Sentences with phrase «around charter schools»

This fact is often forgotten in the contentious debate around charter schools today.

The rhetoric around charter schools, then, was a synthesis of liberal and conservative aims.

«It's time we start drawing lines in the sand around our charter schools,» she said.

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.»

But a recent series of events that revolves around a charter school in Trenton has disrupted that unanimity.

She worked on a number of policies revolving around charter schools, the introduction of school uniforms, and the standards movement, says Josh Greenman, director of strategy and communications — and McCown's colleague — at the Teaching Commission in New York.

RI: Our buy - in was built around the [teacher] evaluation language, not around the charter school piece.

Cuomo highlighted three major sticking points: raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, the 421 - a property tax abatement program, and education funding, especially around charter schools.

What policies should states adopt around charter school authorizing?

Watching a lifetime DFL» er respond to such obstructionism offers an interesting perspective on the cleavages in the generally center - left, Democratic Leadership Council - driven coalition that built support around charter schools.

Given Nina's new role, and the current tumult around charter schooling, I thought it timely to sit down and chat with her about the gig.

Rep. Mayo, noting discussions in recent months with other members of the Georgia General Assembly around charter school financial crises in Atlanta Public Schools and Bibb County Schools, wants to establish a minimum amount of required financial training for charter school finance directors.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the Senate education chairwoman who shepherded the new tenure law, has said she will have legislation ready in the coming months, but given the vitriol around charter schools the last four years, the debate is unlikely to be quick and easy.

At San Diego Unified, I had the chance to build knowledge and experience around charter school law.

Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, said the Trump administration's rhetoric has only deepened partisan tensions around charter schools.

I'm hopeful, though not optimistic, that Gov. Larry Hogan will clean up the bureaucratic and political morass around charter schools so that ordinary, middle - class families can enjoy more educational choices to Maryland.

Four experts faced off in a live debate Wednesday night on a range of issues that swirl around charter schools — whether for - profit schools work, what's best for student achievement, and if charters lead to innovation.

I was proposing a collaborative model rather than an either or scenario around charter schools.»

As I'm sure you are aware, some of the people around the charter school movement are decidedly unsavory.

«The amount of testing was at the top, followed closely by concerns around charter schools,» Colleen Grady, the former Strongsville school board member who is now a senior policy advisor for the Ohio Department of Education, told the board then.

In Oakland County, of the more than 9,600 students in charter schools, 3,458 are from Detroit, which means comparing their test scores to scores of those in the neighborhoods around the charter schools does not give correct information, Bauer said.

«This is part of what drives me crazy about debates around charter schools and «choice» in the United States»

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.»

In addition to the evidence behind investing in early childhood education as a way of reaping long - term benefits, the two leaders covered the debate around charter schools; the role of the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, in promoting opportunity and achievement for all students, especially the most vulnerable; and the value and importance of giving students second chances.

Lost in the heat of battle around charter schools is the fact that Los Angeles Unified already offers parents a mix of school choices that the full board could coalesce around and expand as needed.

Charter school families and supporters consistently turn out to vote at higher levels than the general electorate, making it especially important that we mobilize them around charter school policy issues.