Sentences with phrase «alternative charter»

In future work, we hope to provide additional evidence on the relative effectiveness of alternative charter models.

Anecdotes Aren't Enough: An Evidence - Based Approach to Accountability for Alternative Charter Schools National Association of Charter School Authorizers Alternative schools — whether charter or traditional — are schools whose mission is to serve special populations including adjudicated youth, dropouts, pregnant teens, and recovering addicts.

The title says it all: Anecdotes Aren't Enough: An Evidence Based Approach to Accountability for Alternative Charter Schools.

It is slated to open at 5600 East Capitol St., in the same building as the Maya Angelou alternative charter high school.

According to Starr's memo, before crafting the strategic plan, district leaders did their homework on best practices for alternative school programs by visiting Boston Day and Evening Academy in Roxbury, Mass., and Lowell Middlesex Alternative Charter School in Lowell, Mass..

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.

Harold Border, Orange County's chief of high schools, said the district's traditional high schools are supposed to monitor and assist students having difficulty, and not send them to alternative charters if they don't want to go.

The departures expose a practice in which officials in the nation's tenth - largest school district have for years quietly funneled thousands of disadvantaged students — some say against their wishes — into alternative charter schools that allow them to disappear without counting as dropouts.

1996: The Peoria Alternative Charter School is certified as the first charter school in Illinois and opens its doors.

The Education Committee previously heard testimony in support of alternative charter school authorizers from leaders of the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools (FCPCS).

Renewal rules to change for state - authorized charter schools BESE is considering stricter standards for charter school renewals and revised standards for alternative charter schools.

Operators of alternative charter schools including online and independent study programs are challenging a report released last week that called out non-classroom instruction as being among the lowest performers statewide.

The alternative charter is a major challenge to the authority of politicians, who joined together on a cross-party to write up the royal charter.

In a sign some politicians would be sympathetic to the move, media committee chair John Whittingdale emphatically supported the alternative charter.

Curbing collective bargain rights, promoting mayoral control, creating an alternative charter school system — all of these are efforts to deal with the fact of union - dominated school boards.

The onus would be on authorizers to step up, Mike would get his way, and we'd be able to create smart policies related to alternative charters.

In response to questions from ProPublica, analysts working with the Broad Foundation said that, after reviewing the data, they saw no evidence that moving students to alternative charter schools boosted the Orange County district's overall testing performance inappropriately, according to a statement released by the foundation.

In Orlando, both traditional and alternative charter schools manipulate the accountability system.

Howat, the district spokesman, said transfers to alternative charters are voluntary.

He had transferred there from another alternative charter school, where he enrolled after his grades slipped at Olympia.

I pushed through alternative assessment for special education students and the CAHSEE exemption and pushed for the alternative charter - only SELPA.

Paradoxically, the Austin Independent School District has not been participating in that growth; it sees a loss of enrollment year after year as parents sign up students in alternative charter schools or private schools.

To McGill, Barajas» story was similar to numerous students he encountered during his tenure as leader of the south Phoenix high school, an alternative charter school with 405 students.

And the Orange County School Board is asking the superintendent to look into allegations from ProPublica that public high schools are pressuring low - achieving students to move to alternative charter schools in order to improve their graduation rates.

New Haven Public Schools and Achievement First are exploring an unusual partnership, starting up an alternative charter school together.

• Charter schools stole your kids» lunch money • students before bankers • fund education, not occupation • stop private interests from destroying public schools • Socialism is the alternative

Alternative charters would continue to receive letter grades, but they could choose to be evaluated for renewal on different criteria, such as meeting individual graduation goals instead of the number of on - time graduates.

Gary Middle College is an alternative charter high school program, which offers a second chance for people of any age to come back to high school and finish their diploma — free of charge.

Alternative charter schools have complained that the association's accountability system relies too heavily on the Academic Performance Index - which does not always account for the kinds of students and their varied problems that end up in the alternative programs.

The organization boasts of its adaptability compared to both traditional and alternative charter schools, highlighting the advantages of online education in time flexibility, socialization, curriculum, and individual learning (K12 Inc. 2017).

The first were in the political - economical realm: • Charter schools stole your kids lunch money • students before bankers • fund education, not occupation • stop private interest from destroying public schools • our children deserve the same education as Sacha and Malia • Socialism is the alternative