Sentences with phrase «as an authorizer of»

Sobered and a bit battered, Fordham continues as an authorizer of Ohio charter schools — six of them today, with a seventh in the offing — and a vigorous participant in the state's larger education - policy debates.

As the authorizer of all schools, City Schools was solely responsible for the oversight of public education in Baltimore.

As an authorizer of charter schools in Ohio, we deal directly with the intersection of those twin policy goals.

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.

Not exact matches

Bellafiore served as president of the SUNY's Charter Schools Institute, which was created by the Board of Trustees to implement their new role as a charter school authorizer.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

In April 2011, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers agreed to assist DPS as the district designed a competitive and rigorous RFP (Request for Proposal) process to identify schools that it would authorize as charters beginning in fall 2011.

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

We need to support the emergence of more alpha authorizers, those who are independent of the K — 12 system and have the courage and tenacity to serve as change agents, market makers, and forces for quality, while reliably performing the core functions of authorizing mentioned above.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

At the start of 2012, CMU served as authorizer to 56 of the schools, which educate about 30,000 students (see Figure 1).

Chicago has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful charter school authorizers, but Mayor Richard M. Daley's high - profile push to expand on that foundation is fraught with challenges, a report from the Washington - based Progressive Policy Institute contends.

The authorizer can remove it from the public system — meaning no more public funds; per Pierce, the school has the right to stay open, but it must, as it had before, rely on its own streams of funding.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalentAs outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalentas the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

Ninety percent of authorizers are local school districts, many of which view charters as an administrative inconvenience, competitive nuisance, or worse.

But getting charter law right is an obvious prerequisite for enabling the market to function as it should — a market, we now understand, that consists not just of schools and parents, but also of authorizers, support organizations, information providers, and more.

That question — how to make sure that charter school authorizers hold up their end of the accountability bargain — is arising a lot lately as examples of failed charter schools proliferate.

Local school districts now constitute 90 percent of charter school authorizers and could have fostered the kind of cross-fertilization Shanker envisioned, but they've tended instead to treat charters as distant cousins.

This is the genius of effective charter school authorizers that look at a school's big picture as well as its scores.

As a former authorizer, I agree with much of the report.

Too many policymakers and authorizers find themselves unable to truly assess the performance of alternative schools and distinguish, as the report notes, «AECs [that] likely save the lives of many students» from those schools that are «terrible warehouses that temporarily hold kids before putting them on the street.»

First, a centralized and muscular system of quality control, like PM, that is only established in urban districts clearly communicates to minority communities a lack of trust in their ability to judge quality as parents or even to judge it as decentralized charter authorizers.

The reason is that authorizers use accountability plans to make high - stakes decisions — such as school corrective action, non-renewal, revocation, and closure — that directly impact the hundreds or thousands of families whose children are enrolled in charter schools.

By way of background, PCSB is regarded as one of the nation's ablest authorizers.

As the head of Fordham's authorizing shop in Dayton, I set out to determine which indicators the best charter school authorizers in the nation were using — measures that transcended test scores.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

The good news is that it's common for authorizers to use parent or student satisfaction survey data as one of many pieces of information in school accountability plans.

Still, the authorizers we studied — and their peers throughout the country — would probably be wise to continue to view these factors as possible signs of likely school failure and to act accordingly.

NACSA surveys show that about 90 percent of large authorizers now use performance frameworks — either their own or those created by states — which almost always give weight to growth as well as absolute scores.

Authorizers are partly creatures of policy; like all organizations, however, they are only as strong as their leadership and capacity allow them to be.

The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, which serves as the authorizer for more than 90 percent of charter schools in the state, has already taken important steps in this direction.

Mike claims that he, as a charter school authorizer, looks for multiple signs of poor performance before ordering a school of choice to be closed.

To that end, Smarick encourages private school leaders to think about three key areas of opportunity: building a school network structure, encouraging incubation of high - potential schools, and considering an authorizer model as a way to quell concerns over accountability to the public and policymakers.

«As authorizers, we have an exciting opportunity to open a wide range of schools that produce amazing outcomes for kids across a wide variety of educational models and geographies.»

In addition to dedicated professional staff and board members, our vision requires efforts from a broad coalition of authorizers, superintendents, and state and local advocacy organizations, as well as public officials, civic leaders, funders, and others.

Prior to her tenure with BASIS, she served as Executive Director of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter school authorizer.

Prior to joining BASIS Schools, Inc. as Executive Director, she served as Executive Director of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter school authorizer.

He also developed financial sustainability guidance for the National Center for Teacher Residencies» partner programs, and oversaw the collection and coding of about 2,000 applications as part of a large - scale research project for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

The boilerplate contract provisions, which are required by most charter authorizers, have been developed over the past 20 years by the district as a way to ensure that charter petitioners conform to both state and federal education codes, while providing a measure of transparency to stakeholders.

As authorizers, we can increase the quality of education our students receive and change the economic forecast for our cities.»

You may be surprised to learn that NACSA — the association of authorizers comes out as more critical of them than NAPCS, the association of charter operators.

Political and Social Climate: A clear sense of this aspect of the climate relative to the establishment of charter schools in Michigan was gained by reading the background information and description of the establishment of the authorizing agencies, especially with reference to the authority of the universities to act as charter school authorizers.

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).

I've seen how painful this process can be, both as a charter authorizer who closed schools and a board member of a school that had to close.

If there is a bias toward CMO charters as the «school of choice» among authorizers, why might that be, and what would it mean for single sites?

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

As school choice expands in Indiana, experts predict this isn't the last time a charter authorizer — or the Department of Education, for that matter — will have to intervene in a struggling school.

David Greenberg has been at the Audubon Center of the North Woods since 2012 and brings to his role broad and deep experience in charter schools as a teacher, school leader, and authorizer.

(A statewide charter authorizer would effectively supersede and therefore negate authority of local charter authorizers such as Metro.)