Sentences with phrase «charter schools move»

Have you sort of always figured, well, charter schools move into neighborhoods where they're needed, or where schools are struggling, or the children need better options?

CCSA is recommending that charter schools move forward with their applications to ensure as many highly qualified applicants apply as possible.

Sources said lawmakers were looking at a proposal to help reduce the tensions that exist when a charter school moves into a building already housing a traditional public school.

Other controversial co-locations include the Upper West Success Academy charter school moving into the Brandeis Educational Campus building, which already holds five high schools.

And transfers had surprisingly little effect on racial distributions across the sites: Typically, students transferring to charter schools moved to schools with racial distributions similar to those of the TPSs from which they came.

Two Roads Charter School moves into ideal location with the help of CSDC (Arvada, CO, September 14, 2011) Charter Schools Development Corporation (CSDC) is pleased to announce its acquisition of the former Maranatha Christian Center for lease, with option to purchase, to Two Roads Charter School (TRCS).

With Aloma D. Johnson, the charter school moved to a new location — another event that can lead to students withdrawing.

At a meeting in July, parents and teachers had a generally favorable opinion of the Jean Gordon site, voting it as a strong second choice after the possibility of the St. James Major campus owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans after Hynes Charter School moves out in December.

He says the state's funding and teacher certification requirements are acceptable, but he'd like to see the authorization for charter schools moved from the districts to the state.

Audubon Charter School moved its classrooms out of the Broadway campus to a temporary location in Gentilly over the winter holidays in anticipation of the renovations.

Many Audubon Charter School parents and teachers see the St. James Major campus in Gentilly as an attractive option for a temporary campus after Hynes Charter School moves out of it during the winter break, they told school officials after hearing about four new options at a Thursday afternoon meeting.

Not exact matches

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

Our numbers have expanded to 45 known schools and initiatives, and we've started to see the Public Waldorf Education impulse move from its spiritual home in the West towards its historical roots in the East... with a few stops in between: schools based on the principles of Public Waldorf Educationwere granted charters in Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Florida this year and are set to open in the fall.

With absolutely ZERO clue in 1999 that I would be doing this — shortly after moving to Austin in 2003, I began volunteering for a charter school for under - served children in Austin, most with African American and Latino heritage.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

Moving a small percentage of traditional public school students into charter schools leaves the majority of students in «broken» schools.

«Most kids who attend a charter school in New York come from low - income families of color who can't afford to move into a better school district.

For example, the mayor said today that he will support Sen. Craig Johnson, a Nassau County Democrat, simply because he decided to buck his fellow downstate Dems and vote «yes» on the charter school bill — a move Bloomberg deemed «courageous.»

And in a surprise move, Cuomo was the charter school rally's keynote speaker.

The closure of the middle school comes as a controversial charter school hopes to move into the building.

... but even some close allies of the teachers unions, which are generally foes of charter schools, questioned SED's move.

In rare cases, where charter schools violate laws or face serious problems with academics or safety, charter authorizers may move to close schools.

«We're all concerned on this issue of co-location and how you treat existing schools, when you move a charter school into an existing facility,» Silver said.

Tapestry Charter School parents in Buffalo gathered Monday night to express their views on expansion plans to move some of the school to a former Buffalo school buiSchool parents in Buffalo gathered Monday night to express their views on expansion plans to move some of the school to a former Buffalo school buischool to a former Buffalo school buischool building.

«We can open a new school [public or charter] or we can move an existing school into the new building,» said Tania Shinkawa, from the DOE's Office of Portfolio Development.

As for the proposal to raise the state's cap on charter schools — a move that Cuomo supported in his State of the State in January — Lanza blanched at the idea both the cap increase and mayoral control were seen as being «tied.»

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

He also endorsed an update to the capital budget by schools chancellor Carmen Fariña last week that would move $ 210 million away from charter school construction.

