Sentences with phrase «authorizers needing»

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

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.

Authorizers need to close more low - performing schools, but they also need to get a heck of a lot smarter about who gets a charter in the first place.

In USA Today, Richard Whitmire argues that charter authorizers need to be more aggressive about shutting down poorly performing charter schools.

The closure of schools that persistently fail students is one hallmark of the charter school philosophy — and authorizers need to enforce it.

To provide students with better options in the future, authorizers need to close virtual charter schools that are persistently failing.

Authorizers need to pay close attention to charters» performance early in their lives, and be willing to close stragglers if they show signs of not improving.

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.

Our authorizers need a budget increase, probably even more than we do.

Furthermore, no one is working with states to help them assess what kinds of supports charter schools and charter authorizers need to ensure they meet their responsibilities related to educating students with disabilities.

To fulfill these responsibilities, authorizers need human capital and financial resources.

The state and the district level charter authorizers need to do their due diligence and make sure these school are not free to act a private schools with public money just as TPSs are required to be accountable.

There are also various pieces of language that reinforce the actions authorizers need to take in using performance contracts and rigorous approaches to charter oversight.

Charter authorizers need to do a better job of holding schools accountable — and the charter schools need to support them — loudly and sincerely.

School operators need the freedom to innovate to meet the needs of their communities, and government authorizers need a clear mandate to close schools that fail to deliver adequate academic growth.

But that authorizer needs to function in manner that is in the best interest of kids.

We will also work to ensure California has the strong authorizers needed to protect charter school autonomy while also instilling higher levels of accountability for academic results.

We deliver the tools, education, and resources that authorizers need to make the best education options available in each community.

Not exact matches

We need to support the emergence of more alpha authorizers, those who are independent of the K — 12 system and have the courage and tenacity to serve as change agents, market makers, and forces for quality, while reliably performing the core functions of authorizing mentioned above.

This is why alpha authorizers, chartering agencies that operate independently of school districts, are so desperately needed.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

To be effective, these authorizers must want to be in the charter schooling business, need to have the resources and staff to do the work, and must be committed to the idea of charter school autonomy.

We need to begin experimenting, in earnest, with democratically controlled authorizers.

If we're to adopt this model across two or three sectors, we need to make sure authorizers are ready for the promotion.

Authorizers are free to open schools wherever they choose, regardless of need, and to allow poor - performing schools to remain open.

Local leaders also told us that they believe the governor is the only official who has the needed credibility and authority to weigh in on negligent charter authorizers.

But I'm still of a mind that some level of regulation is needed (hence my belief in authorizers for private schools participating in public programs).

And as Andy Smarick has argued, voucher programs need something akin to authorizers, too, so that decisions about participating schools can be informed by nuance and human judgment, not just by test scores and other data points.

How about Chicago's district — the only charter authorizer for the nation's third - largest city — which recently declared that buildings no longer needed by the district are off - limits to charters for 40 years.)

Fordham is a charter authorizer itself (in our home state of Ohio) and we're keenly aware of the need to balance the risk that a new school may struggle academically against a charter's right to autonomy and innovation.

As Andy Smarick has argued, the private school choice sector needs something akin to authorizers as well.

If the school isn't financially sustainable, then do we really need the authorizer to shut it down?

We can adapt our strategies to meet the needs of any authorizer — both staff and board — and its community.

That said, authorizers have other avenues for ensuring representativeness of the community and responsiveness to the community's needs that do not infringe on charter autonomy.

In some cities, authorizers and charter supporters have begun building the systems needed to replace failing schools and replicate great ones.

The only reason that did not happen earlier, opponents would say, was because legislative provisions and charter authorizers favored proposals targeted to high - need populations.

Authorizers are responsible for ensuring that their schools meet and comply with the same standards and regulations, dictated by the Minnesota Department of Education, that all public schools in the state need to.

This entails strategically collaborating with charter school authorizers, schools, and support organizations to assess needs and develop infrastructures that will enable charter schools to create exemplary special education and related service programs.

Or conversely, are states and authorizers implicitly or explicitly deciding they do not need to hold charter schools accountable for equitable access and quality programs for students with disabilities?

As Massachusetts has done, authorizers can focus on level of effort, tracking recruitment and marketing strategies to make sure schools are known to families and open and welcoming to students with special needs.

We need good policy; we need good authorizers.

She is committed to ensuring all authorizers have the tools, resources, and opportunities needed to achieve success in their roles

If the school board did choose to do so, it would need to apply by July 1 to become an authorizer.

And there are certainly some charters that should do more to recruit high - needs students, and in those instances the charter authorizers take appropriate actions to right the course.

A lot of good work has been done in this area but much more needs to be done and ideally it should be a joint project between our schools and their authorizers.

Poised to influence educational policy, practice and performance across the country, the Institute provides and connects charter school authorizers, governing boards, school leaders, founders and other stakeholders who are serious about ensuring all students are prepared for success in college, work and life with the programs, tools, services, counsel and support they need.

Figures such as those indicate two things: 1) authorizers should choose to work more collaboratively with the groups attempting to open these desperately needed schools and 2) the cap should be lifted with new charters going to as diverse a group of schools as the students who will ultimately attend them.

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

A task force will be formed to look into whether or not the state needs new charter authorizers.

The NACSA / LISC Authorizer / Lender Working Group participants and I have presented some previews of this report at several investor conferences, and judging by the enthusiastic (and sometimes pointed) questioning, there's a real need for this dialogue to continue.