Sentences with phrase «at charter schools across the country»

What's not so «mixed» is that the organization is once again taking aim at charter schools across the country.

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Many of the reforms he championed, namely, more accountability, more focus on standards, and growth in charter schools, are already at various levels of implementation in states and districts across the country.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

Some in the charter school movement, viewing autonomy as its most important animating principle, responsible for so much of the innovation and energy in the 3,300 charter schools across the country, argue that the testing regimen at the heart of the standards movement and NCLB will leave charters hidebound, soulless, bureaucratized.

At least one - third of charter schools across the country operate with an expanded schedule.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

This estimate shows that at a minimum, more than 520,000 total individual students many of whom are on multiple charter school waitlists in the hopes of increasing the chance of getting into at least one are on waitlists across the country.

State charter laws vary widely across the country — and eight states have no public charter schools at all.

There are schools across the country — some are charter, some are private, and many are traditional public — that have shown us that it is possible for poor children to achieve at high levels when we respond to their needs and create conditions that are conducive to learning.

Second, charter school performance is not so «mixed» if you look at the data on a state - by - state basis, rather than across the country as a whole.

Building Hope is expert at delivering state - of - the - art educational facilities to charter public school students across the country.

Representatives at the NJCSA claim, as do other proponents of charter school expansion, that charters offer superior academic benefits to children: «Across the country and in New Jersey, high - quality charter schools are making a difference.

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Mr. Maycock has also worked directly with district and charter school leaders across the country while at ANet, leading on - going coaching and professional development to help schools and districts implement data - driven instructional practices.

Marguerite Vichier - Guerre taught elementary Special Education in both public and charter schools across the country prior to working at 1647.

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Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.

As districts across the country brace themselves for low student scores on tough Common Core tests this spring, the staff at Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, Massachusetts, isn't sweating it.

The defeat of two high - profile charter initiatives at the ballot box on Tuesday signals a growing public concern about the impacts, and rapid proliferation of charter schools across the country.

At the same time, this may help explain why so many educators across the country take a dim view of charter schools, most of which enroll low - income students of color who have been underserved by the traditional public school system.

Nationally, the report found that at least one in five students now attends a public charter school in 43 communities across the country, up from 32 last year, and that 12 urban communities now enroll at least 30 percent of their public school students in charter schools, a jump from seven urban communities last year.

In many ways, these outstanding school leaders reflect the diversity of the dedicated principals leading schools across the country — supporting students on the West Coast and East Coast, at the prekindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school levels, and in traditional district and charter school settings.

At Charter Schools USA, we are having these conversations internally and publicly across the country.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

«The districts across the country where at least 30 percent of students are enrolled in charter schools are: New Orleans (92 percent); Detroit (53 percent); Flint, MI (53 percent); Washington, D.C. (45 percent); Gary, IN (43 percent); Kansas City, MO (40 percent); Camden, NJ (34 percent); Philadelphia (34 percent); Indianapolis (31 percent); Dayton, OH (31 percent); Cleveland, OH (31 percent); Grand Rapids, MI (31 percent); Victor Valley, CA (31 percent); San Antonio, TX (30 percent); Natomas, CA (30 percent); Newark, NJ (30 percent); and St. Louis (30 percent).

The book includes great advice from many Aspire blended learning teachers, and shares key insights from blended learning leaders across the country, including folks at the KIPP Foundation, Summit Public Schools, Rocketship Education, E. L. Haynes Public Charter School, the Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Cornerstone Charter Schools (Detroit), Highline Public Schools (Washington), Mastery Schools and FirstLine Schools.

With the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, Ms. Carlstone - Hurst observed at over 40 high performing charter schools across the country to design and lead Libertas College Prep, a school that will change the outcomes for each student that enters itsSchools Fellowship, Ms. Carlstone - Hurst observed at over 40 high performing charter schools across the country to design and lead Libertas College Prep, a school that will change the outcomes for each student that enters itsschools across the country to design and lead Libertas College Prep, a school that will change the outcomes for each student that enters its doors.

While explicitly avoiding the debate over the existence of charters and carefully noting that he was looking at the problems associated with a poorly regulated sector taking public funds, Mr. Oliver looked at financial scandals and fraud in charter schools across the country:

K12, which has made a business for itself out of operating publicly funded online charter schools across the country, is at its lowest stock price in five years, down 75 % from a high in September of 2013.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.