Sentences with phrase «charter schools in the city»

74 % of charter schools in the city received a top tier rating.

Our process is entirely separate from the district's process and that of other charter schools in the city.

In an interview this week, he said that his administration had established good relationships with most charter schools in the city.

We address two main questions about charter schools in the city.

That first decade saw limited interaction among charter schools in the city, and even less with the district.

The report also found that charter schools in the city retain 64 percent of their students, compared to 56 percent of students retained by district schools.

Today half of charter schools in the city are improving reading or maths at a significantly faster rate than competing public schools; and across the state as a whole charters are performing better.

The elected school board of Buffalo, New York has passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on new charter schools in the city for the next three years.

In an even larger gathering in October, more than 18,000 individuals, dressed in red «I fight to end inequality» t - shirts, took part in a rally in Brooklyn to show their support for charter schools in the city.

Pathway is a tuition - free, public charter school in the city of Maricopa.

For the third time, de Blasio, who has sought long - term extensions of his control of city schools, is facing hostility from Senate Republicans who have attached poison pills to the extension — namely, the raising of the cap on charter schools in the city.

Klein already has tapped several other established groups - including the Knowledge is Power Program and Harlem Children's Zone - to open charter schools in the city.

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

Many AFT members who work in charter schools in cities across the country have similar stories.)

The bill also would enable the mayors of Louisville and Lexington to authorize charter schools in their cities.

Charter schools in cities like Buffalo were already «on the ropes» because of the lack of building aid and had trouble paying for the space they needed to expand enough to meet rising demand.

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

Chicago charter school advocates gathered to protest a provision that would cap the number of charter schools in the city under a contract with the CTU.

The Office of Charter Schools at Ball State University has approved an eighth charter school in the city.

Mr. Cuomo's reflexive dismissal of almost everything the mayor advocated — from a reform of the 421a tax break to a decision to allow more charter schools in the city — baffled City Hall.

Michele Mason, executive director of the Newark Charter School Fund, which supports charter schools in the city and works extensively with its single - site charters, made a similar point, noting that many mom - and - pops lack the human capital used by CMOs to manage the problems that confront any education startup.

There are currently 216 charter schools in the city serving 106,600 students, or 10 percent of the public - school population.

While offering concessions to allow for more input, Bloomberg said he opposes any deal that would block his authority to site charter schools in city buildings.

Aiming to boost the growth of charter schools in cities nationwide, the Walton Family Foundation plans to announce a $ 250 million initiative today to help charters build and expand their sites.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

The actions could be a lifesaver for the popular alternatives to public schools because Bloomberg's likely successor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has vowed to impose a moratorium on co-locating charter schools in city facilities.

For mayors who have long admired the top charter schools in their cities but also remain wary of crossing the politically potent teachers unions that are hostile to charters, the «compact» designation nicely reduces the political heat.

At a celebration for the 10th anniversary of Sisulu - Walker Charter School of Harlem, the first charter school in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in the city.

An outfit founded by Yale Law School grads has been invited to open five charter schools in the city by 2006, Education Department officials said yesterday.

And he adds there's continued pressure on the District's budget from charter schools in the city - which receive a portion of the school system's revenue.

Schaeffler oversees the network of KIPP charter schools in the city, a system that has grown from 80 fifth - graders in 2001 to 3,600 students in neighborhoods that include Anacostia, Shaw and Trinidad.

The pre-K-through-12 school is one of the highest - ranking charter schools in the city, and has a 2014 graduation rate of 86 % compared with the citywide average of 64 %.

The Walton Family Foundation has directed the majority of its education philanthropy toward establishing charter schools in cities across America.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

The charter management schools charge fees at charter schools in the cities that serve mostly Black and some Latinx students.

The Los Angeles County Office of Education can also approve charter schools in the city.

Emanuel also wants more privately run charter schools in the city, which the teachers union opposes.

The DC Public Charter School Board ranks DC Bilingual among the top three elementary charter schools in the city and The New Teacher Project ranks DC Bilingual in the top quartile of all DC charter schools for its strong instructional culture.

As the year opened, the LA Unified Board of Education in the same week hired a new superintendent and unanimously voted to oppose a $ 490 - million draft plan from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation that sought to rapidly increase the number of charter schools in the city so that charters would encompass half the «market share» of the entire district.

In a community in which nearly one in six students are not fluent in the English language and many require additional English language services, two Bridgeport charter schools report that they have no ELL students and none of the six charter schools in the city educate an appropriate share of students who need help learning the English language.

Timothy Goodwin, a former Hartford school principal who is trying to start his own charter school in the city called Community First, said Perry's collaboration sounded «awesome.»

Boys» Latin is heralded by many as one of the more successful charter schools in the city, but it is not without its critics.

But for those in LA, these debates involving national figures may ultimately be less helpful than a discussion about research that focuses specifically on the performance of existing charter schools in the city.

On Wednesday night, the Philadlphia School Reform Commission (which controls the city's schools in lieu of an elected school committee) voted to reject 34 of 39 applications to open new charter schools in the city.

«We applaud state leaders for recognizing the growing demand for public charter schools in cities and towns across Connecticut.

Lusher Charter School and several other charter schools in the city are continuing to negotiate with the Orleans Parish School Board over their governing agreement for the coming year, officials said Tuesday.

Bridgeport and Stamford have resisted the state's efforts to open charter schools in their cities.