Sentences with phrase «charter school efforts like»

Yet the enduring value of YES Prep and charter school efforts like it may ultimately be measured in outcomes elsewhere: Will they effectively feed the reform efforts at struggling schools like Hogg and the Academy?

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The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

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The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

And we're going through another round today, with initiatives such as «Reimagining Learning,» led by Stacey Childress and her team at the NewSchools Venture Fund; the Emerson Collective's XQ SuperSchool project; Marc Zuckerberg's efforts to «personalize learning»; and any number of technology - centric undertakings like Summit Public Schools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual sSchools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual sschools, and K12 - operated virtual schoolsschools.

«When you see a school and community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in Broschool and community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in BroSchool, a preK — 8 school located in Broschool located in Brooklyn.

Meanwhile, others, like Brown University's Matt Kraft and North Carolina State's Anna Egalite, were more upbeat about the legacies of federal efforts to boost teacher quality and support charter schooling.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

District turnaround efforts are showing some serious promise, and stellar charter schools like Denver School of Science and Technology and UPrep continue to improve student performance.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Proponents of the bill say the status quo isn't working for disadvantaged students, and efforts like an achievement school zone where charter operators can pull up low - performing schools should be considered.

In an effort to start a new school that provides the type of education being advocated by education reformers like Tony Wagner, Sir Ken Robinson, and Daniel Pink, I am preparing a charter application for Da Vinci High School which will provide an opportunity for students to discover their passions and pursueschool that provides the type of education being advocated by education reformers like Tony Wagner, Sir Ken Robinson, and Daniel Pink, I am preparing a charter application for Da Vinci High School which will provide an opportunity for students to discover their passions and pursueSchool which will provide an opportunity for students to discover their passions and pursue them.

New Markets Tax Credits are given to private investors who then invest in or make loans to community development efforts in low - income neighborhoods, like charter schools.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

But if the effort ultimately falters, it will give ammunition to those who say that states and cities should focus instead on creating alternatives for parents, like charter schools.

The accomplishments are particularly striking considering what the East Lake neighborhood was like prior to community revitalization efforts and the opening of Drew Charter School in 2001.

Like many throughout the state, CCSA supported these efforts by joining with school districts and charter schools to protect, assure, foster and educate all students, regardless of their immigration status.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

I don't know about whether there is anything unlawful going on and harmful is a subjective concept at times like these but the Hartford Courant story does provide us with an opportunity to take a moment to review what we do know about the charter school and education reform effort.

He said he would like to see the city «put the same effort into helping whatever (public) schools they think need that help, as to go out and create their own charter school to do something that's going to be limited on the number of students that they can get.»

After the loss, Salon Magazine wrote, «Joshua Thompson, Finch's director of education and youth, defended the unsuccessful effort, saying the mayor was following the recommendations of «a report handed back to him» by a charter commission that was based on testimony by academics and «major reformers» like former New York City schools chief Joel Klein.

Like Malloy, Walker spent his first term trying to destroy teacher tenure, eliminate collective bargaining rights for teachers and dramatically expand public funding for charter schools and the overall effort to privatize public education.

There are a ton of education reforms and policies tackling this problem through things like charter schools, college - and - career ready standards, targeted professional development, wrap - around services and more — all efforts that have made progress to closing the Black - white achievement gap.

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

Some districts are more rigorous in their charter applications and other districts like Denver are very open, so the growth in Denver, especially in looking at the turnaround and transformation are strongly suggested that they turn into charter schools rather than in other districts that we looked at in Pueblo and in Center and in Sheridan where they're really putting all their efforts into making the traditional school successful rather than turning it into another model..

Mastery Charter Schools is piloting a nascent effort in Philadelphia, PA and districts like Adams 50 (Colorado) and states like New Hampshire are also getting in on the action.

Union supporters say organized labor has not been given enough credit for its own efforts to reform education — for instance, efforts by UTLA to establish charter - like «pilot schools.»