Sentences with phrase «about charter school operations»

Advocacy groups in Chicago, New Orleans, and elsewhere have been denied basic information about charter school operations that should be disclosed under Freedom of Information laws.

Not exact matches

Fifth - grade entrants comprise only 13 percent of CCSF's total admittees and only about 6 percent of the admittees in our analysis, which excludes applicants from private schools and does not include charter schools that are in their first year of operation.

In spite of a wealth of information that points to K12, Inc. running a business operation that has poor returns by failing to adequately educate students, yet continues to profit mightily from state taxpayers, some are still enthusiastic about the prospect of the virtual charter school coming to North Carolina, including Rep. Larry Pittman, a supporter of virtual charters.

One of the great things about charter schools is that public school teachers can take on a much greater role in the ownership, vision, operation, and leadership of a charter school than they can in a traditional public school.

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In my own report about charter operations in North Carolina, I find these schools regularly mask how their charitable dollars are spent and how much they profit from related real estate deals and education management firms.

Experts say many of these new charters haven't changed much about their day - to - day operations after making the switch: for instance, by making use of the autonomy over calendar and curriculum that charter schools are afforded.

In its two years of operation, Grimmway Academy has generated phenomenal results and has helped transform the conversation about charter schools throughout Kern County.

The head of a controversial virtual charter school wants North Carolina lawmakers to funnel more cash into the program and clear operations beyond the 2019 sunset of its four - year pilot program, despite lagging test scores and a host of concerns about similar programs nationwide.

They must become active players in shaping education for their children, ask tough, thoughtful questions about what is being taught in classrooms, demand information on the quality of the teachers working in classrooms, and play stronger roles in shaping the overhauls of traditional district schools (and in the operations of charter schools serving their kids).

Kelley's recommendations to ensure charter school accountability include, among others, requirements for charters to report much more information about their financials and a prohibition on obvious conflicts of interest in charter school governance and operations.

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And given the problems faced in the charter schools sector — including news stories about charter school operators that have woefully managed their financial operations (and ultimately, the taxpayer dollars with which they are trusted), and the religiously - bigoted, xenophobic suspicions about the Cosmos Foundation charter schools — voucher supporters must step up their own efforts to defend school choice.