Sentences with phrase «quality charter grant»

The Walton Foundation has redefined the boundaries of the areas of Los Angeles that are eligible for its High Quality Charter Grant Program.

Funded by a grant partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, the High Quality Charter Grant Program provides start - up grants to help establish charter schools serving significant low - income student populations.

Not exact matches

The Charter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority stCharter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority stcharter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority students.

For the past few years, the Department of Education has also offered grants directly to Charter Management Organizations seeking to expand or replicate high - quality schools.

The Teacher Incentive Fund and grants to expand and replicate high - quality charter schools have been included in both the House committee's bill and in Senator Alexander's initial discussion draft.

Technology Lending Grants, aimed at ensuring equitable access to quality digital resources and courses for all students, have been awarded to 148 school districts and charters schools.

(Sec. 4301) The bill replaces the existing charter school grant program with a program awarding competitive grants to state entities and, through them, competitive subgrants to charter school developers to open new charter schools and expand and replicate high - quality charter schools.

Award expansion grants to high - quality charters to expand their capacity to serve students attending eligible schools.

States» applications to secure one of the federal grants will be scored on the basis of more than 30 selection criteria, involving such education improvement priorities as school turnaround, teacher and principal effectiveness, and encouragement of high - quality charter schools.

This is due in large part to Association programs such as the High Quality Charter (HQC) Grant Program, introduced in 2006, which has provided $ 8 million in planning and start - up grants to support the development of new charter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout CaliCharter (HQC) Grant Program, introduced in 2006, which has provided $ 8 million in planning and start - up grants to support the development of new charter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout Calicharter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout California.

The purpose of the Charter School Grants Program is to increase financial support for these public schools, build a better national understanding of the public charter school model, and increase the number of high - quality public charter schools across the Charter School Grants Program is to increase financial support for these public schools, build a better national understanding of the public charter school model, and increase the number of high - quality public charter schools across the charter school model, and increase the number of high - quality public charter schools across the charter schools across the nation.

The law grants priority to applicants that «plan to operate or manage high - quality charter schools with racially and socioeconomically diverse student bodies.»

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opeCharter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opeQuality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opeCharter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opequality charter opecharter operators.

Said President and CEO Al Dubin, «This grant will allow CSDC to support more charter school founders dedicated to improving the educational outcomes of the children in their communities by providing quality educational choice in a responsive, fiscally sustainable way.»

Section 4301 expands federal support for high - quality charter schools by authorizing more than $ 1.1 billion in competitive grants by 2020.

Developed by the Arizona Charter Schools Association and Center for Student Achievement with the support of a federal grant, the Quality Standards Evaluation Tool is a set of guidelines used by school leaders and teachers to increase student achievement and strengthen school sustainability.

On March 2, 2018, we published in the Federal Register a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2018 for CSP — Grants to Charter School Developers for the Opening of New Charter Schools and for the Replication and Expansion of High - Quality Charter Schools, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers 84.282 B and 84.282 E.

The U.S. Department of Education announced grants totaling more than $ 14.4 million to support high - quality charter schools in more than 25 communities across the country.

The U.S. Department of Education announced today a $ 4 million grant competition for planning and launching high - quality public charter schools through the non-state educational agency grant program.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced 12 charter school grants totaling $ 50 million for charter management organizations to replicate and expand high - quality charter schools that have demonstrated success.

The Utah Association of Public Charter Schools (UAPCS), funded with a grant from the State Charter School Board, offers many preoperational trainings designed to improve school openings and overall quality.

States would receive grants to develop and expand high - quality charter schools under a new bipartisan bill recently introduced in the House.

Supports states» creation, replication, and expansion of high - quality charter schools through competitive grants.

Since then charter schools that formerly were routinely denied appeals have had their appeals granted and more charter schools opened to the benefit of children, parents, teachers who work there and ultimately all of us as these children graduate with a quality education.

Four California Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) and two California non-profit agencies / state agencies were awarded grants on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education through the «Expanding Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Program (Charter Schools Program or CSP).»

These grants will support efforts that a) recruit high - quality candidates new to teaching for DC charter school teacher residency or teacher roles, and b) train and / or certify these teachers.

The U.S. Department of Education announced charter school grants totaling $ 25 million to replicate and expand high - quality charter schools that have demonstrated success.

Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Tuesday that 578 of the state's 1,200 - plus school districts and open enrollment public charters will receive funds from $ 116 million earmarked for Governor Greg Abbott's «high - quality» Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) grant program.

To help support the growth of schools, grants will fund the identification and development of new charter school facilities, efforts to recruit and prepare public school teachers and provide support and coaching to public school leaders, and efforts to deepen conversations between educators and families to create more collaboration and public participation in creating more high - quality public schools.

Thanks to the generous contributions from the Anschutz Foundation and the Daniels Fund, the Colorado League of Charter Schools offers seven planning grants that are designed for groups that are in the process of developing high - quality charter school models and are writing a charter appliCharter Schools offers seven planning grants that are designed for groups that are in the process of developing high - quality charter school models and are writing a charter applicharter school models and are writing a charter applicharter application.

The measure would help states expand access to high - quality charter schools by providing $ 300 million for FY12 and each of the next five years to support states» creation, replication, and expansion of high - quality charter schools through competitive grants.

Congratulations to Noble Network for being 1 of 12 charter networks in the nation to win part of a $ 157 million DOE grant to expand high quality charter schools.

«I think the State Charter School Board has done a really good job of raising the bar so that they aren't just granting charters, they are granting quality charters,» Frank said.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education has promoted charter school expansion through competitive grant programs like Race to the Top (RTT), the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and the Charter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter Schools gcharter school expansion through competitive grant programs like Race to the Top (RTT), the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and the Charter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter Schools gCharter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter Schools gCharter Schools grant.64

States that fail to increase the number and quality of charter schools would be at a competitive disadvantage in seeking stimulus grants, under guidelines Duncan and Obama proposed last month.

Nationally recognized for its award - winning education programs, Somerset was the first charter school system in the nation to achieve «district» accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS - CASI), the foremost organization granting external mark of quality and high standards to academic institutions in the Southern region of the U.S.