Sentences with phrase «school authorizers authorizers»

NACSA: Special Education Toolkit for Charter School Authorizers Authorizers play a critical role in the lifecycle of a charter school, from reviewing and approving applications for new charters, through ongoing oversight and monitoring practices, and ultimately the decision - making processes to determine whether or not a school has earned the right to continue serving students.

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On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.

In rare cases, where charter schools violate laws or face serious problems with academics or safety, charter authorizers may move to close schools.

Bellafiore served as president of the SUNY's Charter Schools Institute, which was created by the Board of Trustees to implement their new role as a charter school authorizer.

He is also a founding board member of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Charters will now be able to switch authorizers between the state Board of Regents and the SUNY Charter Schools Institute; SUNY is particularly friendly to charters and considered the authorizer of choice for charter networks.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

Kim said the only appropriate oversight is that done by Success» authorizer, the SUNY Charter Schools Institute.

At the same time it told SUNY authorizers that grades K — 8 would be closed at the end of this school year.

The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

Greg Richmond is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

D.C., provides an instructive example: a strong charter authorizer and school district operate with mutual awareness and a set of shared agreements (for example, around information, enrollment, etc.).

New York City has three charter school authorizers.

Second, every single DCPS - run school will be put on a performance contract held by a charter school authorizer.

Sobered and a bit battered, Fordham continues as an authorizer of Ohio charter schools — six of them today, with a seventh in the offing — and a vigorous participant in the state's larger education - policy debates.

In April 2011, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers agreed to assist DPS as the district designed a competitive and rigorous RFP (Request for Proposal) process to identify schools that it would authorize as charters beginning in fall 2011.

After fruitlessly seeking new sponsors to take on the potential «orphans» — eligible organizations feared the political, financial, and legal - liability risks — and after much internal soul - searching and debate, Fordham decided in 2004 to apply to become a school authorizer and by June 2005 we found ourselves occupying that hot seat.

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.

A third organization, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), gives low marks to the laws of all four states.

The school district may be glad to see the school go; the charter authorizer may not have the capacity or the philosophical inclination to intervene.

Early on, the role of charter school authorizers seemed so straightforward that little focus was placed on them, while the politics of chartering and the action surrounding the schools themselves consumed most of the attention.

The authorizer approves the application to start a charter school, ensures its quality, and decides whether it should remain open or be closed.

I've also publicly opposed a proposal she vigorously supports — giving DCPS the power to serve as a charter school authorizer.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

Local school districts are the primary authorizer for most charters, but charter schools can also be approved by their county or the state board of education if rejected by their district.

This student growth and achievement system is now available for use by any authorizer or school in the country through the National Charter Schools Institute.

Each charter school entered into a binding agreement with an authorizer that spelled out the school's mission, student achievement targets, and other indicators of school success.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

James N. Goenner is the president and CEO of the National Charter Schools Institute and a former chairman of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

If a school's application is approved, it develops a performance contract with the authorizer.

In a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.»

At the same time, alpha authorizers need to conduct sound due diligence and avoid being mesmerized by applicants who have political, financial, or star power, but lack the competencies necessary to open and operate a high - quality school.

This is why alpha authorizers, chartering agencies that operate independently of school districts, are so desperately needed.

Alpha authorizers can enhance the value of the systems and processes they create by sharing them with school leaders and other authorizers.

The flaw is relying on school districts to be authorizers.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

Under the new public program, any private school that wants to participate — meaning, receive public dollars — submits an application to an authorizer.

Just as choice and competition are good for students and schools, choice and competition are good for authorizers.

At the start of 2012, CMU served as authorizer to 56 of the schools, which educate about 30,000 students (see Figure 1).

Authorizers need to close more low - performing schools, but they also need to get a heck of a lot smarter about who gets a charter in the first place.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

Nelson Smith, education policy consultant and senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, argues that the latest incarnation of ESAs in Nevada poses substantial risks and threatens to disrupt an increasingly successful charter school movSchool Authorizers, argues that the latest incarnation of ESAs in Nevada poses substantial risks and threatens to disrupt an increasingly successful charter school movschool movement.

The NACSA report on state policies associated with charter school accountability attempts to describe how laws, regulations, and authorizer practices interact to influence charter quality.

In exchange, each of our schools will have a contract with an authorizer, which can close the school should it persistently fail to meet its performance goals.

Speakers included Brian Gill of Mathematica, Alex Medler of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Will Pinkston of the Nashville School Board.

Several years later, CMU played a founding role in the establishment of both the Michigan Council of Charter School Authorizers and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Chicago has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful charter school authorizers, but Mayor Richard M. Daley's high - profile push to expand on that foundation is fraught with challenges, a report from the Washington - based Progressive Policy Institute contends.

The authorizer can remove it from the public system — meaning no more public funds; per Pierce, the school has the right to stay open, but it must, as it had before, rely on its own streams of funding.