Sentences with phrase «staff at some charter schools»

A school district could not employ any of the staff at the charter school, though it would have to pay at least 90 percent of its own per - pupil cost for each student attending the charter school.

Staff at some charter schools may «counsel» parents of students with disabilities against enrolling in the charter school.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Schnidman Medbery knew that teaching math at a New Orleans charter school would be tough, even though the school, Sci Academy, had attracted a «dream team» staff.

Parents and staff at Arturo Toscanini were livid roughly two years ago when the city proposed having a Success Academy charter school expand into the building, and Donohue maintains that closing his school is just a way to give more space in the building to Success Academy.

The staff at P.S. 297 helped Jordan in his transition, he added, and the proposed new charter school would take what little space the elementary school has.

Teachers and staff at the Academy of the City Charter School in Long Island City have announced they will seek to be represented by the United Federation of Teachers.

On a recommendation from the staff at the learning program, she applied for a spot at a local, well - regarded charter school through the school's lottery system.

Twice a month, it's Technology Thursday for teachers at New Orleans's Martin Behrman Charter Academy of Creative Arts & Sciences, where Assistant Principal Cherie Goins, also the school's technology coordinator, presents a three - hour training session that brings staff up to speed on technology for teaching, record keeping, research, and more.

As part of that plan, Duncan pushed to expand the city's roster of charter schools — it now stands at 67 — and embraced the turnaround concept, in which a school is temporarily shut down, staff members fired, transferred, or asked to reapply, and a new staff built from the ground up.

At the New Branches School here, staff members and parents are struggling to keep alive their pioneering effort to create a new kind of public school in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - schooSchool here, staff members and parents are struggling to keep alive their pioneering effort to create a new kind of public school in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - schooschool in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - schoolschool law.

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

Furthermore, our research shows that board members of higher - performing D.C. charter schools, when compared to those at lower - performing ones, are more knowledgeable about their schools (particularly relative to its performance rating, demographics, and financial outlook), and more apt to evaluate their leaders using staff satisfaction as a factor in doing so.

Amistad Academy Using chants, rewards, consequences, and lots of hard work, staff members at Amistad Academy charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, are helping urban students set and meet goals.

We would like to thank the staff at National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, who willingly shared data on charter school enroCharter Schools, who willingly shared data on charter school enrocharter school enrollment.

The way the law works is that if 51 % of parents at a failing school sign a petition, they can turn the school into a charter school, replace the staff or simply use the petition as a bargaining chip to initiate a conversation about change.

California's new «parent trigger» law allows parents at a failing school to vote to turn the school into a charter, to replace the staff, or to force other changes.

• Extension of the school year or school day • Replacement of staff members relevant to the school's low performance • Significant decrease in management authority at the school level • Replacement of the principal • Restructuring the internal organization of the school • Appointment of an outside expert to advise the school • Replacement of all or most of the school staff (which may include the principal) • Reopening the school as a public charter school • Entering into a contract with a private entity to operate the school • Takeover the school by the State

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«Throughout my career at Four Corners Charter School, I've had the good fortune to be able to lead some of the finest staff and students in the state of Florida,» said Thompson.

Our small charter community has been a blessing to me, as I've come to know staff and parents at all of our 17 schools.

CSDC Partnership Provides New Facility for Charter School Serving Military and Civilians on Joint Base Andrews (Hanover, January 18, 2013) With the start of the new year, students and staff at Imagine Andrews Public Charter School return to school in a brand new, permanent facility on Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force School Serving Military and Civilians on Joint Base Andrews (Hanover, January 18, 2013) With the start of the new year, students and staff at Imagine Andrews Public Charter School return to school in a brand new, permanent facility on Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force School return to school in a brand new, permanent facility on Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force school in a brand new, permanent facility on Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force Base).

The law creates a process known as the Parent Trigger, which allows a majority of parents at a low - performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the school.

Four second graders at the Rochester charter developed the idea with members of the school's staff.

A majority of the faculty and eligible staff at Chavez Prep voted to become members of the AFT, which, pending certification of the election by the National Labor Relations Board, would make the school the only charter school in the District of Columbia with a union.

CCSA staff participated in volunteer projects at three Santa Ana Charter Schools: El Sol, Edward B. Cole and Orange County Educational Arts Academy.

And although charter administrators generally say that they rarely, if ever, expel students, staff at traditional schools say they periodically receive troubled students who have been counseled out of charters.

Northeast Charter Schools Network Connecticut State Director Jeremiah Grace said, «Congratulations to the staff and students at Amistad Academy for ranking 20th in the nation on the list of U.S. News & World Report's top public high sSchools Network Connecticut State Director Jeremiah Grace said, «Congratulations to the staff and students at Amistad Academy for ranking 20th in the nation on the list of U.S. News & World Report's top public high schoolsschools.

