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The Legal Battle Over The World's Oldest Profession Compared to Kyle Freeman, Terri - Jean Bedford faces no threshold questions about whether the Charter applies to her case.

The 29 - 19 Senate vote followed a lengthy debate about whether charter schools represent an abandonment of the state's public school system.

This raises questions about whether charter schools may be violating civil rights law by not reporting the data on whom they exclude from school on disciplinary grounds.

It is not about whether charter schools are good or that charter schools are successfully educating their students.

«The majority opinion in Montessori said nothing about whether a charter school could operate at more than one location, and as such, it necessarily stands for nothing as precedent on that issue,» Pellegrini wrote.

Adding to the performance debate are questions about whether charter schools should «backfill» seats that open up when students leave during the year by admitting new students from their waitlists.

I hope we can move past tired debates about whether charter schools should, can or do serve students with disabilities.

Several board members were worried about whether the charter school could meet its proposed demographic makeup by having enrollment available districtwide through a lottery — what the current contract calls for — in lieu of limiting enrollment to a smaller geographical area.

This article does raise the question about whether charter schools are performing better than public schools.

While the number of charter schools is growing rapidly, questions have been raised about whether charter schools are appropriately serving students with disabilities.

One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.

If you see education reform as a social justice or civil rights crusade, you will care mightily about whether every charter is educating its share of kids with disabilities and whether enough «people of color» are running these 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.

I learned plenty about whether charter schools outperform district schools, and in which conditions, and whether competitive effects from charter schools can improve the traditional public school system.

Note what isn't even mentioned here: the basic question about whether charter schools «work.»

The third pattern is a set of disputes about whether charter schools and conventional public schools compete on a level playing field.

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.

The second, about philosophy and politics, is essentially about whether chartering is good or bad.

So my challenge to you is this: don't get caught up in battles about whether charters are a little better or a little worse than average on discipline.

Jon — I get tired of the debate about whether charters have the «same kids».

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I was wondering whether I should say something about the recently leaked proposal for the «Charter of Quebec Values,» but Mathew has noted some of the major problems.

He goes on to say, «Article 9 of the Charter simply leaves it to States to decide whether they wish to afford homosexual couples the right to marry» — and this in the context of a decision about civil, not religious marriage.

The city's charter leaders are anxiously awaiting a decision from the D.O.E. about whether over two dozen charter co-locations approved by the Panel for Educational Policy under former mayor Bloomberg last fall will be rolled back.

C.E.O.s for the city's other large charter networks, Uncommon Schools and Achievement First, did not reply to requests for comment about whether they support mayoral control.

«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.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

We talk with Paul about Canada's vision, the role that the Promise Academy Charter school is playing, and the evidence about whether the Zone is working to transform Harlem and the children who live there.

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.

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

Observers asked about whether the math assessment would strangle the abilities of charter schools or specialty district schools to use nonstandard math curricula.

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

If you listen to those involved in the charter debate, both charter critics and advocates express grave concerns about whether the media is getting this right.

The Williams team crafted a campaign not about teacher evaluations or firewalls or charter schools, but about «whether New York should get $ 700 million from Obama,» says Williams.

Designing an effective charter school policy therefore requires attention to details about accountability and other features, such as whether enrollment in charters is unified with traditional public school enrollment processes and whether charter schools provide transportation for students.

They did not respond to questions about whether transfers to Sunshine and other alternative charters have inflated the graduation rates of traditional schools like Olympia.

With a new charter - backed majority on the board, there's lots of speculation about whether the district will accelerate the growth of charters in the years to come.

Eric Murphy, a seventh grade humanities teacher at Excel Public Charter School in Kent, takes his students through a lesson about Syrian refugees and the issues surrounding whether or not they should be able to emigrate to this country, in January.

Ryan is more positive about the varieties of school choice — whether within school districts, or by way of charter schools and vouchers, and of course he favors interdistrict choice — but the legislative and judicial obstacles (not to mention practical ones) to the expansion of this route are clear.

But questions remain about whether even those financial incentives can convince states already grappling with a deep recession to overhaul troubled charter authorizing systems, push aside political opposition and shift funds away from traditional public schools.

The core of that disagreement is over charter schools that have lured students away from DPS and over whether Detroit needs some control in managing the about 97 charter schools operating in the city or others that may open in the future..

At Locke, Green Dot took the risk of operating under the same conditions that hobble many public schools — accepting all the students within the attendance boundaries, whether or not they wanted a charter school, would follow its rules or even understood what the change was about.

The current local controversy over whether the school board should approve two more charter schools is not about believing in school choice, it's about survival.

This lawsuit is about money, specifically whether the funding structure for charter schools satisfies the Mississippi Constitution.

Perhaps the most important argument about charter schools is whether they work or not.

«This is about whether or not the state can force their system on the charters,» Phillips says.

It challenged Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. to answer questions about whether to lift the cap on charter schools, how to make it easier to remove ineffective teachers and how to make teacher evaluations more stringent, among other issues.

In fact, there is even confusion over whether a district can require a charter applicant to provide any information about its parent organization, according to Alice Miller of the California Charter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the clcharter applicant to provide any information about its parent organization, according to Alice Miller of the California Charter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the clCharter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the closures.

Nationwide the charter school sector has grown over the past few decades amid a debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.

Mr. Pearson described the DCPCSB «Mystery Shopper Program» through which staff randomly calls charter schools, anonymously inquiring about whether a hypothetical student with disabilities would be welcome there.