Sentences with phrase «charter schools focused»

He wrote at the time that charter schools can provide «valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under - served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing.»

For instance, in the late 1990s, all 184 schools in Milwaukee private, public, and charter schools focused on improving quality of instruction and student outcomes across the system.

valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under - served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing.»

Over time, Minnesota would come to host some 30 charter schools focused on students from specific ethnic or immigrant groups, such as Somali, Ethiopian, Hmong, and Latino populations.37

SIATech (pronounced SIGH - a-tek) is an award - winning network of charter schools focused on dropout recovery.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), for example, a national network of successful charter schools focused on low - income students, has for years used various money - based rewards.

Nadya Miranda said officials of the charter school focused on defending the teacher and its public image, with little concern for her daughter's welfare.

(Many charter schools focus on serving minority or low - income communities.)

GPS is a tuition - free K - 8 public charter school focused on innovation, rigorous project - based learning, and community.

In honoring Castrejón, the foundation will donate $ 10,000 to Language Academy of Sacramento (LAS), a K - 8 dual language immersion charter school focused on historically underserved populations.

Since then, a steady stream of parents living within different school zones has lobbied along with educators to become charter schools focusing in areas like the fine arts, technology, math and science or international studies, said Gordon Higgins, a district spokesman with decades of education experience.

San Diego Union Tribune: Charter Schools Focus of Four - Day Conference San Diego Union Tribune: Have charter schools grown too fast?

Charter Schools Focus More on Education: Rosa Vargas drives long distances each day so that her children can attend a charter school.

In Frederick County, Tom Neumark and a group of families fought for five years to open a charter school focused on providing an education steeped in the classics.

She has also served in various educational roles at two separate charter schools focusing on family engagement, academic mentoring, and student services.

01/03/2017: The Atlanta Journal - Constitution, Making the Grade: Clayton County charter school focuses on technology

Founded by New Haven, this innovative public charter school focuses on career tech and college prep in the construction and building trades.

Charter schools focusing on the arts.

Ed serves on the board of a veterans» homeless shelter and job training center, a charter school focusing on the arts, and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.

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«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

So charter schools can teach differently, they can have completely different curriculum, they can focus on a completely different philosophy.

The next stop is an all - day language - focused pre-kindergarten for 200 4 - year - olds, who then graduate into a K - 12 charter school that has an extended day and an extended year and employs some of the intensive academic practices developed in the KIPP schools.

In the letter, the charter school organization's Kyle Rosenkrans writes to New York State United Teachers Union President Karen Magee and United Federation of Teachers President Micahel Mulgrew that they should focus their attention on struggling schools, not opposition to Cuomo's measures.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

Cahill, a top aide and official in former Governor George Pataki's Administration, says as Attorney General he'd bring more focus to creating jobs and helping small business, improving education and protecting Charter Schools, and fighting crime.

Cahill says as attorney general he'd bring more focus to creating jobs and helping small business, improving education and protecting charter schools, and fighting crime.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says the Charter School of Inquiry will emphasize critical thinking, problem solving and engaging students.

That day the focus was on the hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, the chairman of the Success Academy charter school network, who bought an apartment in the building seven years ago.

Hoping to shift the focus away from controversy and onto academics, Success Academy Charter Schools intends to start posting its lesson plans online this summer, going so far as to specify what type of snail is the best for kindergartners» science experiments.

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

Charter schools have been a focus for Bellafiore since the Pataki days.

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Independent charters are particularly desperate for facilities funding, while large charters — mostly sited in co-located public school space — are focusing on increasing the amount of public money each charter school student receives.

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

«Parents will have access to more great school options, and charter school operators will now be able to return their focus to the classroom.»

He's an outspoken advocate for suburban interests like property relief — a big focus for his conference this year — and charter schools, which has put him at odds with some fellow Democrats.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

New York negotiations also focused on how to divide increased education funding and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

There were several education - focused groups not associated with charter schools or unions who spent significant money on lobbying last year.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

In conversations before Malliotakis» arrival, several attendees focused on the changes being wrought by gentrification and the consequential need for affordable housing and on charter schools as their top political interests.

A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

«I'm not buying de Blasio gave him an overarching focus, because clearly the governor used the mayor for a punching bag from the very beginning of the administration, whether it be on the millionaire's tax or charter schools,» said Doug Muzzio, professor of political science at Baruch College.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboCharter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collabocharter networks, praised the collaboration.

It also seemed to point out that only a small fraction of the city's public school students attend charter schools, and said its main focus was on improving opportunities for all children.

Bloomberg has just three years left on his mayoral term, and the focus is expected to stay on items such as boosting charter schools and working toward accountability measures.

«SUNY will propose and adopt regulations in accordance with The New York State Administrative Procedure Act... SUNY's first area of focus will be teacher requirements in SUNY authorized charter schools,» Jody Perry, a spokeswoman for SUNY, said in a statement on Thursday.

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