Opponents of Harlem Success Academy's plan to move into P.S. 145 on West 105th Street and Amsterdam Avenue say District 3 schools are already too crowded and can't handle the new students the charter school would attract.

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer said at Tuesday's rally against Harlem Success Academy that she would «strangle» any parents that pull their children out of P.S. 75 and move them into a charter school, the New York Post reported.

The Eva Moskowitz - run charter school planned to move two grades into the building Wadleigh now shares with two other schools — a move that is still in the works.

A state Supreme Court judge permitted the city to move forward with its plans to place 15 charter schools inside existing public schools.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The bill would also allow the inspector to have oversight over the PEP's handling of charter school co-locations, a move that is likely to be cheered by the charter sector, which has accused de Blasio of being hostile to charters.

«What we saw for much of the Obama era was the centrist Democrats — the venture - capital, charter - school supporter wing — really move to prominence,»

«What we saw for much of the Obama era was the centrist Democrats — the venture - capital, charter - school supporter wing — really move to prominence,» Hess, of the American Enterprise Institute, told me.

While several of his fellow southern Brooklyn elected officials were criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio over Hizzoner's decision to allow plans for two charter schools to share space with traditional public schools in Bensonhurst to move forward, state Sen.

Nolan also expressed her dismay over the recent decision by a SUNY committee that allows some charter schools to certify their own teachers — a move that is being challenged by the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, and its NYC affiliate, the UFT, both of which are longtime allies of the Assembly Democrats.

UPDATE: Johnson released a lengthy statement in response to the AFL - CIO attack, noting he has been a «strong supporter» of a property tax cap and charter schools, was «proud» to support Tier V — «a move that will save Long Island taxpayers $ 8.5 billion and save this state $ 35 billion over the next three decades» — and has been urging teacher and public sector unions to sit down with elected officials to «hammer out revised wage agreements that reflect the current economic reality.»

CITY HALL — Days after the city made a surprise announcement that new Success Academy charter schools would move into former Catholic school buildings in Washington Heights, Harlem and Rosedale, parents and education advocates took to the steps of the Department of Education Tuesday morning to protest the law that made it happen.

The mayor has since toned down his rhetoric on charters, and at the recent roll out of his new education plan called for a sharing of best practices between the two types of schools, which the borough president praised as a «conciliatory» move.

Western New York Maritime Charter School, fresh off moving its middle school to a new location in South Buffalo, is now planning a major expansion of that building to accommodate its high school and a new gymnSchool, fresh off moving its middle school to a new location in South Buffalo, is now planning a major expansion of that building to accommodate its high school and a new gymnschool to a new location in South Buffalo, is now planning a major expansion of that building to accommodate its high school and a new gymnschool and a new gymnasium.

Some say that the borough's current crop of district, charter, and private schools are relatively strong, leaving little demand for Success to move in.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at a charter school rally sent education groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.

Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos have championed parents and children by boldly moving to protect the future of charter schools,» Moskowitz said in a statement released after the budget deal was announced Saturday.

In February, Mr. de Blasio announced that nearly all charter schools could stay at their current locations, but that these three would have to move because they impeded programs for students with disabilities and forced elementary school students to attend classes in high school buildings.

*** Photo Left to Right: Althea Williams, Founder and President of «Youth Leaders On The Move;» Loretta Masterson, President of the Sack Wern Houses Residents Council; April D. Horton, Director of External and Government Affairs at Verizon; Senator Jeff Klein; Darrin Speight, President of the Shorehaven Condo Association; Paul Moore, Principal of Moore Development Group; Debra Stern, Founder and Executive Director of the Amani Public Charter School.

Flanagan (R - LI), who has been the biggest obstacle in the mayor's search for a lengthy extension of mayoral control of schools, is still seeking a lifting of the state cap on charter schools — a move the mayor has said isn't yet necessary.

They said it wasn't appropriate to move the charter school's kindergarten students into a building where they'll be alongside high school students.