Sentences with phrase «by charter movement»

Once the Local Control Funding Formula was enacted, it was heralded by charter movement leaders for leveling the funding playing field.

As an entrepreneur, Hastings was intrigued by the charter movement.

Although they find modest advantages for charters in terms of parental satisfaction, school - based social capital, and civic instruction, they emphasize that these differences — some of which diminished over time — fall well short of the promises made by the charter movement's most ardent supporters.

Not exact matches

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

The 30 - second spot, entitled «Happening» and produced by Shorr, Johnson and Magnus Strategic Media, is also a response of sorts to the ads the pro-charter movement has been running that blame the teachers unions for blocking legislation that would raise the charter school cap.

The new mayor enraged the charter school movement by vowing to charge schools getting rent - free space in city buildings and scrapping a $ 210 million charter building fund.

Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over education reform.

Along with the power to resolve, say, the UFT's grievances — perhaps by crushing the charter - school movement — the WFP now has juice to impose indirect tax increases and other commerce - depressing restrictions on the private sector.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

Steve Zimmerman, who leads a coalition of independent charter schools in New York City, said Loeb's remark «certainly isn't going to help the charter movement, which is already being tarnished by association with the current administration.»

Sen. Bill Perkins, who has been under attack by charter school supporters for his criticism of — and efforts to curb — the movement, has picked up the support of the New York Charter Parents Assoccharter school supporters for his criticism of — and efforts to curb — the movement, has picked up the support of the New York Charter Parents AssocCharter Parents Association.

The Court would have the onus of also determining whether Luke and his security aides violated his client's fundamental rights of freedom of movement and from discrimination as guaranteed by relevant sections of the Constitution (1999) and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, amongst others.

The march was intended by its organizers, the reform group Families for Excellent Schools, as a celebration of a decade of relatively free rein under the Bloomberg administration, and as a warning to the prospective Blasio administration that the charter - school movement is still a force to be reckoned with.

The group, led by hedge funders who are active in the charter - school movement, is hosting the conference at Whiteface Lodge on May 4 to 6.

This tale of two schools illustrates a fundamental challenge faced by the charter school movement.

Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.

The ways in which most think tanks and researchers rank charter school laws are flawed, and charter school ranking systems should be designed to evaluate how well schools measure up to the original mission of the movement, suggests a report by two researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

By many measures, children's academic outcomes have improved — particularly in the charter schools that this movement created — but the consensus is that progress has either not been fast enough or that it's not even legit.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

These experiences raise questions about the political viability of a charter school movement that becomes largely composed of schools run by for - profit EMOs.

If this comes to pass, we can imagine a charter school sector characterized by both scale and a diversity of entrepreneurial schools, a future in which grassroots charter schools remain the heart of the movement, but in a sustainable fashion.

The charter school movement and the push for universal preschool hold the potential to be «important partners» in improving education, but they generally operate on separate tracks with little cooperation or exchange of ideas, says a new report issued by a pro-charter group.

By most measures, the charter school reform movement has been remarkably successful.

But charter proponents will not deliver on that need and demand by doubling down on the same strategies that grew the charter movement over the past 25 years.

Also needed is a national organization dedicated to pressing the charter movement to clean up its act and deliver the results promised by charter boosters.

Encourage the teacher - professionalism organizations (and the unions) to run schools of their own - an opportunity made readily available by the spread of the charter - school movement.

Now is the time to accelerate our progress by further lifting of the charter cap, where sufficient demand and proven providers exist, while at the same time making the financial investment in growing and deepening the innovation school movement.

It's distressing that the Civil Rights Project is so wedded to formulas and methods that predate charter schools by decades and that they are expending such effort to discredit a movement that is bringing new hope to students who need it most.

The charter school movement has benefited from the spectacular results achieved by the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academies, Success Academy, BASIS Schools, KIPP Schools, Uncommon Schools, and others in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and other prominent cities.

It was, according to the paper's summary, an «article on school - choice movement; competition from charter schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.»

By failing to offer more advantaged families any benefits, the charter movement then loses their political support, and advantaged families have much more political power than disadvantaged families.

The crushing defeat of the charter referendum in Massachusetts is at least partially explained by the political foolishness of narrowly focusing the charter movement on a certain type of school to serve disadvantaged students.

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Plus, the powerful anti-charter movement led by unions and superintendents is fully capable of blocking charters in some cities.

Last Friday's 6 - 3 decision by the Washington Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional a charter school law is an existential threat to the parental choice movement.

I started out as a critic of the charter school movement, writing articles on the treatment of students with disabilities by for - profit charter schools.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

The charter school movement began nearly two decades ago with tremendous potential for narrowing the achievement gap by improving education for disadvantaged students.

I'm biased; it's run by a friend, Kevin Teasley, who has been around the choice and charter schools movement for a long time, and once even dabbled in punditry and policy wonkery.

Our mission is to lead public education to unprecedented levels of academic achievement by fostering a strong charter movement.

The latest findings, based on six well - regarded charter schools in Boston, released Wednesday by the Boston Foundation and MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, adds to the accumulating evidence that at least a subset of high - performing charters are measuring up to the movement's early aspirations of giving disadvantaged kids a shot at a better life.

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Each year nominations are accepted and evaluated by a selection panel that chooses new honorees based on: their pioneering efforts in the development / growth of charter schools; their long term commitment and contributions to charter schools and education; their innovative ideas and successful implementation of those ideas; and their inspiration to others in the charter school movement.

By allowing Catholic schools to receive government funding, a religious - charter policy could honor the traditions of both Catholic education and the chartering movement, allow these schools to carry on their service to the most at - risk urban students, and adhere to state standards, assessments, and accountability frameworks.

Now is the time to accelerate our progress by further lifting of the charter cap, where sufficient demand and proven providers exist, while at the same time making the financial investment in growing and deepening the innovation school movement,» writes Professor Paul Reville.

And that brings us to those unanswered questions: Can the charter - school movement grow to sufficient scale for long - term political sustainability if we continue to use «quality» — as measured by such factors as test scores — as the sole indicator of a successful school?

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

By sharing resources and coordinating activities, the charter movement could accelerate systemic change in Newark's public schools, ultimately benefiting all.

This morning he takes on one of the charter movement's fiercest competitors, Eva Moskowitz; rather, he finds a kid who he implies got dumped by one of Moskowitz's schools and through him attempts to show charters as cherry - pickers.