Sentences with phrase «around charter by»

HB 5105 / Turn - around Charter by Rep. Diaz has passed out of the Education Committee with a 3/5 vote and was referred to the House Appropriations Committee.

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The Aframax tanker Tulip, chartered by Britain's BP, has been waiting since mid-May around Curacao to discharge some 500,000 barrels of U.S. light crude for which PDVSA has not paid, according to Reuters data and a company source involved in the sale.

Shares of Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) were trading higher by around 5 percent Thursday morning following reports that the company is in talks with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) over a business combination.

The Charter has now been adopted by a growing number of organizations and individuals around the world and several activities inspired by the Charter are planned for the coming years.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

The Queens Borough Board's evaluation of the proposed amendments is part of a six - month citywide public review process that began in late September as mandated by the City Charter, and includes separate reviews by Community Boards and Borough Presidents, as well as by the City Planning Commission around mid-December.

There will be upfront costs but by using a refitted RAF Voyager instead of chartering private aircraft for each long - distance trip, we will save taxpayers around # 775,000 a year.»

But each effectively had poison pills for the opposing chambers, with the Assembly linking the two years to tax extensions — vitally needed by communities around the state — and the Senate including an increase in charters with its promise of control.

The waiting lists to get into charter schools are around the block in the districts of state Assembly members who haven't challenged attempts to limit the alternative schools, according to data obtained by The Post.

Twenty years ago, Cahill was a first - term assemblyman, running with an albatross named Mario around his neck, his base in Kingston divided and distracted by Mayor T.R. Gallo's drive to overturn charter revision in the city (city manager).

Undeterred by the weather forecast, Alex puts her can - do attitude into high gear and charters a private plane to get around the problem.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

The goal of the EL Summit was to elevate the conversation around equity for English learners by bringing together diverse stakeholders practice and policy — from universities, public schools, charter networks, community organizations, and nonprofits.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — By 2015, more than 10,000 students from major «No Excuses» charter - schools will be on college campuses across the United States in contrast to the current year, in which the cohort numbers around 1,000.

I'm an on - the - ground special ed advocate and attorney who's lived around the country and now finds myself in South Florida — hardly a mecca of visionary charter school leaders, unless of course you count the school generously funded by the rapper, Pitbull.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

If these steps do not turn around the schools and improve student achievement in two years, Clinton's plan would require states to take additional corrective actions, such as permitting students to attend other public schools, or reconstituting the school by evaluating the staff and making any necessary staff changes, or closing the school and reopening it as a charter with an entirely new staff.

Furthermore, the sector's performance is far from exemplary at this point, and aggressive efforts by state charter officials to recruit top operators from around the country have been hampered by Nevada's abysmally low per - pupil funding.

Principals Tough Stand Turns School Around Frustrated by what he considered low expectations and minimal structure at American Indian Public Charter School, Dr. Ben Chavis set out to reform the school instituting no - nonsense policies regarding attendance, appearance, and instruction.

I'm biased; it's run by a friend, Kevin Teasley, who has been around the choice and charter schools movement for a long time, and once even dabbled in punditry and policy wonkery.

The idea — professional development summits organized in different parts of Nigeria and taught by experienced teachers from around the world — stemmed from Enechi's own experience as a new teacher at Brooke Charter School in the Mattapan section of Boston, where new teachers prepare for their own classrooms by spending one year learning from experienced educators.

Arizona parents can and do go on to Greatschools.net and rank the schools around them by Stanford 10 scores, often to find very highly ranked charter schools available in their area.

After their first Tucson charter school was ranked the nation's sixth - best high school by Newsweek, the Blocks went on to found BASIS.ed, a management company that operates 12 BASIS Schools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, California.

One local organization, sympathetic to charter schools, recently lamented that when four low - performing schools came up for renewal, they dodged closure by shopping around for a charter authorizer who would take them.

The authors, Mike McShane, Jenn Hatfield, and Elizabeth English, contend that charter school applications could be shortened by one - third, simply by eliminating unnecessary or inappropriate requirements, saving applicants around 700 hours of work.

Virginia O'Neil, chairwoman of the Sequim School Board, said Superintendent Kelly Shea made the decision to return a letter of intent, which was due by last Monday, to give the district the option of having a say in charter schools around Sequim.

Even without charter schools, school districts around Washington have plenty of major initiatives to keep them busy, such as preparing for new teacher evaluation systems that must be in place by the fall.

By offering something not typically found in district schools, Connecticut's public charter school graduates finish as well - rounded individuals with a host of experiences that benefit not only them, but the communities around them.

On the education reformer front, I realize that a charter leader does not want to be distracted by the complicated messy political issues around how to reduce poverty but I don't know how they can continue to ignore the obvious impacts of poverty.

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

Much of the expansion of school choice in other countries has centered around charter - style schools, which are called by various names in other countries.

Deeply seasoned in animosity toward the education reform movement, Los Angeles Unified held its traditional ground as charter schools were built around its schools, demands for merit pay for teachers were answered by corporate philanthropists and metrics - based teacher evaluation processes were published in the Los Angeles Times.

A charter school often becomes the nexus around which a neighborhood is revitalized and transformed by providing a cornerstone that creates jobs for local residents and opportunities for children, while attracting additional investment for surrounding economic development.

An estimated 150 teachers, school administrators, parents and others from around the state came to the conference at the University of Washington Tacoma to learn about charters, which are public schools that permit significant decisions to be made at a school level, rather than by a school district or state officials.

«Along with our friends at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the cCharter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the ccharter schools around the country.

The proposed Classical Charter model is affiliated with the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan and is being pushed by powerful politicians around the state.

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

Rather than just urging struggling schools to fire teachers or bring in non-union charter school operators, Harkin suggested in October that a school could be turned around by adopting a magnet theme or approach in order to bring in a cross-section of students from all backgrounds together — an idea whose effectiveness is backed up by ample research.

I'm an on - the - ground special ed advocate and attorney who's lived around the country and now finds myself in South Florida - hardly a mecca of visionary charter school leaders, unless of course you count the school generously funded by the rapper, Pitbull.

There is currently a concerted effort by several charter leaders to recruit teachers with local roots, particularly black educators, in large part because those teachers are more likely to stick around for the long haul.

The union valiantly tries to get around the pesky problem that many charter schools are specially targeted toward the most difficult students by making comparisons based on race, income, and geography.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

The vast majority of the funds the administration is making available are for turning around existing, low - performing high schools (by bringing in new leaders, new teachers, or turning them into charter schools).

Rubin, who walked around in front of the justices more than the other two lawyers presenting, talks about how charter schools that are not governed by the statutes do not perform better than some of the schools that are, and he tries to explain why some predominantly minority districts have low - performing teachers.

Senators asking her questions may want to ask her about charter oversight and the dynamic around charters in Pennsylvania and the Bethlehem Area School District, as described by Burris.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

This was a particularly noteworthy statement, considering that in almost every breakout slot there was at least one session related to closure or revocation, with topics such as «By the Numbers: What Do We Know About School Closure Around the Country», «Building a Closure Plan Focused on Kids», «When and How to Revoke a Charter», and «Interventions for Struggling Schools».

The passed SB 24 (new # I forget) restricted the number of charter schools, but Pryor got around that by having the State Board of Ed approve an increase in the enrollment numbers for charter schools.

By incorporating the authorizing practices linked to strong outcomes identified in NACSA's latest report, authorizers around the country can help charter schools live up to their fullest potential.