Sentences with phrase «charter school flexibility»

The survey also showed voter support for charter school flexibility, specifically on the ability of charter schools to customize curriculum (76 percent), adopt school themes and clear areas of academic focus (69 percent), and freely structure the school day (66 percent).

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The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

Northeast Charter Schools Network New York Director Andrea Rogers said in a statement that «the Trustees made the right decision» and offers more «flexibility» for Charter schools who opt to design their own teaching requirSchools Network New York Director Andrea Rogers said in a statement that «the Trustees made the right decision» and offers more «flexibility» for Charter schools who opt to design their own teaching requirschools who opt to design their own teaching requirements.

Cuomo officials said the governor remains a champion of charter schools, and they noted that the governor has boosted funding and flexibility for charters and that he helped negotiate some charter wins during this year's mayoral control debate.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

It will allow 200 schools to opt out of some contract provisions, if 65 percent of UFT members at the school agree — mimicking the «flexibility» touted in the city's mostly non-union charter schools.

If traditional districts had the administrative flexibility of charter schools, then increased charter enrollment would present a clearer win - win.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

Spell out flexibility for state educational agencies (SEAs) to contemplate accountability that looks different in urban areas with many charter schools.

Some charter schools may use their flexibility to recruit outstanding teachers, while others fall well short of that mark.

«Accountability and flexibility in public schools: Evidence from boston's charters and pilots» Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (2), 699 - 748., (2011)

This year's class makes my point — a great cross-section of students, some with teaching experience, some with a business background, one in the Harvard Law School, and several from overseas — but all wanting to see how they could put to work the freedom and flexibility afforded by the charter model.

«I love the work that I do,» he says, «and I love doing it in the context of charters, because we have the freedom and flexibility to create the school that we want to create.

This flexibility is granted as part of a contract, or charter, with an authorizing agency that holds the school accountable for achieving its outlined charter goals, including supporting student achievement, within a certain period of time (usually five years).

Jason Pater, a real estate manager for National Heritage Academies, which operates a network of charter schools in five states, noted that charters have more flexibility to use different construction methods.

In 2011, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest district in the nation, reorganized to provide charter schools a new level of autonomy and flexibility while providing them support and resources to ensure they can effectively serve a wide range of students — even the severely disabled.

Many schools that reach NCLB's restructuring phase, rather than implementing one of the law's stated interventions (close and reopen as a charter school, replace staff, turn the school over to the state, or contract with an outside entity), choose the «other» option, under which they have considerable flexibility to design an improvement strategy of their own (see «Easy Way Out,» forum, Winter 2007).

There should be proof that state and district officials are not inhibiting charter growth, that new schools are opening, and that they have the requisite flexibility and funding to thrive.

The plan explicitly rejects an all - charter - school system, but preserves many of the advantages of such a system, such as flexibility and decentralization.

It was thought early on that public charter schools would serve as «laboratories of education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high - quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.

Then we [have] 150 other schools that were perceived to be the dregs of the universe and had no buy - in, a fortress mentality, and no flexibility whatsoever... You put me in a room with charter school principals, and you put me in a room with traditional school principals, and it's night and day.

For reformers, the idea is that school districts or chartering agencies should be able to contract with private firms to operate public schools - especially failing ones - in order to take advantage of the greater flexibility, expertise, efficiency, and innovation that the marketplace might offer.

Charter schools need the flexibility to move to new facilities if their current buildings are in the wrong place or can't accommodate instructional innovations (for example, new uses of technology, student grouping strategies, blended learning models).

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

One of the key advantages charter schools have is the flexibility to start from scratch financially.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgCharter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgSchools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgCharter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgcharter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgschools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgschools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

But if school - level flexibility is essential, we should stoutly defend it for all schools — whether charters educate 10, 50, or 100 percent of students.

A newly created charter school with a focus on diversity has the flexibility and responsiveness that comes with charter status.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional sSchool, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional sschool that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

Over the past decade, a growing number of urban school districts have responded to the presence of charter schools by providing some of their own schools the same flexibilities that charters enjoy.

Schools with sound fiscal practices and high academic achievement would win an «earned charter,» granting them regulatory flexibility from the state and district.

Pomeroy had a shorter school day and less flexibility than Summit charter schools did.

This significantly limits the flexibility of charter school design and consequently reduces the choices available to parents and students.

However, for charter schools that opted out, the primary drivers were lower costs, flexibility of investment options for teachers, portability of benefits, and greater control over total compensation costs.

In some states, however, public charter schools provide an important alternative: charters have the flexibility to opt out of the state pension plan and develop their own retirement plans.

It raises the odds that charter schools can retain the freedoms and flexibilities that underpin their success, and it provides families with more choice as they select among charters, a local neighborhood school, and other specialized DCPS options.

To explore this possibility, we studied retirement plans and surveyed charter schools in five states with such flexibility: Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan.

Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan have large numbers of charter schools and allow for flexibility regarding state plan participation.

Chris Gabrieli, who directs a Boston nonprofit focused on bringing charter school - like flexibilities to district schools, says the charter bill ideally should be an opportunity to think even more broadly about strategies to help those students.

Given the flexibility afforded to charter schools, they are well - positioned to develop new strategies to counterbalance these challenges.

By becoming a charter district, Dublin City Public Schools is more accountable to the state for student outcomes but also has increased flexibility from rules and regulations.

Charter schools are an active component of the contemporary education reform movement's pursuit of accountability and flexibility in public education.

The greater flexibility afforded to charter schools offers opportunity to develop innovative approaches to providing ELs, one of the fastest growing demographic groups among students in the United States, with a quality education.

Because of the flexibility charter schools are given to innovate to serve their students, they are well positioned to give special needs children a world - class public education.

Conversely, any flexibility afforded to «choice» schools taking public dollars should be available to all public schools: if it's onerous and burdensome for charter schools, odds are it's burdensome for traditional public schools.

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With more autonomy to provide flexibility to school leaders and teachers, charter schools generate innovative and individualized - learning environments that meet the unique needs of their school community and foster student achievement.

Public charter schools are able to operate with increased flexibility as a result of operating outside of district bureaucracies.

This can only come from empowering local school communities to design their schools, giving them charter - like budget and staffing flexibility in hiring and staff reductions and then holding them accountable for performance, parent satisfaction and enrollment.

High - performing charters get several benefits, including more flexibility to add students and duplicate schools.