Sentences with phrase «charter schools across the city»

Independent charter schools across the city are doing remarkable things with our students in devotion to the fulfillment of our respective missions and visions.

(Roughly 70,000 children are educated in 183 charter schools across the city, many in poor neighborhoods.)

Apparently dismantling traditional public school systems and creating collections of charter schools across cities.

This charter initiative expanded the number, quality, and accountability of charter schools across the city.

Michele Mason, Executive Director of Newark Charter School Fund commented: «Families across Newark are demanding the highest quality school options for their children at both traditional public and public charter schools across the city and they deserve nothing less.

The race is on and the competition is fierce for New York City parents vying for a spot at one of the 18 Success Academy Charter Schools across the city — So fierce in fact, the organization is opening six new schools for the 2013 - 2014 school year in the city, one of which will be in Fort Greene...

Not exact matches

With the 2016 legislative session just getting underway, parent advocates who live in low - income communities across New York City and have children who attend both district and charter schools wanted to make sure their voices were heard.

It is the largest charter school network in the city, with approximately 11,000 students in 34 schools across the city, in each borough except Staten Island.

Thousands of parents and teachers descended on Foley Square to demand that de Blasio get behind charter school proponents» plans to increase the number of charter seats across the city to 200,000 by 2020.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

Her record at Success would likely to stake her the early backing of the city's tabloids, along with the families in her charter school network who are typically Moskowitz supporters, as well as other parents of children in charters across the city.

Some 17,000 charter - school parents, teachers and students marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Tuesday morning, marking, maybe, the end of a pro-charter era in New York City.

He noted that large and growing charter networks across the city and country have a «direct analogy with a school district,» but noted that he believes New York's networks have proved their academic merit.

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.

In 2006, she founded Harlem Success Academy, which grew into the Success Academy charter - school network that today includes 46 schools across the city.

Asked about the charter schools» push, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Education said, «We are committed to lifting up all our children, across every zip code, who will be the future of this city together.»

The controversial charter school leader, whose Success Academy schools spread to about two dozen locations across the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space with three additional public schools this fall, officials said.

Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter advocacy group out of New York City, took umbrage with NYSUT's statement Tuesday, demanding it «immediately apologize» to the 120,000 charter school students across the state and their families for «calling them a distraction.»

Across the city, zoned schools in heavily chartered neighborhoods have higher percentages of high - needs children than a decade ago; far higher, in fact, than the surrounding charter schools.

Standing in front of the Great Western Staircase, parents from across the city spoke to their children's life - changing experiences in public charter schools.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.

In partnership with Mastery Charter, we've given thousands of books to students and schools across the city, and we're just getting started.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

Richard Whitmire is author of On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cCharter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cSchools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the ccharter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the ccharter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cschools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the country.

This phenomenon is common across the United States, with charters fighting for space in high - cost cities without the legislative and financial supports that district schools enjoy (see «Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined with increased competition from charter schools around New York City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement, school culture, and family recruitment efforts across our schools.

Average per - pupil public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000, depending on the states and cities where schools are located.

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

Placing public charter schools on a par with TPS in receiving local educational funds, as Colorado plans to do, would bring over half the cities in our study to funding parity across the two public school sectors.

In Indianapolis, the local nonprofit The Mind Trust recently analyzed projected teacher needs across the city's charter sector and plans to use the data to inform the way it supports schools of all kinds.

As the school - choice movement accelerates across the country, several major cities — including Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Washington, D.C. — are expanding their charter - school portfolios.

With Catholic schools closing across New York City and enrollment plummeting 35 percent over the last decade alone, Queen of Angels and five other Catholic schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx have banded into a «network» — another charter term — of six schools and 2,100 students to try to reverse course.

«Harlem Link is part of a wave of charter schools that opened in the last decade in New York City with the intention of providing academic opportunities for families across income levels and proving that demography is not destiny,» a Rangel statement said.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

The Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities, known as CVNIC, include 1,091 students and 41 teachers across 15 schools in eight school districts: Burton School District in Porterville, the Cutler - Orosi Joint School District in Orosi, Dinuba Unified, Exeter Unified, Tulare City School District, Visalia Unified, and the Sycamore Valley Academy charter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in Vschools in eight school districts: Burton School District in Porterville, the Cutler - Orosi Joint School District in Orosi, Dinuba Unified, Exeter Unified, Tulare City School District, Visalia Unified, and the Sycamore Valley Academy charter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in Vischool districts: Burton School District in Porterville, the Cutler - Orosi Joint School District in Orosi, Dinuba Unified, Exeter Unified, Tulare City School District, Visalia Unified, and the Sycamore Valley Academy charter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in ViSchool District in Porterville, the Cutler - Orosi Joint School District in Orosi, Dinuba Unified, Exeter Unified, Tulare City School District, Visalia Unified, and the Sycamore Valley Academy charter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in ViSchool District in Orosi, Dinuba Unified, Exeter Unified, Tulare City School District, Visalia Unified, and the Sycamore Valley Academy charter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in ViSchool District, Visalia Unified, and the Sycamore Valley Academy charter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in Vcharter school and Valley Life Charter Schools in Vischool and Valley Life Charter Schools in VCharter Schools in VSchools in Visalia.

An overview of the district - charter collaboration landscape and one strategy that many cities are pursuing: sharing instructional practices across district and charter schools.

Locating new schools is just one of many issues facing charters in the District, as well as in cities across the country where charters are growing, including Kansas City and Cleveland.

Together, this indicates that the positive spillovers of charter schools on nearby students at district schools did not come at the detriment of students across the city.

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's State Department of Education this week recognized 116 schools across the state as Schools of Distinction; among these was Brass City Charter School in Watschools across the state as Schools of Distinction; among these was Brass City Charter School in WatSchools of Distinction; among these was Brass City Charter School in Waterbury.

«We applaud state leaders for recognizing the growing demand for public charter schools in cities and towns across Connecticut.

As I prepared to participate on a parent panel for family engagement hosted by the National League of Cities, I came across an article, «Why should New Orleans charter schools return to the Orleans Parish School District?»

New York, NY — Thousands of New York City students, parents and teachers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge today to communicate a simple message to the city's leaders: charter school families need your suppCity students, parents and teachers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge today to communicate a simple message to the city's leaders: charter school families need your suppcity's leaders: charter school families need your support.

And why are there more than 44,000 students on charter school wait lists across the entire city?

Connecticut's State Department of Education this week recognized 116 schools across the state as Schools of Distinction; among these was Brass City Charter School in Watschools across the state as Schools of Distinction; among these was Brass City Charter School in WatSchools of Distinction; among these was Brass City Charter School in Waterbury.

Attendees included independent charter school leaders from across the city, representatives from charter school advocacy groups, and a special appearance by the New York City Public, Advocate Letitia Jacity, representatives from charter school advocacy groups, and a special appearance by the New York City Public, Advocate Letitia JaCity Public, Advocate Letitia James.

The legislative breakfast, held at Park City Prep Charter School, was a chance for parents, community leaders, students, and educators to hear about the many charter schools in Bridgeport and how charter schools are faring across ConneCharter School, was a chance for parents, community leaders, students, and educators to hear about the many charter schools in Bridgeport and how charter schools are faring across Connecharter schools in Bridgeport and how charter schools are faring across Connecharter schools are faring across Connecticut.

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My activism in the fight for equity and against harmful charter schools myths has lead to a role at C3S engaging parents from schools across the city.