Sentences with phrase «charter equity gap»

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.

Not exact matches

Given the gap in fiscal and technical expertise between traditional districts and independent LEAs, public charter school networks that multiply each school's capacity and access to resources offer a promising strategy to scale equity and access for students with disabilities.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

He was chair of the congressionally - chartered Equity and Excellence Commission set up to advise the U.S. Dept. of Education on how to close disparities in educational opportunity that contribute to the achievement gap.

The Equity and Excellence Commission, a federal advisory committee chartered by Congress, articulated a five - part framework to reduce disparities in educational opportunity that give rise to the achievement gap.

Washington's charter public schools are helping to close the education equity gap.

The charter school movement grew in Atlanta when these programs ended and their grew a huge equity gap in Atlanta schools.