Sentences with phrase «charter school chains»

One of the most prominent of these programs is the Relay Graduate School of Education — a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First — that trains its aspiring teachers through «teacher - in - residence» programs, mostly at urban charter schools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other charters.

• National charter school chains or other educational organizations charged with running persistently failing public schools

An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high - performing charter school chains to public schools in Houston appears to be bearing early fruit, according to Fryer's findings in a recent report.

Both school districts have been under state control for years, while public education dollars have been diverted to privately operated charter school chains like KIPP, Uncommon, & Mastery.

32) Think Tanks: The pro-privatization Center for Education Reform is launching a «grassroots» advisory network, which includes a number of CEOs and COOs of charter school chains, and Will Cain of CNN's The Blaze.

Relay was founded by representatives of three charter school chains, Achievement First, KIPP and Uncommon Schools — chains with a troubling record of suspensions, harsh discipline and attrition.

Achievement First Inc.'s expansion plan to become one of the largest charter school chains in the country actually goes back to before Achievement First Inc. co-founder and board member Stefan Pryor left Achievement First, Inc. to become Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

It is a charter - style network of independent teacher preparation programs created by the leaders of three prominent charter school chains (Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First), primarily as a means to bypass traditional teacher education.

In essence, it is a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First... Relay's «curriculum» mostly consists of taking the non-certified faculty of the charter schools, giving them computer - delivered modules on classroom management (and distributing copies of Teach Like a Champion), and placing them under the auspices of the «no excuses» brand of charter school operation and teachers who already have experience with it.

In addition, Klarman has been a major source of cash for a series of charter schools and pro-charter school sponsors including EdVestors, a Boston - based operation that, in turn, has funneled millions to a variety of charter school chains including the KIPP charter school chain.

Bekenstein is a long - time charter supporter having donated massive amounts of money to pro-voucher, anti-teacher, pro-charter school groups including Stand for Children, Teach for America, and the KIPP and Citizen charter school chains.

Further, this system almost certainly appeals to charter school chains who rely upon a rapidly turning over cohort of new teachers, some of whom stay if they adapt quickly to the in - house system, but most of whom eventually leave teaching altogether.

The escalating coverage of the so - called «state of emergency» in our district comes at a time when charter school chains from other states and cities are trying to increase their foothold in San Francisco.

And that's exactly why parents and educators in East Nashville, Tennessee have teamed up to fight for the resources their public schools need to improve, rather than giving them away to national charter school chains.

Large for - profit charter school chains such as Academica and Charter Schools USA have ignored the state requirement that charters be innovative.

Some charter school chains, such as Success Academy in New York City, boast impressively high test scores.

The «Parent Trigger» is a political device created by venture capitalists and return - on - investment philanthropists looking for an effective way to rapidly expand for - profit charter school chains.

Most for - profit charter school chains also keep applications brief.

KIPP, one of the country's largest and most successful charter school chains, dismissed its co-founder, Michael Feinberg, after an investigation found credible a claim that he had sexually abused a student some two decades ago.

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Eva Moskowitz, the polarizing founder of the Success Academy charter school chain, told reporters today she would «not be entertaining» a rumored role as secretary of the Department of Education in the Trump administration.

The charter school chain has recently faced criticism for singling out poor - performing or difficult students.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is under fire from all sides for its harsh discipline policies and treatment of students with special needs.

Actually, Parent Revolution was created by charter school operator Steve Barr, who founded the Green Dot charter school chain.

[iii] This Los Angeles Times article (May 11, 2009) describes how Steve Barr, founder of the Green Dot charter school chain, created Parent Revolution in 2009.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the charter school chain, recently appeared on PBS News Hour to defend the practice of suspending students as young as kindergarten and first grade.

Let's see if I've got this right... Stefan Pryor was co-founder and board member of Amistad Academy, the «flagship» school of Achievement First, a charter school chain he helped found and on whose board he sat until he was made Commissioner of Education of the State of Connecticut in Sept. 2011.

Silicon Valley - based Rocketship is a charter school chain with a bevy of star backers that has reported sky - high student achievement and recently landed a $ 12.6 million grant from Betsy DeVos» Department of Education.

The membership of this alternative group has ties to a charter school chain operated by a private religious college in Michigan.

The charter school chain expects to receive its results in July.

NEW YORK CITY On Thursday, former Success Academy parent Fatima Geidi delivered a petition she started calling on the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the charter school chain for keeping a «got to go» list of struggling students and actively working to push them out of school.

The now - stillborn school reform effort undertaken by the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, flourished under reform - minded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose state board backed charter school chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top dollars.

Of the six large school districts and the charter school chain EdSource is following as they implement the Common Core, only two had received preliminary scores as of late last week.

They claim they like all schools, but they are giving their charitable funding to a charter school chain.

Like Lighthouse, Rocketship in Milwaukee is a franchise — part of a national charter school chain.

However the charter school industry's «no - excuses» approach, primarily aimed at children of color, is the hallmark of the charter school industry across the nation, including at Achievement First, Inc., the large Connecticut - based charter school chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

In Connecticut, a leading example of a push - out strategy was the one utilized by the Achievement First Inc. charter school chain.

Last year, when Achievement First was fighting to open charter schools in Rhode Island, RI - CAN (the Ocean State's ConnCAN affiliate) ramped up a major public relations effort to soften opposition to the out - of - state charter school chain.

Although she notably did not specify what she would replace them with in that interview, she later advocated that she would work diligently to grow a particular charter school chain with which she is affiliated and which she sponsored as a Senator for New York.

Moskowitz has turned her charter school chain into a taxpayer - funded, multi-million dollar business.

In New York, the Success charter school chain, and their political front groups, have spent millions in campaign donations and lobbying activities to prop up Governor Cuomo and his policies.

And even the nation's very best high - poverty charter school chain, KIPP, which enjoys all the advantages of self - selection, high attrition, and unparalleled philanthropic support, fails to produce college graduates two - thirds of the time.

Other CSAB members with ties to the charter industry in North Carolina include Alan Hawkes, who serves on the board of two NHA charters in Guilford County, Eric Sanchez, who founded a charter in Hendersonville, Joe Maimone who leads a Rutherford County charter associated with state - based charter chain Team - CFA, and Tammi Sutton who works for the KIPP charter school chain.

He cut his teeth in the charter industry in Florida with a charter school chain that eventually went belly up.

A former executive of the charter school chain Rocketship — which is one of the largest users of online learning — called blended learning «stripped - down efficiency model.»

New Profit, Inc. also funds Achievement First, Inc., a charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the Achievement Network and Turnaround for Children, two more pro-charter school lobby and public relations organizations.

The Vice Chair of Eva Moskowitz's infamous New York City based Success Academy Charter Schools dropped $ 1,500 on the event, thanks to donations from board members and his wife, while another donation came from a board member of the Newark, New Jersey, Team Charter School chain, which is owned by KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, a «national network» of 125 charter schools around the Country.

Major donors associated with ConnCAN, the Achievement First charter school chain and other corporate education reform entities have donated in excess of $ 250,000 to Malloy's Democratic State Central Committee in just the last four years.