Sentences with phrase «charter schools around the nation»

There are hundreds of charter schools around the nation serving tens of thousands of students.

The charter school operator, like so many that lead district and charter schools around the nation that serve this vulnerable population, scrambled to find a proven leader.

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

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As I see it, discussion of Success should revolve around one big question: Why do Success's academic results seem so outsized, even compared to some of the nation's other, most - accomplished charter schools?

After their first Tucson charter school was ranked the nation's sixth - best high school by Newsweek, the Blocks went on to found BASIS.ed, a management company that operates 12 BASIS Schools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, CaliSchools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, Calischools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, California.

Across the nation a consensus may be building around the legitimacy of standardization, pushing decentralizing reforms such as charter schools and vouchers to the side.

School districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartSchool districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartSchool, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartschool was disheartening.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

Most importantly, here in Connecticut and around the nation, charter schools refuse to provide equal educational opportunities.

The study comes as the Obama administration puts new emphasis on charter schools as a vehicle for turning around some of the nation's lowest performing schools - many of which disproportionately serve English learners.

There is hope that charter schools can move the needle in increasing school desegregation around the nation.

Charter proponents, most notably the Walton Family Foundation, contribute large amounts of money to expand charter schools in select cities around the Charter proponents, most notably the Walton Family Foundation, contribute large amounts of money to expand charter schools in select cities around the charter schools in select cities around the nation.

Members of the nation's largest teachers unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — are pushing to organize in charter schools in several cities around the nation...

Discussions were taking place in Hartford about turning over one or more of the local schools over to the nation's biggest charter school chain, the KIPP Foundation, which runs 130 schools around the country.

With this in mind, Gutierrez and the Bellwether researchers are examining district and charter schools around the city, state, and nation that promote this model and, over time, aim to develop a strategic plan for implementing a cluster of such schools in San Antonio.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Charter school advocates in Florida and around the nation today hailed a ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper, who yesterday threw out a legal challenge filed by 14 Florida school boards.