Sentences with phrase «accept more charter schools»

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Cuomo has told lawmakers that they must accept education policy changes — including adding authorization for 100 new charter schools and making teacher evaluations more dependent on standardized tests — in order for him to agree to give the state's schools more money.

Our communities will be — and should be — more willing to do that if we as charter advocates can with a straight face say that the charter schools that exist today accept all kids and serve them well.

Ideas such as charter schools, performance pay, and consequential accountability are much more widely accepted — and acceptable — today than they were a decade ago.

In the District of Columbia, for example, where nearly 100 charter campuses are educating more than one - third of the public school students, charters are increasingly accepted as an integral part of the public education delivery system: Sixty - three percent of D.C. residents know they are public schools.

Charter school authorizers are getting «choosier» about which applications for schools they will accept and are basing decisions not to renew charters more on student - achievement issues than previously recognized, an analysis by a pro-charter organization finds.

Lawmakers could explore rules that exempt e-schools from policies requiring all charters, virtual ones included, to accept every student who applies and instead allow e-schools to operate more like magnet schools with admissions procedures and priorities.

«We can not create more good schools for our children by accepting more failing schools,» Mary Bradley, CPS top officer responsible for charter schools, told the commission before it decided to keep the South Side charters open.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

Charter schools must accept any student who applies, using a lottery if they have more applicants than spaces.

Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.

But the data is clear — if a student is in a charter school, in Los Angeles they are 5 % more likely to get accepted to a UC.

Connecticut charter schools already collect more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds from the state of Connecticut, diverting money away from the real public schools that do fulfil their responsibility to accept and educate all students.

The real and substantive answer is not more privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, corporate entities that refuse to accept and educate their fair share of students who face additional challenges.

Furthermore, this support of community schools demonstrates a willingness to not accept the status quo and prescribe more charter schools, as is the policy of the current mayor, but instead to do the research and find ways that empower the community.

A charter school is prohibited by law from discriminating in admissions and must accept every student who applies or hold a lottery if there are more applicants than the school can accommodate.

Although the Gates Foundation money is a tiny portion of the Hartford School System's total budget, by accepting the grant, the Hartford Board is committed to instituting more standardized testing (the NWEA MAP test), supporting the expansion of more charter slots (a gift for Jumoke and Achievement First) and attaching teacher evaluation results (From the Danielson / Teachscape programs) to the NWEA MAP and other standardized test data.