Sentences with phrase «schools charter in»

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«Next year, we want to expand to work with both charters and traditional district schools in other urban regions.»

SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

IHSNO is an open - enrollment charter school with 565 students and claims to be the only high school in New Orleans to offer the rigorous International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP), which requires students learn a foreign language.

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

She is also invested in various economic development projects that support charter schools, healthcare clinics, and food grocers.

The start - up will begin working with four private partner schools in the fall, then partner with up to 10 schools, including at least one charter school, the following year.

For several years, Erdoğan and his allies have accused the elderly Gülen, who has been in the United States since 1999 and runs a large network of charter schools here, of plotting the subversion of the Turkish state.

Medberry was recruited in 2008 to teach in a New Orleans charter school, when she realized standards that measured student achievement hadn't been updated in generations.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

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The state has revoked the teaching license of Christopher Fisher, 31, who was a social studies instructor at Quantum High, a charter school in Boynton...

Shaikh earned his bachelor of commerce degree at Haskayne in 1977 and became a chartered accountant two years later, returning to the school in 1980 to teach accounting part - time for nearly 15 years.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Ben also serves as Chairman of the Board of KIPP New Orleans Schools, the largest charter school operator in New Orleans.

Shockingly, the charter school has carved out an exemption in the dress code so menstruating students can tie their school sweatshirts around their waists «to hide the blood stains.»

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A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to «frack» Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling.

Christoph graduated with a Master of Science in Business Administration from the University of Geneva, he is also a CFA charter - holder and holds a doctorate from the Edinburgh Business School.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

Matti Kauftheil, a junior at Woods Charter School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, wrote in an email that they were in awe seeing people registering to vote and calling their representatives.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

«He is deeply honored to have been invited by CUA to address the school's graduating class and is looking forward to receiving an honorary degree from the only Catholic college in our country that is chartered by Catholic bishops,» the statement continued.

(CNN)- The football coach at a publicly funded charter school in Arizona has been suspended after directing a player to lead a team prayer.

Nova Classical Academy, a K — 12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first - rate education for their children can only dream about.

I taught for a while at a Muslim charter school in the Bay Area.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

Charter schools have been very popular in the black community and generally beneficial for black students:

That is one reason why in education, for instance, vouchers are to be preferred to charter schools and other devices that invite extensive government regulation and co-optation.

, who won the most expensive House race in the country, supported insertion of «Creationism» and «12 Christian principles» (akin to the Ten Commandments) in the curriculum of a public charter school whose board she served on, we are in danger.

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

The Cummings family story ends (or continues) with the family taking a direction that may bring the worlds of homeschool and real school together: an online charter school where some classes would be «self - directed» and others would «meet in a virtual classroom on a regular schedule.»

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

«We think of the educational choice movement as involving many parts: vouchers and tax credits, certainly, but also virtual schools, magnet schools, homeschooling, and charter schools,» she said in a 2013 interview.

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

Sebastian received his MBA in Finance from NYU's Stern School, and is a CFA Institute Charter Holder.

Naseir Upshur, who has said that Michigan is recruiting him the hardest, got a personal note from Michigan's head coach after making the honor roll at his high school — Imhotep Institute Charter School in Philadeschool — Imhotep Institute Charter School in PhiladeSchool in Philadelphia.

In the storm's aftermath New Orleans educators, including Lusher CEO Kathy Hurstell Riedlinger, reopened the building as a charter high school.

Consider: Late in the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 10, as Brees was running through a long checklist of bye - week obligations, he detoured to the Lusher Charter School, not far from his home in Uptown New Orleans.

«All of the kids on the team do well in school, and I think that it is important for us to keep our grades up to stay on the team,» said Brent Bell, a 17 - year - old from Lincoln who attended Lincoln High before starting his senior year being home - schooled through the Horizon Charter Sschool, and I think that it is important for us to keep our grades up to stay on the team,» said Brent Bell, a 17 - year - old from Lincoln who attended Lincoln High before starting his senior year being home - schooled through the Horizon Charter SchoolSchool.

The publication is produced 20 times per year in print, digital and mobile editions from its headquarters in Concord (not far from Clayton Valley Charter High School).

The college had been chartered in 1927, a step up from a county agricultural school.

A new charter school in Brooklyn uses a sports - oriented curriculum to engage high - risk students

Long, a defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles, is driving to the Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School in North Philly to speak to high schoolers.