Sentences with phrase «about charter schools as»

Upon further review though, I found that their data seems very valid (anecdotally) and that their data has many negative things to say about charter schools as well.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

Trying to frame the research that has emerged about charter schools as completely positive or completely negative misses the nuanced approach that most research attempts to take.

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When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.

Spitzer twice referred to Cuomo as «presumably» the next governor, but said he won't endorse the AG until after he answers questions about issues like health care and charter schools and» shows the fortitude to answer them the right way.»

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.

Chapter Leader Tracey Miller of IS 125 in Queens asks a question about the original mission of charter schools, as envisioned by former UFT President Albert Shanker.

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schoolAs employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schoolas well as expanding the number of charter schoolas expanding the number of charter schools.

She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.

Basil Smikle Jr. has a lot of ideas about how to address Harlem's most vexing problems, from crime to housing to underemployment, but his biggest asset as he runs for state Senate against Bill Perkins may be that he supports charter schools.

About 1,400 New York City charter school parents and advocates will lobby state legislators in Albany on Tuesday as they prepare to do battle with the de Blasio administration.

... Many of us also believe that charter schools are public schools and deserve... support as well, so it's really just about finding the right balance of that and getting this done.»

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

In a statement, Moskowitz, who left the meeting about a half hour before it ended, said «there is a lack of transparency in their decision - making regarding reconsidering charter school co-location... we're totally in the dark as to what they're even considering.»

If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before — as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general — they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio's election, and the mayor's immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

Saturday's meeting with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña provided the impetus to shift course as prominent charter leaders criticized her for offering no details about co-location, rent proposals, and other key issues.

On Saturday, LaborPress caught up with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

Success spent about four times as much as KIPP, another influential charter network with schools across the nation.

However, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of learning outcomes in online charter schools, as well as how they compete for limited educational resources.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner - city Baltimore charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and community.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Unfortunately, the analyses in this paper are not capable of identifying whether the differences in classifications are due to the type of student who attends each sector, or if there is something about charter schooling itself that reduces the probability that a student is newly classified as having a disability.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

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The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

«As a charter school, we were accountable for results, but there was confusion about whether we were getting there,» says McCurry.

Edutopia.org was launched in 1994 as an online venue for spreading the word about innovative approaches to teaching and learning, from charter schools to teacher preparation to...

About 19 percent of BPS students are classified as having special needs, while 14 percent of charter school students have disabilities.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

We started with some polling statewide and we found that, as you would expect, most people could care less about charter schools, don't know what they are, don't really care.

As a result, this simple correlation tells us nothing about whether charters increase segregation or just tend to locate in areas where the schools are already segregated.

But as Marci Kanstoroom pointed out some years ago (when the design of the study was released but results were yet unknown), the study was set up in such a way that it could not possibly tell us much about charter schools.

Earlier this month, Mike Petrilli moderated a Fordham Institute discussion about whether charter schools had eclipsed private school vouchers as the most promising education reform.

This led to a patient explanation from other charter leaders as well as district leaders about how hard it is for communities to see a building shuttered or handed over to a charter school when generations of neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to be accomplished leaders, attended the school.

It is unlikely to change anyone's opinion about charter schooling's potential as a reform strategy, however, not least because of the lack of information about student achievement.

Yet as my colleague Brandon Wright recently pointed out, both D.C. charter schools and D.C. district schools had 2013 — 14 suspension rates that were about double the national rates.

The authors concede that a number of national and city - level studies show relatively strong performance for disadvantaged youth in charters, but come to rest on the familiar refrain that charter students do about the same as those in other public schools.

Brizard's replacement, Barbara Byrd - Bennett, wasn't as enthusiastic about new and charter schools as Brizard had been, but she was more experienced with larger districts.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

When one segment of respondents was asked to choose between «support,» «oppose,» and «don't know,» a similar proportion selected» don't know» as had selected «neither support nor oppose,» again suggesting that Americans either do not understand what charter schools are or have not made up their minds about them (see «Educating the Public,» features, Summer 2009).

A report from Education Sector raises questions about the ability of charter schools and charter - management organizations to scale up as dramatically as their supporters might hope.

«Voice» is defined here as «formal mechanisms in a school for teachers to participate in decisions about instruction, organizational issues, and workplace conditions,» which is not a bad way of stating a goal that all charters should pursue.

Our readers are more likely to have opinions on charter schools than the public as a whole (all but 7 percent take a position in contrast to the 39 percent of the public who take a pass on this item), but the ratio of support to opposition is roughly the same: about 3:1.

The charter school students are about as likely to be eligible for special education and for the free or reduced - price lunch program as are students in the regular Chicago public schools.

As evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.&raquAs evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.&raquas its traditional public schools.»