Republican Jay Heiler, a regent and the founder of
charter school operation Great Hearts Academies, is considering a run for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Jeff Flake.
Not exact matches
Agencies receiving
Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation,
Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community
Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).
As in our state analysis, an increase in the fraction of a
school district's population that is black makes a district more likely to have a
charter school in
operation and to have a
greater share of its students enrolled in
charter schools.
Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and oper
Charter schools are publicly funded
schools that operate outside the direct control of local
school districts, under a publicly issued
charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and oper
charter that gives them
greater autonomy than other public
schools have over curriculum, instruction, and
operations.
One of the
great things about
charter schools is that public
school teachers can take on a much
greater role in the ownership, vision,
operation, and leadership of a
charter school than they can in a traditional public
school.
His entrepreneurial spirit and experience has been a
great benefit to the
operation of the Classical Academies and its high quality independent study public
charter schools.
The second thing
great authorizers do is build the capacity to
charter schools, oversee and support their
operations, and evaluate their performance in a top - quality manner.
One reason they've created
charter management organizations is because they realized that
great schools don't go it alone — they access support systems for help with their teaching,
operations, and organizational development.
A
charter school is an independently run public
school granted
greater flexibility in its
operations, in return for
greater accountability for performance.
In response to the growing number of
charters, who now enroll 1 in 10 of the state's public
school students, teachers unions have launched a major campaign to demand
greater transparency in the financing and
operations of
charter schools, as well as to limit their expansion in the state.