Sentences with phrase «charter school challenges»

And while public charter schools challenge Democrats» unity, Republicans education factions may be more consequential.

He authored the Brookings Institution Press book The Charter School Challenge: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Fulfilling the Promise, and co-authored Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School with Confidence.

Subsequently, the public charter school challenged them academically.

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In spite of those challenges, charter schools are finding ways to implement thriving nutrition programs by meeting these challenges with best practices; specifically, through universal meals and boosting school breakfast participation by making it part of the school day.

As Azi Paybarah points out, Bloomberg is also expected to support his 2009 campaign consultant and charter school supporter, Basil Smikle, who is mounting a primary challenge against an anti-charter Democrat, Sen. Bill Perkins.

Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of the Success Academy charter school network and a former city councilwoman, would not rule out a challenge against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio when he runs for re-election in two years.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Mulgrew reported on the challenges facing the UFT Charter School in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

She commands the largest and most influential charter school network in the city and openly flirts with challenging Mr. de Blasio when he will seek re-election in 2017.

Albany, NY — Alan is joined by New York State Senator Bill Perkins, who is challenging charter school funding and questioning whether public schools are being left behind in some of the state's poorer neighborhoods.

Even if mayoral control vanishes, charter schools would still face challenges in expanding their operations.

But the governor has also passed a cap on property tax increases as well as a suite of business tax cuts, along with embracing charter schools — all policies that have led to activists within the WFP to challenge him.

New York City Republicans have quietly begun laying the groundwork to recruit a candidate to challenge Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017, with some promoting charter - school executive Eva Moskowitz.

We are not afraid of competition, it's charter schools that are afraid to take on the most challenging students, the tough cases that slow down learning for whole classes.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Broschool classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., BroSchool Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

The waiting lists to get into charter schools are around the block in the districts of state Assembly members who haven't challenged attempts to limit the alternative schools, according to data obtained by The Post.

Nolan also expressed her dismay over the recent decision by a SUNY committee that allows some charter schools to certify their own teachers — a move that is being challenged by the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, and its NYC affiliate, the UFT, both of which are longtime allies of the Assembly Democrats.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

Citing her dedication to «re-imagining» education through the charter schools movement, Eva Moskowitz ruled out today that she would challenge Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017.

A group of parents filed the challenge, claiming the formulas discriminate against charters in favor of traditional public schools.

The state attorney general's office has asked a Supreme Court judge to toss out a lawsuit challenging New York's formulas for charter school funding.

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

Before adding more charters or other new schools, the district should wait for the data to come in to justify doing so... We challenge Superintendent Tom Boasberg and our board to commit to a level playing field so neighborhood schools receive the same resources as charter and innovation schools.

This tale of two schools illustrates a fundamental challenge faced by the charter school movement.

All 10 schools faced challenges that generally paralleled those of other charter schools across Ohio.

The charter schools in D.C. that serve a highly diverse student body face a challenge in preserving their diversity, Chandler notes, as these schools become increasingly popular with the growing population of gentrifiers.

The United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), the community group that I lead in Chicago, and its network of charter schools provide Hispanic immigrant families with access to a high - quality education, thereby challenging them to fulfill their great potential while promoting American values, ideals, and our collective successes.

Such challenges, we were coming to discover, plagued many one - off charter schools that depended too much on the vision and leadership of a single dynamic individual.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Nevertheless, expanding beyond a single campus or city presents added challenges — challenges that so far have prevented most successful charter schools from seriously pursuing scale.

As I think back on the successes and challenges of coleading Envision Schools with my partner and fellow CEO Daniel McLaughlin, I pondered these questions: How does a high school teacher become a cofounder of a leading nonprofit charter - school - management organization?

Veteran educators Nancy and Ted Sizer and several colleagues accepted the challenge of Massachusetts» charter school law — to build a new school upon a visionary foundation.

For students with milder learning or behavioral challenges, the standard academic programs that many charter schools offer may help to reduce the need for special services and thus the number of students classified under federal and state special education rules.

Challenge 20/20 is an Internet - based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K - 12) at U.S. private, public or charter schools with a counterpart class in a school abroad.

Chicago has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful charter school authorizers, but Mayor Richard M. Daley's high - profile push to expand on that foundation is fraught with challenges, a report from the Washington - based Progressive Policy Institute contends.

And our best public charter schools are demonstrating that tremendous success is possible even in the most challenging of circumstances.

Addressing these challenges is the focus of three new white papers a Public Impact team led by Lucy Steiner recently produced with the support of the National Charter School Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program.

Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.

Even as «no excuses» schools like KIPP work to make their programs more intellectually challenging, only a few charter providers (for example, Summit) are experimenting with technology - based, personalized schools and with models that reduce the need for large facilities.

Ten years after Minnesota became the first state to authorize charter schools, serious challenges to existing charter laws are arising in a handful of states that have traditionally been friendly to the publicly financed but administratively independent schools.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Cocreated with a former colleague, the database allows administrators to capture data that is particularly relevant when serving challenged populations of students, many of whom enroll at BDEA after unsuccessful starts in traditional district high schools or local charter schools.

The charter schools were, like the school districts and county boards of education challenging their charters, creatures of the state «authorized to maintain» public schools.

The primary challenge in determining how effective charter schools are in raising student achievement arises from the fact that charter school students are self - selected.

In the spring of 2015, charter founder Ref Rodriguez (top) challenged the union - friendly incumbent Bennett Kayser for a seat on the school board in what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history.