Sentences with phrase «charter school colleagues»

But the rest of us knew, all along, that he was poised to load his cabinet with his charter school colleagues.

Not exact matches

Silver didn't address any of Cuomo's policy positions, some of which seem to be a direct hit on the speaker and his colleagues — like the one that would require full disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, for example, or the lifting of the charter school cap (not popular with the teachers unions, who are close allies of the Assembly Democrats).

Bitter rivals from their days as City Council colleagues, the two squared off again this year when Mr. de Blasio initially pulled the plug on three of her charter schools.

During an interview with me on «Capital Tonight» last night, Johnson slammed the event hosted by his Democratic conference colleague, saying Perkins had stacked the deck with charter school opponents.

The GOP leader maintained that he and his colleagues favor prolonging the program of mayoral control, but insisted they also wanted more charter school opportunities for inner - city students.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

Having set forth our disagreements, we conclude by noting that we find common agreement with Ritter and his colleagues on the need for more complete and accurate data on charter schools.

Boykin Curry, a partner in Eagle Capital Management and founder of two New York charter schools, commented on the change in mind - set among his colleagues, «A lot of hedge fund and finance people in New York had decided that politics was too dirty and focused on their philanthropy.

To make sense of these claims and counter-claims, two colleagues and I examined a sample of the 2015 charter school coverage from a number of influential media outlets.

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.

The charter school provision of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 gave these parents, the two of us, and several other colleagues our opportunity.

Last week I, along with my colleague, Innosight Institute Education research assistant Charity Eyre, authored an op - ed titled «State has virtually no reason to not give online charter schools a shot» in The Star - Ledger in New Jersey about a proposed moratorium on virtual charter schools in the state.

According to University of Washington's Daniel Goldhaber and his colleagues, charter schools are more likely than traditional public schools to use merit pay.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

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.

And fourth, it appears to be taking my colleague Heather Staker's advice to heart by working closely with its charter school boards and district partnerships to better align its outreach and enrollment to the students who are best suited for success in full - time virtual schools.

Shortly before last year's school year ended, I spent a day with Steven Wilson and several of his colleagues at Ascend Public Charter Schools in Brooklyn.

Like other schools in the Algiers charter network, Behrman was implementing the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), a national initiative to help teachers improve their instruction methods by learning from experienced colleagues designated as mentor teachers and master teachers.

Yet as my colleague Brandon Wright recently pointed out, both D.C. charter schools and D.C. district schools had 2013 — 14 suspension rates that were about double the national rates.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappocharter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

Carroll and his colleagues, now fully engaged in their roles as school reformers, immediately established the Charter School Resource Center to offer technical assistance to anyone willing to set up a charter sschool reformers, immediately established the Charter School Resource Center to offer technical assistance to anyone willing to set up a charter Charter School Resource Center to offer technical assistance to anyone willing to set up a charter sSchool Resource Center to offer technical assistance to anyone willing to set up a charter charter schoolschool.

At Oakleaf K - 8 Charter School in Middleburg, Florida, teachers take an active role in recognizing their colleagues who have gone above - and - beyond.

To find out, I asked three of my colleagues at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute to review all of the editorials written about or touching on charter schools or No Child Left Behind from 2006 and 2007 for the nation's 25 largest - circulation papers.

On October 7, the day of the next school board meeting and with the board still unaware of Moran's plans (she had e-mailed the plan to her colleagues the night before, but according to Education Week, some board members and Acting Superintendent Watson said they hadn't had a chance to read the application before the meeting), New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced that he would ask the governor for help in creating a citywide charter school system.

As my Mathematica colleague Brian Gill has said, the results from this study show that most online charter schools don't work in their current context, but they don't show that they can't work.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

Which brings me back to charter schools and their relatives in mainstream school systems that are, by bearing witness, pushing their colleagues in better directions.

Today my colleagues and I at the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas released The Productivity of Public Charter Schools.

Two recent studies, one by Joshua Angrist and colleagues and another by Matthew Johnson and colleagues, found that attendance at urban charter middle schools with high behavioral expectations is associated with a higher number of days suspended relative to attendance at traditional schools in the same districts.

Finn and his colleagues, however, note that charters themselves are not impervious to financial and political corruption: «Low - performing schools also crave students, resources, and legitimacy....

As part of our professional development (PD) at Two Rivers Public Charter School, we meet at least three times a semester with a group of colleagues to analyze student work.

This past year a cornucopia of outstanding pieces have emerged, including James Guthrie and Arthur Peng's crisp analysis of rising school costs, the inside story of charter authorizing by Terry Ryan and his colleagues, and Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood's eye - opening research on middle schools.

Unlike my colleagues in Washington, D.C., I do not believe that charter schools should play by different rules than district schools.

My colleagues also argue that the coexistence of charter and district schools has led to academic increases across both sectors in Washington, D.C..

My colleagues in Washington, D.C. (see «D.C. Students Benefit from Both Sectors,» forum, Spring 2015) contend that the best educational model is one in which charter schools coexist with traditional district schools.

Research by Marty West and colleagues of no excuses charter schools in Boston found large gains in test scores but also significantly lowered student performance on noncognitive measures.

Kay Merseth and her colleagues have looked inside some of the nation's best public charter schools and unlocked their secrets.

Lake and her colleagues have not used a rigorous analysis to determine whether charter schools are having a positive effect in Detroit, they just show trends in urban NAEP scores.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

This is key because those districts are generally very low - performing and, as my colleagues and I found in a recent study, the state's charter school sector isn't doing so well.

As my colleague Halley Potter and I note in a forthcoming book, A Smarter Charter, a small but important number of charter schools — from High Tech High in San Diego to Community Roots in Brooklyn — are taking conscious steps to create socioeconomically and racially diverse school enviroCharter, a small but important number of charter schools — from High Tech High in San Diego to Community Roots in Brooklyn — are taking conscious steps to create socioeconomically and racially diverse school envirocharter schools — from High Tech High in San Diego to Community Roots in Brooklyn — are taking conscious steps to create socioeconomically and racially diverse school environments.

LA charter school teachers are invited to join Teach Plus on Thursday, April 19 for an interactive, hands - on working session where you and your colleagues will design your «ideal» teacher evaluation.

She and her colleagues are working to develop charter schools in three regions in Washington: Spokane, Tacoma and South King County.

At Brooke Charter Schools, we empower our teacher teams to create their own units, lesson plans and pedagogical approaches - and now we want to share their plans with our colleagues at other sSchools, we empower our teacher teams to create their own units, lesson plans and pedagogical approaches - and now we want to share their plans with our colleagues at other schoolsschools.

Rep. Stan Lee, R - Lexington, has already filed charter - school legislation, and both lawmakers said there appears to be a growing willingness among colleagues to consider it.

Regional Charter Leader meetings are the perfect way to reconnect with your colleagues and get important updates about the statewide policies and issues that will impact your school.

Even more powerful than the research methods that produced this report, she says, are randomized studies: true apples - to - apples comparisons, like one she and a colleague did with Chicago schools, that examine charter school students and those who would have liked to attend a charter school but are in a traditional school.

As a member of the Connecticut Board of Education Erik Clemons will be in a position to financially reward himself, the charter schools he is or has been associated with and his friends and colleagues in the charter school industry.

At Brooke Charter Schools, we empower our teacher teams to create their own units, lesson plans and pedagogical approaches - and now we want to share their plans with the our colleagues at other sSchools, we empower our teacher teams to create their own units, lesson plans and pedagogical approaches - and now we want to share their plans with the our colleagues at other schoolsschools.