Sentences with phrase «charter school laws permit»

None of the 43 states with charter school laws permit an authorizer to be a for - profit entity.

At issue in «Anderson Union High School District v. Shasta Secondary Home School» was whether the charter school law permits an independent study charter authorized in one district to open a «resource center» to serve students living in other districts in the same county.

Not exact matches

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

School districts held an exclusive franchise on public education services until 1991, when Minnesota passed the first law permitting public charter schools.

In 2010, the law was amended to double the number of charter students permitted in the state's lowest - performing districts, from about 9 percent to 18 percent of public school students.

The law permitting mayoral academy charter schools freed the schools from Rhode Island's tenure, prevailing wage, and pension laws.

The department should remember that while many states permit linking teachers to student test scores, few districts actually do so, and that while Virginia and Mississippi have each had a charter law for more than a decade, combined they have only five charter schools.

Romney's major proposal would expand school choice by essentially turning $ 15 billion in Title I funding and $ 12 billion in IDEA funds into «vouchers» that eligible students could spend to attend any district, charter, or private school (state law permitting) or for tutoring programs or digital courses.

Forty - three states have laws permitting charter schools, which now enroll roughly 5 percent of American students.

However, after I left the administration in 1993, I supported the nascent charter school movement, even going to Albany, New York, to urge legislators to adopt a law permitting such schools to be created in the state.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

Two years ago, the district renewed the charters of several ALS schools for 15 - year terms — which state law permits for charters with «exemplary academic programming and fiscal management.»

Mitt Romney has pledged that if elected president he will enact a voucher program that would allow parents of low - income and special needs students «to choose from any district or public charter school, or a private school where permitted by state law.»

To date, 43 states now have laws permitting charter schools.

A «yes» vote would permit charter schools in Washington, while a «no» vote would overturn the law and put an end to charters before they begin.

In March Gov. Gary Locke signed a charter school law that would allow five charter schools the first year, with 40 more permitted over the following five years.

He also pointed to another section of the law that said «other preferences may be permitted by the chartering authority on an individual school basis and only if consistent with the law.»

This was not philanthropy; it was a profit - making venture.6 Investors quickly figured out that there was money to be made in the purchase, leasing, and rental of space to charter schools, and an aggressive for - profit charter sector emerged wherever it was permitted by state law; in states where for - profit charters were not allowed, nonprofit charters hired for - profit operators to run their schools.

ther preferences may be permitted by the chartering authority on an individual school basis and only if consistent with the law.»

Tillman's anecdote, however, doesn't appear to hold up when analyzed in light of current law which already permits a sizable proportion of a public charter school's teaching workforce to be unlicensed.

The current law permits charter schools in «D» and «F» rated districts.

School choice has helped children like Drew, a sixth grader from Jackson, thrive at Reimagine Prep Charter School thanks to the law permitting charter schools in MissiCharter School thanks to the law permitting charter schools in Missicharter schools in Mississippi.

That includes the 1993 law that permitted charters in the state and a 2011 vote to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

Half of the 164 New York City - reviewed charter school discipline policies permitted suspension or expulsion as a penalty for lateness, absence or cutting class, in violation of New York state law.

According to a 2009 analysis by Erica Frankenberg and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, 16 states had laws that permit or require charter schools to employ positive steps to bring about greater levels of racial and / or socioeconomic diversity.54

Calls on charter schools to operate in accordance with their charters and the laws and regulations that govern other public schools unless an exception is requested and allowed by the state except for assessment, testing, civil rights and student health and safety regulations from which no exception is permitted.

Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that state lawmakers changed the law in Washington State, permitting charter schools to exist.

One exception is the Urban Hope bill, submitted on Monday, to extend the application deadline under the 2011 law that permits new hybrid charter schools in Camden, Trenton and Newark.

Since then many states have enacted laws permitting the establishment of charter schools.

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