Sentences with phrase «open enrollment schools list»

From the California Dept. of Education, pursuant to SB 54, here is the list of the bottom 1,000 schools in California (Excel spreadsheet): Open Enrollment Schools List 2015 — 16.

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The witness list included a top Education Department official, Chester E. Finn Jr.; a consultant to the National Governors Association's task force on choice, Joseph Nathan; school officials who are overseeing «open - enrollment» plans;...

AB 47 by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D - San Rafael, would delete the 10 percent exception and require that the open enrollment list be reflective of those schools that ranked in decile one of the state's most recent Academic Performance Index.

The list includes 95 from LA Unified, and students attending them can now apply for an open enrollment transfer to any other public school in California for the next academic year.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

A state or federal requirement, imposed by statute or rule, applicable to an open - enrollment charter school operating under the TEC, Chapter 12, Subchapter D, including, but not limited to, the requirements listed in TEC Section 12.104 (b), and in the following Education Code statutes:

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

In all, SBE members approved 35 of 39 waiver requests, including those on class size but also others ranging from community day school locations to removal of a school from the open enrollment list for being low achieving.»

One waiver, this one from the Covina - Valley Unified School District to remove Manzanita Elementary School from the Open Enrollment list of «low - achieving schools,» was approved on the condition that the district still honor any transfer requests pursuant to California's Open Enrollment Act.

The just released «Romero» Open Enrollment List for the 2014 - 15 school year can be viewed at 1000schools.org.

Disturbed by these lists and the seemingly little action to transform the schools on them, I wrote what's been dubbed the «Romero» Open Enrollment Act in 2010, which provides unprecedented school - choice options for parents of kids trapped in failing schools solely due to default geographic assignment: ZIP code.

But there aren't carve - outs that prevent, for example, 90 % of the schools in an underperforming district from any accountability, such as is the case with the open enrollment list.

(1) The Open Enrollment Act mandates that the California Department of Education to annually create a list of 1,000 schools ranked by their Academic Performance Index.

But in the compromises made in order to pass the bill, among other things, the published list of open enrollment schools can not include more than 10 % of the schools in any given school district.