He has been a senior program associate at Learning Point Associates; worked at Modern Red SchoolHouse and consulted for organizations, such as SchoolWorks, the Global Sleepover, Eduventures, and the Cesar Chavez
Public Charter High School for Public Policy; and for 16 years taught language arts to middle and high school students.
Not exact matches
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards
for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use
for our home games a dusty field the
high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways
for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising
public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports]
charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct
for coaches, players, and parents.
First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting
for the book at a
public charter school and a private
school, I reported in more depth at two traditional
public schools (Fenger
High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).
John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island
public schools and have cut a deal with
high finance
charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars
for campaign cash
for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.
«Once again, New York City's
public charter schools are driving the gains made by the city's highest - need students,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kit
schools are driving the gains made by the city's
highest - need students,» said Families
for Excellent
Schools CEO Jeremiah Kit
Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.
The proposal, which would allow
high - achieving
charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda
for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees»
charter school committee, convened three days after
public notice was first issued during a holiday week.
Pensions and health costs
for teachers and other staff are substantially
higher for the traditional, unionized
public schools compared to
charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.
Fariña recently told Capital she believes some
charter schools can have a positive effect on the
public system, while knocking others (without naming specific
schools)
for touting
high test scores, but not accepting special education or English Language Learner students.
Cuomo spent his first term attacking
public sector unions, undermining funding
for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded
charter schools, pushed
high - stakes testing and undermined
public schools.
By Patricia Huertas When my oldest son, William, was entering first grade, I entered him in a lottery
for one of New York City's
high performing
public charter schools.
Hawkins supports fully funding
public schools and opposes Cuomo's push
for high stakes testing,
charter schools, and centralized control of the education system.
«Gov. Cuomo's proposed budget reflects his deep understanding and appreciation of
public schools and the important role
charter schools play in the public education system, particularly for the highest needs students,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School
charter schools play in the
public education system, particularly
for the
highest needs students,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City
Charter School
Charter School Center.
Hawkins had harsh criticisms
for Cuomo's education agenda
for shortchanging funding
for public education, pushing
high - stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate
schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private
charter schools over
public schools.
Mr. de Blasio has pledged to charge rent to
charter schools, and he has said he will deny, at least temporarily, future requests to use space inside
public school buildings — a lifeline
for many
charter schools given the
high costs of real estate in the city.
Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four
schools from
public institutions to
for - profit
charter schools, segregated
schools, lack of funding
for schools,
high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.
It's this sort of stark disparity that has propelled the UFT to fight
for charter equity legislation in Albany that requires taxpayer - funded
charters to accept and keep numbers of
high - needs students comparable to those in district
public schools.
New test scores show that
public charter schools are the best
public schools in the city
for high - need students, but Mayor de Blasio continues to drag his feet in giving...
«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online
charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test
for high school graduation than their peers in traditional
charter and traditional
public schools,» said McEachin.
The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary,
for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend
public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a
high - performing
charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a
high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone
Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students
for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci
Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system
for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates
high - performing
schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring;
Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit
Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based
school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new
charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
Since Illinois passed its
charter school law in 1996, Chicago's
public school district officials have viewed
charters as another path to district improvement, especially
for its
high schools, and even went so far as to support an increase on the city's
charter cap from 15 to 30.
However, many others believe
charters divert resources from traditional
public schools and don't meet up to accountability measures.These opposing views often lead to friction among people who actually have much in common: a genuine concern
for children and the national right to
high - quality
public education.
National Poll Finds Waning Support
for Charter Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Charter Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource)
Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among o
Public Support
for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm
for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support
for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among o
Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support
for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American
public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among o
public opinion on timely education issues such
charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among
schools,
higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among others.
Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual
Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to sto
Schools and Home
Schooling finding
high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual
schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to sto
schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home
schoolers and advocates
for traditional
public schools will be able to sto
schools will be able to stop them.
