Sentences with phrase «centered around charter»

Much of the expansion of school choice in other countries has centered around charter - style schools, which are called by various names in other countries.

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It will center around the recent, controversial study that Professor Tom Kane released comparing charter, pilot, and traditional public schools in Boston.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

In Massachusetts, the political battle over whether to raise a cap on the number of charter schools has come to center around the issue of race.

Now the concerns center around white, middle - class kids and the schools they are leaving to attend charters.

The effort to equalize funding was framed around a student - centered message to both legislators and the public: not sharing local tax revenue with all public school students, charter or otherwise, constituted discrimination.

Its Education Week Research Center gathers authoritative data for the news organization's Counts reports and works in tandem with the Education Week newsroom on «data journalism» projects around such issues as corporal punishment, school policing, and cyber charter schools.

Eric Premack, director of the Charter Schools Development Center, who once dubbed affiliated or dependent charters CHINO — «Charter in Name Only» — has come around to appreciating their role.

The event will be centered around testimonials from students, parents, and teachers who benefit from an array of education options — including students and graduates from traditional public schools, public magnet schools, public charter schools, private schools, online academies, and homeschooling.

Stephanie Mendez currently serves as the director of charter authorizing for the New York City Department of Education, where she is focused on the implementation of initiatives centered around the accountability, oversight, and renewal of Chancellor - authorized charter schools.

The event is centered around testimonials from students, parents, and teachers who benefit from an array of education options — including students and graduates from traditional public schools, public magnet schools, public charter schools, private schools, online academies, and homeschooling.

LaFonda Willis, former administrator for D.C. Public Schools and education chair for the NAACP D.C. chapter, agreed that the conversation shouldn't have been centered around traditional versus charter but rather how can district and charter schools collaborate «to ensure Black children have access to high - quality education and that we're helping them to achieve achieve self - sufficiency and reach their full potential.»

Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, said the Trump administration's rhetoric has only deepened partisan tensions around charter schools.

It is particularly interesting that most critics of charter schools and their operators have centered their attention around Hartford and Bridgeport — and largely ignoring New Haven.

This lack of oversight laid the foundation for a recent report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), which found some $ 200 million in «alleged and confirmed financial fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement» committed by charter schools around the country.

To a great extent, they have centered around power: Who has the power to create new charter schools?

The Professor Emeritus and Research Professor has co-authored numerous articles centering around Maine's Proficiency - Based Diploma Systems, Implementing District - Level High School Graduation Policies, Challenges Faced by Maine School Districts in Providing High Quality Public Education, Pathways to College Readiness in Maine, The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools, Maine's Improving Schools, and more.

The article is centered around secretary of education John King who speaks against «arbitrary» caps on charter schools and in support of greater state accountability.

But a lot of the push for new American ships of this sort is centered around old - fashioned notions of projecting influence and having an independent capacity to do so in four seasons at will — without the need to seek a charter or the like.]

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The national advisory team, that includes Julia Freeland (Christensen Institute), Eduardo Briceño (Mindset Works), Sasha Barab (School for the Future of Innovation in Society / Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University / Center for Games and Impact), Tony Lewis (Donnell - Kay Foundation) and Alex Hernandez (Charter School Growth Fund), engaged in a thoughtful conversation that explored insights around measuring social and emotional learning and the importance of student outlets for articulating ownership of growth.