Board members also heard from Louisiana Association of
Public Charter Schools executive director Caroline Roemer Shirley, who discussed the importance of following applicable laws, getting parents involved, and the educational landscape in Louisiana generally.
Louisiana Association of
Public Charter Schools executive director Caroline Roemer's letter to the editor in The Advertiser makes the case of why charter schools are not the blame for fiscal woes of the Lafayette Parish School Board.
Good Morning Louisiana Association of
Public Charter Schools executive director Caroline Roemer's letter to the editor in The Advertiser makes the case of why charter schools are not the blame for fiscal woes of the Lafayette Parish School Board.
Not exact matches
Billy Easton, with AQE, calls Brown a front person for billionaire Wall Street
executives, who he says fund the
charter school movement at the expense of
public school.
The letter was signed by Ms. Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy
Charter Schools; Dave Levin, the co-founder of KIPP charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement
Charter Schools; Dave Levin, the co-founder of KIPP charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement
Schools; Dave Levin, the co-founder of KIPP
charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement
charter schools; Jacob Mnookin, the executive director of the Coney Island Prep Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement
schools; Jacob Mnookin, the
executive director of the Coney Island Prep
Public Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement
Charter School; Brett Peiser, the CEO of Uncommon
Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement
Schools; Ian Rowe, the CEO of
Public Preparatory Network; and Dacia Toll, the co-CEO and president of Achievement First.
*** Photo Left to Right: Althea Williams, Founder and President of «Youth Leaders On The Move;» Loretta Masterson, President of the Sack Wern Houses Residents Council; April D. Horton, Director of External and Government Affairs at Verizon; Senator Jeff Klein; Darrin Speight, President of the Shorehaven Condo Association; Paul Moore, Principal of Moore Development Group; Debra Stern, Founder and
Executive Director of the Amani
Public Charter School.
Scott Pearson,
executive director of the D.C.
Public Charter School Board, said the report shows diverse and non-diverse charter schools can be succ
Charter School Board, said the report shows diverse and non-diverse
charter schools can be succ
charter schools can be successful.
Nina Rees is President and Chief
Executive Officer of the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools.
«The explosive growth in the number of
charter schools has been just wonderful,» Royce Van Tassell, executive director of the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools, told the Desere
charter schools has been just wonderful,» Royce Van Tassell, executive director of the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools, told the Desere
schools has been just wonderful,» Royce Van Tassell,
executive director of the Utah Association of
Public Charter Schools, told the Desere
Charter Schools, told the Desere
Schools, told the Deseret News.
Former US Secretary of Education John King, National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools Senior Policy Adviser Christy Wolfe, Chris Barbic of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and DC
Public Charter School Board
Executive Director Scott Pearson will participate in the discussion and AEI's Nat Malkus will moderate.
Debating this issue were Charles Barone, policy director, Democrats for Education Reform; Robin Lake, director, Center for Reinventing
Public Education; Mike Petrilli,
executive vice president, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Delia Pompa, senior vice president of programs, National Council of La Raza; and Nelson Smith, senior advisor, National Association of
Charter School Authorizers.
But Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of Education took an
executive action that I support strongly, issuing new guidance for the
Public Charter Schools Program that will allow
charters to use «weighted lotteries» without forfeiting their chance to receive federal start - up funds.
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 an
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 an
School Authorizers, and much more, Smith understands
chartering and
school governance inside an
school governance inside and out.
He spent more than seven years as
Executive Director of Pioneer Institute for
Public Policy Research, where he helped to launch the Massachusetts
Charter School Resource Center, which supported the development of the state's first charter s
Charter School Resource Center, which supported the development of the state's first
charter s
charter schools.
In 2002 he gave a private pledge to business leaders organized by Terence C. Golden, a former Reagan administration Treasury official and chief
executive of Host Marriott, to support vouchers as part of a broader initiative to help
charter and regular
public schools.
As Nelson Smith, former
executive director of the DC
Public Charter School Board, puts it, «David went around the country vacuuming up best practices.»
Nina Rees is the President and Chief
Executive Officer of the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools
As the
executive director and the board chairman of the District of Columbia's independent
chartering body, we are often asked whether we favor a «New Orleans» future for D.C., where
charter schools eventually serve virtually all
public -
school students.
