Sentences with phrase «charter operators report»

Many conventional charter operators report that they would rather operate small, one - site schools than seek to create a chain of schools.

But that option is only helpful when districts identify «surplus» space, and charter operators report that many have been unwilling to share their facilities or consolidate under - enrolled schools in order to do so.

Not exact matches

Under the auspices of the district - charter compact, New Orleans has an integrated student - enrollment system, a common report card for all schools, and a transparent process for allocating facilities to school operators.

But I would've preferred the report to point out that school quality matters far more than school operator, and while the CSO - model is a promising approach to the district sector, it should be viewed in the context of a city's entire portfolio of schools — CSO, charter, and private.

A once - secret report prepared by the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) lays out a strategy that would organize all charter employees under the NEA affiliate's collective bargaining agreement, thereby depriving charter operators of a key element of their autonomy.

A new report by Public Impact's Daniela Doyle and Tim Field, The Role of Charter Restarts in School Reform: Honoring our Commitments to Students and Public Accountability explores a variation on school closure in which a charter school's operator and board change, while the school continues to serve the same stCharter Restarts in School Reform: Honoring our Commitments to Students and Public Accountability explores a variation on school closure in which a charter school's operator and board change, while the school continues to serve the same stcharter school's operator and board change, while the school continues to serve the same students.

This special report, funded by the USDOE National Initiatives Grant of the Charter Schools Program and administered by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, is a supplement to a series of special education primers, Primers on Special Education in Charter Schools, created to inform state officials, authorizers and charter school operators about special education in the charter Charter Schools Program and administered by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, is a supplement to a series of special education primers, Primers on Special Education in Charter Schools, created to inform state officials, authorizers and charter school operators about special education in the charter Charter Schools, created to inform state officials, authorizers and charter school operators about special education in the charter charter school operators about special education in the charter charter sector.

These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.

Especially in recent years, I've been struck by the willingness of some stellar charter operators to give themselves a hard look — reporting on their successes but vehemently insisting they've still got a long way to go.

Our report Going Exponential offers advice for authorizers, school operators, and policymakers about growing successful charter schools, based on research about how organizations have grown quickly and with quality in other sectors.

Several charter operators complained that district schools told certain students they were expelled and would have to report to charters.

The report finds that a more transparent, accountable, and fair system will require action from all parties, including school districts, charter authorizers, charter operators, and states.

As N.C. Policy Watch's Sarah Ovaska reported last week, the issue of for - profit charter operators wanting to serve on non-profit boards has come up before — once again, involving Baker Mitchell.

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opeCharter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opeCharter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter opecharter operators.

Today, the NAACP released its report calling for the elimination of for - profit charter school operators.

Their reports are an effort to hold charter school operators (private companies that receive taxpayer dollars to manage a school) accountable to the same financial and transparency standards as public schools.

The report called on the charter school authorizers and operators, state education officials, and parents and students to review school policies and ensure that their charter schools are open to all students.

Beginning February 1, LACOE moved its STRS reporting deadline up by ten days, drastically reducing the amount of time charter operators and back office providers have to process and submit payments for STRS submissions.

The report from ProPublica tells the story of Baker Mitchell, a charter school operator in southeastern North Carolina, and the four charters that contract with Roger Bacon Academy, a for - profit company that Mitchell owns, to operate the schools.

The report calls on school operators, funders, policymakers and city - based organizations such as The Mind Trust to create conditions that promote innovative thinking and ideas that can keep charter schools on the cutting edge of public education and allow them to serve more kids.

The district fired some 7500 teachers and new teachers in the RSD report to charter operators.

Hall also says yearly progress reports on performance in the takeover schools will keep charter operators accountable.

Highly anticipated NAACP report calls for the elimination of for - profit charter school operators politicopro.com/tipsheets/morn...

Gov. Scott Walker offers a revised school «report card» in his proposed state budget, which also would lift a state cap on the number of vouchers that let students use public funds to attend private schools and create a state board to authorize charter school operators.

Operators of alternative charter schools including online and independent study programs are challenging a report released last week that called out non-classroom instruction as being among the lowest performers statewide.

The report is a joint effort, reflecting the input and deliberations of a 16 - member working group including authorizers, charter operators, and researchers.

Sabrina Joy Stevens, executive director of Integrity in Education, told BillMoyers.com, «Our report shows that over $ 100 million has been lost to fraud and abuse in the charter industry, because there is virtually no proactive oversight system in place to thwart unscrupulous or incompetent charter operators before they cheat the public.»

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

But to read local media reports and talk to close observers in the state's largest city, there's really only one plan: a proposal that would wrest direct control of all 34 Kansas City Schools from the district and hand over management to charter operators and nonprofits.

In a statement Tuesday, activist coalition Excellent Schools Detroit notes that of the state's nine charter operators, just three can report that fewer than half their schools perform in the bottom 25 percent.

Dr. Ramona Edelin, executive director of DCACPS and a member of the committee that produced the CCE report, said the group has identified a charter operator that would be «a wonderful fit.»

When the state reports their test scores, each of the charter operator's schools are reported as individual districts.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

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As a third factor, the report says the effort can only succeed through an strategy of finding quality charter operators, pointing out that the state charter association has taken steps in recent years to reduce the number of «under - performing» charters and «growth for growth's sake» is not the aim.

As reported: «The troubled Hartford charter school operator FUSE was dealt another blow Friday when FBI agents served it subpoenas to a grand jury that is examining the group's operations.

In reviewing auditor's reports for a charter school managed by for - profit operator National Heritage Academies, Wang reports that the school was giving «virtually all of -LSB-...] Read More»

It is not the intent of these reports to suggest any charter operator is currently violating state law.

The latest U.S. News and World Report «Best High School» rankings are out and the BASIS charter operators claim the top five spots in Arizona.

This report finds the seven largest charter operators, who all contract with educational management companies, have per pupil administrative costs that are $ 406 higher than the overall average for charter schools.

Initiative 1240 sets strict accountability and performance requirements The initiative sets strict qualification requirements for public charter school operators and requires strict oversight and accountability standards — including annual performance reporting for public charter schools to evaluate their success in improving student outcomes.

The Los Angeles Times reports today that the city's school board voted down an application by charter school operator Green Dot Public Schools to expand its exceptional network of schools into Watts, one of the poorest parts of the city.