Sentences with phrase «charter school features»

The charter school features career - focused courses with four different tracks: journalism, graphic design, fashion and culinary arts.

One of the charter schools it featured as being a miracle school has an attrition rate of 75 percent.

Dan Brown, a teacher in the SEED charter school featured in the film, points out that successful schools involve teachers in strong collegial conversations.

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In honor of back - to - school time, Mile High Mamas ran a three - part series featuring some non-traditional schooling methods including homeschooling, unschooling and a post about charter schools.

The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

The company is planning a 289 - unit affordable housing project with MBD Community Housing on the site that will also feature a charter school, supermarket, medical facility and community space.

The protests are in contrast to the large, staged rallies in recent years organized by, among others, union leaders and charter schools, and featuring elected officials.

The top of the tally featured three education groups: the pro-tax credit Invest in Education Coalition, labor union New York State United Teachers, and charter school advocates Families for Excellent Schools.

Students from Buffalo's Enterprise Charter School and Bennett Park Montessori PS # 32 were on hand for the announcement which featured songs about books and reading by local performers The Hill Brothers.

Alexander Russo wrote a feature article about the phenomenon of diverse charter schools in the Winter 2013 issue of Ed Next.

There were also many high - profile speakers, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Harlem Children Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M» 75; and Harvard University President Drew Faust, as well as musical performances by Yo - Yo Ma, students from Conservatory Lab Charter School, and Familiarevolution featuring Janelle Bechdol, Ed.M» 14.

A few reports of obstructionist behavior by districts stand out and have been chronicled in these pages by Joe Williams («Games Charter Opponents Play,» features, Winter 2007) and Nelson Smith («Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

CMOs and EMOs are formal organizations that exist to manage charter schools, and they function somewhat like firms that have a strong brand and that establish fairly independent branches or franchises (see «Brand - Name Charters,» features).

There was no spike in Google searches for «charter schools» (the bottom line in the graph) after the show aired, even though KIPP and most of the other schools featured were charters.

Among the featured speakers were David Driscoll, commissioner of education for the Massachusetts Department of Education; Peter Frumkin, professor of public affairs at University of Texas at Austin; Laurie Gardner and Eric Premack, codirectors of California Charter Schools Development Center; Michael Goldstein, founder and director of research and information for MATCH Charter Public High School; and HGSE Senior Lecturer James Honan.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Wintercharter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, WinterCharter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

NACSA's rating system places a higher weight on regulatory features of charter school laws than either the Center for Education Reform or the National Alliance rankings.

Results from our 2009 national poll tell us that a solid research finding has the capacity to shift public support for charter schools from 39 to 53 percent, a substantial increase (see «The Persuadable Public,» features).

An annual poll by Education Next in 2017 showed that public support for charter schools has recently fallen, particularly among Democrats, and opposition has grown (see «The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2018).

Governor Deval Patrick, in a nod to the mayor, backed legislation that would expand pilot schooling throughout the state while curtailing charter school operations (see «Accountability Overboard,» features, Spring 2009).

Compacts are still few in number, and not all have moved their districts past long - standing grievances (see, for example, «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

They just have to imitate a few of the key features employed by KIPP and other successful charter schools.

[viii] And a longer school day and year is a distinguishing feature of those charter schools that have the strongest positive effects on student achievement.

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.

The New York Times Magazine spotlighted charter networks KIPP, Uncommon Schools, and Achievement First in a major feature on how to close the achievement gap.

features, Summer 2010) accurately captured Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's history with the city's unions and outlined the schism that arose when the mayor pushed for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to open 36 schools to operators including charters.

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.

When one segment of respondents was asked to choose between «support,» «oppose,» and «don't know,» a similar proportion selected» don't know» as had selected «neither support nor oppose,» again suggesting that Americans either do not understand what charter schools are or have not made up their minds about them (see «Educating the Public,» features, Summer 2009).

Three feature articles in this issue explore charter - school successes in such diverse places as Arizona, Boston, and Rhode Island and reveal the underlying strength of the movement.

Indeed, he is a proponent not only of charter autonomy but of vouchers, which though ardently desired by the parochial system, are so far only a token presence in the New Orleans schools landscape (see «In the Wake of the Storm,» features, Spring 2010).

Compared to charter schools and online learning, private school vouchers have long been a more controversial feature of the school politics landscape.

At BASIS, teachers are first reviewed for their content knowledge; PhDs are not uncommon (see «High Scores at BASIS Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014).

In our study, we overcome this challenge by exploiting a feature common to most charter schools: the lottery that schools use to admit students when they have more applicants than spaces.

Second, although all charter schools share the features mentioned above, they are otherwise a diverse lot.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Ironically, several prospective donors declined because charter school issues were not featured enough in my education platform.

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.

Alexander Russo wrote a long feature story about the phenomenon of diverse charter schools in the Winter 2013 issue of Ed Next.

The Askwith Forum on November 20 featured a discussion on successful education leadership with former leaders from school districts and charter management organizations.

Relatively few charter schools have restarted, and the report's featured cases represent very early restart efforts.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Charters lack some key features of private schools — notably the opportunity to educate one's child in one's religious faith — but they are more reliably accountable for their academic results.

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Increasingly, schools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fallschools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, FallSchools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fall 2017).

Structured learning environments are featured in some charter schools, but others have purposely designed less structured learning environments as a matter of policy.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

A session on teacher pensions featured a presentation from Cory Koedel, Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and P. Brett Xiang analyzing how well defined benefit pension plans serve urban and charter school teachers in Missouri.

This blog post is part of our Schools That Work series, which features key practices from Two Rivers Public Charter School.

This is part of our Schools That Work series and features key practices from Highlander Charter School in Rhode Island.