This Week's Focus UFT files lawsuit to stop charter certification shortcut The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of
Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their... Read More
And so I can't help but emit some combination of a chuckle and a groan at the reaction to the SUNY Board of
Trustees Charter Schools Committee's decision yesterday to permit charter schools to hire teachers without the standard year of coursework and promise to complete a Master's degree but, instead, have 160 hours of instruction in behavior management, lesson planning and other skills; have 40 hours of supervised experience in the field; and pass one exam designed to test strategies for teaching students with special needs and English learners.
The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of
Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down standards.
Some 220 students at Ark Community Charter School in Troy may be displaced if final court proceedings affirm a SUNY
Trustees Charter Schools Committee decision that agreed with findings by SUNY's Charter Schools Institute that Ark failed to meet its academic goals.
Elia said the tweaking of the teacher certification process is in sharp contrast to a proposal being considered by the State University of New York Board of
Trustees charter schools committee.
Not exact matches
Also at 10 a.m., the
Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York board of
trustees meets, The SUNY Global Center, 116 E. 55th St., Multipurpose Room, Manhattan.
Also at 10 a.m., the
Charter Schools Committee of the SUNY Board of
Trustees meets, State University Plaza, 353 Broadway, Boardroom, Albany.
Also at 10 a.m., the
charter schools committee of the State University of New York board of
trustees meet, SUNY Global Center, 116 E. 55th St., Global Classroom, Manhattan.
A SUNY Board of
Trustees committee voted Wednesday to let some
charter schools certify their own teachers.
At 10 a.m., the
Charter Schools Committee of the SUNY board of
trustees holds a public meeting, SUNY Global Center, 116 E. 55th St., Manhattan.
The
charter schools committee of SUNY's Board of
Trustees voted to approve regulations that will allow some
schools to design their own teacher - training programs and certify their own teachers.
The proposal, which would allow high - achieving
charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of
trustees»
charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.
It introduced a vague provision that appeared to grant the
charter schools committee of the State University of New York's board of
trustees new powers to regulate the
charter schools it oversees.
Another provision gave the State University of New York board of
trustees»
charter school committee new latitude to regulate the
schools it oversees.
A SUNY Board of
Trustees committee voted to let some
charter schools certify their own teachers, making it easier for them to hire instructors.
And the chairman of a board of
trustees committee at the State University of New York, which reviews
charter school applications for approval, said he had asked their counsel to review any options they have to deal with Mr. Loeb.
Massachusetts
charter schools are generally managed by a board of
trustees and are independent of local
school committees.
The bill would place lots of new restrictions on
charters, including requiring that they maintain retention rates equal to the local district, and that their boards of
trustees include a member of the local district
school committee.
Committee recommendation: Refer for interim study (19 - 1) HB 1480, relative to the membership of the board of
trustees of a
chartered public
school.
Serving as an Executive
Committee member of the R.I. League of
Charter Schools and as a
trustee of the Segue Institute for Learning.
(c) A commonwealth
charter school shall be a public
school, operated under a
charter granted by the board, which operates independently of a
school committee and is managed by a board of
trustees.
The board shall develop procedures and guidelines for revocation and renewal of a
school's
charter; provided, however, that a
charter for a Horace Mann
charter school shall not be renewed by the board without a majority vote of the
school committee and local collective bargaining unit in the district where said
charter school is located; provided, however, that a commonwealth
charter shall not be renewed unless the board of
trustees of the
charter school has documented in a manner approved by the board that said commonwealth
charter school has provided models for replication and best practices to the commissioner and to other public
schools in the district where the
charter school is located.
The board of
trustees shall be considered the public employer for purposes of tort liability under said chapter 258 and for collective bargaining purposes under said chapter 150E; provided, however, that in the case of a Horace Mann
charter school, the
school committee of the
school district in which the Horace Mann
charter school is located shall remain the employer for collective bargaining purposes under said chapter 150E.
A Horace Mann
charter school shall be operated and managed by a board of
trustees independent of the
school committee which approved the
school.
This
charter renewal proposal, which became the charter contract between The Renaissance Charter School (K - 12) and New York Department of Education, designates decision making authority to the school's board of trustees, knowing that the board would informally delegate that authority to a Collaborative School Governance Committee and the School Managemen
charter renewal proposal, which became the
charter contract between The Renaissance Charter School (K - 12) and New York Department of Education, designates decision making authority to the school's board of trustees, knowing that the board would informally delegate that authority to a Collaborative School Governance Committee and the School Managemen
charter contract between The Renaissance
Charter School (K - 12) and New York Department of Education, designates decision making authority to the school's board of trustees, knowing that the board would informally delegate that authority to a Collaborative School Governance Committee and the School Managemen
Charter School (K - 12) and New York Department of Education, designates decision making authority to the school's board of trustees, knowing that the board would informally delegate that authority to a Collaborative School Governance Committee and the School Management
School (K - 12) and New York Department of Education, designates decision making authority to the
school's board of trustees, knowing that the board would informally delegate that authority to a Collaborative School Governance Committee and the School Management
school's board of
trustees, knowing that the board would informally delegate that authority to a Collaborative
School Governance Committee and the School Management
School Governance
Committee and the
School Management
School Management Team.
The SUNY Board of
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Charter Schools Committee approved eight new schools on
Schools Committee approved eight new
schools on
schools on Monday.