Sentences with phrase «at our charter school»

SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

One family we know... He is a climatologist, she is a history teacher at a charter school.

This document illustrates the trends and test results at Golden Valley Charter School in Sacramento where test results exceed state requirements, as they do at charter schools across California working out of the principles of Public Waldorf Education.

Before that, he taught at a charter school in New Mexico and at the Tacoma Waldorf School.

They've also pointed to successes at charter schools that have longer days.

«This was the perfect field trip,» said New Song Academy kindergarten teacher Mary Yao, who has planted a small flower garden at her charter school.

Why aren't we looking at charter schools in the United States, so we can have real and genuine reform?»

The Chancellor of the State University of New York is defending a SUNY board committee's decision to lower some requirements for teachers at some charter schools.

He looks at charter schools as «separate but unequal.»

Demand is high for pre-K at charter schools: Spencer Robertson, the executive director of PAVE Academy in Brooklyn, which offers pre-K through a nonprofit affiliate, said he has 140 applicants for 36 pre-K seats.

Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

Certifications earned under these regulations will only be valid at charter schools authorized by SUNY, so teachers who want to transfer to other charters or to traditional public schools will need to take additional steps to earn a conventional state certification.

That proposal would significantly alter standards required for teachers at charter schools — in some cases requiring only 30 hours of classroom experience to be qualified to teach.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has canceled a trip to the state's most controversial and politically connected charter network, Success Academy, as she seeks to tamp down a recent drama around her appearance at a charter school rally.

Some teachers at charter schools, including Albany charter school instructor Jamal Hood, also rallied at the governor's mansion, asking for more money and authorization for more schools.

Cuomo's allies at the State University of New York would issue regulations allowing more uncertified teachers at charter schools — something they had sought and the Assembly had fought — that would let Flanagan and Senate Republicans claim a win.

But Fariña, Merriman and about a dozen attendees told reporters that no details about those proposals were discussed over the course of the two - hour meeting at the Charter School Center.

His group collected 4,800 signatures from parents and teachers at charter schools, asking for more money in the new state budget to build more schools, known as facilities aid.

This time, we take a look at the charter school.

After it was announced that Elia would appear at a charter school advocacy day on Tuesday at the State Capitol, teachers» unions sprung into action, denouncing Elia's participation in the rally.

He spoke at the charter schools» first Albany event in 2014.

Senator Rubin Diaz, (D) 32nd S.D. speaks at Charter School Advocacy Day held at the Convention Center of the Empire Plaza Feb. 2, 2016 in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at a charter school rally sent education groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

City officials have argued the new requirements will require twice as many stops as before and likely prompt parents of students at charter schools and other private schools to clamor for equal treatment.

That is why the union movement at charter schools in New York and elsewhere in the country is so vital.

WHEREAS Victory Inc.'s union - busting campaigns have targeted charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and

Two of them, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, whose district includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens, and the Bronx borough president, Ruben Diaz Jr., spoke on Wednesday at a charter school rally in Prospect Park promoted by one of the mayor's foremost detractors, Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder of the Success Academy charter school network.

When we investigated whether each year of attendance at a charter school had a different effect, we found no evidence to support the idea of different effects in different years.

We use common statistical procedures to estimate the effect on math and reading test scores of each additional year of actual attendance at a charter school.

Speaking at the Charter School Leadership Symposium in Los Angeles in 2010, he said,

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

We decided to reanalyze the data used by the CRP authors (the 2007 — 08 U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) and we just published our results in «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

While employment contracts make it almost impossible to redesign a traditional school around the needs of students, we can do that redesign at our charter school.

Hernandez, who leads next generation learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund, predicts that the best new apps will push the boundaries of early childhood development and learning science in at least four areas: executive function, creativity, number sense, and phonemic awareness.

That's why she chose to take a break from her teaching job at a charter school and enroll in the Arts in Education Program (AIE) at HGSE.

Previously, she taught in a traditional classroom setting at a charter school.

Despite the setback caused by changing schools, disadvantaged students at charter schools still did better in math within two years after switching to charter schools.

Author Bio: Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

Delgado got his second chance at a charter school for students who have already left school or are likely to.

Benjamin Riley, founder of Deans for Impact, makes the case for an abundance of caution, while Alex Hernandez, a partner at Charter School Growth Fund, supports continued efforts to get personalization right.

My friend in New York City teaches at a charter school.

Amid consistently low student - achievement at some charter schools and the fast enrollment growth in others,...

Before coming to Envision, I taught at a charter school in San Francisco that was similar to (most) charter schools in that there wasn't a huge budget for books.

At the charter school, 96 % of the students were proficient in math and 75 % were proficient in English.

We find that parents report less social disruption at charter schools than at district schools.

A friend in California, also at a charter school, describes a similar process of observation, evaluation, and discussion.

A friend suggested she look at the charter school that her daughter attends.

Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

· Student performance at charter schools is showing signs of improvement over time (mainly because of the closing of weak charter schools).

The analysis, which looked only at charter schools because of the prevalence of incentive programs in the independent public schools, found no impact on students» performance in mathematics.