Sentences with phrase «authorizers oversee»

And currently, LEA authorizers oversee more than 50 percent of charter schools in 17 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming).37

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

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

Unfortunately, more than half of the nation's 1,000 - plus authorizers oversee just one school.

Not exact matches

The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.

Beginning in January 2015, ODE will implement a sponsor ranking system, through which it can prevent an authorizer from opening new schools or revoke its authority to oversee community schools altogether.

The impulse is right: it seeks to ensure that charter school authorizers — the entities that oversee charters and are supposed to shut them down if they are low - performing — are themselves held accountable.

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

Since 2009, we've provided guidance to authorizers that, together, oversee more than half of our nation's charter schools.

He also developed financial sustainability guidance for the National Center for Teacher Residencies» partner programs, and oversaw the collection and coding of about 2,000 applications as part of a large - scale research project for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

The school's charter is up for review this summer and its authorizer, the San Diego Unified School District, plans to scrutinize the application process, said Moises Aguirre, who oversees charter schools for the district.

Even some charter school advocates say charter sponsors, or «authorizers,» aren't doing enough to oversee existing charters and weed out bad operators.

And the group's ranking of Michigan's charter school authorizers — based on the test scores of the schools they oversee — is a good conversation starter.

The study's findings offer a number of lessons for charter school authorizers, the entities that typically approve and oversee charters, the authors say.

Mary Jean Ryan, a board member from Seattle, said it will be challenging to oversee what could become a large system of authorizers - if many school boards apply - setting up only eight schools a year.

It will have five more sections of rules to discuss eventually, including details about how the board will oversee the authorizers.

A charter school is a school system that is overseen by an authorizer.

CMU, a charter authorizer in the state, oversees 56 charter schools that are bringing...

Instead, school districts and charter authorizers have critical roles to play and should be held accountable by the state for starting, overseeing, and closing schools based on performance.

Critically, many charter authorizers also reached out to us, asked for more information about the schools they oversaw, and subsequently worked with those schools to amend their policies and materials.

CMU, a charter authorizer in the state, oversees 56 charter schools that are bringing academic opportunity and excellence to more than 28,000 Michigan students.

In contrast, the nation's single largest authorizer, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, oversees 515 charter campuses.

For large authorizers, who oversee 10 or more charter schools, the closure rate was even higher, at 14.7 percent.

The ESSA Accountability Rules reinforce lawmakers» intentions that any state - mandated school improvement activity should not interfere with an authorizer's ability to oversee its schools — a core part of the charter model's autonomy - for - accountability agreement.

Second, Baxter noted some recent public comments made by Scott Pearson, the Executive Director of the D.C. Public Charter Schools Board (DCPCSB) about that authorizer's attempts to ensure equity in the charter schools it oversees.

In addition, this state's largest charter authorizer, Miami - Dade — run by the terrific Assistant Superintendent Tiffanie Pauline, who happens to be a Black woman — oversees a strong portfolio of schools and is leading efforts to focus more heavily on student outcomes and promoting transparency.

This toolkit provides a practical, step - by - step guide to help authorizers report annually on the academic, financial, and organizational performance for each charter school they oversee.

They are run by independent boards instead of elected local school boards and answer to an authorizer that oversees their charter agreement.

Authorizers are the roughly 1,000 legal entities in 44 states that decide who can start a new charter school, set expectations and oversee school performance, and decide which schools should continue to serve students or not.

The second thing great authorizers do is build the capacity to charter schools, oversee and support their operations, and evaluate their performance in a top - quality manner.

Charter school authorizers, the entities that approve and oversee charter schools, have been left to make high - stakes decisions about these schools without adequate guidance from state policies.

The new law put the burden of holding schools accountable on their authorizers, the organizations providing their charters, and the burden of overseeing the authorizers on the state.

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is the authorizer for all Type 2 and Type 5 public charter schools and also appoints the State Superintendent of Education who oversees the Recovery School District.

The already arduous takeover process is complicated by the fact that Einstein and Intercultural are overseen by two different authorizers — the Orleans Parish School Board for Einstein and the Recovery School District for Intercultural.

Out today, NACSA's new roadmap for authorizers who oversee schools that serve kids in dire straits.

Since 2009, we've provided guidance to authorizers that collectively oversee more than half of our nation's charter schools.

For this guide, «authorizers» are defined broadly to include organizations at the state and local level who have the authority to open, close and oversee district - run or charter schools.

Spokane Public Schools is currently the state's only district authorizer, and oversees the two charter public schools in Spokane.

LEAs may lack the incentives to be active, high - quality authorizers, lack the capacity necessary to oversee charter schools, or view authorizing functions as a burden.38 39 They may also have a fundamentally different understanding of charter schooling.

Some states have aimed to address charter school quality on the front end by holding authorizers accountable for the performance of the schools they oversee.

is currently the state's only district authorizer, and oversees the two charter public schools in Spokane.

Authorizers approve (or deny) charter school applications, oversee schools during their operation, and make charter school renewal or closure decisions in the event of low performance.3 The types of entities that can perform authorizing functions vary by state.

States should support sanctions on authorizers that do not meet professional standards or if schools they oversee continually fail to meet performance standards.

Their fiscal operations and compliance are overseen by their public entity authorizer.

The findings were drawn from a survey of the nation's largest authorizers - defined as those that have approved and oversee at least five charters.

The governor's proposal also calls for $ 4 million in 2016 - 17 to create an appointed state board that would oversee the approval of new independent charter school authorizers, including nonprofit organizations.

The solution may not be to get rid of multiple authorizers, but limit who can actually be allowed to oversee charters as well as restrict districts from doing such work in the first place.