Sentences with phrase «quality charter sector»

The Charter Center's online resource library offers schools in NYC and across the country research, exemplars, training materials and more that have been developed over 10 years of supporting a high quality charter sector.

Specifically, a case study on Boston highlights how restrictive charter school caps can impede the growth of a high - quality charter sector; a case study on Denver illustrates the potential and challenges of district - charter collaboration; a case study on New Orleans describes how a city can embrace chartering and alternative governing structures to bring about improved opportunities for students; and a case study on Washington, D.C. illustrates how a well - developed city ecosystem can support a large charter market share.

NACSA advocates for funding that supports a high - quality charter sector through a variety of federal programs.

A high - quality charter sector requires strong accountability, both in policy and in practice.

Not exact matches

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.

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

It's not only dastardly Trump, but also those state - level zealots who will destroy «public education as we know it,» unleashing charters upon the people without nary a concern for quality, bringing a new winter of despair to the entire K — 12 sector.

But while we're seeing truly great progress in supporting the quality growth of the public charter school sector, there's still a lot of work to be done here in Newark.

We're long overdue in asking whether the charter sector could grow more quickly with quality, what's holding it back, and what are creative new ways for successful charters to expand their reach to more students.

What they want to know is how to make their state's charter sector work as well as possible — how to write a law in such a way that many high - quality schools will result.

As the charter school sector expands, it is necessary but not sufficient to study political and policy conditions, or the growth in the number of high quality charter school seats.

On most matters, charters and district schools are equally varied, but we do see greater variation within the charter sector in parents» satisfaction with school location and teacher quality.

But I would've preferred the report to point out that school quality matters far more than school operator, and while the CSO - model is a promising approach to the district sector, it should be viewed in the context of a city's entire portfolio of schools — CSO, charter, and private.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

In 2012, the legislature seemingly weakened its oversight of the charter sector by eliminating a requirement that the state education agency report on charter school quality each year.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

For example, a state with a relatively new charter sector may want to focus on supporting the creation and growth of high - quality charters, whereas one with a more mature charter sector may want to focus on increasing the involvement of an existing private sector that is significant in size and geographic reach but has not historically served large numbers of disadvantaged students.

It seems clear, then, that if the charter sector hopes to contribute to transformational numbers in high - quality public schools, the current CMO approach alone can't get it there.

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

But for Washington, D.C., we believe two strong sectors — charter and traditional — offer the best prospect that families will have many quality educational choices for their children.

Our goal is not to «flood the zone» but to carefully and thoughtfully build a charter sector of unimpeachable quality that, along with DCPS, keeps improving and adding more families to the District.

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.

As a final matter, Smarick notes that there is a glaring lack of collaboration among high - quality schools from the charter and private school sectors (though there are some exceptions, including initiatives undertaken by Schools That Can and the Philadelphia Schools Partnership).

Regardless, Democrats have grown less positive about the quality of education provided by charter schools than they were five years ago, even as Republicans continue to stand by the sector.

Through the Fellowship Program, graduate students who are committed to improving educational outcomes for students have the opportunity to directly impact the quality of the charter school sector.

How could cities see their charter school sectors take off in quality, matching or besting the performance of their district schools, and the state?

Our results suggest that the charter sector was initially characterized by schools whose quality was highly variable and, on average, less effective than traditional public schools.

Our report Going Exponential offers advice for authorizers, school operators, and policymakers about growing successful charter schools, based on research about how organizations have grown quickly and with quality in other sectors.

So it's important for us to have a strong offensive line when it comes to talking about charter schools and defining exactly what a high quality charter school looks like [and] what we want the sector to look like over the next twenty years.

We work with leaders at all types of schools in every sector — MPS, independent charter, and private Choice — at every point along the path to high - quality.

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.

«Amid a strong and growing charter school sector, the Newark school district has undergone significant changes to reverse course on a decades - long struggle to provide consistent quality education to its children,» Startup: Education Executive Director Jen Holleran writes in the foreword.

And yet he has said that he supports a moratorium — a repeal, if you will — on the approval and expansion of public charter schools, a sector that affords families zoned for long - struggling traditional schools the opportunity to have access to high - quality public education.

The district needed a way to quickly improve quality at district schools and reduce costs to better compete with the growing charter sector, she said.

The UFT can try to contend with the many high - quality research studies showing the charter sector outperforms districts by claiming the statistics are skewed, but the truth is charters are outperforming their host districts no matter which way you look at the numbers.

These figures are consistent with the trend that has continued for over a decade: families are demanding quality schools and Arizona's charter sector is responding.

About NACSA: The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is committed to advancing excellence and accountability in the charter school sector and to increasing the number of high - quality charter schools across the Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is committed to advancing excellence and accountability in the charter school sector and to increasing the number of high - quality charter schools across the charter school sector and to increasing the number of high - quality charter schools across the charter schools across the nation.

Education Cities» mission, carried forward locally by Minnesota Comeback, is to spread school choice and facilitate the growth of charter schools, under the guise of a «sector neutral» preference for «High Quality Seats.»

As to the results, Arizona's charter sector leads the state in the percentage of quality A and B rated schools, with 55 percent of charters receiving these top grades.

«The development of statewide chartering commissions or boards where this is all they do is likely the best structure to ensure quality within the charter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authocharter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School AuthoCharter School Authorizers.

NACSA is to be commended for leading the effort to demand quality in the charter sector and pushing states and authorizers to adopt robust principles and standards and to close failing schools.

The recommendations support four strategies to promote quality in the sector: differentiating charter operators based on performance, building system capacity to cultivate and support high - performing schools and networks, facilitating replication of high performers and accelerating closure of low performers.

She adds that the charter sector «is working as it was intended: creating pressure on administrators to improve the quality of their schools.»

In The Indianapolis Star, The Mind Trust's Founder and CEO talks about the risk that Indiana's proliferation of charter authorizers poses to the quality of the sector.

Research on charter school quality finds significant variations in performance across the sector.

The question is: will growth in the charter sector reflect today's pattern of mixed quality?

«We know that closing low - performing charter public schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.»

We know that closing low - performing charter schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.

Despite successful growth in numbers and quality, the charter sector faces future challenges public charter schools will not meet these challenges by doing more of the same.