Sentences with phrase «certain charter leaders»

By limiting their hiring to these firms, certain charter leaders created a kind of place - based discrimination we don't have laws to combat.

Not exact matches

An emerging crop of programs tailored to preparing charter school principals shows promise when compared with traditional leadership - training programs, but those programs «miss or treat too lightly» certain issues that many leaders of such schools struggle with most, says a new report.

Rausch noted that certain localities, such as Indianapolis, have had many charter - school leaders of color, but the movement, particularly on the coasts, is mainly the province of white school leaders and organizational heads who tend to hold homogeneous views on test scores, school structure, and «what works.»

Many charter leaders also argue that weighted student lotteries, which allocate an admissions preference to certain student groups in order to increase their likelihood of admittance, maintain a balance between low - income and higher - income students in a school population.88 Blackstone Valley Prep, for example, reserves at least half of its seats for low - income students, ensuring its student body reflects the level of income diversity in northern Rhode Island.89

Other regional school district leaders were not as certain as Redinger about applying for a charter school.

Leaders in both camps have been debating charter funding in North Carolina for years, particularly since a 2010 amendment by Democrats in the legislature denied charters access to certain funding sources, such as sales tax revenues, gifts and grants traditionally bound for public school coffers.

Meanwhile, with many district leaders requesting greater flexibility over curriculum, calendars and spending, local schools have been largely rebuffed by state lawmakers, board members said, although Hall's district includes allowances for an «Innovation Zone» or «I - Zone» opening up charter - like flexibilities for certain low - performing schools.

This is an argument that needs to be taken seriously — especially by certain leaders of charter schools who seem unconcerned about rising segregation in charters.

Louisiana's business leaders invested heavily in certain BESE campaigns, in part to ensure their agenda on issues such as charter schools, vouchers and teacher compensation remained in place.

The grand plan to dismantle charter schools is becoming more clear, particularly with the partnership with certain reporters, asinine accusations resulting from «intense scrutiny» of lease agreements (somehow there's time for this), and let's not forget the targeted personal attacks on certain charter school leaders — so far, only on those of color.