Sentences with phrase «many new charter schools»

Its top recipient is the Charter School Growth Fund, a group that provides start up money for new charter school nationwide.

A new charter school in Brooklyn uses a sports - oriented curriculum to engage high - risk students

I hope to hear more about your food success in your new charter school.

So we are trying a new charter school in the area for next year for my oldest while my next child will stay at the neighborhood school.

Because of the cap on the number of schools, «Zombie Charters» remain an impediment to opening new charter schools.

A little - known federal tax break to finance new charter school construction, the New Markets Tax Credit, is so lucrative that a lender who uses it can almost double his money in seven years.

That short - changing, along with the Legislature's continuing refusal to raise New York's statutory cap on new charter schools, marks a significant shift in strategy for school - choice opponents.

Opportunities to open new charter schools will be part of the discussions on extending mayoral control,» the Flanagan insider said.

The panel voted to close JHS 231 in Queens and to co-locate a new charter school in Brooklyn's PS 114, which only recently narrowly escaped the mayor's chopping block.

The city's Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, voted 8 to 4 at its March 1 meeting at Brooklyn Technical HS to co-locate a new charter school in Bedford - Stuyvesant's already - cramped PS 308, infuriating the school's parents, students and teachers.

Cuomo also wants to add 100 new charter schools in the state, which are publicly funded by taxpayers but don't have to follow all the rules and regulations that public schools must obey.

«We strongly urge you to hold a new public hearing on Success Academy's application to open a new charter school in School District 1, so that the residents of that district have an opportunity to provide their input on the revised application,» said local leaders in a Nov. 13 letter to Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

Noting the shrinking cap, Moskowitz applied to open 14 new charter schools by 2016 with the remaining charter slots, which will nearly double the size of her charter network.

The state Education Department's decision to reject all 15 applications for new charter schools has astonished lawmakers — even some who are allies of charter foes.

At 9:40 a.m., leaders of New York City's charter networks join parents to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to support 50 new charter schools in public space over the next two years, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Last year, Mr. Cuomo denied Mr. de Blasio the tax hike he sought to fund his universal prekindergarten initiative and later rammed through a law that guaranteed new charter schools free space in New York City, punishing the anti-charter teachers» union and the mayor, who was always a charter critic.

«Andrew believes that public review and consultation are important but can not become a poison pill that prevents the opening of new charter schools,» a source close to Cuomo told The Post.

The state Senate has taken a welcome step toward bolstering quality education in New York with a bill that would authorize creation of hundreds of new charter schools across the state.

* Bypass the mayor and the chancellor and give community school boards the power to reject new charter schools.

Aside from raising the cap, Cuomo also favors continuing the State University's role in approving some new charter schools along with the state Board of Regents.

New York City's largest and most polarizing charter school network, Success Academy, is applying for its biggest expansion yet, with plans to open 14 new charter schools in the next two years, a spokeswoman for the network announced on Tuesday.

Building on a New York Post report from August, the coalition noted 45 applications for new charter school co-locations were rejected by the city.

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

This is the second new charter school to be built inside city public housing developments in Harlem.

The state's charter review board will vote Wednesday on Harlem Success Academy's application to bring the new charter school, called the Upper West Success Academy, to P.S. 145.

Every version lifts the cap on new charter schools in the city; the five - year one also includes a state Education Tax Credit to support private and parochial tuition.

The staff at P.S. 297 helped Jordan in his transition, he added, and the proposed new charter school would take what little space the elementary school has.

WHEREAS Klinsky is also a founder of the Great Oaks Foundation, a not - for - profit educational company established after New York State amended its charter law to prohibit for - profit charter management of new charter schools, which is sponsoring charter schools in New York and New Jersey; and

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan have both advanced proposals that would continue the city's 15 - year - old receivership of the municipal education system but include provisions lifting the cap on new charter schools in the five boroughs.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

NEW YORK CITY — When Eva Moskowitz starts a new charter school, top officials at the city's Department of Education move heaven and earth to meet her demands.

De Blasio noted the current cap allows for almost two dozen new charter schools by 2019, and insisted that the city has allowed the existing privately run, publicly financed facilities to grow.

Cuomo has told lawmakers that they must accept education policy changes — including adding authorization for 100 new charter schools and making teacher evaluations more dependent on standardized tests — in order for him to agree to give the state's schools more money.

Earlier this month, the NAACP further upset the apple cart with a call for a moratorium on new charter schools.

To date, there are class action lawsuits pending in areas of teacher firings and unions, and an onslaught of new charter school openings that have left many wondering whether New Orleans schools have truly seen improvement.

My views on how to solve some of these seemingly intractable education problems have been informed by two experiences: my four years as chair of the New York City Council's education committee and, more recently, my role as founder and executive director of a new charter school.

Parents who pay for private schooling or who start new charter schools also make sacrifices in order to give their children a particular kind of education.

In the 1997 - 98 school year, 279 new charter schools opened their doors, according to the report.

With micro-chartering, one or more classrooms or individual teachers could receive a charter to provide course access to students beyond the walls of a particular school — or to incubate new charter school models on a small scale before growing them.

In 2001 and 2002, however, the number of new charter schools opening in the fall actually declined compared with the previous year.

In suburban districts, this open - enrollment policy not only provided the opportunity for outside students to attend these schools, it also increased the competitive pressure on new charter schools.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

I examine a traditional public school, a district - turned - charter school run by an education management organization, and a relatively new charter school.

A secondary finding that reformers should find just as stunning is that the evidence suggests that new charter schools are not making up the difference.

The compact brought 21 new charter schools into Denver Public Schools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), and KIPP.

Without the Excellence Commission, only local school boards can authorize new charter schools.

One, the California Charter School Development Center, runs «boot camps» for new charter school leaders, running them through a litany of topics.

that CPS gave up on its attempt at «differentiated compensation» but retained the right to open new charter schools.

However, the pace of new charter school openings and enrollment growth in the Bay Area has slowed in recent years (see Figure 2).

When Kentucky legislators sat down to draft their new charter school law, for example, what questions did they need to answer?