Sentences with phrase «charter law allows»

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).

Arizona's charter law allows for 15 year «charters,» meaning the charter schools have 15 years to meet the expectations outlined in their charters before the state would potentially close a charter for poor performance.

Not exact matches

The Mayor did not sign the bills but allowed 30 days to lapse since Council passage, making the bills law under the City Charter.

Critiquing the state's arcane election laws, Stringer said instant runoffs are a «progressive leap» that would allow elections to be decided quickly and efficiently, and he said the mayor's Charter Revision Commission affords the city a prime opportunity to pursue the policy.

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

Mahoney says the county would do even more if it was allowed by the county charter or state law, but some agencies like Veteran's Services are required to have their own department.

«Our position is the same as it was when the legislation was passed: We believe the legislation's intent did not allow for SUNY to adopt regulations that are inconsistent with current laws governing charter schools, including laws related to teacher certification requirements.»

But after consulting with the city Law Department, the commission found that the charter, in fact, did allow them to take the maps back from the Council and hold more public hearings.

In May 2011, Daniels signed into law legislation that among other provisions, allows charters to lease or purchase for $ 1 any unused, closed, or unoccupied school building that is maintained by a school corporation.

In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.

As passed in California, Texas, and Mississippi, trigger laws allow parents to petition to convert a school to a charter school, close the school, or replace school leadership.

Advisors in the state department of education, the governor's office, and the General Assembly had suggested that while a complete overhaul of the charter school law would be politically impossible, a «carve - out» within the charter school law to allow for a new, more autonomous type of charter school might be achievable.

Rhode Island's charter - school law allows multiple schools and an unlimited number of students to be governed by a single charter and a single school board.

• Advocating changes in state law that allow rapid transformation of districts and schools and partnerships between willing districts and charter providers.

The restructuring options prescribed by law include strong measures, such as turning failing schools into charter schools or allowing the state to take them over.

State law allows charter authorizers to retain 3 percent of the state funding for the schools they sponsor, creating a strong disincentive for closing schools.

Some state laws allow charters to operate only in disadvantaged or low - performing areas.

A governor who enacts a charter law may find that no school board will actually authorize such schools or allow them access to empty buildings owned by the district.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

Sure, that includes vouchers and such, but there are many other possibilities, such as amending state charter laws to allow existing private schools to convert and even making room for religious charter schools.

At Mr. Fuller's request, the Governor proposed expanding the state's charter - school law — which now allows 10 districts to charter one school each — to allow local school boards to charter as many schools as they desire.

We need to support laws and policies that allow proven education models, in both charters and traditional schools, to flourish in our education landscape.

For example, a charter law may restrict the number of students who attend charters or the number of new schools allowed or require a state reimburse districts for the money it loses when a student leaves the district.

To the extent that such schools are allowed to operate at all, they typically do so in the context of charter school laws.

Certainly, if a child study team agreed that the best place to meet the services listed in the student's individualized education plan was, say, KIPP or Princeton Charter School, then the student would, I suppose, enroll in the lottery (both schools» demand for seats outpaces availability) or, perhaps, the state could pass a law allowing special treatment.

Arizona's charter school law is unique in allowing charter schools to operate for 15 years before coming up for review.

This would include, among other things, changing states» charter laws to allow the participation of private schools, developing a student - based funding formula for education, and establishing clear rules for ensuring that new Catholic (and other private) charter schools are able to maintain sufficient autonomy while being held accountable for results.

Minnesota's charter school law allowed educators and other concerned individuals to apply to the state for permission to operate a government - funded school outside of the public education system.

With respect to SEAs» possible use of FRPL data to adjust USED allocations for some of their LEAs due to recent boundary changes, creation of new LEAs, or for the allocation of Title I funds to charter schools treated as separate LEAs under state law, USED's policy guidance would allow use of any of the alternatives to FRPL data for CEP schools discussed above.

The promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more charter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to attract better teachers.

The Education Law Center is asking the courts to reverse decisions by former state Commissioner of Education David C. Hespe that allowed seven charter schools to boost enrollment by about 8,500 student in the next five years.

State laws that allow for continued growth of high - quality charters, and that give charters access to facilities, are crucial.

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration recently cancelled a charter school's pre-k program, saying state law prohibits charter schools from offering pre-k and the school was only allowed to offer pre-k due to an «oversight in the chartering process during the previous administration.»

California's new «parent trigger» law allows parents at a failing school to vote to turn the school into a charter, to replace the staff, or to force other changes.

That's much of the genius behind charter schools, which, when state laws get it right, allow school leaders true autonomy and allow teachers to choose schools that align with their personal philosophies.

Besides, California law does not allow for such reasons in denying a charter - school application.

Arizona has a charter school law, three tax - credit scholarship programs, and an open enrollment law that allows students to choose from schools across the state, so the question of whether parents should be able to choose a school for their child is settled.

For instance, Michigan's charter school law allows many organizations to grant charters, including local school districts, intermediate school districts, community colleges, and state universities.

The charter law approved by voters in November allows up to 40 charter schools to open in Washington state over the next five years.

«Florida charter school law really allows for the opportunity for expansion.

State law essentially says that a child who attends a charter school is allowed to receive only 68 % of the funding given to a child who attends a city school — even if those two kids are best friends and live right next door to each other, or even if those kids are brother and sister.

That law would allow as many as 45 new charter schools to open in the next six years, run by nonprofit organizations under contract, or «charter,» with a local school district or with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Twenty years ago this month, Governor John Rowland signed the law allowing public charter schools to...

Not allowing public charter schools to have the contact info needed to reach out to families is against the law.

Mitt Romney has pledged that if elected president he will enact a voucher program that would allow parents of low - income and special needs students «to choose from any district or public charter school, or a private school where permitted by state law.»

A poll released Thursday by the Washington Policy Center, a business group that supports charters, and conducted by Moore Information, a conservative pollster, found that 60 percent of state residents support changing the law to allow for charter schools.

Of course, if I - 1240 becomes law, public charters schools will be allowed everywhere in the state, regardless of whether a majority of voters in a particular county voted in favor of I - 1240 or not.

The outcome makes Washington the 42nd state in the nation to allow charters, 20 years after Minnesota passed the nation's first charter - school law...

The Legislature passed a charter school law during the last session that allows for the creation of five schools in the entire state next year, and a total of up to 45 charter schools over six years.

They did this by allowing modest but vital growth at existing charters while also strengthening accountability laws.