I am the
executive director of the DC
Public Charter School Board, and the story of our sector in the nation's capital is mostly one of continued success, growth, popularity, and quality improvement.
«When we first started problem - based learning, it was important for people to see that they could do this in small ways,» says Jessica Wodatch, the
executive director of Two Rivers
Public Charter School.
After spending 26 years in leadership positions at four international and American
schools abroad in Norway, Japan, Switzerland, and Brazil, he has just concluded twelve years as
Executive Director of Sturgis
Charter Public School, a nationally and internationally recognized «IB for All» high school with two campuses in Hyanni
School, a nationally and internationally recognized «IB for All» high
school with two campuses in Hyanni
school with two campuses in Hyannis, MA.
The message of persistence, says Terry Croy Lewis, the
executive director of the Colorado
Charter School Institute, was clear: «Legislators knew the issue wasn't going away, that every year the reform community would come back demanding that local revenues be shared equally with all students attending
public schools,» she said.
In 2011, she led New York State's first successful
public charter school turnaround as
executive director of Harlem Prep, which grew from the third percentile citywide to the 96th percentile in just one academic year.
The group was named Thursday (May 12) and includes Superintendent Lewis and Recovery Superintendent Patrick Dobard, a half dozen
charter school leaders, the Orleans Parish federal programs / external grants director and two education advocates, Urban League of Greater New Orleans chief
executive Erika McConduit - Diggs and Orleans
Public Education Network director Deirdre Johnson Burel.
«When people hear we spent $ 15 million, they say, «You're insane,»» said Marco Petruzzi, chief
executive of Green Dot
Public Schools, the nonprofit
charter school group that has remade Locke.
Richard Abernathy —
Executive Director, Arkansas Association for Educational Administrators Senator Shane Broadway — Arkansas State Legislature John Brown, III —
Executive Director, Windgate Foundation Senator Steve Bryles — Arkansas State Legislature Gary Compton — Superintedent, Bentonville
Public Schools Debbie Davis — Director, Arkansas Leadership Academy Melanie Fox — Little Rock
School Board Luke Gordy —
Executive Director, Arkansans for Education Reform Jerry Guess — Superintendent, Camden - Fairview
School District Frank Holman — Superintendent, Lincoln
School District Senator Jimmy Jeffress — Arkansas State Legislature Laura Kellams — Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Tom Kimbrell — Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Education Alice Mahony — Arkansas State Board of Education Matt McClure — Superintendent, Cross County
School District John Pijanowski — University of Arkansas, College of Education and Health Professions Representative David Rainey — Arkansas State Legislature Vicki Saviers — Arkansas State Board of Education Quentin Suffren — Chief, Academic Officer, The Learning Institute Valerie Tatum —
Executive Director, Covenant Keepers
Charter School Representative Bruce Westerman — Arkansas State Legislature
Much of this diaspora is associated with a handful of ideas: the championing of
public education as «the civil rights movement of our time»;
executive - style leadership;
charter schools; and an emphasis on data, especially test scores.
As part of the Communities in
Schools Leadership Town Hall Conference, Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and Mary Cathryn Ricker, Executive Vice President of the AFT, will discuss the effects of poverty in public s
Schools Leadership Town Hall Conference, Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools, and Mary Cathryn Ricker, Executive Vice President of the AFT, will discuss the effects of poverty in public sc
Public Charter Schools, and Mary Cathryn Ricker, Executive Vice President of the AFT, will discuss the effects of poverty in public s
Schools, and Mary Cathryn Ricker,
Executive Vice President of the AFT, will discuss the effects of poverty in
public sc
public schoolsschools.
On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher,
executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver
Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and
charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality
schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose
schools confi
schools confidently.
In honor of this important week, Association of American Educators
Executive Director Gary Beckner released the following statement: «AAE continues to be awed by the strides the
public charter school community make in communities across America.
Excerpt from Statement by Mary Shaffner,
Executive Director Washington Yu Ying
Public Charter School, DC:
Great
Public Schools Now, the Broad foundation spinoff organization with plans expands charter schools in Los Angeles Unified, today named Myrna Castrejón as its first executive di
Schools Now, the Broad foundation spinoff organization with plans expands
charter schools in Los Angeles Unified, today named Myrna Castrejón as its first executive di
schools in Los Angeles Unified, today named Myrna Castrejón as its first
executive director.
