Sentences with phrase «charter schools across the country»

At least one - third of charter schools across the country operate with an expanded schedule.

The most up - to - date data suggest that 2.5 million students attend public charter schools across the country.

Those new facilities come as charter schools across the country have been criticized for not fulfilling their founding mission of being innovative laboratories that would eventually serve the district.

We will begin working with charter schools across the country beginning in 2018.

This campaign gives parents, leaders, and others the chance to share why more than 700,000 Black families have chosen charter schools across the country.

What's not so «mixed» is that the organization is once again taking aim at charter schools across the country.

Teacher retention has been a challenge for charter schools across the country.

The distribution of students currently attending charter schools across the country is far from even.

What we have learned is this: Successful charter schools across the country have five key ingredients in common that enable them to improve student achievement.

Every day it seems like there is another headline about waste, fraud and abuse in for - profit charter schools across the country.

The number of charter schools across the country has increased by 3,500.

Public charter schools across the country were started with the promise of being alternative, quality options for parents to choose for their children.

This campaign gives parents, leaders, and others the chance to share the story of why more than 700,000 Black families have chosen charter schools across the country.

What is also ignored is the exponential growth in scandals associated with charter schools across the country.

Nationally, more than 2.5 million students are currently enrolled in charter schools across the country according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

Charter schools across the country rely on NMTC funds for financing affordable facilities.

Recent studies have cast doubt on the value of charter schools in DeVos» home state of Michigan, but an earlier study by Brookings found urban charter schools across the country succeeding even as suburban ones have not.

The U.S. Department of Education announced $ 245 million in new grants this week to expand charter schools across the country.

Over the past year, the Center for Popular Democracy (a member of the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools) has been investigating charter schools across the country.

If the U.S. Department of Education is going continue to fund Eva Moskowitz's zero tolerance charter schools in New York, then they will turn a blind eye to zero tolerance charter schools across the country.

Marguerite Vichier - Guerre taught elementary Special Education in both public and charter schools across the country prior to working at 1647.

And while charters only represent 7 percent of all public schools, approximately 33 percent of all Teach for America teachers are employed by charter schools across the country.

KIPP San Antonio and KIPP charter schools across the country advocated Wednesday for permanent protection from deportation for immigrants who entered the country illegally as children.

And as a constant mainstay, we've seen teachers unions fighting to discredit and dismantle charter schools across the country.

Meanwhile, Weingarten moved on to become president of UFT's parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, where she has launched a campaign to undermine charter schools across the country.

Jarosz Brady says charter schools across the country are doing a better job of educating students.

A publicly traded company whose CEO earned $ 4 million in total compensation for 2014, K12, Inc., backs virtual charter schools across the country, including California - based CAVA (California Virtual Academy).

Using a value - added model to analyze performance data from 179 high - need charter schools across the country during the 2008 - 2009 school year, EPIC identified 22 schools that have made the most dramatic gains in student achievement.

K12, which has made a business for itself out of operating publicly funded online charter schools across the country, is at its lowest stock price in five years, down 75 % from a high in September of 2013.

By refusing to admit students who would score lower on standardized tests, Connecticut's charter schools, and most charter schools across the country, artificially create the impression that they do significantly better.

Finn, a former assistant secretary of education in the Reagan administration, said the quality of charter schools across the country varies widely, and he predicted that the results would make those overseeing charters demand more in the way of performance.

A 2016 national study by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools reports that there are currently over three million children enrolled in charter schools across the country.

As part of its effort to share best practices with the special education community, The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) identified several public charter schools across the country as «Centers for Excellence» and is communicating how each school uniquely leverages its autonomy to benefit students with disabilities.

It is with these consequences in mind that Congress in 1994 authorized funds, in amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for a study to assess the impact of charter schools across the country.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the...

With the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, Ms. Carlstone - Hurst observed at over 40 high performing charter schools across the country to design and lead Libertas College Prep, a school that will change the outcomes for each student that enters its doors.

The Walton Family Foundation is announcing that in 2012, it invested nearly $ 29 million to help start up 111 new charter schools across the country...

The Stanford Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) has conducted numerous studies on the performance of students at charter schools across the country.

Perhaps the best - known effort is the Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, which has been implemented in close to 150 charter schools across the country.

While states can and should continue to create facilities options for their charter schools, a new federal tax incentive has the potential to lighten that load for hundreds, even thousands, of charter schools across the country.

Great Minds tested the drafts in 12 public and charter schools across the country and created Wit & Wisdom, a K — 8 coherent curriculum based on the same principles.

Some in the charter school movement, viewing autonomy as its most important animating principle, responsible for so much of the innovation and energy in the 3,300 charter schools across the country, argue that the testing regimen at the heart of the standards movement and NCLB will leave charters hidebound, soulless, bureaucratized.

Charter schools across the country will join the Reach Higher initiative in celebrating the accomplishments of local students and their commitment to higher education.

Charter schools in the Bluegrass State will soon join more than 6,900 charter schools across the country in delivering high - quality, public educational options to families.