Among the featured speakers were David Driscoll, commissioner of education
for the Massachusetts Department of Education; Peter Frumkin, professor of
public affairs at University of Texas at Austin; Laurie Gardner and Eric Premack, codirectors of California Charter Schools Development Center; Michael Goldstein, founder and director of research and information for MATCH Charter Public High School; and HGSE Senior Lecturer James
public affairs at University of Texas at Austin; Laurie Gardner and Eric Premack, codirectors of California
Charter Schools Development Center; Michael Goldstein, founder and director of research and information
for MATCH
Charter Public High School; and HGSE Senior Lecturer James
Public High School; and HGSE Senior Lecturer James Honan.
The District of Columbia's
public schools are 45 %
charter, have
high accountability standards, and make it easy
for families to evaluate their options and enroll in both district and
charter schools.
According to the brief, which was published last month, the level of racial segregation
for black students in
charter schools is
higher than it is in
public schools.
Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000
Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.
Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when
school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional
public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates
for charter (36 percent) and private
schools (22 percent) were much higher.
schools (22 percent) were much
higher.»
Demand
for seats in
charter schools remains
high among families but
public enthusiasm
for continued growth of the
charter sector seems to be slipping.
To address the issue of student self - selection into
charter schools, the researchers compared
high school and postsecondary outcomes
for 8th - grade
charter students who entered
charter high schools with outcomes
for 8th - grade
charter students who entered conventional
public high schools, ensuring that both the comparison group and the treatment group of students were once
charter choosers.
If traditional
public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment
for young adolescents to prepare
for college preparatory
high schools or
high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of
charter schools, magnet
schools, and other choice strategies that do.
In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our
schools the best in the world — to have
high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle
schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our
schools for the 21st century, supporting more
charter schools, encouraging
public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.
For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a
charter middle
school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional
public high school.
Controlling
for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a
charter middle
school), students who attend a
charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional
public high school.
Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those
high - performing
charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly
high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty
public school students now attends a
charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform
for both moral and political reasons.
Public support
for charter schools, at 65 %, remains
high.
That is, we compare
high school and postsecondary outcomes
for 8th - grade
charter students who entered
charter high schools (the treatment group) with outcomes
for 8th - grade
charter students who entered conventional
public high schools (the comparison group).
In the traditional
public school sector in both Florida and Chicago,
high schools are almost always separate from middle
schools, which is not the case
for charter schools.
When one of Washington, D.C.'s
highest - performing traditional
public schools pursued plans to convert to a
charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange
for the
school's agreement to stop flirting with
charter status.
Another study, by Michigan's Mackinac Center
for Public Policy, found positive, but by their admission «not great,» results: Detroit
charter high schools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit Public Schools performed worse than pre
schools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit
Public Schools performed worse than pre
Schools performed worse than predicted.
Public support remains as
high as ever
for federally mandated testing,
charter schools, tax credits to support private
school choice, merit pay
for teachers, and teacher tenure reform.
Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate
Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in
public policy from Harvard's Kennedy
School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education
for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and
high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).
Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill
Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the s
School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole -
school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the s
school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component
for faculty and intern teachers at the
schoolschool.
Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's
charter schools quit their
schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional
public schools and 12 percent in
high - poverty, urban
public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula
for school stability.
Given the need
for more
high - quality
schools, we should be open to finding ways
for any
high - quality
public -
school operator to be successful, whether they are stand - alone
charter schools, EMOs, franchises, networks, or CMOs.
Candidate Beyond Minimally Adequate: Building
Public Support
for High - Quality, Accessible
Charter Schools in South Carolina Tuesday, April 11, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 1
Of the many arguments
for charter schools, one is crucial: that
charters should be deliberately, thoughtfully, boldly different from existing mainline
public middle and
high schools.
Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance
for Public Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.&
Public Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.
Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.
Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more
public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.&
public school students access to
high - quality
charter public schools.
charter public schools.&
public schools.
schools.»
In his new book The Founders, education reporter Richard Whitmire shares the history of the top 20 percent of
high - performing
public charter schools, and the visionary educators who did whatever it took to create innovative
schools that works
for students.
Finally, Adam Peshek proposes a way to tackle some of the obstacles to
charter -
school growth through the Opportunity Zone program (part of the 2017 tax reform package)-- and hopefully create more
high - quality
public school options
for children along the way.