Sentences with phrase «charter schools chose»

Within a subset of seven states TNTP is following, over half of charter schools chose not to participate in their state's retirement system.

In other words, nearly all charter schools chose to participate in the state pension system.

To better understand why charter schools choose to opt in or out of pension plans, we administered surveys to a random sample of schools across the five states.

Teachers at Mary Coghill Charter School chose union representation during a vote on May 19th.

Authorizer shopping happens when a charter school chooses or changes its authorizer specifically to avoid accountability.

Candidates will be greeted by school staff and may drop off resumes and meet school representatives to find out more about the charter schools they choose to visit.

The charter schools choose to spend money on the classroom instead of on bureaucracy.»

For example, if a charter holder and / or charter school choose to use a shared cooperative to provide the function of the Business Manager, then it would be the responsibility of the cooperative to fulfill the training hours necessary, not the charter holder and / or charter school.

The state Department of Education released the list of 1,267 public schools and charter schools chosen to field - test different sections of the new exams.

Should the public charter school choose the supplemental funding, the public charter school may only expel a student for a reason expressly allowed in law and must provide a disciplinary alternative education program or juvenile justice alternative education program, as applicable.

If a charter school chooses to provide student transportation through the local school district, an agreement shall be made with the local education agency to do so.

Aside from that, Celerity Educational Group, the charter school chosen by Parent Revolution organizers, hosted multiple forums and invited parents to come check out the campus.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

This means we choose private schooling, charter schooling and home schooling.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D - Bronx) called Perkins «disingenuous» for blocking charter - school options, noting: «He won't allow parents the choice his own parents chose for him.»

De Blasio also said Thursday night that greater equity between «good» and «bad» public schools would mean parents wouldn't have to choose privately run charter schools over traditional schools.

The bill would allow potential charter schools to choose which entity authorizes them: Either the Board of Regents or the State University of New York.

Taxpayer - funded charter schools should not have the right to choose to educate fewer high - needs students than public schools and then point to how successful they are in comparison.

«We want to give parents the ability to have choice and to choose based on their interests and the success of a school, whether it's a charter school or a non-charter school,» Walcott told NY1.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

In the face of multimillion dollar negative ad campaigns from Success Academy Charter Schools and its CEO Eva Moskowitz, Hawkins maintains that the mayor could have pointed out that public school children - some disabled - face being displaced - but chose not to.

The city also has the option of turning the school into a charter under state receivership law, but the administration is highly unlikely to choose that option considering de Blasio's intermittent feud with the local charter sector.

Last year, when de Blasio was at his most vulnerable, Cuomo chose to play a decisive role in the mayor's most embarrassing political defeat to date by siding with charter school executive Eva Moskowitz in a high - profile fight over city charters.

Instead, Cuomo has chosen to avoid confronting Silver head - on, even saying the speaker is not an obstacle to achieving his policy agenda, even though Silver's stated goals and Cuomo's are diametrically opposed on everything from redistricting to charter schools.

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

Party officials chose her Wednesday night from among four original candidates including former Council Member - at - Large Charley H. Fisher III; Duncan Kirkwood, Western New York advocacy manager for the Northeast Charter Schools Network; and James Blackwell, son of former Legislature Chairman Roger I. Blackwell.

Part of the enrollment decline results from students choosing charter schools, and the AFT is trying to cover the charter school bases.

Leaders of many charter organizations, before they had any chance to view the details of the report, quickly responded that they were honored to serve minority families who chose the charter schools after a search for attractive schooling options.

Who is Choosing Charter Schools?

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Fourteen of the 4th graders at Washington, D.C.'s Hope Community Charter School had chosen the right answer — 1/3 and 5/15 — on a test written for the school by Boston - based Achievement Network (School had chosen the right answer — 1/3 and 5/15 — on a test written for the school by Boston - based Achievement Network (school by Boston - based Achievement Network (ANet).

Using a metropolitan area as point of comparison allowed us to consider segregation within a smaller geographical area — compared to our state - level analysis — where students can conceivably choose to attend either traditional public or charter schools.

These include direct - service providers (e.g., Building Excellent Schools, the Mind Trust, Charter School Partners), human - capital organizations (e.g., Relay, Sposato, the Ryan Fellowship), advocacy groups (e.g., charter associations, BAEO, 50CAN, Stand for Children), and foundations and intermediaries (e.g., the Walton Family Foundation, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Choose to Succeed, New Schools for New OrCharter School Partners), human - capital organizations (e.g., Relay, Sposato, the Ryan Fellowship), advocacy groups (e.g., charter associations, BAEO, 50CAN, Stand for Children), and foundations and intermediaries (e.g., the Walton Family Foundation, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Choose to Succeed, New Schools for New Orcharter associations, BAEO, 50CAN, Stand for Children), and foundations and intermediaries (e.g., the Walton Family Foundation, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Choose to Succeed, New Schools for New Orleans).

In the end, as RAND tells us, students who move into charter schools generally choose schools with racial compositions similar to those of the traditional public schools they exited.

That's why she chose to take a break from her teaching job at a charter school and enroll in the Arts in Education Program (AIE) at HGSE.

The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools does occasionally revoke charters or choose not to renew them.

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

In contrast to district - based service systems, in which the central office or its chosen contractors provide all services to schools, the essence of the charter school service system must be diversity and choice.

The family ended up choosing a small charter school once run through the University of Hawaii's College of Education.

Administrative attempts to close charter schools are often met with fierce parental opposition and lawsuits, but when parents don't like a school, they can simply vote with their feet, either by withdrawing their children from the school or by not choosing it in the first place.

However, because KIPP schools are charter schools, the students who attend them have parents who have chosen this option.

Finally, the school board (which had experienced significant turnover in the November 2012 elections) agreed to hear a proposal from the parents» chosen charter operator, which hopes to take over the school in the fall.

Research that painstakingly tries to separate out the actual effects of schools clearly has value, but it is important to bear in mind that, in the absence of random assignment of students to schools (such as occurs via charter school lotteries), families that choose for their children to be educated in their home (through virtual schools) are likely to be very different from other families.

The mayor typically defends his opposition to charter growth by expressing concern over the impact on the BPS budget and his belief that Commonwealth charter schools «pick and choose» their students.

The Match High leaders put a new twist on the «no excuses» policies that many charter schools employ: instead of allowing no excuses on the part of their students, Larsson said, they chose to make no excuses for themselves.

To name just a few familiar examples: New Schools for New Orleans, Building Hope, Friends of Choice in Urban Schools, Charter Board Partners, The Mind Trust, Families Empowered, Civic Builders, Building Excellent Schools, A + Denver, Educate78, and Choose to Succeed.

It used an innovative matching technique to create control students in the traditional schools who were similar to those who chose charters.

Third, charter operators have generally chosen to offer relatively attractive defined benefit plans, though these appear less costly and more flexible (for both educator and school) than the established state system.

Mathematica, the firm that did the study, chose to study only those students who entered a charter middle school after having first taken a standardized test in a public school.