Sentences with phrase «approved as an authorizer»
A complicated formal application must be completed by July 1 before a district can be approved as an authorizer.
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As the charter authorizer, our job is to keep our strong focus on quality — closing low - performing schools, helping promising schools improve, encouraging our best schools to expand, and applying rigorous oversight to approve only the most - promising new applicants.
It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).
If the Washington Board of Education approves Spokane Public Schools as an authorizer, the district would have a head start in implementing charter schools.
In addition to approved districts, a charter school commission appointed by the state Board of Education acts as an authorizer.
Along with public school districts being given the opportunity to be named as authorizers of charter schools, a new state panel was formed under the law to also approve or deny charter schools in any district in the state, according to Jack Archer, senior policy analyst for the state Board of Education.
And as an important safeguard, the laws require charter school authorizers to approve the operators and management teams parents select.
While many states such as Texas have an authorization process that allows state education agency authorization and to a lesser extent local districts, other states such as Ohio allow a broad mix of authorizers to approve charters, including local districts, higher education institutions, and non-profit agencies.
«We have approved Spokane as the first school district charter authorizer.
The findings were drawn from a survey of the nation's largest authorizers - defined as those that have approved and oversee at least five charters.
Whenever one of these requests is made, users who are designated as authorizers must confirm each request before it can be approved.