Sentences with phrase «best charter sectors»

We've all seen what's happened in Boston, home to the best charter sector in the country.

Next we see Good Charter Sectors.

Not exact matches

Recent state budgets have been good to the charter school sector, which Cuomo has been allied with for years.

De Blasio has pledged to charge charter schools rent — a burden they avoided during the Bloomberg administration — with the sector's best - off schools paying the most on a sliding - scale system.

CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.

However, even where a sector of service providers already exists, its offerings may not be well tailored to the charter context.

Our study has revealed a Bay Area charter sector that, now well into its second decade, must adjust to its own maturity.

What's your best guess for a) how the charter sector of ten years from now will differ from today's and b) how it will differ from its contemporary district sector?

What makes Boston's resistance to expanding charter schools so remarkable is that the city's charter sector includes some of the best urban public schools in the country, of any kind.

What they want to know is how to make their state's charter sector work as well as possible — how to write a law in such a way that many high - quality schools will result.

We must also invest in understanding how the charter school sector has catalyzed a new generation of myriad civil society organizations — and how we can best create the conditions for their continued success.

In Washington, D.C., the charter sector is alive and well, but the modest Opportunity Scholarship Program must argue repeatedly for its survival.

Of the cities we examined, some have large and well - established charter sectors, like Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, while others have more emerging charter school sectors like Little Rock, San Antonio, and Tulsa.

A third faction, let's call them the Prudent Expansionists, have thought it just dandy that NCLB would invite bad schools to close and reopen as good ones, but doubt that the charter sector has the capacity to restructure vast swaths of failing public schools.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

Prodded by Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other veteran private - sector reformers, the Obama administration has lent unexpectedly forceful support to such causes as common standards, better assessments, charter schools, merit pay, refurbished teacher preparation, and the removal of ineffective instructors.

This variation highlights the challenge of designing federal policies that work well in states that vary in terms of district size, charter enrollment, size of the private sector, and existing choice policies such as interdistrict choice, charters, and vouchers.

The question is whether American education would be better off if the charter sector had more pillars.

Throughout his discussions of the public, charter, and private sectors, Smarick makes a convincing case that the decades old debate over which sector performs «better» is the wrong way of evaluating performance.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

A number of cities are showing that the charter sector is best able to reliably create and grow high - performing schools.

This very good July Politico article describes D.C.'s thriving charter sector.

Hard experience in the charter sector teaches that you can't hothouse good schools, and that even replicating successful ones takes skill.

For lots of reasons; D.C. has great school operators that are expanding; the charter law is quite good; the city has valuable support organizations; and public support has helped insulate the sector from unfounded attacks.

It's hard to find many «good» charter sectors making do with less than, say, $ 7,500 in per - pupil revenue.

There is considerable evidence to suggest that going back to the original Shanker vision — schools that give teachers voice and integrate students — would put the charter sector in a much better place moving forward.

Some charter schools do far better than others at educating their students, a reality that has profound implications for charter - goers, and for the charter sector writ large.

But for Washington, D.C., we believe two strong sectors — charter and traditional — offer the best prospect that families will have many quality educational choices for their children.

My colleagues in Washington, D.C. (see «D.C. Students Benefit from Both Sectors,» forum, Spring 2015) contend that the best educational model is one in which charter schools coexist with traditional district schools.

Nashville's public charter school sector may be amongst the best in the country.

You will appreciate this better when the following chart combines statewide averages and state charter sector averages:

The money allocated to privately managed charters and vouchers represents a transfer of critical public resources to the private sector, causing the public schools to suffer budget cuts and loss of staffing and services as the private sector grows, without providing better education or better outcomes for the students who transfer to the private - sector schools.

In these two posts, Jay and Matt use NAEP charter sector gains in Arizona, Michigan, and Texas — as well as the mediocre NAEP scores seen in Louisiana's charter sector — to argue that portfolio management and quarterbacks aren't working.

A better, bigger, broader charter school sector — that's what the U.S. needs to meet students» needs in a competitive and interconnected world, this report says.

As one sector wanes and the other waxes, demand for well - resourced charter schools has increased.

The charter sector, on the other hand, has replaced nearly all of its struggling schools with much better schools, having closed or replaced over 21 schools since 2012.

However, breaking through the logistical hurdle of a fractured charter sector, building strong relationships where none generally exist, and convincing the sectors that it may be in their best interest — as well as their students» — to work together is no small task in Cleveland.

From the charter sector, the city should take the idea that schools do best when they are operated by non-profit organizations, and, when a school struggles, the best thing to do is to let another non-profit school try and operate the school.

In recent years a school of thought arose in our space that a centralized authority or «harbor - master» could produce better outcomes by carefully controlling both the entrance and the exit of schools from charter sectors, primarily on the basis of standardized test scores.

On the positive side, the District of Columbia's charter school sector has produced better academic results at a fraction of the per pupil costs in the District.

This report, co-authored by The Mind Trust and Public Impact, calls on all involved in charter schools to make the sector better, broader, and bigger in order to expand its reach and meet the students» needs — which will require innovation that breaks the mold of most schools today.

Is it better for a charter sector to coexist with a substantially traditional school district, as is the case in Washington, D.C.?

In that debate, Neerav Kingsland defends the New Orleans model, where nearly all schools are charter schools, and Scott Pearson and Skip McKoy defend the D.C. model, where the charter sector coexists with a good - sized traditional school district.

Its tight controls on entry into the charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector growth.

Several local and national philanthropies have supported its charter sector as well as the district itself.

How could cities see their charter school sectors take off in quality, matching or besting the performance of their district schools, and the state?

This is key because those districts are generally very low - performing and, as my colleagues and I found in a recent study, the state's charter school sector isn't doing so well.

The best evidence suggests that, at least in urban areas, a regulated charter sector can substantially improve results, much more than we have seen in Detroit.

The charter law recognized that we needed both improvement of what we currently had as well as a sector whose focus was on researching new and different models.