Sentences with phrase «asks school districts and charter schools»

For example, the Teacher Incentive Fund created by the second Bush administration asks school districts and charter schools to commit to implementing performance - based teacher compensation systems.

Not exact matches

After verifying the presence of school - age children in the household, respondents were asked how many of these children currently attend schools in a variety of sectors: district school, charter school, private school, and home school.

The group asked legislators to revise the school funding system so that all schools — charter, magnet and the districts hosting them — receive the same funding.

In 2011, she asked a large consulting firm to study some school districts and charter management organizations that were known for giving robust support to their teachers.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

As the executive director and the board chairman of the District of Columbia's independent chartering body, we are often asked whether we favor a «New Orleans» future for D.C., where charter schools eventually serve virtually all public - school students.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

The Roosevelt district, an inner - city district in Phoenix that was hit hard by charters, sent letters to local charter parents asking why they had left district schools and explaining how the district would serve them better.

Communities must ask our districts and charter schools to be transparent about their data and the plans to address the need for more diversity in our schools and classrooms.

Board members this fall asked administrators to review three options: converting district schools into charters; opening district - run charter schools; and acting as a «management company» that would be contracted to help run charter schools.

For public and charter schools that don't make sufficient progress after three years, their board, with the approval of the state superintendent, may ask schools or districts to:

When Guzman asked about fraud in charter schools, Tuck said, «For our district and our charter schools, we should have zero tolerance for fraud, zero tolerance.

When asked about public school choice and how he will address the growth of charter schools and declining enrollment in the district, he said that his own parents had the choice to be in a community that provided the best options for their children.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they....

In February 2006, the Planning Committee was informed that the space on Brashier campus would no longer be available to Brashier Middle College Charter High School because the School District asked that their Middle College (partnership between Greenville School District and Greenville Tech) be located on this site.

In an unusual request, the state Department of Education last week sent a short survey to every district and charter school asking them about their layoffs of teachers technically called «reductions in force» (RIFs) over the past five years, and about the impact of seniority protection on their «ability to manage their personnel.»

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts (as the law currently allows), or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation, says similar collaborations have sprung up across the country, where civic leaders have moved past the «charter vs. district debate» and are asking themselves: «How do we just make sure that every child in the city gets to wake up in the morning and go to a great school?»

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

We are asking only that the district follow the law, and that they not marginalize families who chose charter public schools for their kids.

Former Superintendent Ramon Cortines was the first to ask the district's data and accountability staff to conduct an analysis comparing the city's magnets and charter schools.

These charter public school supporters will be at the meeting to discuss the charter petitions for both schools, respond to intimidation tactics used by District officials and ask SJUSD Board members for a vote.

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.

I asked Roy just how much the district loses on charter school tuition and how much it would cost if all of Bethlehem's 1,944 charter school students came back to the district.

Well, for example, when Catalyst asked how Chicago Public Schools justifies $ 76 million in increased funding to charter schools despite their lackluster performance and the district's enormous deficit, spokeswoman Becky Carroll said that «our job is to not only help build high - quality schools, but expand the number of choices.Schools justifies $ 76 million in increased funding to charter schools despite their lackluster performance and the district's enormous deficit, spokeswoman Becky Carroll said that «our job is to not only help build high - quality schools, but expand the number of choices.schools despite their lackluster performance and the district's enormous deficit, spokeswoman Becky Carroll said that «our job is to not only help build high - quality schools, but expand the number of choices.schools, but expand the number of choices.»

They must become active players in shaping education for their children, ask tough, thoughtful questions about what is being taught in classrooms, demand information on the quality of the teachers working in classrooms, and play stronger roles in shaping the overhauls of traditional district schools (and in the operations of charter schools serving their kids).

TPSB had multiple opportunities to keep Tangi's students and their funds within its system when Tangi's founders — a group of Tangipahoa parents — asked the district to authorize Tangi as a charter school.

For families who can't afford to move to a «better» school district, and even for families who can, charter schools empower all parents with the ability to ask one simple question; «What is the best academic setting for my child — the traditional zoned public school or the charter public school?

If comparing all charter schools to all district schools is «like asking whether eating out is better than eating at home,» 71 then concentrating resources into the propagation of nonunionized, segregated charter schools is like going to a buffet and only eating the dinner rolls.

Eugene Selivanov and his wife, Tatyana Berkovich, will be back in an Los Angeles County Superior Court tomorrow, asking the judge to grant them a new trial in a case that the California Charter Schools Association says affects other charters within the LA Unified school district.

The concept was first introduced in Utah in 2013, when the Legislature passed a bill allowing school districts and charter schools to establish competency - based education programs and asked the State School Board to recommend a funding formula for such a prschool districts and charter schools to establish competency - based education programs and asked the State School Board to recommend a funding formula for such a prSchool Board to recommend a funding formula for such a program.

In my travels around North Carolina — to the state's three largest school districts — I ask school board members, legal and education experts, and charter advocates to explain how a state that doesn't seem to adequately fund its existing public school system can afford to add a competitive new one.

As Dr Hite implements the district's plan to close Strawberry Mansion as a comprehensive neighborhood public high school we ask: how can the SRC consider taking more money out of district classrooms and putting it into the hands of a charter operator with this kind of record?

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To stanch decades of enrollment loss and improve student outcomes, especially in the district's worst - performing schools, he has asked a select few of the city's charter school operators for help.

State politicians created large pension debts, and it's unfair to ask school districts, especially charter schools, to bear the budgetary burden of those costs.

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