Sentences with phrase «charter applications based»

The message, he said, is that school boards should consider charter applications based on merit, regardless of politics.

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-- based company won't discuss full details of its proposal while its application for a bank charter is still outstanding.

It means protecting the integrity of the charter application process by making it competitive, transparent, and merit - based.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

Charter school authorizers are getting «choosier» about which applications for schools they will accept and are basing decisions not to renew charters more on student - achievement issues than previously recognized, an analysis by a pro-charter organization finds.

Authors Dr. Anna Nicotera and Dr. David Stuit, respectively senior associate and co-founder of Basis Policy Research, coded charter applications for easy - to - spot indicators and used them to predict the schools» academic performance in their first years of operation.

Fellows will also be required to develop an Independent Learning Project (ILP) / Portfolio based on fellowship experience and directly relating to innovations in new methods of instruction, integration of educational technology and its applications, charter school management and its operations, leadership and staff development, and other project options as determined by cohort leadership.

States» applications to secure one of the federal grants will be scored on the basis of more than 30 selection criteria, involving such education improvement priorities as school turnaround, teacher and principal effectiveness, and encouragement of high - quality charter schools.

Yu Ying, which recently held its third annual enrollment lottery to process 500 applications for 100 spaces, is just one illustration of the invaluable service that CSDC's fee developer program provides to successful, expanding charter schools that recognize the benefits of outsourcing their facility needs to an experienced developer on a complete, «turnkey» basis.

Customized consulting specific to developing a charter application is available for select teams on a fee for service basis.

If an application is denied by a district school board, that school board shall, within 10 calendar days, articulate in writing the specific reasons based upon good cause supporting its denial of the charter application.

Charter Teacher of the Year applications are evaluated based on this rubric.

The figure is largely based on State Board of Education data on the number of student applications for charters and the number of charter seats available in the 2010 - 11 school year.

The Advocate: Ten groups submit charter school applications to East Baton Rouge with one big exception: BASIS schools http://bit.ly/1UhDK2U

There have been legal opinions presented that justify rejecting charter school applications based on the financial needs of the district.

The application submitted by Idaho - based Athlos Academies to open two new charter schools in the Dallas area was vetoed by a vote of 12 - 2 at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on July 17th.

We accept applications for the Charter School Design Challenge on a rolling basis.

Based on survey data, the Charter Center estimates that New York City charter schools received a total of 133,000 applications for 14,600 newCharter Center estimates that New York City charter schools received a total of 133,000 applications for 14,600 newcharter schools received a total of 133,000 applications for 14,600 new seats.

Protect Our Public Schools Manasota protested an application for a charter school this week and the board listened... and denied the application for the Miami based group.

Based on a spring survey after the lottery season, the Charter Center produced estimates of the number of applications and unique applicants for charter school enrollment in FalCharter Center produced estimates of the number of applications and unique applicants for charter school enrollment in Falcharter school enrollment in Fall 2011.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

In January, SAISD trustees approved the district's application for New York - based charter group Democracy Prep to take over operations at chronically failing Stewart Elementary School this fall.

(3) In any fiscal year, if the board determines based on student performance data collected pursuant to section 1I, said district is in the lowest 10 per cent of all statewide student performance scores released in the 2 consecutive school years before the date the charter school application is submitted, the school district's total charter school tuition payment to commonwealth charter schools may exceed 9 per cent of the district's net school spending but shall not exceed 18 per cent.

The Sarasota County School Board will consider applications today for two charter schools: Pinecrest Academy Gulf Coast, a proposed K - 8 charter school Miami - based nonprofit Pinecrest Academy Inc.; and Dreamers Academy, a Spanish - English immersion program.

After receiving nine rejections during the last application cycle, the charter advisory board gave the thumbs - up this time to four charter school applicants that would be backed by Charter Schools USA — a Florida - based for - profit entecharter advisory board gave the thumbs - up this time to four charter school applicants that would be backed by Charter Schools USA — a Florida - based for - profit entecharter school applicants that would be backed by Charter Schools USA — a Florida - based for - profit enteCharter Schools USA — a Florida - based for - profit enterprise.

Eight DC charter high schools restrict applications to certain grades, with two high - performing ones — BASIS and Washington Latin — not accepting new students after 9th grade.

The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.

HB2663 provides explicit authority to the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools to reference financial performance criteria when considering a charter holder's renewal application, rather than basing renewal decisions solely on academic perfoCharter Schools to reference financial performance criteria when considering a charter holder's renewal application, rather than basing renewal decisions solely on academic perfocharter holder's renewal application, rather than basing renewal decisions solely on academic performance.

We grant charters to boards based on the application.»

Issues involving charters, such as applications for new ones, renewals for existing ones and operational transparency, are part of almost every monthly board meeting, and even before the first meeting of the new year, opinions remain divided, based on interviews with LA School Report and other media outlets.

Considering that initial charters were granted based on Perry's claim to have a team already in place, and that his applications actually listed these individuals as key players, a number of other Capital Prep administrators and employees must be planning to join Perry in the Hartford Public School System.

Typically, if charters receive more applications than they have open seats, they must accept students based on a lottery.

However, the charter school application approved by the New York Board of Regents continues to be based on Perry collecting millions of dollars in management fees from all three of «his schools,» which he lists as Hartford's Capital Prep and his proposed charter schools in Bridgeport and Harlem Charter scharter school application approved by the New York Board of Regents continues to be based on Perry collecting millions of dollars in management fees from all three of «his schools,» which he lists as Hartford's Capital Prep and his proposed charter schools in Bridgeport and Harlem Charter scharter schools in Bridgeport and Harlem Charter sCharter schools.

The accused has brought an application to exclude the evidence of his readings into the breathalyzer on the basis of section 24 (2) of the Charter, resulting from alleged breaches of sections 7, 8, 9, 10 (a) and (b) of the Charter.

First, the CJEU firmly took sides in the debate on whether the Charter has a different scope of application than the case law based fundamental rights regime.

Unable to benefit from subsequent changes to the law that would have limited the length of the ban, he contested a decision removing him from the electoral roll on the basis of two provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR)-- Article 49 on the application of a more lenient sentence in criminal matters and Article 39 on the right to vote in European Parliament elections.

Arguing otherwise would mean that the scope of the Charter is without limits, as every erroneous application based on EU law would then automatically trigger the substantive protection of the Charter, even where a situation would not come within the scope of EU law at all.

Prior to the commencement of the trial counsel, for the accused, gave notice to the Crown that he would be bringing a Charter application to exclude evidence of the basis of breaches of the accused's Charter rights pursuant to Sections eight, nine, ten of the Charter.

Dr. Gehl sought declarations from the Court, among others, that she was entitled to Indian Status under s. 6 (1)(a) of the Indian Act and that section 6 of the Indian Act, the Indian Registrar's Proof of Paternity Policy («the Policy»), which requires certain kinds of proof of a person's ancestry in an application for Indian registration, and the Registrar's decision in her case, were contrary to the guarantee of equality in s. 15 (1) of the Charter because they discriminate against descendants of illegitimate children of Indian women on the basis of sex.

Client had testimony from a preliminary inquiry partially excluded following a pre-trial application based on a violation of the accused person's right to make full answer and defence pursuant to Section 7 of the Charter.

The Respondents filed applications for habeas corpus with the Superior Court and sought a declaratory judgment based, inter alia, on s. 7 of the Charter.

The Hungarian domestic court posed two questions to the CJEU, essentially asking whether the application of Article 4 of Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC, in the light of Article 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU Charter), precludes forensic psychologists» expert opinions based on projective personality tests from being used in asylum adjudication relating to LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) claimants.