Sentences with word «authorizer»

State leaders, mayors, and others need to change state and local laws to ensure that districts and charter authorizers oversee schools responsibly, that families do not face large barriers to choice — such as inadequate transportation — and that someone is responsible to make sure there is a good school for every child.

SUNY, a nationally recognized charter school authorizer for New York State has recently made headlines for approving a new, innovative approach of allowing its high - performing charter schools to certify their own teachers.

While serious efforts are underway to improve the professional practices of authorizers in California, inconsistent and ineffective authorizing has produced too little charter school autonomy in some cases and too little charter...

If your state is changing assessments, or will allow LEAs to choose from a menu of high school assessments, this may create data challenges for authorizers in the short and long term.

The NJDOE is the State Education Agency (SEA) and sole charter school authorizer in New Jersey.

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.

We have worked with authorizers of all sizes and in all geographies.

Monday night in Nevada the Senate unanimously passed AB 205, a comprehensive authorizing bill that institutes performance - based contracts, performance frameworks for each charter school, annual reports by authorizers on school performance, and the default closure of failing schools.

What are the nation's best charter school authorizers doing differently to achieve great outcomes within their communities?

In order to learn from authorizers with strong outcomes, we had to define what those outcomes were.

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).

For authorizers needing to make high - stakes decisions, the lack of good data is a huge problem.

Furthermore, a study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found «a significant negative impact on student academic growth» for charters in states that allow multiple authorizers for charter schools.

To meet this challenge, education should be open to new entrants, new authorizers of schools, and new learning programs.

Even if districts choose not to become authorizers of charter schools, the state - appointed panel can still approve them.

This is the first in a series of briefs aimed at improving authorizer practices for virtual charter schools.

The Charter School Authorizer Board approved an application by Midtown Partners, a Jackson community group that plans to open a middle school serving up to 220 students in grades 5 - 8 next August.

Of all charter schools closed by local authorizers or their own boards, the vast majority had financial problems — meaning that they generally suffered from a lack of parental demand.

In addition to launching new public charter schools, he helped ensure a strong policy environment for the state's charter schools and worked to promote authorizer quality throughout the state.

It is troubling that many authorizers still don't have high - quality practices in place for this work.

We have very high authorizing standards, and we should because we are the single largest authorizer in the nation.

So, Christie said, an independent state authorizer developed as an appeals process for charter schools denied a start.

The Ultimate Choice: How Charter Authorizers Approve and Renew Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

What difference do good authorizers make, and is authorizing getting better?

For that reason, I was very glad to see NACSA surveying and publishing information about how authorizers oversee special education.

These operators work with teachers to provide a high - quality education and are evaluated by independent authorizers whose sole responsibility is to hold schools accountable for student performance.

Equally welcome is a call to sharpen and accelerate the still - new processes of authorizer accountability.

The Institute is not part of the State Education Department, home of New York's other statewide authorizer.

Charter school authorizers play an important role in ensuring equitable access.

While the ASD and other authorizers like Nevada's State Public Charter Schools Authority create contracts with clear performance expectations, the ESA program provides no apparent standards for judging whether public funds are buying strong outcomes.

And many people on the board — although there are no formal guidelines — come to the conclusion that if a charter management organization can succeed in different districts and different states with different authorizers, they are more replicable,» Wohlstetter said in an interview.

One possibility would be to found an independent commission of civic leaders empowered to advise district authorizers on where to place new charters.

At the same time, alpha authorizers need to conduct sound due diligence and avoid being mesmerized by applicants who have political, financial, or star power, but lack the competencies necessary to open and operate a high - quality school.

Check out this video of Lauren Morando Rhim and others discussing how authorizers ensure access to charter schools for students with unique needs.

Charter school publications include: Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future; Quality School Ratings: Trends in Evaluating School Academic Quality; Searching for Excellence: A Five - City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality; and New Orleans - Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities.

The charter sectors in these cities would be stronger — academically, financially, and politically — if authorizers stepped in to close the worst schools.

About six or seven state - level authorizers already exist, she added.

Early experts tend to look at inputs as indicative of quality EC program, such as the ratio between the number of students to teachers or the quantity of teacher certifications — but, again, that very Washington, DC law does not allow authorizers to hold schools accountable for these inputs.

Our hope is that this guide will help authorizers across the country engage in this work more often and easily.

«More authorizers around the country are asking their charter networks and schools: what is it about your school that prevents you from posting results like Success's?»

He works with authorizers like the mayor's office to make sure they're following best practices.

Great authorizers believe in the need for education reform and are willing to do something about it.

Continue development and implementation of strong authorizer practices to complement the strong state policy environment.

This toolkit provides a framework for authorizers at each stage of the charter lifecycle, and the tools to do this work.

Here is the take of one charter school proponent on why single authorizers work better.