Sentences with phrase «charter school networks»

Applicants included current principals and educators, leaders of charter school networks and other professionals who have the expertise to run a successful organization.

As we celebrate National Charter School Week, I wanted to focus on some of the supportive roles made available through charter school networks that aren't readily accessible in most private school settings.

Nationally, the expansion of highly segregated charter school networks, like KIPP, has been closely tied to a similar expansion of TFA.

Their task was to explore ways that charter school networks can create, implement and share promising practices for serving students with low incidence disabilities.

She spent the past year working as an Associate Consultant for the nonprofit consulting firm AchieveMission, where she supported talent development and performance management at several national charter school networks and education focused organizations.

Additionally, several of the large charter school networks, including Uncommon Schools, KIPP, Achievement First and Success have opened their doors and shared many aspects of their successful programs with district and other charter leaders.

In fact, some of the local charter school networks with the highest discipline rates have long enjoyed reputations as «beat the odds» schools that supposedly serve students of color better than the Minneapolis Public Schools.

And charter school networks and school districts in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles have recently started implementing programs to integrate their low - and high - poverty schools.21

There are many different types of schools — magnets, charters, and charter school networks — with a proven track record in improving school diversity, and states should encourage their proliferation.

He wants to train up super-talented people to be superintendents and turn them loose on urban school systems, to invest in charter school networks that are hitting their numbers and performing miracles regularly.

A vast array of nonprofit organizations came of age to support public school innovation: Teach For America, TNTP, dozens of high - performing charter school networks, new - school incubators, advocacy organizations, and much more.

Among the larger charter networks — those with four or more schools — the Icahn, Kipp and Uncommon charter school networks had the lowest attrition rates in elementary school grades when compared to traditional schools in the same school district for the 2013 - 14 school year.

They studied college graduation rates among alumni of nine top charter school networks and found that these graduates were between three and five times as likely as demographically similar district school graduates to complete college.

And all 3 charter school networks have been awarded the annual Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, which recognizes the best charter management organization in the country.

What started as a ripple in the charter community shows signs of becoming a wave as major charter school networks scramble to respond to an unfamiliar phenomenon: moves by their teachers to organize unions.

In addition to its work with KIPP, the Fisher Fund is a longtime philanthropic supporter of the California Charter Schools Association and the Charter School Growth Fund, which supports the expansion of high - performing charter school networks.

«The National Alliance is thrilled to honor DSST, Harmony and Success as the country's top large charter school networks.

The ultimate goal of these charter school networks is to get students to go to college and earn degrees.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

These charter school networks serve mostly students from low - income and minority families.

And while some of the larger charter school networks have more experience and financial history to fall back on, startup charters are hit particularly hard when seeking loans and financial assistance because of their lack of a financial history, experts say.

Part of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, SDP partners with school districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofit organizations to bring high - quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

The Strategic Data Project partners with school districts, charter school networks, and state education agencies to bring high quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.

Icahn is among the city's best - performing charter school networks, trailing only Success Academy (see «What Explains Success at Success Academy?»

On Top of the News BASIS, One of America's Top Charter School Networks, Seeks New Turf: China Washington Post 7/30/15

Yet there's a stir within several of the best charter school networks that deserves to inspire imitation in schools of all stripes.

Supporting this view, research on public charter schools in the United States indicates that well - established charter school networks can build credibility for fund - raising more easily than stand - alone charter schools can.

That may be at odds with some of the lessons of great charter school networks, which centralize key functions.

Among them are successful charter school networks across the country, such as Achievement First, YES Prep, KIPP, Rocketship Education, and IDEA Public Schools.

For years, pioneering charter school networks like KIPP, YES Prep, and others won legions of admirers by ensuring that nearly every student they graduated went to college, usually the first in their families to do so.

As part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP has been working with districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofits since 2008 to transform the way they collect and use data to support their program, management, and policy goals.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

• The Proving Ground initiative at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research helps districts and charter school networks design and use a deliberate, analytical approach to gathering and using evidence to test digital tools they might adopt systemwide.

We assigned the results from these two charter school networks to the wards where the majority of their schools are located.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

If charter school networks and other retail - level education reforms want to attract the attention of potential clients, teachers, or donors, nothing beats the glitz and reach of talk and entertainment shows — and no one is bigger than Oprah.

«You have these really well - off charter school networks» pushing for taxpayer funding, Harrison said.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

That's why some of the schools in the highly regarded KIPP charter school network have added the teaching of such skills to their curricula.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz testified before Congress at a panel on economic opportunity for African - Americans, arguing that elements of her charter school network could be applied nationwide to help address educational disparities for black students.

New York City's Department of Education said that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz.

With unusual bluntness, the mayor criticized the Success Academy charter school network for refusing to sign a contract his administration says is mandatory for all organizations offering city - funded pre-kindergarten programs.

The CEO of the Northeast Charter Schools Network on Wednesday released an open letter to the presidents of the state's two teachers unions that criticizes their opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education policy proposals.

Duncan Kirkwood (D) is the Western New York advocacy manager for the NorthEast Charter Schools Network.

Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of the Success Academy charter school network and a former city councilwoman, would not rule out a challenge against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio when he runs for re-election in two years.

In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

Bill Phillips, the President of the Northeast Charter Schools Network, joined us to talk about this.

The delay sets up another clash between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder of the Success Academy charter school network.

A critical deadline passed in a dispute between the charter school network and the de Blasio administration over the network's prekindergarten program, leaving its fate in doubt.

Eva S. Moskowitz, in response to a New York Times article about the list, said the charter school network did not have a practice of pushing out difficult students.