Sentences with phrase «boards issuing charters»

He got the idea (and the name «charter») from a little - known educator in Massachusetts, Ray Budde, who proposed the idea of school boards issuing charters directly to teachers to create new departments or programs.

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The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain religious terms in its organization's name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization's mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.»

Now is the perfect time to address this issue because Erie County's Charter already provides for a regionwide planning board that includes representatives from Niagara County, but the board it references no longer exists.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

Some mainstream Democrats, though, downplayed the political contention of issues like charter schools and the tax credit and even differences in nuanced positions regarding the Common Core standards and how the Board of Regents should be governed, arguing that those are secondary to decisions around school funding.

According to the Erie County Charter, the Chairman of the Legislature has the authority to issue the subpoena in order to: «make such studies and investigations as it deems to be in the best interest of the county, and in connection therewith to obtain professional and technical advice, appoint temporary advisory boards of citizens, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and require the productions of books, papers, and other evidence deemed necessary or material to the study or inquiry.»

The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

The process has become a major issue in Community Board 10, where the city has partnered with NYCHA and the Harlem Children's zone to build a $ 100 million charter school on 93,000 square feet of open space at the St. Nicholas Houses.

Frustrated by the loss of more students and funding to new charters, the majority of the Buffalo School Board requested that the State University of New York and the state Board of Regents issue a three - year moratorium on charters in the city.

Heartland focuses on free - market issues across the board, including promoting charter schools, lobbying for business - friendly finance, insurance and real estate rules and promoting prescription drug availability before full Food and Drug Administration testing.

Cornell - Feist is the founder of the High Bar, which helps charter boards with management and governance issues.

Part of the answer certainly lies in the policy arena — giving charter schools equitable access to funding (including capital funds), cutting unnecessary regulations, ensuring that institutions other than local school boards can issue charters in every jurisdiction.

Second, Washington's high court ruled that «charter schools are devoid of local control» over educational issues because an elected school board does not govern them.

City development agencies, zoning boards, or fire inspectors can raise a host of regulatory problems, especially on the most difficult issue that charter schools face: finding a facility.

Rather, the state board's order was treated merely as a directive to the local board to negotiate with the applicant concerning the «issues necessary to permit the applicant to open a charter school,» including, in the Denver case, questions of the site of the school and per - pupil funding.

Interest groups ranging from the National School Boards Association to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, from the National Governors Association to the major civil rights groups, all issued statements of approval.

What had been especially maddening for Dr. Joseph and her school board, which issued routine condemnations of the charters, was not just the presence of so many of the new schools — «the proliferation, the oversaturation» — but that they were so good.

And on October 7, the day of the Orleans Parish School Board meeting, Governor Blanco issued several executive orders to smooth the way for charter schools in New Orleans.

A decade later, restarts are providing charter school boards with an opportunity to effectively and proactively address poor academic performance well before charter renewal and closure become issues.

Don Soifer, a longtime member of D.C.'s charter - authorizing board, says parent members «help with the flow of critical information,» getting word to the board about issues at the school before they begin to fester, and getting word to parents about board actions and concerns before they reach the rumor mill.

Ms. Brown's husband, Dan Senor, sits on the board of StudentsFirstNY, which advocates for charter schools among other issues.

Charters have also become a touchstone for how people feel about a host of related issues: job protections for teachers, the role of elected school boards and teachers unions, and the privatization of schools.

The DC Public Charter School Board meets monthly to discuss various issues related to public charter sCharter School Board meets monthly to discuss various issues related to public charter scharter schools.

From 1994 to 2000, two state - level boards were each able to issue up to 25 charters annually, and a single charter holder can open multiple campuses.

Local school boards and the state superintendent of public instruction can issue a charter.

Prominent issues among school board candidates this year are Common Core standards, teacher evaluations and charter schools

That was referred in October 2017 by the charter board to the attorney general — But the issue should have been known from the FY2016 audit at least one year earlier.

As N.C. Policy Watch's Sarah Ovaska reported last week, the issue of for - profit charter operators wanting to serve on non-profit boards has come up before — once again, involving Baker Mitchell.

Good Morning Louisiana The Times - Picayune School board members, advocates mull over Einstein Charter's «egregious» transportation issues

SDUSD had their first charter board meeting of this school year with three charter issues; a Special Education MOU, a material revision for a grade expansion for O'Farrell Community School and a public hearing for San Diego Global Visions (SDGVA) to add a middle school.

, the issue of for - profit charter operators wanting to serve on non-profit boards has come up before — once again, involving Baker Mitchell.

A replacement for the much criticized No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the reauthorization gained support from groups as diverse as The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Education Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, The National School Boards Association, the National Governors Association and Fairtest, an organization that addresses issues related to fairness and accuracy in testing.

Nothing is stopping them from setting up private academies — but they not only want public money they actually want to shift money from public schools to their «public» charter academies... public except for the fact that they violate the most fundamental issues of Brown vs. Board of Education, they have not unions, they have discipline policies that are draconian and the out - migrate anyone who doesn't meet their criteria.

As the school member representative on the Association's Board of Directors, Mitchell will work with charter leaders to voice issues and concerns of the membership.

By pushing new school board members to pick on a top performing charter school whose focus is to graduate seniors and encourage higher education is ignoring the real issues public schools are facing.

It challenged Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. to answer questions about whether to lift the cap on charter schools, how to make it easier to remove ineffective teachers and how to make teacher evaluations more stringent, among other issues.

That's a big issue because charters are often established by a group of teachers that later serve as board members.

In January of 2016, the Board issued a strong statement calling for a statewide moratorium on charter schools.

By last year, groups such as the Connecticut Parents Union (on whose advisory board your editor serves) had sprouted up throughout the country, and, along with long - established groups such as the Black Alliance for Educational Options, were agitating for the enactment of Parent Trigger laws, pushing for the expansion of charters and vouchers, and weighing in on such issues as overhauling teacher evaluation systems.

The bill prohibits charter employees from voting on employment issues affecting themselves or relatives, and lays out specific rules board members must follow if they extend a loan to or guarantee a lease agreement for property to be occupied by the charter.

A recent column in the Capital Times highlights many of the issues with this contract: Marj Passman: Madison School Board should nix Isthmus Montessori charter school

Immediately following the release of the Governor's budget, on January 15, several CCSA Board members traveled to Sacramento to meet with legislators and other policymakers, to discuss the budget proposal as well as to advocate for issues that will have lasting effects for charter schools such as the Parcel Tax, Local Control Funding Formula proposal (formerly named Weighted Student Formula) and closing the funding gap for charter schools.

For the school year that started in August, parents picked among 78 charter schools, as well as eight traditional campuses, one independent school with a board appointed by the governor and 38 private schools that are paid with state - issued tuition vouchers.

Use these points to communicate key issues about charter school policy to other school board members, the media, and your members of Congress:

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The Board of Directors brings specific experience in the development of academic programs, teaching and administration, financial operation, and legal issues of charter schools and other community non-profits.

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On the same issue, CT Newsjunkie, has an article entitled, State Board of Education Launches Investigation, Requires Background Checks for Charters.

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * California Charter Schools Conference * Federal Charter Schools Program Action Alert * State Board of Education (SBE) Considers Testing and Accountability Issues * State Board of Education Renews Two Charter Schools * Legislative Committees Picking Up Steam * Energy Commission Announces Second Webinar for Proposition 39 (Energy Efficiency) Program Training * Happenings: Updates and Deadlines