Sentences with phrase «as authorizers»

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.

UST currently serves as the authorizer for 6 charter schools across the state of Minnesota.

«In these cases, the districts acting as authorizers is like McDonald's telling Burger King where they can open up a franchise, for lack of a better term.»

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.

I also took a look at my own work as an authorizer and as a charter - school founder.

The ASD functions as an authorizer for six schools in the city and operates an additional six Memphis schools as «achievement schools,» which are run as though they were a separate charter - management organization within the ASD.

Liberty approved the charter in order to receive funds as an authorizer, knowing that it would neither lose students nor revenue to the school.

If you close the failing school, educators lose jobs, families suffer uncertainty, and you're publicly pilloried for failing as an authorizer.

School choice allows educators to shape a school that reflects their vision and values, so long as parents think the result is good for their child (and, for charters, so long as authorizers are okay with the outcomes).

If the Washington Board of Education approves Spokane Public Schools as an authorizer, the district would have a head start in implementing charter schools.

A complicated formal application must be completed by July 1 before a district can be approved 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.

The Washington State Board of Education does not have to approve all the school districts that applied as authorizers.

Below are the links to the slides from that presentation: Our Role as Authorizer Hunter Schimpff, Director of Policy and Analytics, SCPCSD Bobby Rykard, Director of Performance Management, SCPCSD Overview of the 2017 SCDE Application Mary Carmichael, Executive Director,...

NACSA wants to help make sure your office is prepared to manage the implementation while balancing your responsibilities as an authorizer.

Applications for certification as authorizers were rated by persons unknown, against models of other states which had little relevance to the Minnesota process, and were, in my judgment and others who have been in the process, were based largely on the premise that any application was assumed to be inadequate.

Whenever one of these requests is made, users who are designated as authorizers must confirm each request before it can be approved.

Provide an additional layer of security with authorizations, which lets you designate some users as authorizers for funding and other requests.

At the start of 2012, CMU served as authorizer to 56 of the 250 Michigan charter schools; the CMU charters educate about 30,000 students.

She believes that every child has the capacity to be a successful learner and through her work as an authorizer, she strives to empower great schools in serving their students.

Another issue is that the CSO will effectively function as an authorizer, overseeing schools via performance contracts.

DCPCSB could serve as the authorizer, or the city council could exercise its power under the charter law to create a new, non-district authorizer.

To guard against this, policymakers should encourage and enable multiple entities to serve as authorizers.

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

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

«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.»

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

Districts aren't really designed to give individual schools full autonomy, nor are they staffed to serve as authorizers, nor do most districts provide full school choice to their families.

If we as an authorizer relied solely or primarily on PI ratings, these great schools might be shut — wrongly.

As an authorizer, the district would have power of approval and input over a charter school application and could determine how it would fit into the district's education goals.

In addition to approved districts, a charter school commission appointed by the state Board of Education acts as an authorizer.

As authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

Given the President's prior statements indicating he would sign the resolution, this will have far - reaching consequences for your work as an authorizer.

As authorizers, we must monitor these issues closely.

As authorizers are charged with doing sound financial oversight, it's critical that we know what questions to ask.

Rub 2: The DOE, as authorizer, has had a nearly complete turnover in personnel from the time in which it authorized these charters.

While acknowledging the quality of some charters, the task force stood behind its call for greater accountability, recommending that «states allow only districts to serve as authorizers, empower those districts to reject applications that do not meet standards, and establish policies for serious and consistent oversight.»

The charter school law that passed in 2001 allows the Indianapolis mayor, public state universities and local school boards to act as authorizers.

«As an authorizer, I am motivated by the potential of charter schools to provide our children with excellent educational options based on high expectations for all, an unwavering focus on academics, the pursuit of social justice and the hard work, dedication, and talent of teachers and staff.»

As an authorizer, though, the district still maintains a broad but remote responsibility for the schools.

As the authorizer, TPSB would have received a two percent administrative fee from Tangi Academy and gained credit for the school's academic results as part of the accountability system, all while providing their constituents and taxpayers with another public school option.

Contrary to Burris» assertion that they shun accountability, charter school officials have called for better oversight instead of the hodgepodge system in place whereby 324 local, county and state agencies act as authorizers.