Sentences with phrase «more authorizers»

And professionally I want more authorizers to have the tools to do their jobs well.

«More authorizers around the country are asking their charter networks and schools: what is it about your school that prevents you from posting results like Success's?»

Maybe more authorizers are finding ways to encourage first - timers to try again after refining their applications.

Not exact matches

Other states have realized this and fund their authorizers in more rational (and less tight - fisted) ways.

We need to support the emergence of more alpha authorizers, those who are independent of the K — 12 system and have the courage and tenacity to serve as change agents, market makers, and forces for quality, while reliably performing the core functions of authorizing mentioned above.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

Authorizers need to close more low - performing schools, but they also need to get a heck of a lot smarter about who gets a charter in the first place.

The authorizer can remove it from the public system — meaning no more public funds; per Pierce, the school has the right to stay open, but it must, as it had before, rely on its own streams of funding.

Unfortunately, more than half of the nation's 1,000 - plus authorizers oversee just one school.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

In USA Today, Richard Whitmire argues that charter authorizers need to be more aggressive about shutting down poorly performing charter schools.

This points to the critical role of charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of directors).

The original executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board, former president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, current senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and much more, Smith understands chartering and school governance inside and out.

These laissez - faire positions have netted them mediocre ratings from organizations like the National Association of Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter growth.

But getting charter law right is an obvious prerequisite for enabling the market to function as it should — a market, we now understand, that consists not just of schools and parents, but also of authorizers, support organizations, information providers, and more.

Authors McShane, Hatfield, and English found authorizers are requiring more and more paperwork from prospective founders, moving chartering away from outcomes - focused accountability.

While massive application superstructures may be wholly manageable for established charter authorizers with philanthropic support and professional grant - writers, for instance, they may be far more burdensome for educators or innovators with a promising idea (the kinds of applicants who once launched YES, KIPP, Aspire, Uncommon, Success, Achievement First, Summit, and many other now familiar names).

Districts score lower than non-district authorizers overall, and their policies are far less friendly to replication than non-district authorizers, meaning they are less likely to help great charters create more high - quality seats.

Charter school authorizers are getting «choosier» about which applications for schools they will accept and are basing decisions not to renew charters more on student - achievement issues than previously recognized, an analysis by a pro-charter organization finds.

This report gives authorizers, operators, and advocates one more tool in their toolkit.

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

Moreover, the study also found indicators that made it more likely authorizers would reject the application entirely.

The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, which serves as the authorizer for more than 90 percent of charter schools in the state, has already taken important steps in this direction.

(It bears noting that charter schools are not on this list — indeed, charter schools remain locked into existing accountability pressures and arguably these pressures are even more acute in some states where poor performance can lead authorizers to not renew a charter.)

Since 2009, we've provided guidance to authorizers that, together, oversee more than half of our nation's charter 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.»

You may be surprised to learn that NACSA — the association of authorizers comes out as more critical of them than NAPCS, the association of charter operators.

We've seen a few experiments of late suggesting that structural change is not totally impossible: mayoral control of schools in New York, for example; a statewide authorizer of charters in Colorado; the consolidation of «county superintendents» in New Jersey; and more.

It might show, for example, that authorizers like Central Michigan University (a C authorizer by Ed Trust's lights) are simply approving more schools in high - poverty areas than are other entities.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

NACSA's recently released survey data about authorizers» special education attitudes and practices raises more questions than answers.

These are all far more effective avenues for authorizers to pursue in the name of equity than quotas.

In their own words What follows are edited excerpts of Part 2 of our conversation with one such leader: Gail Greely, director of CARSNet, the Charter Authorizers Regional Support Network, a program... Read More

First, there aren't that many of them — only nine operate in more than one state, said Greg Richmond, president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Authorizers can also avoid having to step in on the back end by more attention to prevention during the application process, for example, requiring schools to simply describe their marketing / outreach plans for students with disabilities (only a quarter of authorizers surveyed doAuthorizers can also avoid having to step in on the back end by more attention to prevention during the application process, for example, requiring schools to simply describe their marketing / outreach plans for students with disabilities (only a quarter of authorizers surveyed doauthorizers surveyed do this now).

But if authorizers have this data, the tricky work will more likely be based on empirical reality, rather than just finger pointing or storytelling.

It will have five more sections of rules to discuss eventually, including details about how the board will oversee the authorizers.

While I'm glad to see that authorizers» first choice is to connect schools to special education expertise, in the case of persistent problems, more serious action is warranted.

While the LLN frees up more of the school's resources, DPS remains the school authorizer as it is for all charter and innovation schools.

NACSA congratulates the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board (MCSAB or Board) on the completion of another rigorous application process, resulting in two additional quality school options for students and families in North... Read More

Biddle admits that like traditional public schools, some public charter schools suffer from a lack of quality control and more attention should be paid to the role of charter authorizers.

NACSA's 2012 State of Charter School Authorizing indicates that more of the nation's authorizers are implementing these «essential practices.»

Critically, many charter authorizers also reached out to us, asked for more information about the schools they oversaw, and subsequently worked with those schools to amend their policies and materials.

CMU, a charter authorizer in the state, oversees 56 charter schools that are bringing academic opportunity and excellence to more than 28,000 Michigan students.

The report finds that a more transparent, accountable, and fair system will require action from all parties, including school districts, charter authorizers, charter operators, and states.

Specifically, it says quality authorizers: Enlists expertise... Read More

And there are certainly some charters that should do more to recruit high - needs students, and in those instances the charter authorizers take appropriate actions to right the course.

A lot of good work has been done in this area but much more needs to be done and ideally it should be a joint project between our schools and their authorizers.

For large authorizers, who oversee 10 or more charter schools, the closure rate was even higher, at 14.7 percent.