Sentences with phrase «charter law»

Long since the first state charter law passed in 1991, a majority of adults still have little or no clue, a new poll suggests.

Some states adopted charter laws in no small part because choice advocates pushed so hard for vouchers.

Almost every state now has some sort of charter law on the books.

In 1962 (years before the first charter law), he described how competitive market forces would strengthen educational quality, efficiency and productivity.

One, why did some states pass charter laws earlier than others?

Among those states with charter laws on the books, more than a third have fewer than 20 charter schools in operation.

The new charter law doesn't have much impact on independent charters, which generally don't extend past a single school and therefore don't need more space.

The state's charter law does not say explicitly whether district - operated charters can exist, he explained.

We also found that states with growing income inequality during the 1980s were more likely to pass laws and to pass stronger charter laws during the 1990s.

A few weeks ago, I asked some very smart people who help states draft charter laws for a list of the key policy design questions that their policymakers tend to ask.

Instead of charter schools competing for the same students like they currently do, we should be using charter laws strategically to break down segregation by default.

As yet, however, it's still possible to enact and amend charter laws in many places with bipartisan support.

When we looked at changes in state demographics over time, we found that states with growing Hispanic and college - educated populations were more likely to pass early charter laws.

Fortunately, state charter law allows an appeal to the county board of education, which in both cases approved the petitions on 4 - 0 votes (with one board member absent).

State charter laws vary widely across the country — and eight states have no public charter schools at all.

Strong charter laws appeared earlier in states where the fraction of adults with at least a college education was higher.

These are the ones with nominal charter laws but very few actual charter schools.

On top of that we have a very open charter law and we have an increase in the number of charter and choice applications.

We did find a positive relationship between the fraction of students enrolled in private schools prior to the passage of charter laws and law passage and strength.

Eventually the state board would set more rules in response to the state's new charter law, including the process for shutting down an unsuccessful school.

Successful reviewers need to have a solid background in curriculum and instruction, operations, finance, personnel, governance, and charter law in general.

Of the 13 strongest charter laws, 12 were passed between 1991 and 1999, and it is these 12 states alone that account for over 56 % of existing charter schools.

The whole idea was to use charter laws, which had enabled the creation of new and innovative schools, to spur new school systems.

Ever since the beginning of the charter movement 20 years ago, most state charter laws have included a «teacher trigger» of sorts.

At Charter Law Group, Liu and Lee operated a successful firm practicing in corporate and intellectual property law.

It may never have occurred to anyone when charter law was created.»

Idaho's charter law says, «No whole school district may be converted to a charter district or any configuration which includes all schools as public charter schools.»

The just - released 17th edition of Center for Education Reform's yearly scorecard of state charter school laws once again finds the Arizona charter law right up there at the top of the list, one of only two states (plus the District of Columbia) to receive an «A» this year.

The school had been held up by current charter law that prohibits such targeted enrollment, but Lesniak and other Democratic leaders had recently pressed and seem poised to change the law.

The original charter law provides a total of 45 charters with 15 charters in Chicago, 15 charters in the suburbs of Chicago, and 15 charters in downstate Illinois.

Connecticut has had a net gain of one charter school since 1999 — tied for the lowest growth of all the 40 - odd states with charter schools (unless you count Mississippi, where there was no state charter law until this year).

Since then 42 states and the District of Columbia have adopted charter laws, and currently there are almost 3 million children attending charters in the United States, a steadily escalating number.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

Ten years after Minnesota became the first state to authorize charter schools, serious challenges to existing charter laws are arising in a handful of states that have traditionally been friendly to the publicly financed but administratively independent schools.

Charter conversion is not an option in the 11 states that lack charter laws, nor is it a practical possibility for more than a few schools in the several states with caps on the number of charters available (see «The Cure,» what next, Fall 2006).

Louisiana Charter Law includes a mandate that charter school authorizers follow the National Association of Charter School Authorizers» (NACSA's) «Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing» to ensure they are following best practices both in the evaluation of charter school applications, as well as in oversight of existing schools.

Gendron believes the department is waiting to award some of the money to give states without charter laws, like Washington or Maine, time to get charters on the books.

Describing the passage of Minnesota's original charter law back in 1991, former state senator and bill author Ember Reichgott Junge explains, «Chartering trades regulation for results, bureaucracy for accountability, and we weren't used to doing things like that.

Last year's winner was the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools for «How State Charter Laws Rank Against The New Model Public Charter School Law».

Over in Washington State, families and advocates are out in full force to protect their children's futures, campaigning fearlessly to enact a new public charter law that will permanently ensure that the 1,200 plus charter students will continue have access to expanded educational options.

This one - day workshop presented by national charter law experts will provide the legal expertise charter school leaders need to serve their students, staff, and community in understanding the breadth of civil rights law and the ways they are changing with a clear understanding of how they are applied to charter schools.

The expansion would be a windfall for companies like K12 Inc., which currently operates one Pennsylvania school under the limited charter law on the books.

The New York charter law envisions a school built with the support of community leaders, and Klinsky was not a natural for such a role.

He said Washington's new charter law sets up the state for success because of its language around authorization and oversight.

«Basically, the problems with a network strategy are distance, the differing charter laws in each state, different political environments, and different theories of action [for running a school],» Rosenstock says today.

New Mexico's charter law reads that: «Annual performance targets shall be set by each chartering authority in consultation with its charter schools and shall be designed to help each charter school meet applicable federal, state and chartering authority expectations as set forth in the charter contracts to which the authority is a party.»