Sentences with phrase «bright for school choice»

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My dear friends, I have a dream that our Academy and our University will continue to grow and prosper, but in my dream, they are surrounded by thousandsof public and private schools and universitiesthat share our civic commitment, that emulate our thirst for knowledge, and that compete for the best and brightest students.Because those students they deserve to have a choice, and because there are too many problems for us to solve, and because we can't solve them and have a future unless our youth believe they can build one.

At BCF's flagship schools, Brighter Choice for Girls and Brighter Choice for Boys, 3rd and 4th graders have been outperforming their district counterparts almost from the beginning on the statewide English language arts and mathematics exams (see Figure 1 for the 2009 test results).

Three months after joining the board Bender became executive director of the group's new nonprofit, the Brighter Choice Foundation, a technical and financial resource organization for Albany charter schools that would become the key to scale.

In November 2000 the group submitted a 300 - page application to the Board of Regents to open the Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys (BCCS - Boys) and Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls (BCCS - Girls), which, initially, would be housed in the same building.

To achieve scale with quality in Albany has required spending of about $ 500,000 per school for start - up grants, with an annual central office expense (for the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability and the Brighter Choice Foundation) of around $ 1 million.

Thomas W. Carroll is president of the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability and chairman of the Brighter Choice Charter Schools in Albany.

They visited Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls, and Alani and Aaliyah started there that fall.

-- THOMAS W. CARROLL, President, Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, Founder, Brighter Choice Charter School in Albany, New York

Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher program along with billions of dollars in cuts to public education.

Choice school was established as a non-profit independent school for bright, creative and engaged students.

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Earlier this year, the Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys, located in Albany, received a New York State Stimulus Fund grant that allowed the school to start work on some much - needed additions and repairs to their facilities, including construction on a brand new library, along with kitchen repairs and playground chSchool for Boys, located in Albany, received a New York State Stimulus Fund grant that allowed the school to start work on some much - needed additions and repairs to their facilities, including construction on a brand new library, along with kitchen repairs and playground chschool to start work on some much - needed additions and repairs to their facilities, including construction on a brand new library, along with kitchen repairs and playground changes.

Brighter Choice applied for the stimulus grant at the start of the 2012 - 13 school year and was approved in January.

So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.