Sentences with phrase «charter school she felt»

You have to have the parents of this district who are going to charter schools feel comfortable about coming here,» he said.

She had applied and been accepted to a charter school she felt good about.

Not exact matches

And if followers of a particular religion, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, any of them, feel a dire need to have school calendars coincide with their religious calendars, then it's called a charter school.

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

«He has, I feel, been slighted for some time,» Matt Ryan's high school coach, Brian McCloskey, said during The MMQB's visit to Penn Charter after the NFC Championship Game.

Goin said she feels very lucky that her three kids attend Larchmont Charter in part because of the garden and fresh meals that are cooked for school lunch each day on the campus.

But all have said they feel lawmakers deserve their first pay bump in more than a decade, which was then tied to increasing the number of charter schools in New York.

«The reason why I joined this case is because for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break inSchool in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break inschool on a lunch break in 2006.

Legislators and officials familiar with the talks said that Heastie refused to entertain any actions that would boost charter schools, having felt he already conceded to the sector during April budget talks.

More to the point, there were too many reasons not to back him, they felt, such as his support for charter schools, his acceptance of the Independence Party ballot line and his indecision on hydrofracking, just to name a few.

While charter schools are popular alternatives to low - performing public schools in minority communities, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, has long felt that they hurt those public schools by taking money and space from them, the same argument teachers» unions have made.

The Lottery (Unrated) «Ticket out of the ghetto» documentary follows the diverging fortunes of four NYC families who feel their children's prospects in life depend on whether or not their names are drawn in the lottery admitting students to a phenomenally - successful, Harlem charter school.

It felt like a lot to sacrifice, just to attend a charter school.

Still, Danni's mother and some other St. Louis parents say they feel their children have gained more than they've lost with their transfers from Catholic schools to the St. Louis Charter School — one of the five independent...

In every school the Broad evaluation team visited there was a sense of urgency, the exact feeling you get in the best charter schools.

Overall, most charter leaders we spoke to felt that start - up funding is reasonably easy to secure, especially for school networks with a strong track record of success.

New Survey Shows Majority of Independent Voters Favor Charter Schools, feel Unions do «More Harm than Good»

The 2001 - ’02 legislative session passed five anti-charter school bills, four of which were signed into law by Governor Gray Davis (who felt compelled, in one of his signing messages, to claim that he still «supported charter schools»).

It feels like there are two very different charter - school conversations going on.

This summer and fall have been filled with attacks on charter schooling, for - profit schools and colleges, and any reform deemed to feel too business» ish.

The officials who run the schools and the teachers who helm the classrooms must feel as if their jobs and per - quisites are in jeopardy if they fail to stem enrollment losses to independent charter and private schools.

Paul Tough goes into some description of KIPP (the well - known charter school network) and regardless of your feelings about KIPP (or charters) it's a good reminder of how group identity works and how important it is.

One charter leader put in stark terms how closing a district school and replacing it with a charter school can feel like a personal affront to a community if there hasn't been enough transparency about school performance:

Blackstone is an ideal school for answering a key question: do charters that serve a socioeconomic mix of students look and feel different from charters that target only low - income students?

Opponents feel, however, that since charter schools can only serve a small segment of students, they only reinforce economic and racial segregation, and actually destabilize the communities they claim to want to help.

Sometimes cage - busters believe they can do their best work in their current school or system, and sometimes they feel like the better course is to launch a charter school, a new organization, an education tech venture, or something else.

«Our feeling is that charter schools can really engage parents in their children's learning, because parents make an active choice - especially when there aren't that many good choices available,» said Jim Shelton, an assistant secretary of education, in a recent phone interview.

I feel the need to write this because I fear that the bad news about DCPS is drowning out what continues to be a remarkable story of charter school success in our nation's capital.

And while they try to organize our schools into their union, they push for state legislation to make it easier to close our schools and demonize charter schools like ours to their own members, which tells you how they really feel about us.

Charters have also become a touchstone for how people feel about a host of related issues: job protections for teachers, the role of elected school boards and teachers unions, and the privatization of schools.

«With the spotlight shone on public school choice this election year, we've seen a stirring up of opinion... and we've also seen expensive, sustained, and coordinated campaigns to discredit charter schools, led by teachers» unions and special interests that feel threatened by families having a choice in public school.»

For example, a survey of district elementary - school teachers found a strong, negative correlation between teacher morale (as measured by their response to the statement, «I feel I am treated as a valued employee) and the market share of charter elementary schools.

Ravitch says that charter schools undercut the opportunities for public schools, making public school students feel like «second - class citizens.»

Critics of charter schools — which include many teachers who feel charter schools take money away from traditional schools — point out that the schools have generally not fared well in education ratings and have a higher cost per student than traditional schools.

As long as it remains so, traditional public schools are unlikely to feel much pressure from charter schools to improve their academic performance.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

So, she made the decision to help start a charter school called Making Waves Academy in the San Francisco Bay area, but even after four years, she didn't feel she was having the broad impact she could and decided to go back to school herself.

This may be because having a charter school in the same building places the same amount of pressure on a district school regardless of charter performance, whereas those district schools located near to but not in the same building as a charter feel stronger pressure from high - performing charters.

«We view charter schools as competition, and Keller ISD feels like we can compete well,» Youngs told The Bond Buyer.

Ms. Stradley - Bass feels privileged to work at Monticello Montessori Public Charter School in the capacity of School Counselor.

School choice is a controversial movement that advocates for parents to «choose» the school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their chiSchool choice is a controversial movement that advocates for parents to «choose» the school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their chischool (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their children.

He believes a lack of information about charters leads many in the traditional public school world to feel a sense of competition rather than teamwork, despite the shared goal of shaping children into the best, brightest, and most successful versions of themselves.

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Bennett encouraged the group to consider establishing a charter school if they still felt strongly about breaking away from Anderson Community Schools.

These talking points, which are largely false, typically involve spouting nonsense about charters being corporate (they are, repeat after me, slowly and with feeling, public schools), funded by billionaires, or adhere to strict disciplinary policies.

But with InspireNOLA Charter Schools taking over this school year, parents felt confident their students could reach their potential.

There's not much survey data specifically on how Black parents feel about charter schools nationally, but it's pretty clear that they resoundingly support a parent's right to choose the best school for their child.

I have always felt public money should be in public schools, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have good charter schools, which are public schools, or that you shouldn't have good public school choice.

Mubenga said that «because I'm the superintendent of DPS and not charter schools,» he didn't want to spend too much time talking about charters, but felt compelled to do so because of the impact they have on DPS.

Best - case scenario: A charter school is successful, and two positive pressures are felt: to increase the number of charter schools and to improve the more traditional schools.