Sentences with phrase «quality charter school authorizing»

NACSA worked for many years to bring important modernizations to this program, and for the first time ever the Charter School Program includes explicit support for quality charter school authorizing.
The Office of Innovation and Incubation's work is aligned with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality schools.
Louisiana Charter Law includes a mandate that charter school authorizers follow the National Association of Charter School Authorizers» (NACSA's) «Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing» to ensure they are following best practices both in the evaluation of charter school applications, as well as in oversight of existing schools.
The 2012 edition of NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing provides authorizers with new guidance related to the oversight of special education.
The cornerstone of these practices is NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, first published in 2004 and regularly updated as the field evolves.
Alumni from the NACSA Leaders Program are equipped with the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage the challenges authorizers face in aligning their agency's policies and practices with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing and advocate for policy that supports quality authorizing.
The Principles articulate a set of beliefs about quality charter school authorizing.
Richmond is frequently cited in local and national press as an authority on quality charter school authorizing.
The Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, first established in 2004, reflect the lessons learned by experienced authorizers.

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«However, current law does not authorize charter schools to offer state supported pre-kindergarten programs, thereby preventing children from accessing potentially high - quality providers.»
«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.
The state Senate has taken a welcome step toward bolstering quality education in New York with a bill that would authorize creation of hundreds of new charter schools across the state.
But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.
The consistent strength of the charter schools overseen by CMU testifies to the impact of high - quality authorizing.
It's not clear that the CMO model, as a rule, produces more consistent quality than does effective authorizing and oversight of «one - off» charter schools.
His work includes leading research on strategies to increase the supply and diversity of high - quality charter schools; he also works directly with charter school authorizers to develop strong performance frameworks and authorizing practices.
The measure was based on the share of students attending schools of choice, the strength of charter laws in each state (including, of course, the strength of the authorizing and quality control system), and a gauge of parent influence on policy.
While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.
The law put a much greater focus on quality in charter school authorizing, for instance by mandating the closure of any charter school that fails to meet academic or financial benchmarks for three consecutive years.
Quality authorizing can serve as a quality control check for the charter schools sector and provide lawmakers with the confidence that someone is watching the store and ensuring exceQuality authorizing can serve as a quality control check for the charter schools sector and provide lawmakers with the confidence that someone is watching the store and ensuring excequality control check for the charter schools sector and provide lawmakers with the confidence that someone is watching the store and ensuring excellence.
The authorizing mission of ACNW is to ensure quality academic and environmental literacy outcomes for students in Minnesota by conducting effective oversight and evaluation of its authorized schools, providing strategic support to schools, and making informed and merit - based decisions about its portfolio of charter schools.
Based on model legislation developed out of best practices from around the country, Mississippi has a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.
Section 4301 expands federal support for high - quality charter schools by authorizing more than $ 1.1 billion in competitive grants by 2020.
This law creates a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.
In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.
Chartering Quality is a blog devoted to improving public education and expanding opportunity through smart authorizing of charter schools — autonomous, accountable, public schools of choice.
By statute and contract, all charter schools authorized by the South Carolina Public Charter School District (SCPCSD) are obligated to provide a high quality education to stcharter schools authorized by the South Carolina Public Charter School District (SCPCSD) are obligated to provide a high quality education to stCharter School District (SCPCSD) are obligated to provide a high quality education to students.
By addressing this issue as well as clarifying the state's authorizer evaluation process, the legislature sends a clear message that quality authorizing is essential to creating great public charter schools.
In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.
We are also in a state today, Florida, where quality charter authorizing policies and practices are improving, and where there are many strong charter schools.
Based on model legislation developed out of best practices from around the country, this law creates a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.
When done well, authorizing is a catalyst for charter school quality and growth.
The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).
Quality authorizing is essential for charter schools to play a vital role in providing better public schools for children.
NACSA works to increase and improve quality educational opportunities for children by strengthening charter school authorizing.
One step would be to get the Wolverine State's American Indian tribes to get into the charter authorizing and charter school operating game; the governor can already look to the example of Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college that has authorized 44 charters in the state, and is working with the College Board on efforts to improve the quality of schools it oversees.
Authorizing charter schools will, theoretically, demonstrate to the public that privatization can improve the quality of education, and make them more willing to do away with public education all together.
National Association of Charter School Authorizers: As a strong proponent of quality charter schools, [we] support H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stCharter School Authorizers: As a strong proponent of quality charter schools, [we] support H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stuSchool Authorizers: As a strong proponent of quality charter schools, [we] support H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stquality charter schools, [we] support H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stcharter schools, [we] support H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stschools, [we] support H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stQuality Charter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stCharter Schools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stSchools Act, which will improve the quality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stquality of charter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stcharter school authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stuschool authorizing... By strengthening charter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stcharter school authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stuschool authorizing, H.R. 2218 will support the growth in both the number and quality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stquality of charter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stcharter schools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stschools while also ensuring that charter schools are open to and serve all stcharter schools are open to and serve all stschools are open to and serve all students.
Fordham leadership and board recognize that the organization can have a positive and significant impact via the authorizing work, and they have supported that growth, due mainly to the replication and expansion of existing, high - quality charter school models.
The mission of the SCSC is to improve public education by authorizing high quality charter schools that provide students with better educational opportunities than they would otherwise receive in traditional district schools.
In order to maintain its public school authority, charter schools must demonstrate high - quality academic performance and organizational stability to both the R.I. Department of Education and the R.I. Council of Elementary and Secondary Education, which authorizes their charter.
The quality of charter school authorizing ranges widely throughout the United States.
The program will help ease the transition for schools between application approval and the start - up phase; help ready schools for their first renewal process; help ease the anxiety some new charter school employees experience, even at established charter schools; as well as provide support for charter school authorizers and help them identify various high - quality authorizing best practices.
The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) serves as a national center to provide on - demand resources, information, and technical assistance to support successful planning, authorizing, implementation, and sustainability of high - quality charter schools; to share evaluations on the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter sCharter School Resource Center (NCSRC) serves as a national center to provide on - demand resources, information, and technical assistance to support successful planning, authorizing, implementation, and sustainability of high - quality charter schools; to share evaluations on the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter scharter schools; to share evaluations on the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter scharter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter scharter schools.
My answer was straightforward: quality charter authorizing; autonomy in exchange for accountability; strong school teachers and leaders; and a nimble, adaptable policy framework that allowed for innovations like our common enrollment system.
Recommendations include convening district and charter leaders regularly to discuss district - charter collaboration; bringing North Carolina charter authorizing and performance legislation, policy, and practices in closer alignment with national standards to improve charter school quality; and using charter - district pilots to explore mechanisms such as common enrollment and sharing of resources that would give all students equal access to all public schools.
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«done well, charter authorizing increases student achievement by expanding the supply of quality public schools to satisfy unmet needs — particularly by providing life - changing opportunities for students ill - served by the existing school system.
Each year, the DC Public Charter School Board (which authorizes all DC charter schools) uses an index to assess the each school's quality against rigorous standards for academic growth, achievement, college readiness, attendance and re-enroCharter School Board (which authorizes all DC charter schools) uses an index to assess the each school's quality against rigorous standards for academic growth, achievement, college readiness, attendance and re-enrolSchool Board (which authorizes all DC charter schools) uses an index to assess the each school's quality against rigorous standards for academic growth, achievement, college readiness, attendance and re-enrocharter schools) uses an index to assess the each school's quality against rigorous standards for academic growth, achievement, college readiness, attendance and re-enrolschool's quality against rigorous standards for academic growth, achievement, college readiness, attendance and re-enrollment.
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