Sentences with phrase «alternative charter 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..

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).