Sentences with phrase «adopted charter laws»

Since then 42 states and the District of Columbia have adopted charter laws, and currently there are almost 3 million children attending charters in the United States, a steadily escalating number.

Some states adopted charter laws in no small part because choice advocates pushed so hard for vouchers.

To answer this question, we first studied how D.C. and the 37 states that passed charter laws before 1999 differed from the remaining states that had not adopted charter laws by 1999.

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«Our position is the same as it was when the legislation was passed: We believe the legislation's intent did not allow for SUNY to adopt regulations that are inconsistent with current laws governing charter schools, including laws related to teacher certification requirements.»

Nor did it intend to empower SUNY to adopt regulations that are inconsistent with current laws governing charter schools, including but not limited to laws related to teacher certification requirements...»

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Since the first law authorizing charter schools was passed in Minnesota in 1991, 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all adopted legislation supporting public charters.

States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

However, after I left the administration in 1993, I supported the nascent charter school movement, even going to Albany, New York, to urge legislators to adopt a law permitting such schools to be created in the state.

Mark Murphy was Delaware's Secretary of Education adopting rigorous educator preparation standards into law, updating the state's charter school law to improve school accountability and support, tackling college readiness and retention challenges, implementing the Common Core State Standards and assessments and promoting school choice.

In November 2012, Washington voters adopted a public charter school law via Initiative 1240.

Most states adopted only modest measures to improve charter schools as a result of the «Race to the Top» competition and no new substantive charter school laws were passed, said Jeanne Allen, president and founder of the Center for Education Reform, a school choice advocate based in Washington, D.C.

Over the past decade, the number of students in charter schools has grown rapidly as new schools have opened and more state's, including Mississippi, adopted charter school laws.

Over the past decade, the number of students in charter schools have grown rapidly as more state's, including Mississippi, adopted charter school laws and new schools opened in state's that had existing laws.

An eleventh, Mississippi, which recently let its charter schools law expire, is expected to adopt a new law when its Legislature convenes in 2010.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

Many of the new laws require charter schools to adopt new policies and procedures.

All nine members of the bipartisan board, including Gov. Bob Riley, voted for the resolution encouraging the state legislature to adopt a charter school law in the 2010 session.

Nearly 20 years after the first one was adopted, will this be the year that New Jersey enacts a new charter - school law?

Other states that have adopted a similar charter - school law now have high - performing charter schools that are closing the opportunity gap for their students.

«Newly adopted legislation, designed to increase charter school and authorizer accountability while respecting school autonomy, has been described in media reports as the most sweeping reforms of Ohio charter school law since school choice was first introduced 15 years ago,» a draft of the grant proposal said.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

As schools in cities and towns all across Connecticut are facing significant budget cuts and layoffs, one wonders what legislators were thinking when they adopted a law that will end up moving even more scarce resources away from our district schools and to these charter schools.

It was — and is — a law that applies to every public school in Connecticut — except for Charter Schools who had an amendment adopted that said they — and they alone — can have 30 % of the staff non-certified.

Dozens and possibly hundreds of the state's charter schools have adopted policies that illegally require parents to volunteer, the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates charged in its report, «Charging For Access,» issued on Thursday.

Four excellent public charters that have adopted Common Core, per state law, but continue to offer an excellent education and curricula are Adams Traditional Academy, Benjamin Franklin Charter Schools, Heritage Academy, and Jefferson Preparatory High School (currently offering grades 9 - 10, but will be adding grades 11 and 12).

In 2009, CCSA's Member Council, which consists of charter school leaders from across California, unanimously adopted an approach that called for improving academic performance criteria and addressing deficiencies in current law that make it difficult to close underperforming schools.

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Nonetheless part of that review does involve identifying an objective public interest «recognised by Union law», identifying such an interest would not only appear to be an essential part of the test outlined in the Charter but would have been welcome in articulating the approach adopted by Union law towards the interaction of criminal activity and the exercise of the rights of Union citizenship, including the newly found political rights.

When the Charter was adopted in 1982, the degree of similarity between Canada's Constitution and those of other countries «nosedived,» said Law.