The kindergarten students in Ms. Whitehurst's class at The Children's Guild's Monarch Academy Baltimore Public Charter School gave a presentation to the board members, administrative staff, and student parents at the Monarch Academy Baltimore board meeting on Thursday, April 12th.

Prior to working as director of admissions, Scott worked for all four campuses as project manager for the University of Chicago Charter School and also supported office staff at Woodlawn Campus.

So, I'm at a loss to explain why Mulgrew wants to pick yet another fight with charter schools, this time over a new provision in the charter law that makes it easier for our staff to send their children to the school they work in.

The situation would be even more dire for Highville Charter School — it simply would not be able to make enough reductions in staff to weather a $ 650,000 cut at the end of the schoolSchool — it simply would not be able to make enough reductions in staff to weather a $ 650,000 cut at the end of the schoolschool year.

In general, unless otherwise exempt, the following three criteria must be met in order for non-classroom based charters to be guaranteed full funding levels: (1) at least 80 percent of total revenues must be spent on instruction or classroom support, (2) at least 50 percent of public revenues must be spent on certificated staff salaries and benefits, and (3) the pupil - teacher ratio must be equal to or lower than the pupil - teacher ratio in the largest unified school district in the county or counties in which the school operates or the school must maintain a minimum of 25:1 ratio.

Last week AAE staff had the pleasure of attending «Web 2.0 Free Tools for School,» a session at the Florida Charter School Conference in Orlando.

On April 23, the teachers and staff there voted to join their colleagues at the two City on a Hill Roxbury schools, Circuit Street and Dudley,... Read Moreabout Teachers and Staff at Third Charter School Vote to Joistaff there voted to join their colleagues at the two City on a Hill Roxbury schools, Circuit Street and Dudley,... Read Moreabout Teachers and Staff at Third Charter School Vote to JoiStaff at Third Charter School Vote to Join BTU

Eventually, if the school kept failing, it was at risk of having its staff fired or having the school closed, handed over to state control or private management, or turned into a charter school or «any other major restructuring.»

It's a controversial way to attempt to improve student success at low - performing schools because it allows charter operators to fire public school teachers and staff and implement their own curricula and governance standards that are not overseen by locally elected school boards.

Before working as a leadership coach, Shawna was the founding principal at KIPP West Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School, where she hired, trained, and managed all school staff and led the founding class to 90 % proficiency in math and 65 % proficiency in reading on state assessSchool, where she hired, trained, and managed all school staff and led the founding class to 90 % proficiency in math and 65 % proficiency in reading on state assessschool staff and led the founding class to 90 % proficiency in math and 65 % proficiency in reading on state assessments.

Take a closer look at the educational programs, results, and staff of charter schools in your area.

BES Summer Leaders receive training in Boston on leading a high - performing charter school from the expert staff at Building Excellent Schools.

Starting as a teacher and chess coach at Vaux Middle School and through his years as principal at several traditional public and charter schools, Thomas - EL has transformed the attitudes and strategies of school staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universSchool and through his years as principal at several traditional public and charter schools, Thomas - EL has transformed the attitudes and strategies of school staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universschool staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universschool but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universities.

Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) pushed hard for months behind closed doors to pitch a proposal to his colleagues that would have created an «achievement school district» in which some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools would be placed, teachers and staff at those schools could be fired, and the schools would be subject to the management of for - profit (or not - for - profit, too) charter school operators tasked with bringing them up into the ranks of the state's top performers.

The law, formally called the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, enables a majority of parents at a low - performing school to force a major overhaul through a petition campaign, with reform options ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to converting the traditional public school into a charter.

The so - called parent trigger process, now making its way through state legislatures nationwide, lets parents at underperforming schools organize and petition for major reforms, from firing the principal and half the staff to ceding control of the school to a charter operator.

One teacher said her school rendered an observation rubric «meaningless» by focusing on all of its competencies, but yet another educator said looking at all 22 competencies enables her school, a Promise Academy Charter School, to plan effective training sessions for the entire school rendered an observation rubric «meaningless» by focusing on all of its competencies, but yet another educator said looking at all 22 competencies enables her school, a Promise Academy Charter School, to plan effective training sessions for the entire school, a Promise Academy Charter School, to plan effective training sessions for the entire School, to plan effective training sessions for the entire staff.

Each member of the Georgia Charter Schools Association is entitled to general technical support by Association staff at no cost.

Lynn said his group is increasingly hearing about problems at charter schools, where staff may not realize that part of operating a public school means respecting the distance it needs to keep from religious causes.

If a majority of parents at a school sign a petition, they can close that school, shake up its staff, or convert it to a charter.

Any school accepting a grant had to agree to adopt one of four strategies: Replace the principal and at least 50 percent of the staff; close the school and enroll students in another, better - performing school; close the school and reopen it as a charter school; or transform the school through new instructional strategies and other techniques.