Sentences with phrase «charter schools available»

Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the state.

Red State Or Blue State, Parents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the state.

Arizona parents can and do go on to Greatschools.net and rank the schools around them by Stanford 10 scores, often to find very highly ranked charter schools available in their area.

However, like 132 other school districts in Georgia, there is not a single independent, start - up charter school available to children who can not afford private school or that can not move to be nearer a better school in Muscogee County.

Not exact matches

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Note the average teacher salary is not available for most charter schools because staff are employed by a charter - school management company and fall into the category of contract employees.

At the same time, advocates opposed to de Blasio's push to reduce the available space in charter schools in New York City will also descend on the Capitol.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

The facility, fresh from a $ 500,000 rehab, is located in the Westminster Community Charter School, but is also available for families.

ALBANY — Two of the state's top education leaders say there isn't an urgent need to raise or eliminate the state's cap on charter schools since a third of the available charters under the limit have not yet been awarded.

«To the extent that quality seats are not available for students, and you have the opportunity to have a charter school come in and provide quality seats, I think it's incumbent upon us to embrace that.

The 12 - month extension, which was coupled with a strengthening of charter schools in the city and statewide through keeping their numbers in an available pool, was agreed to after the mayor sought a permanent program.

Flanagan's measure would allow charters to re-enter the «pool» of available charters should a school close.

The Senate bill has further changes, such as including donations made to charter schools and expanding the pool of available credits, capping it at $ 150 million for calendar year 2017, $ 225 million for 2018 and $ 300 million for 2019 going forward.

c) in fact has worked in many instances to obstruct, delay and otherwise frustrate elements of the reform agenda including the use of neighborhood schools, charter schools and all other available vehicles and opportunities to provide seats in performing schools to all children in the BPS,

The Founder of Ashesi University, Dr. Patrick Awuah is upbeat about the opportunities available to the school following the granting of the presidential charter to the school.

Supporters of the new rules say they will alleviate a teacher shortage and make more qualified candidates available to charter schools.

But city Education spokeswoman Toya Holness said charter school advocates have misstated the true nature of available space in school buildings.

Merrick Academy in Queens, Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School, South Bronx Charter for International Cultures and the Arts, and Success Academy Charter Schools - NYC were selected based on objective criteria, including geography, size and publicly available financial data.

The governor could also work to change the state's charter law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told Ccharter law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told Ccharter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told CCharter School Network, told Capital.

Over the years, the program has expanded a great deal, and very quickly, in both public schools and charter schools, but it is not so clear that the same number of teachers who are prepared to implement the program are available now as there were during the first years the program was established in public schools.

Making state bond funds available to charter schools is an uphill battle, but California recently allocated to charter schools $ 100 million of an $ 11.4 billion bond package for K - 12 education facilities.

Fifteen D.C. public schools were marked for closure in January 2013 as a result of underenrollment or underutilization of facilities, yet Henderson did not plan on making these facilities available to charter schools.

«First - generation» choice programs such as open enrollment, magnet and charter schools, and voucher plans have indeed increased the number of schooling options available.

They are «revolving» in the sense that the loans are designed to be repaid quickly, when longer - term debt becomes available as the charter school develops a track record.

We urge the federal and state governments to improve publicly available data about charter schools and to monitor the civil rights of all students who attend or wish to attend charters, in addition to further examining the effects charter schools have on surrounding public schools.

For example, the D.C. Public Charter School Cooperative, with 21 members, aims to provide information to members about the complexities of special education, hire and make available specialized staff that no school would want to employ alone, and develop a Medicaid billing system to increase reimbursements for special - education serSchool Cooperative, with 21 members, aims to provide information to members about the complexities of special education, hire and make available specialized staff that no school would want to employ alone, and develop a Medicaid billing system to increase reimbursements for special - education serschool would want to employ alone, and develop a Medicaid billing system to increase reimbursements for special - education services.

These charges seemed odd, given that the best studies available on the subject — from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)-- show that Michigan charter students make large academic gains relative to similar students at district schools, particularly in Detroit.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

This student growth and achievement system is now available for use by any authorizer or school in the country through the National Charter Schools Institute.

We were primarily interested in assessing the role of demographics, student achievement, and the extent of school choice currently available in shaping how states participate in the charter school movement.

States that have put in policies that allow for uncapped charter schools, which themselves are increasingly utilizing blended learning to reach all children, publicly available and uncapped full - time virtual schools, and other such options are ahead of the curve.

In a new report, Smith explores policy initiatives that some states and cities have taken to make taxpayer - funded facilities available to serve all public school students, whether they are enrolled in traditional or charter public schools.

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parents.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

There is also a wealth of information available on the demographics of charter schools and whether they are representative of their neighborhoods.

When federal Race to the Top dollars became available, Pawlenty launched a statewide charter school initiative and moved to hone math and science instruction in schools.

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

Making public school buildings available to charters,» will appear in the September issue of Education Next and is currently available at www.educationnext.org.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

We studied 16 charter elementary and secondary schools with a wide range of personalized learning models from across the country (we hoped to include district schools, but the data were not available).

Encourage the teacher - professionalism organizations (and the unions) to run schools of their own - an opportunity made readily available by the spread of the charter - school movement.

Into this mix has walked the Open High School of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open soSchool of Utah, a charter school that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open soschool that is offering a virtual education that is based almost entirely on curricular materials available free - of - cost from open sources.

They also asserted that the program must be evaluated in light of the full range of choices available to Arizona parents, including interdistrict transfers and ample charter schools.

Taken together, these two factors can reduce charter school resources available for educational programs by 25 to 35 percent, relative to comparable district - run schools.

At the same time, opposition to teacher tenure increases by 8 percentage points, support for charter schools increases by 7 percentage points, and support for making school vouchers available to all families shoots upward by 13 percentage points.