Sentences with phrase «authorizers who»

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

Public Impact and EdPLEX released a Kickstart School Restart RFP to authorizers who are interested in implementing the recommendations we propose in the restart guide.

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

CREDO suggested that this finding might be due to the possibility that multiple authorizers gave charter schools the chance to shop around to find authorizers who wouldn't provide rigorous oversight.

Multiple authorizers may also weaken screening by giving charter schools the chance to find authorizers who won't ask questions.

But we need more: we need authorizers who are empowered to make the best decisions for children using great leadership, deep institutional commitment, and strong professional judgment.

From time to time accusations of improper conduct arise, and these are examined by charter authorizers who have the deepest understanding of what is happening.

We're pulling together a working group of lenders and authorizers who will try to develop a common language for evaluating the viability of charter schools.

This document is a tool for authorizers who are working with education service providers.

Authorizers who serve as the gatekeepers for quality and hold schools accountable for results must also approach their work with a growth mindset.

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.

One local organization, sympathetic to charter schools, recently lamented that when four low - performing schools came up for renewal, they dodged closure by shopping around for a charter authorizer who would take them.

I've seen how painful this process can be, both as a charter authorizer who closed schools and a board member of a school that had to close.

«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.

Not exact matches

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

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.

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.

The city has isolated examples of quality schools and charter authorizers, parents who are empowered to be active choosers, and wide - open spaces for education entrepreneurs.

And because he represents the people who actually make these decisions, charter authorizers, the campaign has a chance of really bending the quality curve in the right direction.

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.

It is not charter school authorizers, who are only responsible for ensuring that the schools they sponsor comply with the state's charter - school law.

Weak laws are the biggest culprit, followed by operators who are chummy with authorizers, followed by inertia.

While massive application superstructures may be wholly manageable for established charter authorizers with philanthropic support and professional grant - writers, for instance, they may be far more burdensome for educators or innovators with a promising idea (the kinds of applicants who once launched YES, KIPP, Aspire, Uncommon, Success, Achievement First, Summit, and many other now familiar names).

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

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.

To find out, we enlisted Nelson Smith, former head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, who is now senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

Some believe the problem is one where the goal of these schools is simply lost in the listening — or lack of it — and that the mom - and - pops could benefit from the assistance of professionals who know how to communicate a good idea to authorizers and philanthropists.

Finally, Washington, D.C., hosts a quality - conscious charter authorizer and has been led by mayors who view district - charter collaboration as a promising vehicle to improve student outcomes in the nation's capital.

And what does it mean for Cincinnati, say, to be responsible for educating a child who is enrolled in the Ohio Virtual Academy or in a charter school operated by a New York firm and supervised by a Toledo - based authorizer?

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

Whether a district becomes an authorizer or not, charter schools may open in their service area as early as fall 2014 and become the public school for children who used to attend district schools, taking dollars away from those districts.

Communities who wish to apply for a charter school apply to the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board, which evaluates the qualifications of charter school applicants and approves qualified applications.

Charter schools and authorizers have the luxury of defining whom they will be responsible for; kids who don't get into charter schools or are pushed out of them for some reason are no longer the school's — or the sector's — responsibility.

The report also identified strong policies regarding who authorizes charter schools and the standards for those authorizers.

Mr. Richmond argues that most districts are ill - equipped to be effective charter authorizers, and may have a bias against approving them, fearing competition and the potential loss of aid for students who leave the regular school system.

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.

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

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.

I work for an organization, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, which promotes high - quality options for students who need them most.

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.

Petitioners who chose to revise their petition must have their local authorizer reapprove the revised petition.

Supporting Dr. Noguera's view of authorizing, even when he made decisions that didn't sit well with charter school opponents, would keep an ally who knows how to toe the line in the authorizer's chair.

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.

What ought authorizers do to ensure that the charter schools they approve provide a quality education to students with disabilities who enroll in their school?

Question: Who is the authorizer in the case where a direct - funded charter school is applying for renewal in a tiny district that has transformed itself into an all - charter district?

In a similar situation, some authorizers might dictate prescriptive mandates infringing on a school's autonomy, or not help schools navigate the complex and at times contentious relationships with district staff who hold unfavorable opinions of charter schools.

The Institute recently added two professionals to our Board and Authorizer Services team who offer a tremendous and varied skillset and are passionate about working with charter schools.

The 2009 amendments were resisted by MDE since they were intended and seen as shifting authority control over the the sponsor / authorizer and charter schools away from MDE — all as originally intended in the law as known to all of us who worked on the concept at the Citizens» League and participated in drafting the law that was passed in 1991.