Sentences with phrase «charter school conversion»

Of course, the parent trigger can be used for more than just charter school conversions.

Since launching in 2009, the organization has been encouraging parents to take over struggling schools by replacing staff or facilitating charter school conversions.

As one of the earliest charter school conversions in the state, Fenton Avenue Charter School offers a number of lessons.

If the history of charter school conversions and district school turnarounds is any guide, the answer is: very low.

Critics argue the law is a corporate - backed privatization tool under the guise of parent empowerment; they are particularly concerned about using parent trigger to force charter school conversions, which could strip away from some schools the leadership of elected school boards.

Fenton Avenue Charter School was one of the earliest charter school conversions in the state.

Prioritize strategies that incorporate charter school conversion, replication, or expansion in applications for Section 1003 (b) sub-grants.

Parent - trigger campaigns have spurred changes at six schools in southern California, only one of which involved a full charter school conversion.

Statement of Education Voters: Comment on proposed School Code language As adopted by the Senate on December 10th, 2015 We are troubled that during this protracted budget stalemate the Senate has chosen to pass a bill that contains what is essentially a state takeover and charter school conversion model that is only for Philadelphia, and -LSB-...]

The Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote on Senate Bill 6, a bill that purports to help the lowest performing schools in the Commonwealth, but is really little more than a state takeover and charter school conversion bill all rolled into one.

But last month, the General Assembly passed a bill banning education - reform - focused solutions for turning around low - performing schools, including charter school conversions, vouchers, and a «recovery» school district.

Mississippi's parent trigger law, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, is even more restrictive, allowing only charter school conversion.

ConnCAN's recently resigned director, Alex Johnson, praised «the brilliance of the parent trigger concept [of the California law] as a tool for activating parents in support of charter school conversions.»

Charter school conversions, which typically require majority teacher support, are perhaps the closest analogue to the film's version of the trigger.

In Tennessee, Rep. John DeBerry, D - Memphis, put up a bill that would have strengthened an existing law enabling parents or teachers to force a charter school conversion through a provision folded into his state's 2002 charter school code.

Rep. Mandela Barnes, D - Milwaukee, warned about not vetting the charter school conversion sanction carefully.

It turned out that the community successfully fought off the charter school conversion.

Last week they were denied 9 charter school conversions, they used their Cosmos Foundation out of Texas with tool former Memphis corrupt mayor Willie Herenton.

Parents and organizers who led the parent - trigger campaign at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. await a decision from their school board about the validity of their petition for a charter school conversion in January 2013.