of the charter schools in the 5,000 - square - mile metro area are located in inner - city D.C..

The challenge is even harder in tumultuous inner - city schools, although no - excuses charters seem to be making headway.

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.

Whether the proliferation of charter schools in urban areas is fueling the demise of inner - city Roman Catholic schools is not a new question.

Inner - city parents are signing their children up for charter lotteries because the schools are getting results for kids like theirs.

In the New York Daily News, Caitlin Flanagan writes about the charter schools launched by Mike Piscal's Inner City Education Foundation in LA, and wonders when unions will stop fighting against charter schools.

Asked about the difference between urban and suburban charter parents, Patterson replied, «In the inner city, parents first want a school that's safe, where their children won't get hurt or shot and hopefully will be around adults who care about them.

The basic flaw in the CRP study is that it compares the racial composition of charter schools, which tend to be located in inner cities, with that of traditional public schools, which are located in all different kinds of environments.

New York City's charter schools are making strides in closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged inner - city students and their better - off suburban counterparts, a new study concluCity's charter schools are making strides in closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged inner - city students and their better - off suburban counterparts, a new study conclucity students and their better - off suburban counterparts, a new study concludes.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Question: What are the downsides of the charter school model, in particular for serving the needs of inner - city children and those from families in the lower socioeconomic sector?

But don't limit yourselves to charters for inner - city residents.

Though they have no crucifixes on the walls and any form of corporal punishment is strictly forbidden, outstanding inner - city charters — like those in the Knowledge Is Power Program, Achievement First, and Uncommon Schools networks — believe deeply in order.

It also gave the movement a populist patina, making it seem that if you were concerned about the plight of poor inner - city children, you would certainly support the creation of many more charter schools.

Thus the Washington charters offer encouraging news for those concerned primarily with ensuring that inner - city children have viable alternatives to failing public schools.

But then he took a job as an administrator at an LA - based charter school network called the Inner City Education Foundation.

A religious charter - school system would serve the same educational and spiritual needs in America's inner cities — and it would have the added benefit of holding the schools accountable for their results.

Last week, Eliza Shapiro published an article at Capitol New York that explored the «charter - like» approach the Partnership for Inner - City Education is bringing to its Catholic schools.

The Roosevelt district, an inner - city district in Phoenix that was hit hard by charters, sent letters to local charter parents asking why they had left district schools and explaining how the district would serve them better.

Charter schools like the Young Women's Leadership School and those operated by the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), and private networks like the NativityMiguel schools — several dozen of which serve low - income, inner - city students — have proven that proper pedagogy and academic focus can overcome the developmental challenges of preadolescence.

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

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.

For example, in the case of Washington D.C., if the entire CBSA were an appropriate point of comparison, charter students would be crossing state lines (since the Washington D.C. CBSA also includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia) and city boundaries in the 5,000 square mile region in an effort to travel to charter schools in the heart of inner city D.C. Of course, it doesn't make sense to compare, for instance, the charter schools in Washington D.C. (where 93 % of the charter schools in the metro region are located) to the traditional public schools in Front Royal, VA, which is 63 miles away!

I know this may sound heretical, since anyone who has spent more than a minute in an inner city school or neighborhood (see my Ed Next story on two Chicago charters) knows the intensity of the social dysfunction — and no school is immune to its effects.

Two panel discussions will be moderated by President and CEO of the National Association of Public Charter Schools Nina Rees and Editor - in - Chief of The Inner - City News, Babz Rawls Ivey.

«It would not really be helpful for me to take a kid who's going to an inner - city Boston charter school and say, «What if he went instead to the Weston public schools?»»

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

The quick success of these schools has been made possible in part through the Charter School Facility Grant Program - a new state program that provides facilities assistance for inner - city charter schools that target disadvantaged stCharter School Facility Grant Program - a new state program that provides facilities assistance for inner - city charter schools that target disadvantaged stcharter schools that target disadvantaged students.

See what some of the best urban charter school leaders have to say about why they do what they do (and how they achieve such great results in their inner - city schools) in our short film Unchartered Territory; click on the photo to watch this short film on SnagFilms.com for free.

Those new options have made a significant impact on Connecticut's achievement gap — you can not argue against the fact that charter schools have changed the lives of inner - city children of color who may not have otherwise had success in education.

Over 50 percent [of students in charter schools] are from black and Latino households, mostly in inner cities.

«I've done this work before,» she explained, referring to her efforts that made Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools, a network of charters she's credited with saving from imminent closure.

It's time we set the record straight: Charter schools are doing important work to raise the level of performance for children who need it the most and to close the achievement gap between our inner - city students and those in our more affluent communities.

Across the country, many charter schools have been spectacularly successful, especially in inner - city locations.

Further, the dramatic success of some charter schools working outside union work rules in educating inner - city kids shows that these kids can learn.

Supports the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education goals of improving coordination of higher education with K - 12, and preparing more inner - city students to succeed at the public universities of Massachusetts (by supplying well - trained teachers to inner - city charter schools which specialize in this mission).

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

Ravare most recently served as president of Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) Public Schools, a network of 15 high - performing charter schools serving 4,600 students in South Los Angeles.

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

California charter schools are increasingly serving inner - city and minority children.