Sentences with phrase «charter school process»

«Going through the charter school process is probably the easy part,» English says.

Coming from just across the river in Philadelphia, Mastery is also making its first bid in Camden, and also has made a separate proposal through the state's charter school process.

Over 100,000 Los Angeles students are enrolled in independent charter schools; any effort to achieve educational equity through application and enrollment practices must include efforts to simplify and streamline charter school processes.

Not exact matches

Editor Chip Romer will report FROM THE FIELD on a roundtable discussion with five school leaders about their multi-year process of welcoming Hispanic students into Woodland Star Charter School in Sonomschool leaders about their multi-year process of welcoming Hispanic students into Woodland Star Charter School in SonomSchool in Sonoma, CA.

Cuomo is linking up to $ 1.1 billion in new spending for education to enacting a number of his education reform proposals, including lifting the cap on charter schools and a new, more stringent teacher evaluation process.

The Republican - controlled Senate today will consider a trio of bills designed to extend the life of mayoral control of New York City schools and strengthen charter schools in the process.

But he also wants to strengthen and expand charter schools in the process — a proposal that has been considered dead on arrival for Assembly Democrats.

Story of the Day: Bronx Charter School on Probation for Shady Lottery Practices The Academic Leadership Charter School, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted stuSchool on Probation for Shady Lottery Practices The Academic Leadership Charter School, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted stuSchool, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted stuschool may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted students.

«Further, they would have the effect of leading potential educators through an essentially fake certification process,» the suit continued, «one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools, or the public schools of other states.»

I do not want to create a process that ensures in the next five years we have lists of failing charter schools.»

Elia said the tweaking of the teacher certification process is in sharp contrast to a proposal being considered by the State University of New York Board of Trustees charter schools committee.

And in return, Speaker Carl Heastie's office suggested in an unusually stinging rebuke that Cuomo's ongoing feud with the mayor sacrificed progress on a number of issues at the legislative session wound down in June, knocking the governor's support for charter schools in the process.

His appointee to a powerless position on the mayor - controlled Board of Education has attracted an outsize amount of attention by doing his best to open up, and slow down, what is ultimately a rubber - stamp process of the administration's charter - school - friendly policies.

De Blasio also agreed to quickly fulfill requests for building upgrades, give charter school students MetroCards when their schools operate in the summer, and to streamline the process for charters to request rent reimbursement from the city.

Others see the co-located charter schools as a possible boon, as long as the public schools are not hurt in the process.

The panel — co-chaired by Deputy Mayor Richard Buery and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña — will recommend ways to relieve overcrowding and improve the process for co-locating charter schools and regular schools in the same buSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña — will recommend ways to relieve overcrowding and improve the process for co-locating charter schools and regular schools in the same buschools and regular schools in the same buschools in the same building.

Success» nearly 400 - page SUNY application provides a look inside the charter network, and sheds light on the complicated process of local charter school authorization.

Success Academy Charter Schools CEO Eva Moskowitz is claiming that the city has been delinquent in processing payments to two Success Academy sites in Harlem, and she is taking Mayor Bill de Blasio to task for the delay.

The UFT / NYSUT lawsuit, which asks the court to overturn the Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.charter schools or the public schools of other states.»

Then, he took those lightweight twinkletoes and gave poor and working class New Yorkers the chance to send their children to mostly superior charter schools intsead of leaving them in the cesspools of the public system (and, in the process, forced the public system to get much better because of the competition.)

The union chief is reacting to the school board putting charter operators into the process for what happens to four schools Albany wants closed.

All our kids deserve to be taught by teachers who have gone through a rigorous process, but the Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.charter schools have trouble meeting them.schools have trouble meeting them.»

«We have a clear process in place to pay all charter schools in New York City as State Law mandates and we are meeting all necessary protocols,» said DOE spokesperson Devora Kaye.

It said the administration plans to introduce education «reforms» through the budget process, and it includes questions in 12 topic areas, including teacher evaluations, struggling schools, teacher training, charters, and technology.

A fourth charter school is in the process of being set up.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

«That's the rule, clearly spelled out, for all of the schools that participated in this process, and there's no reason for one charter school to be held to a different standard.

After the mayor denied three of eight Success Academy charter school co-locations last month, the charter group's CEO Eva Moskowitz found a champion in Governor Cuomo, who promised to support the privately - run, publically funded schools in the budget process.

The State University of New York proposal to allow charter schools it authorizes — including Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools — to devise their own teacher certification process would dramatically lower the entry bar for the profession.

«We oppose the raising of the charter cap until charter schools serve an appropriate percentage of the state's neediest children, and we will be working with the State Education Department on the details of a fair evaluation process for teachers.»

Those backing the proposed Truxton Academy Charter School once again have an application before the state education department.Part of the process

The process has become a major issue in Community Board 10, where the city has partnered with NYCHA and the Harlem Children's zone to build a $ 100 million charter school on 93,000 square feet of open space at the St. Nicholas Houses.

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.

In April 2011, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers agreed to assist DPS as the district designed a competitive and rigorous RFP (Request for Proposal) process to identify schools that it would authorize as charters beginning in fall 2011.

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).

Under the auspices of the district - charter compact, New Orleans has an integrated student - enrollment system, a common report card for all schools, and a transparent process for allocating facilities to school operators.

When charter schools close, it's via a transparent public process: A school was chronically underperforming, not living up to the conditions of its performance contract, and it has its charter revoked.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

As a result, whenever charter schools want to rezone a building for their use, they must go through a relatively arduous and uncertain city - level process, with costs that operators cited at upward of $ 65,000.

The lottery process allowed the researchers to compare the performance of students who won the lottery with those who lost the lottery and either attended a neighborhood G&T program, a charter school, or an alternative magnet school.

DPS's new SchoolChoice enrollment system minimizes favoritism, fosters integration, and increases demand for high quality schools by using the same process to place students in most schools, including charters and district - operated schools.

A friend in California, also at a charter school, describes a similar process of observation, evaluation, and discussion.

The RttT money was important enough to New York's legislature that just a few days shy of the June 1 deadline, they voted to remake the teacher evaluation process, to allow for more charter schools, and to appropriate $ 20.4 million for a new longitudinal data system.

Cities where chartering has scaled must invent interconnected processes for determining who can run schools, how kids enroll in schools, how new schools are opened, how failing schools are shuttered, and so on.

The board adopted a policy last December, however, to apply exactly the same standards and process to closing all schools — charter, traditional, and innovation.

But for the past few years, DPS has treated the innovation school authorization process much like the charter authorization process, and new innovation schools have looked far more like charters — with a year to plan, clear visions and strategies, and careful hiring of teachers.

Local charter school leaders were supportive, but their naiveté about the political process stood in sharp contrast to the strategic organizing in the labor community.

Kardos and Liu randomly selected a sample of 110 new teachers in New Jersey teaching at both charter and non-charter public schools, and surveyed them about their experiences with the hiring process and the professional culture.

Interstellar is in the process of developing a range of applications of its technology for specific schools, districts, and charter management organizations.