Sentences with phrase «charter quality policy»

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«We are concerned by some of the policies Bill de Blasio is pushing, particularly those that would limit the growth of high - quality charter schools,» said Glen Weiner, deputy executive director of StudentsFirstNY.

Its charter is to «review all city information policies, including but not limited to, policies regarding public access to city produced or maintained information, particularly, computerized information; (ii) the quality, structure, and costs to the public of such information; (iii) agency compliance with the various notice, comment, and hearing provisions of the charter and other laws applicable to city agencies; and (iv) the usefulness and availability of city documents, reports, and publications.»

For those of us who are as committed to charter quality as to quantity, it's pretty obvious that bipartisan politics tend to produce better policy.

As the charter school sector expands, it is necessary but not sufficient to study political and policy conditions, or the growth in the number of high quality charter school seats.

The NACSA report on state policies associated with charter school accountability attempts to describe how laws, regulations, and authorizer practices interact to influence charter quality.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

Preferred policy areas — like teacher quality, choice, chartering and merit pay — are agnostic to curricular content.

A high - quality charter sector requires strong accountability, both in policy and in practice.

However, not long ago, a study by the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst demonstrated that curriculum has an even greater effect on student outcomes than most popular policy levers, including charter schools, teacher quality, preschool programs, and even standards themselves.

Districts score lower than non-district authorizers overall, and their policies are far less friendly to replication than non-district authorizers, meaning they are less likely to help great charters create more high - quality seats.

By using the bully pulpit to promote the idea of choice rather than to promote policies that support high - quality choices, and by making chartering an NCLB punishment rather than promoting it as an opportunity for partnership, the Administration's support for charters became a liability.

When it came to state data systems, charter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Qcharter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher QCharter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

While almost all states now have charter laws, only a handful boast policies that promote quality at scale.

Based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, SDP partners with school districts, charter networks, state agencies, and nonprofits to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

The Strategic Data Project partners with school districts, charter school networks, and state education agencies to bring high quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

Part of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, SDP partners with school districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofit organizations to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy deciPolicy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, SDP partners with school districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofit organizations to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decipolicy decisions.

He consults and leads project teams on a wide range of education policy and school management issues, with a particular focus on school turnarounds and charter school quality and growth.

Alumni from the NACSA Leaders Program are equipped with the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage the challenges authorizers face in aligning their agency's policies and practices with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing and advocate for policy that supports quality authoQuality Charter School Authorizing and advocate for policy that supports quality authoquality authorizing.

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Given the vastness of the terrain, the course will be grounded in three education policy / reform initiatives that have gained considerable currency over the past decade: (1) Standards and Accountability (2) Teacher Quality & (3) School Choice - Vouchers and Charter Schools

Ten years ago, you could argue that the biggest priority for charter policy was improving quality control, especially in a handful of «wild west» states.

The state of Texas has been making a concerted effort to raise the quality of its public charter schools through sound policy reform, effective implementation, and resources to help practitioners zero in on improvement.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

The measure was based on the share of students attending schools of choice, the strength of charter laws in each state (including, of course, the strength of the authorizing and quality control system), and a gauge of parent influence on policy.

A nationwide ranking of charter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountacharter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountaCharter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountacharter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountability.

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 opeQuality 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 opequality charter opecharter operators.

Mississippi's Charter School Law Receives High Marks December 16, 2015 by Brett Kittredge A nationwide ranking of charter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountaCharter School Law Receives High Marks December 16, 2015 by Brett Kittredge A nationwide ranking of charter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountacharter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountaCharter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountacharter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountability.

Moreover, on behalf of Arizona's more than 500 public charter schools, we will remain a champion of policies that ensure parents have quality choices when it comes to the education of their children.

In a new report from Education Sector, Sara Mead and Andrew J. Rotherham researched charter school policies that influence quality and growth in 12 states.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

As the report concludes, Clark County will need to create the will that drives ongoing commitment to change policies, then provide the resources needed to grow high - quality charter schools and transform education for all students.

She also served in both the human capital and charter school offices at the Louisiana Department of Education and Recovery School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the state.

