Sentences with phrase «charter school details»

Phalen Leadership Academy: Rapid adjustments: Lessons from a blended - learning start - up charter school details the challenges and joys of blended learning with young students, listens to teacher reactions to the model, and examines how teacher recruitment and retention, sustainable funding, and professional development work at PLA.

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Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

Negotiations in Albany were also bogged down over how to divide increased education funding, the details of an affordable housing and development tax credit in New York City and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

After months of aggressive advocacy explicitly aimed at protecting and growing the state's charter sector, the group sent out a report detailing test scores at some of New York City's worst district schools.

Though he has been light on details, Trump is pushing an agenda that includes more charter schools and a voucher system for students who want to attend private schools.

Cuomo said it was reasonable for the Republicans to talk about charter schools — provoking the ire of the Assembly — but offered no more details, and no legislation.

But Fariña, Merriman and about a dozen attendees told reporters that no details about those proposals were discussed over the course of the two - hour meeting at the Charter School Center.

On Friday, Moskowitz released an «open letter» to de Blasio, detailing his «poor management and lack of control over the governance of city schools [and] his neglect of public charter school student needs.»

Saturday's meeting with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña provided the impetus to shift course as prominent charter leaders criticized her for offering no details about co-location, rent proposals, and other key issues.

Duncan, a longtime booster of charter schools, said he wasn't familiar with the details of Flanagan's proposals.

Among other details, the governor has proposed tougher teacher evaluations that would make it easier to fire underperforming teachers, and fewer limits on charter schools.

«We oppose the raising of the charter cap until charter schools serve an appropriate percentage of the state's neediest children, and we will be working with the State Education Department on the details of a fair evaluation process for teachers.»

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

Leaders of many charter organizations, before they had any chance to view the details of the report, quickly responded that they were honored to serve minority families who chose the charter schools after a search for attractive schooling options.

This is a remarkable document, covering in extensive detail the design and results of dozens of charter school studies from recent years.

Among other recommendations in its Jan. 13 report, the investigative arm of Congress says the department should require states receiving money through the federal charter school program to provide more details on how the money is being used.

Massachusetts» charter schools — places that were to break the mold and chart new directions, no less — apparently were to be designed in persuasive detail by spontaneous combustion, with hardly any support from the state.

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

Warm results arrived this past winter in New York City from Stanford University economist Caroline Hoxby, who detailed how students winning slots via lotteries in over-subscribed charters out - performed applicants who remained in regular public schools.

Crawford's explanation detailed Next Charter School's specific needs in an area that Rose Colby, a competency - based learning specialist at the New Hampshire Department of Education, observed more generally across New Hampshire.

We also find that the crisis was certainly not due to excessive spending relative to that of surrounding districts (see sidebar titled Philadelphia Support for Education for details on city support, charter school enrollments, district spending, and teacher salaries).

Coverage: Public, private, and charter schools in all fifty states; detailed school profiles for AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, and WA.

The session in the second - floor seminar room at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany had already featured a detailed presentation of «charter facts» from the new executive director of New York's Charter Schools Institute and a dozen friendly questions from the mostly pro-charter aucharter facts» from the new executive director of New York's Charter Schools Institute and a dozen friendly questions from the mostly pro-charter auCharter Schools Institute and a dozen friendly questions from the mostly pro-charter aucharter audience.

We have to get the details right on charter school policy too, especially sound funding and the mechanisms of charter school authorizing.

Designing an effective charter school policy therefore requires attention to details about accountability and other features, such as whether enrollment in charters is unified with traditional public school enrollment processes and whether charter schools provide transportation for students.

The next section describes Boston's charter and pilot schools in more detail.

Online AppendixTable A. 1 details the universe of Boston charter schools and the applicant cohorts included in our study, along with notes explaining why schools or cohorts were omitted.

A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter School CommunitiesEighth Annual Edition includes details about 25 additional school districts with at least a 20 percent market share since the first report was publSchool CommunitiesEighth Annual Edition includes details about 25 additional school districts with at least a 20 percent market share since the first report was publschool districts with at least a 20 percent market share since the first report was published.

The effect of charter school choices «depends an awful lot on the details of the regulations» set by states, says Richard Murnane, an economist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, school choices «depends an awful lot on the details of the regulations» set by states, says Richard Murnane, an economist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, School of Education in Cambridge, Mass..

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools wouldn't say whether it's supportive of Trump's plan because the organization hasn't seen all of the details.

Strict attention to detail, long school days, and a singular focus on college are the hallmarks of «no excuses» charter schools.

In the brief time since we reported on the EAA in autumn 2014, detailing its wobbly start and the disappointing academic results of its fifteen schools (twelve direct - run and three charter), much has transpired.

Although many details remain to be ironed out, both of the bills filed so far would create a state panel that would approve charter applications, which could come from non-profit groups to start a new school or parents and teachers of an existing school.

Stoltman presented this information along with especially troubling details that virtual charter schools and alternative schools graduated a drastically lower percentage, 20 percent and 36 percent respectively.

A detailed fact sheet referencing some of the many recent reports of charter school problems is here.

In a letter to superintendents and charter school leaders, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson gave more details on testing for this year.

A detailed look at what the Broad Foundation calls «the best - performing large public charter school system in America.»

Bill Quigley, law professor and contributor to the Huffington Post, details the NAACP's moratorium on New Orleans» charter schools until ongoing issues have been addressed to better the school environment for all charter students.

The makeup of the commission was outlined in the charter schools initiative approved by voters, but the new statute is not specific about a lot of details.

Last week, one of our local charters, KIPP Bridge, was featured in CCSA's report «Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement», which details the performance and enrollment trends of African American students in California's public schools, including charter sCharter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement», which details the performance and enrollment trends of African American students in California's public schools, including charter sSchools in Promoting African American Achievement», which details the performance and enrollment trends of African American students in California's public schools, including charter sschools, including charter scharter schoolsschools.

The new Edward Brooke Charter School coming together Brooke East Boston's growth plans are detailed in this article.

These best practices and findings are detailed in a new report that's just been released entitled, Over-Age, Under - Credited Students and Public Charter Schools: An Exploration of Successes, Strategies, and Opportunities for Expansion.

The current deal does not include a charter school expansion, although The Wall Street Journal hints of a back - channel agreement, the details of which de Blasio promises will be coming «shortly.»

While we look forward to further policy and fiscal details, the Governor made it clear today K - 12 education is a top priority,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, President and CEO of the Arizona Charter Schools Association.

By July 1, the picture will become clearer as officials from Spokane Public Schools and 12 other districts statewide submit applications detailing the types of charter schools they hope tSchools and 12 other districts statewide submit applications detailing the types of charter schools they hope tschools they hope to host.

This week, CCSA released a statewide report detailing African American performance and enrollment trends in charter schools, as well as best - practices for effectively teaching African American students.

Reichgott Junge candidly shared with guests personal details of her challenging journey as an original champion of chartered schools, the tumultuous legislative passage of the nation's first charter law in Minnesota twenty years ago, and chartering's subsequent explosion onto the national stage.

I'll be diving into this report in more detail but one aspect is particularly timely: the state of the charter school sector in Paterson Last week an article in North Jersey noted this: «more than 98 percent...

The exact details of any district's educator effectiveness plan can be found on the NMTEACH website, as every public and charter school plan is posted here.

The paper, published in Education Finance and Policy, details the achievement impacts of 41 KIPP charter middle schools nationwide and reports consistently positive and statistically significant test - score effects in reading, math, science, and social studies.