Sentences with phrase «charter community at»

CCSA is proud to offer programming tailored specifically to the needs of the California charter community at the 22nd Annual Charter Schools Conference.

CCSA is proud to offer programming tailored specifically to the needs of the California charter community at The 23rd Annual Charter Schools Conference.

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«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

Brandy Rucker is the Parent / Community Education Coordinator for Green Valley Charter School and Dena Melin is working hard at developing the planning team for Creekside Charter School; Julia Capocelli, Kindergarten Curriculum Specialist.

At 6 p.m., NYC's Charter Revision Commission holds a public meeting and hearing soliciting input from New Yorkers on how best to improve the efficiency of local government and strengthen democracy, Bronx Community College, 2155 University Ave., Bronx.

Also at 6:30 p.m., the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board will hold its monthly board meeting and releases precinct - level analysis on East Harlem police - community interactions, The Dream Charter School, 1991 Second Ave., Manhattan.

At 9 a.m., hundreds of charter school parents from Brooklyn join state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. and other Brooklyn community leaders at a rally to celebrate the impact of charter schools on Brooklyn's communities, Cadman Plaza, BrooklyAt 9 a.m., hundreds of charter school parents from Brooklyn join state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. and other Brooklyn community leaders at a rally to celebrate the impact of charter schools on Brooklyn's communities, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyat a rally to celebrate the impact of charter schools on Brooklyn's communities, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn.

Some 220 students at Ark Community Charter School in Troy may be displaced if final court proceedings affirm a SUNY Trustees Charter Schools Committee decision that agreed with findings by SUNY's Charter Schools Institute that Ark failed to meet its academic goals.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

Students at the Aloma D. Johnson Community Charter School in Buffalo celebrated the end to the school year by showing off their creative side.

«Thanks to Mayor de Blasio and his friends at the UFT, there are now roughly an equal number of students in community schools as there are in public charter schools,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

Calls for campaign finance improvements, election reform, and changes to the structure and functions of community boards dominated the fourth borough hearing of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Charter Revision Commission, held Monday night at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Wilmers speaking at an August 2017 dedication of the new library at Westminster Community Charter School.

WBFO»S Eileen Buckley reports Community Charter School will closed at the end of the school year as part of our Focus on Education reporting.

His previous community service has included terms on the Board of Directors of Queens Public Television, the Community Advisory Board at Elmhurst Hospital Center and the Renaissance Chartecommunity service has included terms on the Board of Directors of Queens Public Television, the Community Advisory Board at Elmhurst Hospital Center and the Renaissance CharteCommunity Advisory Board at Elmhurst Hospital Center and the Renaissance Charter School.

For instance, he faced heat for balking at a DOE plan to co-locate a charter school with a Bronx school that Fariña had just tapped to become a «community school» with lots of new services.

In addition to P.S. 297, the building currently provides space for community organization Good Shepherd and previously housed The Ethical Community Charter School, which shuttered at the endcommunity organization Good Shepherd and previously housed The Ethical Community Charter School, which shuttered at the endCommunity Charter School, which shuttered at the end of June.

City school officials have withdrawn a controversial proposal to co-locate a charter school at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to oppose it.

Yvonne Minor - Ragan, an educational consultant and former principal at Westminster Community Charter School, will take on that new role at BUILD Academy, where the state has stepped in after years of poor academic performanc...

State legislators addressed members at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call for an increase in school funding, more Teacher Centers, an end to the charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning Schools initiative.

The process has become a major issue in Community Board 10, where the city has partnered with NYCHA and the Harlem Children's zone to build a $ 100 million charter school on 93,000 square feet of open space at the St. Nicholas Houses.

Students at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

The yoga community at the UN recognizes that the principles of the United Nations, as presented particularly in the United Nations Charter and other major internationally adopted instruments, are intimately related to the basic values promoted by the yoga tradition.

Twenty - eight local children lost at least one parent in the burning wreckage of the chartered DC - 9 and a whole community was left reeling and stunned.

You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner - city Baltimore charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and community.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadCharter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadcharter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Fourteen of the 4th graders at Washington, D.C.'s Hope Community Charter School had chosen the right answer — 1/3 and 5/15 — on a test written for the school by Boston - based Achievement Network (ANet).

Jenna Bush, one of the twin daughters of President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, is rumored to be in the running for a job at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, according to a report last month in The Washington Post.

The Los Angeles Charter School New Markets Loan Fund was made possible by a federal tax - credit program aimed at spurring investment in low - income communities.

Matthew Stewart, a stay - at - home Dad in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, is leading a battle against the «boutique» charter schools that are being planned for his community.

BPR: Body Cams, Charter Schools, And Working From Home WGBH Boston Public Radio, 1/13/15» [Professor] Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, weighs in on [Governor Charlie] Baker's plans for Charter schools and President Obama's Community College proposal.»

At the same time, in cities where charter sectors have blossomed (e.g., New Orleans, Detroit, Newark), communities are demanding more democratic control.

Another incident occurred in the spring at Community Preparatory Academy (CPA), a charter that shares space with Ambler Avenue Elementary in Carson, a city of 90,000 - plus people.

At the same time, it should be made clear by both the district and the charter community that students pay the price of NOT closing schools.

Today she works as department math chair at John Dibert Community School — a turnaround charter belonging to the FirstLine Schools network — in New Orleans, where she says her education, particularly her participation in a pilot program called Instructional Leadership (IL) at HGSE has significantly influenced and shaped her daily duties.

Sixth - graders at Genesee Community Charter School, an Expeditionary Learning School in Rochester, New York, shared their research with the city council — and got results.

According to Education Next's 2015 poll, supporters of charters outnumber opponents by a two - to - one margin, both among the public at large and in minority communities.

The recent alum, who is currently a principal at Community Charter School of Cambridge, says that he took the course not only to help in his current position, but also to develop ideas for an eventual charter of hCharter School of Cambridge, says that he took the course not only to help in his current position, but also to develop ideas for an eventual charter of hcharter of his own.

There are now 43 communities where at least 20 percent of the students attend charters, reports the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

In communities where at least one charter school is located, overall levels of support are only somewhat higher: 48 percent of the public favor the formation of charters, while 20 percent are opposed.

In several respects, parents in communities with a charter presence are only marginally more knowledgeable than the public at large.

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.

At the same time, the poll results seem to show that these communities strongly support school choice, charters, and tax credits.

The best charter leaders are masterful at bringing a breadth of voices from their local communities into the conversation.

Last spring, students at Sherman Oaks Community Charter School in San Jose, California, demonstrated considerable improvement on the Stanford - 9 and SABE - 2 standardized tests.

Students at Urban Prep Charter Academies are celebrated, supported, and empowered through their daily community assembly.

She knew it might be a long shot, but the work that was being done at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she serves as CEO, was already in line with the goals of the initiative: creating educational opportunities for children in distressed communities by offering «cradle - to - college» services.

Her kids at North Oakland Community Charter School, in Oakland, California, insisted on it.