Sentences with phrase «around a charter school in»

Earlier today, someone snapped a screenshot of a Facebook post by Boston Mayoral candidate Tito Jackson: When applied to the battle around charter schools in Massachusetts, as my friend said, you could have lifted that line right out of the movie «Waiting for Superman.»

When applied to the battle around charter schools in Massachusetts, as my friend said, you could have lifted that line right out of the movie «Waiting for Superman.»

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Shockingly, the charter school has carved out an exemption in the dress code so menstruating students can tie their school sweatshirts around their waists «to hide the blood stains.»

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to «frack» Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling.

There are around 250 charter schools in the state.

Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

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.

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

He said negotiations failed around three major issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, a potential cost shift from public schools to charter schools and a real estate tax abatement program in New York City.

«We have a very, very strong charter school community around the state and particularly in New York City.»

ALBANY — A deal that would link future increases in per - pupil charter school aid to public school funding could be breaking the logjam around the state's $ 150 - plus billion budget.

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.

Some mainstream Democrats, though, downplayed the political contention of issues like charter schools and the tax credit and even differences in nuanced positions regarding the Common Core standards and how the Board of Regents should be governed, arguing that those are secondary to decisions around school funding.

A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

With 34 schools currently serving around 11,000 students, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy is, and will likely continue to be, the largest charter school network in New York City.

«With the environment around ed reform changing, we're asking for fairness for charter schools,» Brett Peiser, C.E.O. of the Uncommon Schools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a staschools,» Brett Peiser, C.E.O. of the Uncommon Schools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a staSchools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a staschools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a statement.

Fresh off the Legislature's second on - time budget in a row, Sen. Saland talks about the need to balance capital and administrative spending, explains the state budget's hold harmless rules and gives his opinion on the effectiveness of charter schools in New York and around the country.

Around 50 to 60 percent of traditional charter school students are Black, compared to approximately 10 percent in online charters and 12 percent in traditional public schools.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

In Philadelphia, charter schools are actively engaged with the district to turn around low - performing schools in specific neighborhoodIn Philadelphia, charter schools are actively engaged with the district to turn around low - performing schools in specific neighborhoodin specific neighborhoods.

In 2004, Maycock and his mentor, Marci Cornell - Feist, assembled leaders from 10 Boston charter schools around the idea for Achievement Network.

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).

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

Sicat now leads the University of Southern California's charter network, Ednovate, which focuses on high schools in high - need areas in and around Los Angeles.

If we could make a dent in one district, it would have more effect nationally than me flying around and creating little charter schools everywhere.

In a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.&raquIn a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.&raquin South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.&raquin a fight for survival.»

It will center around the recent, controversial study that Professor Tom Kane released comparing charter, pilot, and traditional public schools in Boston.

A legal action fund to promote sector - wide interests in the Bay Area and to engage in lawsuits around Prop 39 and other barriers to growth could benefit all charter schools, especially the small schools that don't have the resources to engage in protracted legal battles.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

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.

Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined with increased competition from charter schools around New York City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement, school culture, and family recruitment efforts across our schools.

While charter schools were taking root in D.C. and around the country, it seemed few people were starting charters that would recruit the kids we wanted to serve: kids who were behind in school, who had been suspended or expelled, who had been locked up.

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.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

It is puzzling, then, that a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations last week issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration's current emphasis on chartering as a strategy to turn around low - performing schools and bemoaning the heavy concentration of charters in high - minority areas.

Tensions around co-location — the practice of housing charter schools and district schools in the same facility — ramped up after the draft plan became public.

«Our buy - in was built around the evaluation language not around the charter school piece.

Another is that amid the trench warfare that the school reform debate has settled into in recent years, with the liberal - left and unions rallying around traditional schools, and moderates and conservatives supporting charter schools, neither side has had an interest in promoting the story.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

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...

The budget also called for a $ 1 billion increase in Title I in order to support school choice, a $ 250 million increase for Education Innovation and Research to build the evidence base around private school choice, and a $ 167 million increase for charter schools.

RL: Most estimates put the total philanthropic investment in CMOs at around $ 500 million, and most of the big foundations are no longer funding stand - alone charter school start - up.

A charter school operator may be around for three to five years, but these are buildings that must last for a century, notes Ramsey Green, who, as the Recovery School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run school operator may be around for three to five years, but these are buildings that must last for a century, notes Ramsey Green, who, as the Recovery School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run alike.

In Massachusetts, the political battle over whether to raise a cap on the number of charter schools has come to center around the issue of race.

Due to their problems with obtaining facilities, charter schools tend to locate in low - rent areas, while drawing students from miles around.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseschools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseSchools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

Asked about the difference between urban and suburban charter parents, Patterson replied, «In the inner city, parents first want a school that's safe, where their children won't get hurt or shot and hopefully will be around adults who care about them.

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.