Sentences with phrase «based charter school operator»

The California Board of Education voted to approve the San Jose - based charter school operator's petition to build an elementary school, after it was rejected last year by Mount Diablo Unified school board and Contra Costa board of education.

The change comes at a time when one prominent Wilmington - based charter school operator, Baker A. Mitchell Jr., has been fighting media requests for months that have asked him to fully disclose the salaries of all employees associated with his charter schools — teachers as well as those who work for his for - profit education management organization (EMO), Roger Bacon Academy.

The last - minute changes to the legislation come at a time when one prominent Wilmington - based charter school operator, Baker A. Mitchell, Jr., has been fighting media requests for months that have asked him to fully disclose the salaries of all employees associated with his charter schools — teachers as well as employees of his for - profit education management company, Roger Bacon Academy.

While this type of school would never be allowed to open in one of Connecticut's suburban communities, the no - excuse model has become a favorite among urban - based charter school operators.

Not exact matches

The state's charter law must support new and high - performing operators; the state's school finance system must provide equitable, student - based funding; facilities must be made available to new and growing schools; educator certification rules must fit the needs of successful schools; and so on.

And there are steps that charter operators, authorizers, and city - based organizations can take right now to make sure that charter schools have effective teachers in all classrooms to start the school year.

Charter school operators: create one - and two - semester residential placement schools that can teach advanced coursework and manage student placements, all funded as charter schools based on enroCharter school operators: create one - and two - semester residential placement schools that can teach advanced coursework and manage student placements, all funded as charter schools based on enrocharter schools based on enrollment.

For example, the RSD and DOE have strict test - based requirements for charter contract renewal; 45 schools have been closed, merged, or turned over to other operators since 2007.

These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.

Our report Going Exponential offers advice for authorizers, school operators, and policymakers about growing successful charter schools, based on research about how organizations have grown quickly and with quality in other sectors.

Prominent national charter operators, including YES Prep and the Oakland, Calif. - based Aspire, plan to open schools within the ASD in the next few years.

A hope operator is a nonprofit organization with tax exempt status under s. 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that operates three or more charter schools that serve students in grades K - 12 in Florida or other states with a record of serving students from low - income families and is designated by the State Board of Education as a hope operator based on a determination that:

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

The recommendations support four strategies to promote quality in the sector: differentiating charter operators based on performance, building system capacity to cultivate and support high - performing schools and networks, facilitating replication of high performers and accelerating closure of low performers.

If the judge again rules in the parent union's favor at a hearing later this month, parents who signed the trigger petition will vote Oct. 18 on one of two local nonprofit charter operators that submitted bids to take over Desert Trails in the fall of 2013: the Lewis Center for Educational Research, which runs a popular charter school with a focus on science and project - based learning, and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, which partners with a university and has a focus on classic literature.

Parents will choose from two local charter operators who submitted proposals: the Lewis Center for Educational Research, which runs a K - 12 charter school in Apple Valley focused on project - based learning; and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, a K - 8 school in Hesperia that partners with the University of La Verne.

The Los Angeles - based nonprofit operates 10 local charters as well as Locke High, the district's first traditional high school to be taken over by a private operator.

According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.

City - based education organizations, or «harbormasters» and others who coordinate efforts to improve education within a city to incubate new school models; work to attract talented entrepreneurs to develop break - the - mold innovations; and build an infrastructure of charter school supports that allow operators to focus more energy spent on innovative educational approaches, not operations.

The report calls on school operators, funders, policymakers and city - based organizations such as The Mind Trust to create conditions that promote innovative thinking and ideas that can keep charter schools on the cutting edge of public education and allow them to serve more kids.

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

That kind of answer is likely to get pushback from charter school operators who believe in the original vision of charters as community - based institutions.

Gray Line Tennessee, a Nashville - based motor coach operator, plans to install seat belts in school buses serving local charter schools in response to the fatal Chattanooga bus crash.

So if you were listening closely, that sound you just heard was probably the wannabee charter school chain operator Steve Perry dancing a jig based on the fact that he won't have to go through the trouble and burden of providing the state with information about the criminal backgrounds of members of his charter school's governing council.

Prior to launching the Partnership, Marshall served as President of Green Dot Public Schools, a leading charter school operator based in Los Angeles.

The latest U.S. News and World Report «Best High School» rankings are out and the BASIS charter operators claim the top five spots in Arizona.