Sentences with phrase «about the charter school»

In honor of back - to - school time, Mile High Mamas ran a three - part series featuring some non-traditional schooling methods including homeschooling, unschooling and a post about charter schools.

We kick off our mini-series with homeschooling, tomorrow will be «unschooling» and on Thursday, JoAnn talks about charter schools.

«Do I think there will be discussions about charter schools and a robust debate?

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain, associate editor of the Times Union about a charter school proposal that would allow uncredited teachers to work, and a push to sue pharmaceutical companies that produce opioids.

And what about the charter schools, surprised you dropped that issue so fast.

Former Senate President Andy Gardiner, who has a son with Down syndrome and helped create the program, said he hopes the «governor is mindful» that the bill isn't just about charter schools and that many families will be affected by his decision.

Cuomo said it was reasonable for the Republicans to talk about charter schools — provoking the ire of the Assembly — but offered no more details, and no legislation.

Cuomo said nothing about charter schools and talked about taxes and other subjects.

Asked about the charter schools» push, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Education said, «We are committed to lifting up all our children, across every zip code, who will be the future of this city together.»

Bronx Assemblyman Victor Pichardo (foreground, right) addresses District 10 members» questions about charter school accountability.

We address two main questions about charter schools in the city.

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.

We urge the federal and state governments to improve publicly available data about charter schools and to monitor the civil rights of all students who attend or wish to attend charters, in addition to further examining the effects charter schools have on surrounding public schools.

Whitmire has written extensively for Education Next about charter schools.

Taken together, these races should scramble the conventional political narrative about charter schooling.

One intriguing question is whether stories that mention race tend to be more or less positive about charter schools than stories that do not.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

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.

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.

You don't have to worry about charter schools refusing to participate in a heavily regulated program since they have no alternatives.

In fact, foundation president Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote that the AFT's report «reeks of error, distortion, and untruth about charter schools.»

That half the public has yet to make up its mind about charter schools may provide researchers with an opportunity to shape the public conversation going forward.

Responses to the charter school question create the illusion that PDK and EdNext obtain conflicting results, even though both surveys asked about charter schools in roughly the same way.

On the one side, Ednext shows that a large portion of the public has no strong opinions about charter schools.

Yesterday, Emmeline Zhao of The 74 spoke with Michael Lomax of the United Negro College Fund about HBCUs and also about charter schools and the NAACP.

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.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

The one clear thing about charter schools is that they are all very different,...

In the New York Daily News, Caitlin Flanagan writes about the charter schools launched by Mike Piscal's Inner City Education Foundation in LA, and wonders when unions will stop fighting against charter schools.

Astoundingly, the reporter doesn't bother to share what those same Stanford researchers found about all charter schools in Detroit.

He noted that «this is not a series principally about charter schools.

In our previous work about charter schools and pre-k, Sara Mead and I argue that point.

The debate has raised uncomfortable questions about charter school discipline of black children.

In short, an assessment of some charter schools is useful for learning about similar charter schools, but we should not expect it to inform us about all charter schools.

Read more about charters in Arizona and the other Four Corners states in «In Defense of Education's «Wild West»» from our Spring 2018 issue, or learn more about charter schools by visiting our topics page.

A number of forward looking cities have set aside contentious debates about charter schools, and have instead chosen to embrace high - quality charter schools in their reform strategies.

In some of the cities known as ground zero for noisy fights about charter schools, quiet partnerships are underway between district and charter leaders.

Goodman: We have two very clear pieces of evidence about charter schools.

And the nice thing about charter schooling is that no one has to attend a Success Academy school.

It may come when opponents play games with a school's transportation or funding, or when legal barriers are tossed in the way, or when false information about charter schools is widely disseminated.

Much of the public still knows little about charter schools, which today serve only 2 percent of the population.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

The mayor's office staff disdain to play up the rhetoric of free markets in talking about their charter schools, but much of their intelligence derives from outside government: nonprofits and even the private sector.

The public does not oppose school choice, but doesn't know much about charter schools.

Law professor at the University of South Carolina whose current research focuses on constitutional law and public education, Derek Black has written about charter schools in the context of education reform, civil rights, and service of the public priorities.

The Education Next poll has asked about charter schools for a decade and found plurality support from Democrats and Republicans in every year.

A considerable portion of the public remains undecided about charter schools.

Kudos to Rachel M. Cohen [@rmc031] for her American Prospect piece about charter school unionization (When Charters Go Union), which is a timely update on a small but important issue no matter which side of the reform / critic divide you happen to occupy.

«Ember Reichgott Junge Confronts Seven Myths and Misconceptions about Charter Schools.»

She is a Graduate Research Assistant for the National Education Policy Center working on a study about charter schools and access.