«Your ZIP code should not determine your child's fate,» said Caroline Roemer Shirley,
Executive Director, Louisiana Association of
Public Charter Schools.
What follows are edited excerpts of our Story Suite conversation with Robbyn Wahby, founding
Executive Director of the Missouri
Charter Public School Commission.
Shields also served as founding
Executive Director of the Michigan
Public Educational Facilities Authority, where she successfully helped
charter schools gain access to facility financing funds.
After teaching Social Studies in St. Paul
Public Schools for three years, David co-founded El Colegio
Charter School in Minneapolis and served as start - up coordinator, board member, advisor, special education teacher, lead teacher, and executive director during his 13 + years at the s
School in Minneapolis and served as start - up coordinator, board member, advisor, special education teacher, lead teacher, and
executive director during his 13 + years at the
schoolschool.
The policy report also finds that
charter school teachers earn 20 percent less than
public district
school teachers while their
executives (often the
charter holders) earn on average 50 percent more than their counterparts in similarly - sized
public school districts.
MILWAUKEE Last spring, the Wisconsin legislature passed a
school takeover bill that requires Milwaukee County
Executive Chris Abele to convert 1 - 3
public schools in Milwaukee to
charters this year and up to five every year afterwards.
Albany, NY — Today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released his 2014 - 15
executive budget proposal, which includes
charter public schools in a statewide push to expand universal preschool programs.
On Thursday, September 29, 2016, David Dunn,
Executive Director of Texas
Charter Schools Association, testified at a joint hearing before the Texas House Appropriations and
Public Education Committees.
Ramona Edelin,
executive director of the D.C. Association of Chartered
Public Schools, a membership group for charter school administrators, says, «What's so powerful to me as an educator of 45 years is that some of these schools are having stunning success with the students that so many are concerned
Schools, a membership group for
charter school administrators, says, «What's so powerful to me as an educator of 45 years is that some of these
schools are having stunning success with the students that so many are concerned
schools are having stunning success with the students that so many are concerned about.
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executives downplay their failures in part by blaming
public schools for «sending» low - achieving students to
charter schools.
Emily Silberstein, Chief
Executive Officer Cesar Chavez
Public Charter School 525
School Street SW Washington, DC 20024
[email protected]; 202-547-3975
«Universal pre-k was Mayor de Blasio's signature program, but this contract is just another example of the way in which the city (the mayor) throws obstacles at
charters,» said Jacob Mnookin,
executive director of Coney Island Preparatory
Public Charter School.
«Once people understand what a
charter school is, they like the concept of innovation and allowing teachers to have freedom in the classroom,» said Peter C. Groff, the president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter S
charter school is, they like the concept of innovation and allowing teachers to have freedom in the classroom,» said Peter C. Groff, the president and chief
executive officer of the National Alliance for
Public Charter S
Charter Schools.
Shields also served as founding
Executive Director of the Michigan
Public Educational Facilities Authority, where she successfully helped charter public schools gain access to facility financing
Public Educational Facilities Authority, where she successfully helped
charter public schools gain access to facility financing
public schools gain access to facility financing funds.
:
Executive Director Jumoke Academy Honors at Milner
School Educational Institution; 51 - 200 employees; Education Management industry July 2012 — July 2013 (1 year 1 month) Hartford, CT Executed launch and strategic plan of historic partnership between a charter school management company and Hartford Public Sc
School Educational Institution; 51 - 200 employees; Education Management industry July 2012 — July 2013 (1 year 1 month) Hartford, CT Executed launch and strategic plan of historic partnership between a
charter school management company and Hartford Public Sc
school management company and Hartford
Public Schools.
Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Goenner served as
Executive Director at The Center for
Charter Schools at Central Michigan University, the nation's largest university authorizer of charter public s
Charter Schools at Central Michigan University, the nation's largest university authorizer of charter public s
Schools at Central Michigan University, the nation's largest university authorizer of
charter public s
charter public schoolsschools.
«On behalf of the Texas
Charter Schools Association, I want to offer our congratulations to IDEA
Public Schools on winning the Broad Prize this year,» said David Dunn,
Executive Director.
Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate
executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new
Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for
charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce
public resources from district
schools to
charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.