Sentences with phrase «charter management groups»

Representatives from three charter management groups gave presentations on their school plans... The three groups that presented Monday were Family Urban Schools of Excellence, of Connecticut...»

«It's a very good mix of high - quality charter management groups coming into the state as well as home - grown proposals.»

However, the Rev. Willie Calhoun Jr., a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, said the «elected body has less authority than the charter management groups.»

He said the board should have put the charter management group and its flagship charter school, Jumoke Academy, on probation.

The Charter management group Charter Schools USA recommends that rental costs should not exceed 20 percent of a school's budget.

She spearheaded the takeover of Washington's first multicampus charter management group, ensuring that hundreds of children could remain in their school of choice.

«A charter management group that runs five public schools in Connecticut refused on Wednesday to release information about any possible severance deal with former CEO Michael M. Sharpe.»

Not exact matches

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

The demonstrations were aimed at Cuomo's plans to increase the importance of standardized tests for teacher ratings, boost the number of charter schools and turn over the management of troubled city schools to outside groups.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

A battle over the future of Colorado's Cesar Chavez Schools Network, plagued by recent management problems and financial scandal, has created uncertainty in one of the state's most successful charter school groups.

Independent groups start charter schools with public - school funds, yet in return for a renewal process based on achieving goals articulated in a charter document, they have more flexibility around management and educational programs: their teachers need not be unionized, for example.

In addition to those groups, there's also the National Heritage Academies (NHA), a Michigan - based charter school management organization that has seven partner schools in Detroit.

The group, with representatives from 24 states, has a goal of nationally advocating for true independent charter schools outside of both the school districts and charter management organization chains.

Like the other charter - management groups, the majority of Green Dot's schools are located in the low - income communities of South Los Angeles.

The at - time unctuous, election - year parent trigger debate is pitting teachers» unions and parent groups against charter schools and for - profit management companies throughout the nation.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

«Perry's group» being a private company that Steve Perry formed out of his home in 2012 and then moved its address to Capital Prep, a public school building while he submitted the paperwork to become a «non-profit» charter school management company under the federal IRS code.

They are usually created and run by teachers, parents, a community - based group, or a charter management organization (CMO).

But last week, the same group of researchers produced a follow - up study on the Florida students, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and it showed something startling: the charter students might not have produced higher test scores when they were in school, but years later, when they were in their mid-twenties, the charter school students earned more money, and were more likely to have attended at least two years of college (although still only half of them did so).

Ms. Roberts is responsible for overseeing the operations of all of the charter schools under management contract with The Rader Group.

PSC began in 2009 as an initiative to reform failing schools by opening up management to alterative operators, such as charter groups or teacher - led groups.

The ramifications of changing the bonds and tax credits could be huge, said Brian Colon, manager of the charter group at Robert W. Baird, a financial management firm in Denver.

Celerity Education Group, the management company for Los Angeles Celerity charter schools, had the charter for two of its schools revoked.

Even the experience of charter schools reveals the emerging challenges individual schools face in going it alone without central - office - like support for groups of schools through charter - management organizations and other means.

Through our work with a group of school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs)-- all part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Leading for Effective Teaching project (LET)-- we have learned a lot about what it looks like to provide these three essentials for principals on a systemwide basis.

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans» last five traditional schools to charters.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

At the school level, stories of charters founded by groups of teachers and parents recall the early days of the movement, but increasingly, private companies and management entities are taking responsibility for opening and running charter schools.

The coalition includes ConnCAN (the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First, the charter school management company that will end up the biggest winner under Malloy's bill), the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Association of Schools, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

In addition to being held accountable to their contracts by these groups, the daily responsibility of ensuring that charter schools reach their performance targets falls to management organizations or the schools themselves.

They buy politicians, publishers, newspapers, testing companies, charter school management groups, and TFA.

However, the distinction between for - profit and nonprofit is often messier than groups like NAPCS readily admit: Nonprofit charters can still hire for - profit management companies to run their schools.

Ridley apparently resigned from being board chair of the charter management organization Crescent City Schools to take on the new group.

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

Charter management organizations (CMOs) are nonprofit groups that operate multiple charter schools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, and AchievementCharter management organizations (CMOs) are nonprofit groups that operate multiple charter schools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, and Achievementcharter schools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, and Achievement First.

As the founder and leader of ED - Volution Education Group, a boutique K - 12 education consulting firm, she has worked with leading sector entrepreneurs and philanthropies on strategy, new initiative design, partnership creation, growth and launch, and management and the content areas of school turnaround; charter management; state, city and district redesign; and human capital with special focus on school leadership.

Capitol is the charter school management group's only school in Louisiana.

A Better Connecticut is the latest charter school advocacy group to develop out of ConnCAN, the group that was created by Jonathan Sackler and the other deep financial pockets that funded the creation of Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that was co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group charter group entity.

ConnCAN, the charter group advocacy firm set up by Achievement First, the charter school management company spent a half a million dollars.

Side Note: The emails reveal that the person who brought the Connecticut state officials and the billionaire's consultant together was none other than Alex Johnston, who was then the Executive Director of ConnCAN — the charter school advocacy group that was created by Achievement First — the charter school management company.

It would seem that the group, set up by the charter school management company Achievement First, doesn't have a problem misleading reporters and legislators and it definitely wants people to read their press release and not take a look at the survey results.

Charters must be run by non-profit operators (this is always a little deceptive, because in many states, a for - profit management company can set up a non-profit front group, which then turns over management of the school to the for - profit company) and must be nonsectarian.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy lobby group that was created by the same donors who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor; develop Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that now runs schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the charter school advocacy group that was created by the founders of Achievement First, the state's largest charter school management company, has signed a two - year, $ 200,000 lobbying contract with Connecticut government relations firm, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates.

The legacy of the Charter School movement in the US - KIPP in particular - echoes through the rapid emergence of new kinds of school organisation in the UK — federations clustered around «Teaching Schools» which, partnered with a university, provide professional development from initial teacher training to leadership and management across groups of schools; independent yet state - funded chains of academies and the new «Free Schools».

An In the Public Interest group found that an analyst for the District of Columbia «could not provide a single instance in which its strategy of transferring a low - performing school to a charter management organization had resulted in academic gains for the students.»

Tanya Koonce for Peoria Public Radio reports that an Illinois charter school, Quest Academy, voted to «let its contract with the academy's current management group, Concept Schools, expire as of the end of July.»

At the start of two inches of legal language in dense small print at the top of the page, it says it would «transform McKinley Elementary School under the RESTART MODEL, to be reopened under Celerity Educational Group, a Charter Management Organization (CMO).»