Sentences with phrase «charter school strategy»

Truthfully, Georgia is still in the early days of fashioning its public charter schools strategy.

Injecting successful charter school strategies into traditional public schools: Early results from an experiment in Houston

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Bob Lenz is the co-founder of the Envision Schools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stSchools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stschools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino students.

That short - changing, along with the Legislature's continuing refusal to raise New York's statutory cap on new charter schools, marks a significant shift in strategy for school - choice opponents.

Cuomo only says that he's pursuing «a number of strategies to protect charter schools,» but no final decisions have been made.

Marking a significant shift in its lobbying strategy, the influential charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will not hold a political rally in Albany this legislative session for the first time since NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took office.

Mayor Bloomberg has given about 60 percent of the city charters free space in existing school buildings in an unusual strategy to boost their growth, but critics believe the arrangement gives charters an unfair advantage.

Tusk managed Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign before founding his own consulting firm, Tusk Strategies, and worked for de Blasio's charter school nemesis, Eva Moskowitz of Success Academy.

Governor Cuomo says only that he's pursing «a number of strategies to protect charter schools», but no final decisions have been made.

It's a strategy that's worked for her before, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo came in as an unofficial savior of charter schools during a battle with de Blasio over school space.

The group trying to start the Truxton Academy Charter School got a few minutes with Congresswoman Claudia Tenney to plot strategy to open the place.

In New York City and Newark, district educators are meeting with their charter school counterparts to share successful teaching strategies.

This is clearly an inappropriate analytic strategy because the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school.

However, Congress has authorized funding to «test and demonstrate strategies for helping charter schools with varying degrees of creditworthiness gain access to financing for facilities.»

All of these strategies make charter schools more appealing to lenders by aligning their legal life spans more closely with that of mortgages and bonds.

Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly used as a reform strategy designed to improve educational outcomes for K — 12 students.

Some charter schools, such as KIPP DC, have been successful working in racially isolated schools in poor neighborhoods, developing specialized teaching strategies and support for students who come to school years behind.

If schools are failing on multiple fronts, the better strategy may be to bring in a new operator as a charter school.

The basic strategy we use to evaluate the effect of charter schools on student achievement is to compare students who are awarded a seat in a charter school through a lottery with students who enter the lottery but are not awarded a seat.

States can choose to shut these schools down, turn them into charter schools, take them over, or use another, significant turnaround strategy.

Derrell Bradford, executive director of the New York Campaign for Achievement Now, asserted that the failure of the Massachusetts initiative indicated a need for a «suburban strategy» for the charter school movement.

By nature, the chartering strategy is not a prescriptive policy for improving schools.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

For the chartering strategy to improve the whole of public education, we need to think strategically about what institutions we want authorizing schools.

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Indeed, city - based organizations can take charge to attract and grow excellent charter schools using these strategies.

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.

To understand why, one must understand the strategy Ted Kolderie, an early advocate of charters schools, outlined to lawmakers in a 1990 article titled, «The States Will Have to Withdraw the Exclusive.»

Certainly our policymakers are not willing to concede the point, not at the federal, state, or local levels, where arguments continue to rage over assessments, charter schools, vouchers, class - size reduction, and many other strategies for school reform.

Charter and replacement schools have fared better than other turnaround strategies.

With the frequent reports of school districts doing a poor job of fulfilling their authorizing duties and school districts» authorizing over half of the nation's charter schools, it is easy to see how the real power of the chartering strategy is being negated.

Vacancies in these two offices create an opportunity for resetting the district - charter relationship and moving Boston closer toward a reform strategy that takes full advantage of the city's remarkable charter schools.

While proposing a number of possible strategies, Smith says «there should be no further delay in creating state laws and regulations that level the playing field between charters and other public schools.

Growing the best charter schools is one strategy Public Impact has previously addressed.

Colorado and Florida both recently increased the share of local tax dollars that charter schools can access, though they used different strategies to achieve their goals.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

This strategy has engendered increasingly bi-partisan support for charter schools, along with the philanthropic and governmental investment that comes with it.

Which is why the movement needs a new political strategy — one that builds a broader constituency, whose success doesn't turn key supporters against it, and one that continues to encourage innovation in an increasing number of high - quality charter schools.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

Many have observed that the highly structured learning strategies employed successfully with low - income students by «no excuses» charter school providers would be far less welcome in other environs.

The second strategy we propose is to allow public charter schools and magnet schools to use weighted lotteries to create or maintain socioeconomic diversity.

In an article that appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Ed Next, Andy Smarick urged charter school advocates to embrace a strategy of large - scale replacement of failing district schools with charter schools.

Plenty of liberals, on the other hand, are closely allied with teacher unions, which have almost always opposed charters (and other school - choice strategies), particularly when these occur outside their collective - bargaining umbrellas.

It is puzzling, then, that a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations last week issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration's current emphasis on chartering as a strategy to turn around low - performing schools and bemoaning the heavy concentration of charters in high - minority areas.

Author Kay Merseth reads an excerpt from her book Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - Performing Schools

It is unlikely to change anyone's opinion about charter schooling's potential as a reform strategy, however, not least because of the lack of information about student achievement.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

One strategy is for a group of charter authorizers, district leaders, and school and school association leaders to come together to take a stand for quality to build on the existing success stories in Detroit.