Sentences with phrase «when public charter»

When public charter schools fail to meet their goals — whether for academic, financial or operational reasons — they should be closed, even if we have invested federal dollars in them.

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In the first five years of authorization, when public charter schools were first opened, it was enough to simply be «an alternative» to the local school.

When public charter schools first opened in the early 1990s, each was unique and independent.

Shouldn't that be part of the deal when a public charter opens in a district?

Not exact matches

It was the time when Public Broadcasting was chartered and, at its the beginning, fairly well funded by the Congress.

I think that all the time when I read school food success reform stories for small schools, private schools, charter schools in public school districts.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

Cuomo's support for charters had not been widely known, and when he showed up at the Capitol steps rally it had been kept hidden from the public and press.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«Every student, they count,» Mecozzi said, «but when I look at our budget and I realize how much money is going into charter schools, and a lot of the charter schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»»

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Sources said lawmakers were looking at a proposal to help reduce the tensions that exist when a charter school moves into a building already housing a traditional public school.

In 2013, Katz's competitors filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration alleging that Katz's jet charter business had been given preferential treatment by state officials at the Department of Transportation after they bypassed a public bidding process when awarding his Talon Air the exclusive rights to sell fuel at Republic Airport.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

«We need only look as far as Michigan to see what happens when elected officials allow profiteers like Betsy DeVos to drain resources from public schools and weaken the regulations that govern private, religious and charter schools,» he said.

It remains unclear how high school sports governing officials will ultimately classify public and charter schools when it comes to post-season play.

By Patricia Huertas When my oldest son, William, was entering first grade, I entered him in a lottery for one of New York City's high performing public charter schools.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

«When public schools — be they district or charter — are delivering resounding results, we want to ensure their success continues.»

School districts held an exclusive franchise on public education services until 1991, when Minnesota passed the first law permitting public charter schools.

But the guidebook's greatest success comes when it seeks to answer the deeper «what» questions — «What does charter growth mean for public education?»

But the laws governing school facilities were written a century or more before charters existed, when there was only one kind of «public school» in this country.

When the District of Columbia School Reform Act was passed by Congress in 1996, it included language providing that charter schools should have access to surplus public - school buildings.

However, this represents less than 1 percent of the bond package, when charter schools account for 4.5 percent of California's public schools and serve about 2.5 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students.

It became the law in California in 2000 when voters passed Proposition 39, which requires that the Golden State's public - school facilities «be shared fairly among all public school pupils, including those in charter schools.»

When Mayra Valle entered YES Prep North Central in the public charter school's first sixth - grade class six years ago, it was a shock to her system.

Four Corners charter students do well on NAEP, even when compared to public school students in Massachusetts, the highest - performing state.

Public supports Common Core, and when given national ranking of local schools, Americans give those schools lower grades and express greater support for vouchers, charters, and teacher tenure reform

I was a sophomore in high school when my dad told me about an up - and - coming public charter school called Design Tech High in Burlingame, California, about 30 miles north of my hometown in Silicon Valley.

One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.

Meanwhile, for those who tend to agree with Immanuel Kant that social and emotional learning are best when based on abstractions and not bound up with the vagaries of faith, there are public district and charter schools.

When charter schools close, it's via a transparent public process: A school was chronically underperforming, not living up to the conditions of its performance contract, and it has its charter revoked.

Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.»

The HMK study investigates how well charter school students do when attending schools popular enough with parents to be oversubscribed compared to attending a traditional NYC public school.

When we looked closer, we discovered that Idaho has a robust community of virtual schools, both public and charter.

One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public schools when a charter school opened nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public school to the charter school.

Despite that stability of public opinion about charters, aggregate support increased by 11 percentage points when respondents were told that Obama backed them (see Figure 4).

The findings, which will be published in the spring issue of Education Next and are now online at www.EducationNext.org, show that students attending charter high schools in Florida and Chicago have an increased likelihood of successful high - school completion and college enrollment when compared with their traditional public high school counterparts.

Indiana's entry into the charter movement was nearly arrested in early 2002 when Suellen Reid, the Republican state superintendent of public instruction, balked at giving Indiana's new charters any money during their first semester, basing her opinion on legal advice from members of her staff.

Would the AFT agree that charter growth should slow only when they enroll 18 percent of American public school students?

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

Thus we use a method that in effect compares the test - score gains of individual students in charter schools with the test - score gains made by the same students when they were in traditional public schools.

While progressive unions throughout the country are working with charter schools, having concluded that charter schools are bettering public education, local L.A. teachers union head A. J. Duffy told the L.A. Daily News, «We're never happy when a charter school opens up.»

L.A. Unified has been losing students at a rapid clip since 2008, when five charter - management organizations — Green Dot, Aspire, Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, and Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools (ICEF)-- announced major expansion plans.