Sentences with phrase «authorizing high quality charter schools»

The mission of the SCSC is to improve public education by authorizing high quality charter schools that provide students with better educational opportunities than they would otherwise receive in traditional district schools.

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«However, current law does not authorize charter schools to offer state supported pre-kindergarten programs, thereby preventing children from accessing potentially high - quality providers.»

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

The consistent strength of the charter schools overseen by CMU testifies to the impact of high - quality authorizing.

His work includes leading research on strategies to increase the supply and diversity of high - quality charter schools; he also works directly with charter school authorizers to develop strong performance frameworks and authorizing practices.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

Based on model legislation developed out of best practices from around the country, Mississippi has a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.

Section 4301 expands federal support for high - quality charter schools by authorizing more than $ 1.1 billion in competitive grants by 2020.

This law creates a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

By statute and contract, all charter schools authorized by the South Carolina Public Charter School District (SCPCSD) are obligated to provide a high quality education to stcharter schools authorized by the South Carolina Public Charter School District (SCPCSD) are obligated to provide a high quality education to stCharter School District (SCPCSD) are obligated to provide a high quality education to students.

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

Based on model legislation developed out of best practices from around the country, this law creates a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.

Fordham leadership and board recognize that the organization can have a positive and significant impact via the authorizing work, and they have supported that growth, due mainly to the replication and expansion of existing, high - quality charter school models.

In order to maintain its public school authority, charter schools must demonstrate high - quality academic performance and organizational stability to both the R.I. Department of Education and the R.I. Council of Elementary and Secondary Education, which authorizes their charter.

The program will help ease the transition for schools between application approval and the start - up phase; help ready schools for their first renewal process; help ease the anxiety some new charter school employees experience, even at established charter schools; as well as provide support for charter school authorizers and help them identify various high - quality authorizing best practices.

The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) serves as a national center to provide on - demand resources, information, and technical assistance to support successful planning, authorizing, implementation, and sustainability of high - quality charter schools; to share evaluations on the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter sCharter School Resource Center (NCSRC) serves as a national center to provide on - demand resources, information, and technical assistance to support successful planning, authorizing, implementation, and sustainability of high - quality charter schools; to share evaluations on the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter scharter schools; to share evaluations on the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter scharter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter scharter schools.

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.

The Office of Innovation and Incubation's work is aligned with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality sQuality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality squality schools.

States should also seek to study and authorize charter schools that promote innovative high school designs with quality control systems in place or establish what is termed «innovation status» for traditional public schools.

Given that charters are competition with their schools, suburban districts have little incentive to either approve charters, authorize high - quality operators, or, as in the case of the fracas two years ago between the Fulton County district in Georgia and the Fulton Science Academy (now a private school), keep them around if they show up the competition.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, argued that New York City's charter schools aren't representative of the nation's, because the state caps charter schools and agencies vet them thoroughly before authorizing them, assuring they are of higher quality than elsewhere.