Sentences with phrase «authorizers like»

But meanwhile, authorizers like Pauline's shop aren't waiting for a law amendment to do themselves what they know is needed.

It might show, for example, that authorizers like Central Michigan University (a C authorizer by Ed Trust's lights) are simply approving more schools in high - poverty areas than are other entities.

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.

Not exact matches

Efforts to fix these problems, like NACSA's call to close 1,000 failing charters and authorizers» tougher standards for charter approvals, are showing signs of success.

Third, because of current federal and state law, the SEA must be involved in many activities, whereas independent charter authorizers and entities like Louisiana's RSD make the urban district expendable.

Repeat respondents to the survey indicate that, on average, authorizers are increasingly likely to adopt the industry standards on issues like contracts, application criteria, revocation criteria, and authorizing staff.

These laissez - faire positions have netted them mediocre ratings from organizations like the National Association of Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter growth.

In cities like Detroit and Cleveland, a dozen authorizers oversee charters, so aggregate charter scores would encompass a wide array of policies and practices.

You would want to put in place a strong authorizer, ample funding, and a charter - friendly law and work to build a great charter sector like those in place in cities like Boston, New Orleans, and the District of Columbia.

And, «when you can't agree what to measure, it's hard to focus on metrics» — so authorizers focus on less controversial measures, like reading and math scores.

First, a centralized and muscular system of quality control, like PM, that is only established in urban districts clearly communicates to minority communities a lack of trust in their ability to judge quality as parents or even to judge it as decentralized charter authorizers.

Authorizers are partly creatures of policy; like all organizations, however, they are only as strong as their leadership and capacity allow them to be.

«We see more and more charter school authorizers in cities with large charter market shares (like Washington, DC, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans) are starting to encourage high performing charter school operators to take over and restart low performing charter campuses.»

An authorizer is going to say to a school like that, «You're not ready to expand.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

To compensate for that, the mayor got on the phone and called the local authorizers, which were universities, and said, «We'd like to get some great schools to St. Louis.

«It seems like an awful lot of work to become an authorizer when they have the option not to go to us.

Like Tacoma, Peninsula board members left open the option of pursuing charter authorizer status in the future, Cuzzetto said.

Biddle admits that like traditional public schools, some public charter schools suffer from a lack of quality control and more attention should be paid to the role of charter authorizers.

«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?»

This is why we have sponsored legislation in the past and are sponsoring legislation again this year that would provide the clarity that schools and authorizers need and would help prevent situations like this from recurring.

With this in mind, NACSA would like to offer some practical suggestions authorizers can use to address student discipline, such as:

In the past few years, actions like these have prompted much talk about authorizer accountability.

This year Governor Kasich signed a bill to close a legal loophole that allowed low - performing charter schools to hop from one authorizer to another, rather than closing down like the policy intended.

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

We want to work with authorizers and policy - makers on reaching a better understanding of what real educational accountability needs to look like in this century.

Freed from burdens like fundraising, our partner boards can focus on governance and oversight... NHA and its partner schools comply fully with state and federal laws, authorizer oversight requirements and education department regulations — including everything related to transparency.»)

However, our research suggests another reason that multiple authorizers result in more charter schools: multiple authorizers are like mortgage originators with no skin in the game.

I should also mention putting sanctions in place to prevent the really squirrely practice of * authorizer hopping, * where schools are closed by one authorizer and then find another authorizer, which has happened quite a bit in places where oversight has been really weak, like Ohio.

In the charter school context, charter school authorizers are like mortgage originators.

A district that is more like an authorizer than operator is called a portfolio.

-- The groups pose several recommendations for reform, like having states and charter school authorizers cap the number of students who can enroll full - time in virtual charter schools for each year of a charter contract, and ensuring that authorizers are aggressive about closing chronically underperforming schools.

«It's leading states like Georgia in the reverse way: Its locales don't want to send the local portion of their student funding to a state authorizer who has authority over kids in their district,» he said.

An official with the Chicago - based National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) told Policy Watch this week that, to the organization's knowledge, no other U.S. state has approved a proposal like House Bill 800, a measure one Democrat likened to creating «de facto, segregated private schools» last week.