From the ridiculous denials of quality charter petitions happening at the local level to a slew of bad policy ideas being surfaced at the state level, a wide array of needless challenges continue to be thrown at our movement, and we will have to be as on top of our advocacy game as ever in order to keep our movement on stride.

Serving as the advocacy organization that builds the policy environment needed to grow as quickly as possible the number of students attending high quality charter public schools.

While we can tinker with policies and review enrollment forms, until we ensure that charter schools are prepared to offer quality programs and held accountable for failing to provide quality programs, we will most likely continue to see increasing numbers of OCR investigations and corrective action plans.

We are also in a state today, Florida, where quality charter authorizing policies and practices are improving, and where there are many strong charter schools.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is working to double the number of students in great public charter schools by advancing policies and practices that promote quality, autonomy, and Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is working to double the number of students in great public charter schools by advancing policies and practices that promote quality, autonomy, and charter schools by advancing policies and practices that promote quality, autonomy, and choice.

While the district says the policies are needed to hold charter schools accountable, a coalition of charter leaders say the rules unduly limit the autonomy afforded charter schools under state law and their ability to offer a high - quality education.

Aside from celebrating charter schools, the rally «will also call upon elected representatives in local and state government to support pro-charter policies, including the expansion of high - quality charters, better facilities for charter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association Facharter schools, the rally «will also call upon elected representatives in local and state government to support pro-charter policies, including the expansion of high - quality charters, better facilities for charter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association Facharter policies, including the expansion of high - quality charters, better facilities for charter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association Facharter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association FaCharter Schools Association Families.

The group's new National Task Force for Quality Education — a group created after the call for a charter moratorium was approved to study and recommend education policy — just held its first public session hearing in New Haven, Conn..

Example projects: Ms. Hargrave's work includes co-authoring the forthcoming The Secret to Sustainable School Transformation: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and co-authoring Teachers Supporting Teachers: State Policies for Non-Classroom-Based Instructors; Growing a High - Quality Charter School Sector: Lessons from Tennessee; The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee; Student Achievement in Charter Schools; Raising the Bar: Why Public Charter Schools Must Become More Innovative; and The Conditions for Success: Ensuring Great Public Schools in Every Neighborhood.

Replicating Quality: Policy Recommendations to Support the Replication and Growth of High - Performing Charter Schools and Networks, a new report by Public Impact for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and the Charter School Growth Fund, argues that these changes could pave the way for a dramatic shift in K — 12 quality, creating excellent opportunities for a million more students over the next Quality: Policy Recommendations to Support the Replication and Growth of High - Performing Charter Schools and Networks, a new report by Public Impact for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and the Charter School Growth Fund, argues that these changes could pave the way for a dramatic shift in K — 12 quality, creating excellent opportunities for a million more students over the next quality, creating excellent opportunities for a million more students over the next decade.

What that means in the policy world is that the board must shift much of its attention to becoming a quality authorizer — «the organizations designated to approve, monitor, renew, and, if necessary, close charter schools.»

«This bill is a good first step toward amending the current charter school law to support the expansion of high - quality charter schools,» said Donna Siminski, the association's director of policy and advocacy.

Director, Bay Area Facilities 510-344-7263 [email protected] Aron leads CCSA's facilities policy and advocacy work in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing support and assistance to charter schools seeking high quality public and private facilities options, and working to secure equitable facilities funding for Bay Area charter schools.

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

The idea of charter schools received another boost in November 1988, when the Citizens League, a community policy organization in Minnesota, issued an influential report Chartered Schools = Choices for Educators + Quality for All Students.26 Like Shanker, the committee that authored the report argued that charter schools should be guided by two central tenets: empowering teachers and promoting diversity.

Pursuant to a charter contract and as specified in § 22.1 - 212.7, a public charter school may operate free from specified school division policies and state regulations, and, as public schools, shall be subject to the requirements of the Standards of Quality, including the Standards of Learning and the Standards of Accreditation.

The advocates» brief argues that the state needs to reform the allocation of state funds for charter public schools, because current laws and policies threaten charter public schools» ability to provide a high - quality education to students.