Sentences with phrase «by charter high»

The percentage of students with special needs served by charter high schools is also more representative of the public high schools serving the wealthiest towns.

Of course, researchers need to see whether similar results are being produced by charter high schools elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Specializing in charter flights to popular vacation spots, Transat is under pressure by Air Canada's discount vacation brand Rouge, but so far holding its own in a difficult category where consumer expectations run high and travelers are never shy about expressing dissatisfaction.

Others, including a group of high - ranking women from Bank of America, are traveling by charter bus.

Shares of Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) were trading higher by around 5 percent Thursday morning following reports that the company is in talks with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) over a business combination.

The first is tonight with three short plays by students from Dillard High School and Coral Springs Charter School.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

LIBERTYVILLE — The area served by Libertyville School District 70 and High School District 128 is prime territory for one of the suburbs» first charter schools, members of the A.P.P.L.E. Community Group said Wednesday night.

The area served by Libertyville School District 70 and High School District 128 is prime territory for one of the suburbs» first charter schools, members of the A.P.P.L.E. Community Group said Wednesday night.

«Once again, New York City's public charter schools are driving the gains made by the city's highest - need students,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Space for two other new Success Academy charter elementary schools — scheduled to co-locate in high school buildings in lower Manhattan and Queens — were also yanked by the mayor.

We are deeply troubled by the proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at LS.

«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.

Ryan's visit will be the latest in a series of high - profile visits by Republicans to the city's largest and most controversial charter network.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

«There are high - performing charters that have opted out of this program, because the regulatory burden imposed by the N.Y.C.D.O.E. was too high,» Mr. Flanagan wrote, referring to the city's Education Department.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

«We are concerned by some of the policies Bill de Blasio is pushing, particularly those that would limit the growth of high - quality charter schools,» said Glen Weiner, deputy executive director of StudentsFirstNY.

International Leadership Charter High School is opening its doors to Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria.

By Patricia Huertas When my oldest son, William, was entering first grade, I entered him in a lottery for one of New York City's high performing public charter schools.

Last year, when de Blasio was at his most vulnerable, Cuomo chose to play a decisive role in the mayor's most embarrassing political defeat to date by siding with charter school executive Eva Moskowitz in a high - profile fight over city charters.

In the final hours of the session, legislators agreed to extend mayoral control over New York City schools another year, after Mayor Bill deBlasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the city.

Margate police were called to the Ascend Academy Charter High School on 5251 Coconut Creek Parkway by reports of a disturbance, said Sgt. Lori Eller, police spokeswoman.

He is helped by the fact Success» so - called #SaveOurPreK campaign has failed to garner anything approaching the amount of attention as the school space battle, when Moskowitz was making front - page news regularly for declaring that de Blasio was effectively shuttering high - performing charter schools.

These parents were joined by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, State Senators Martin J. Golden, Ruben Diaz Sr. and Kevin Parker, and Assembly Member Crespo, who called on their colleagues to support charters» critical work educating high - need students.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

With high hopes, a commission was appointed in March by Mayor Bloomberg to do a thorough review of our city's constitution - the City Charter.

In the final hours of the session, legislators also agreed to extend mayoral control over New York City schools another year, after Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the city.

Upper West Success Academy, part of the Success Charter Network group of schools founded by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, says it will provide high - quality public education options in an overcrowded district.

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

Columbia University in the City of New York, founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

Undeterred by the weather forecast, Alex puts her can - do attitude into high gear and charters a private plane to get around the problem.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

A full - scale transition from a government - run monopoly to a competitive marketplace won't happen quickly, but that's no reason not to begin introducing more competition... We pursued that goal in New York City by opening more than 100 charter schools in high - poverty communities.

The decade between 1999 and 2009 saw a dramatic expansion in CMO schools, with increases of approximately 20 percent per year, a higher growth rate than seen by independent charter schools, according to a recent study by Mathematica Policy Research.

There were also many high - profile speakers, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Harlem Children Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M» 75; and Harvard University President Drew Faust, as well as musical performances by Yo - Yo Ma, students from Conservatory Lab Charter School, and Familiarevolution featuring Janelle Bechdol, Ed.M» 14.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

A careful reading of Risk «s introduction yields a simple explanation: «The Commission's charter directed it to pay particular attention to teenage youth, and we have done so largely by focusing on high schools.

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

The advisory system is used by nearly all the charter schools that serve middle or high school grades.

Maureen Kelleher argues in Education Post that the decline in support is likely caused by «the failure of too many charter operators to live up to the highest standards of transparency, accountability and professionalism.»

On Top of the News Washington Charter School Law Ruled Unconstitutional by State's High Court Wall Street Journal 9/5/15

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And by the end of the legislative session, he got just about everything he wanted in a school reform plan: expansion of charter schools, private school vouchers, and college scholarships for students who graduate high school early.

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

Opposition to the closure was overcome because the incoming charter was run by St. Hope Corp., founded by former NBA star and Sac High alum Kevin Johnson.