Sentences with phrase «adding more charter»

Adding more charter schools just offers parents a more dizzying array of unknown and unreliable options.

Massachusetts is renewing its push to lengthen the school day, from adding more charter schools to appealing for federal grant money that could bring longer days to more traditional public schools.

The governor has also said that he won't increase school aid in the state budget unless lawmakers agree to a list of changes, including adding more charter schools and making teacher performance tests more stringent.

Before adding more charters or other new schools, the district should wait for the data to come in to justify doing so... We challenge Superintendent Tom Boasberg and our board to commit to a level playing field so neighborhood schools receive the same resources as charter and innovation schools.

They say they're afraid it is just a ploy to add more charter and voucher schools on Milwaukee's education scene.

Not exact matches

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

But much of that added spending is tied to backing Cuomo's education policy changes, including more stringent teacher evaluation measures and strengthening the state's charter schools.

There are more landmine up ahead as well, including a likely push from lawmakers in both parties to add more money to the proposed $ 338 million increase in foundation aid and, from Assembly Democrats, opposition to an increase in charter school tuition aid.

They are not of the belief that my voice should be silenced when it comes to wanting more transparency regarding charter schools,» he added.

Cuomo also wants to add 100 more charter schools.

But there's no sentiment there to add 100 more charter schools, as Gov. Cuomo has proposed and the mayor has opposed.

The result: more charters added to New York's already large and growing charter contingent.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver threw down the gauntlet on expanding charter schools Tuesday, saying there's no reason to add more despite the clamor of parents and education reformers.

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

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.

Thomas Lickona, of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs, says that he believes the Brother's Keeper code has effected profound changes in Hyde's peer culture, adding that he was «deeply impressed» by the school in Bath and «even more impressed» by the Washington charter school.

The Department of Education would like to see more charter schools and innovative programs, he said, adding that key ingredients for successful schools are high expectations for children and «an unequivocal belief that all children can learn.»

No Child Left Behind helped add transparency, and Race to the Top (RttT) motivated states to rethink teacher evaluation, charter limits, and more.

Meanwhile, we have already added 14 new charter schools during this period (with four more scheduled to open next fall), 25 new charters (including 5 Horace Mann charters) have been awarded (17 of these have involved «proven provider» status).

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 results add one more data point to the diverse assortment of studies about charter performance: an example of the charter sector outperforming, on the whole, nearby traditional schools.

Two more district schools and two charters were added in 2013.

While the value - added models utilized by the authors control for the prior student achievement, the increasingly positive selection into charters almost certainly brings more students with hard - to - measure positive attributes.

Our goal is not to «flood the zone» but to carefully and thoughtfully build a charter sector of unimpeachable quality that, along with DCPS, keeps improving and adding more families to the District.

«Even the most conservative estimate shows that parents of more than a half million students are attempting to vote with their feet to choose a public charter school that better meets their child's needs, added Rees.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

What's more, many of those newly - founded charters are still growing, adding a grade every year until they reach capacity.

High - performing charters get several benefits, including more flexibility to add students and duplicate schools.

Charter school staffing ratios vary widely, but even if we assume an average of 20 employees per school, that's more than 7,600 charter school staffers added in a single year — mostly nonCharter school staffing ratios vary widely, but even if we assume an average of 20 employees per school, that's more than 7,600 charter school staffers added in a single year — mostly noncharter school staffers added in a single year — mostly non-union.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

One Brooklyn charter is looking to expand by adding more grades, international travel and a boarding school.

«Although more families have been choosing charter schools in Arizona, funding for charter school students has gone down significantly over the past five years — deeply impacting many of the highest - performing schools in our state,» added Sigmund.

According to news reports, Knopf, in her official capacity, visited with school boards and school administrators across Vermont and reported back that there was little support for some of the Race to the Top policies including the effort to add more and more charter schools.

Since the 2008 - 09 academic year, charters have added 650,000 seats — which includes more than 300,000 additional students through new schools, and 350,000 who are being served through the expansion of existing ones.

The backup to get into charters comes despite those schools adding more space for students.

In September, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board member Steve Zimmer proposed a resolution that would limit parent choice by not allowing any new charters and adding more bureaucracy on existing charter schools.

To make matters even worse, charter schools would get a dramatic increase in funding even if they added no more students.

Compass Charter School in Meridian, a perennial high flier on state performance assessments, has added almost 300 new students just this year (growing from 565 students to 859), while the successful Sage International School in Boise has almost doubled from 545 students in 2013 - 14 to more than 930 today.

White added during the interview in December that IPS wanted to embrace the competitive atmosphere fostered under the state's current education policy, which allows for the proliferation of charter schools and opens private schools» doors to more students.

It is set to add 250 more charters in a praiseworthy effort to rescue failing schools..

The report assesses Clark County's education landscape, identifies the barriers to adding more high - quality charters, and recommends actions that everyone involved in education — the state and district, policymakers, advocates, and funders — must take to ensure a better education system.

Malloy is so incredibly committed to the privatization of Connecticut's public schools that he even added funding for two more charter schools despite the fact that there are no additional, approved charter school proposals even in the pipeline.

In total Malloy is proposing to add nearly 2,000 more seats for the charter school industry in Connecticut....

He added that the board also agreed to start a task force that will take comments from charter school families and experts to develop more specific goals for the moratorium.

And let's be real: The Big Apple needs a real «revolution» that involves more than adding charter seats.

Talk continues in the Legislature over a rewrite of the state's 15 - year - old charter school law, adding more say for local districts and more accountability for charters.

Christie has proposed his own charter revisions that would add significantly more flexibility to charter schools, while his education commissioner, Chris Cerf, has lately been touting greater accountability for enrollment and performance.

We need to monitor the charter schools that exist now, not add more.

«I'm school - model agnostic,» said Melvoin, though he added: «When you have more charters in L.A. than anywhere else in the country, it's an indictment of a failed status quo.»