Sentences with phrase «other charter school measures»

Other charter school measures failed in 1996 and 2000.

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The bill, once it passed, got high praise from Mayor Bloomberg, among others, who even singled out State Sen. Bill Perkins - who he's been at odds with over charter schools - for praise for pushing the measure.

Privately, they conceded that passing the measure was an attempt to derail a threatened big - ticket political campaign against them by Mayor Bloomberg and other prominent charter - school supporters that could cost them their razor - thin majority in the November elections.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

The effect is statistically significant for four of the seven measures of charter - school competition and falls just short of significance for the other three.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

The KIPP charter school network and other schools are testing student report cards designed to measure key character traits.

Since every charter school offers a unique program, the PMF takes schools ranging from a boarding program to Chinese language immersion to Montessori, and others, measures them on common metrics and gives the school an overall score.

The reassignment of charter schools into geographic school districts means that student counts and other measures in this data may not match a district's own accountability data.

Performance Contracting A quality authorizer executes contracts with charter schools that articulate the rights and responsibilities of each party regarding school autonomy, funding, administration and oversight, outcomes, measures for evaluating success or failure, performance consequences, and other material terms.

If such quality - control measures can be adopted in other communities, charter schools should be supported as a means to increase the supply of good schools available to poor children.

The other key word Sutton changed was in the ballot measure summary - dropping the word «certain» in favor of «qualifying» to describe the organizations authorized to operate public charter schools.

Unlike other models, charters must pay for their own school facility — but increasingly are sharing space with other public schools, thanks to the enforcement of a ballot measure.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

Legislators should support the passage of the Charter School Students with Special Needs Act, as well as other common - sense measures to expand how many students they are able to serve.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

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Lawmakers are considering measures on tax credits, other types of vouchers, charter school expansion, and parent trigger policy.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

While supportive of charter schools, Advance Illinois Co-chairman William Daley said the solution doesn't lie in a voucher system or other measures that could largely privatize education.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.

On the Nation's Report Card, Arizona charter schools, if measured as a state, outperformed nearly all other states in the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress exams in English, Math and Science.

Today, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meCharter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meSchools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance mecharter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meschools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance measures.

The author estimates measures of value added for a subset of elementary teachers and show that charter movers were less effective than other mobile teachers and colleagues within their sending schools, by 3 to 4 percent of a student - level standard deviation in achievement.

Today, CCSA called for the non-renewal of five California charter schools that fell below CCSA's minimum renewal criteria and are chronically underperforming on several other academic performance measures.

Although a few charters have failed to measure up, both districts are bracing for more of the schools to open in the coming school year, and others with long waiting lists are planning to expand.

Earlier this month State Superintendent Mike Flanagan warned these and other entities, known as charter school authorizers, that he was not going to allow them to open new schools if their existing schools «do not measure up.»

The charter is a contract between the group that wants to operate a school and the authorizing organization; it details the school's mission, the student population the school will serve, and the ways the school will measure performance, among other things.

«As evidenced by research from the CREDO Institute and countless other measures, charter schools have done incredible work in educating students from high - poverty backgrounds throughout Los Angeles.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Moody's warned Boston and three other Massachusetts cities that passage of a ballot measure to expand charter schools could weaken their financial standing and ultimately threaten their bond ratings.

Is it a conflict of interest for the COO of a charter school company to sit on the State Board of Education where she will vote on a variety of measures that will directly help Jumoke and other charter schools in the state?

The CCSA has used this and other measures to make a public call for non-renewal of a few charter schools every year.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

On the other hand, the pendulum in the charter space swung from quantity to quality, and restrictive authorizing and accountability based on narrow historic measures (and proficiency over growth) lead to more closures, fewer new schools and less innovative models.

Teacher unions and other education advocates who favor the bill have been stressing that the Protect Our Schools Act serves as a preemptive measure against school privatization, particularly since Drumpf and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, both advocates of charters and vouchers, now guide federal policy.

One of the so - called train bills combines a popular plan dubbed, «public school choice» with several other measures aimed at charter schools.

In fact, because of lack of accountability and necessary measures of progress, charter schools and other private voucher schools are less likely to provide students with complete school experiences that serve the students» needs.

(Charter schools are not included in the CORE data, but there are other ways to measure their performance.)

An official with the Chicago - based National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) told Policy Watch this week that, to the organization's knowledge, no other U.S. state has approved a proposal like House Bill 800, a measure one Democrat likened to creating «de facto, segregated private schools» last week.

The Charter Review Commission began considering a ban and other gun measures after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shootings that killed 17 and wounded 17 at the Parkland school.