Sentences with phrase «charter sector as»

The Waltons had a hand in funding 20 % of the charter schools that opened in 2015, which makes it hard to deny that they have an immense influence on the charter sector as a whole - its goals, measures of success, and importantly, how big it is (Strauss, 2016).

The article describes years of «scandal - ridden headlines» about Ohio's charters, and notes that voices on both sides of the charter question «point to the Ohio charter sector as an example of the dysfunction that can arise from lax oversight.»

Last fall, the NAACP called for a moratorium on the expansion of school choice in the United States, viewing the charter sector as a threat to our hallowed system of public education — as though it's ever been what it claims to be for Black students and families — and drawing an inexplicable line in the sand between two parts of itself.

Finding: The charter sector as a whole underperforms academically relative to similar demographic students in public district schools.

The charter sector as a whole underperforms academically relative to similar demographic students in public district schools.

While some of Arizona's college - prep charters focusing on attracting high - achieving students with a rigorous curriculum have gotten significant attention in the media, two independent studies using student - level data have found the charter sector as a whole for similar demographic students underperforms relative to the public district schools.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has called the progress of D.C. Public Schools «remarkable» while the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has ranked the District's charter sector as the best in the country.»

Secretary DeVos is right when she says that American state schools appear to have grown accustomed to being in receive mode, waiting for orders from on high as to what they are to do next; while independent schools continue to enjoy their autonomy and capacity for innovation, which was once a rationale for the charter sector as well, but that sector has lost its vitality since philanthropists suborned leading educational entrepreneurs into specializing in test prep, so impatient did they become to see the effects of their spending reflected in national test score reports, an improvement that has not been forthcoming.

The data come from the 2011 - 12 Schools and Staffing Survey, and they show the charter sector as a whole has teachers with significantly less experience.

Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.

This means, when things such as poverty, race, and English language learners are taken into account and properly controlled for, we are finding that student outcomes on test scores are simply better in the private and charter sector as opposed to traditional public schools.

How she got here: Ashton taught three years in traditional public schools in Williamsburg, Va., and Washington, D.C., before she moved to the charter sector as a program administrator in Chicago and then New York City.

Several local and national philanthropies have supported its charter sector as well as the district itself.

They point to application barriers at some charter schools and high expulsion rates at others as evidence that the charter sector as a whole may be skimming the most motivated, disciplined students and leaving the hardest - to - reach behind.

The mediocre performance of Arizona's charter sector as a whole should not overshadow the impressive work being done in some individual schools.

In fact, in the vast majority of the 39 metro areas reviewed in the CRP report, the application of our central - city comparison decreases (relative to the flawed CRP analysis) the level of segregation in the charter sector as compared to the traditional public school sector.

Not exact matches

WLA has a vested interest in improving the health and diversity of the agriculture sector, and our Charter recognises the important and positive role that women can contribute as a...

WLA has a vested interest in improving the health and diversity of the agriculture sector, and our Charter recognises the important and positive role that women can contribute as a result of increased participation, particularly at senior / executive levels within organisations.

The charter introduces a target for public sector net debt as a percentage of GDP to be falling at a fixed date of 2015/16.

The de Blasio administration's complicated relationship with the city's charter school sector is being put to the test as the city prepares for another dramatic increase of its pre-kindergarten offerings.

The promise of pre-K in charters has been described as a potential bridge between the de Blasio administration and the charter sector, which have had major differences over the last year.

Moskowitz said her muted approach was wrongly interpreted as «tacit support» and that pre-existing charter school nemeses seized onto the perception to harm the sector as a whole.

And a spate of political victories for one part of the charter sector — the large networks FES represents — has shed light on a chasm within the sector that may complicate future charter advocacy, as the city's independent charters keep waiting to see their policy priorities fulfilled.

That stance could allow the Assembly Democrats to maintain they made no concessions on charters, even as the charter sector notches a political victory.

Deputy mayor Richard Buery, who oversees the city's pre-K program and serves as City Hall's unofficial emissary to the charter sector, echoed de Blasio on Monday.

Although the charter sector ultimately gained an advocate in Governor Andrew Cuomo and successfully lobbied for a sweeping pro-charter law passed during the last legislative session, Moskowitz said she refers to this spring as «the dark period.»

But public education in our city is also facing a number of systemic challenges: DCPS asks why it can't function with the same freedoms as the charter sector.

Charter schools have the opportunity to contribute to integration across those lines, and our report offered concrete suggestions for incorporating civil rights provisions into charters as the sector expands.

As the charter sector continues to expand, some of its competitors appear to be changing strategy.

As the number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

Unfortunately, the analyses in this paper are not capable of identifying whether the differences in classifications are due to the type of student who attends each sector, or if there is something about charter schooling itself that reduces the probability that a student is newly classified as having a disability.

But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.

In both, the relatively low enrollment of students with severe disabilities in charter schools accounts for very little of the gap, as there are very few of these students in either school sector.

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

It's not only dastardly Trump, but also those state - level zealots who will destroy «public education as we know it,» unleashing charters upon the people without nary a concern for quality, bringing a new winter of despair to the entire K — 12 sector.

The Senate confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the U.S. secretary of education saw critics hurl accusations that the charter school sector in her home state of Michigan was a «Wild West» of low student performance and authorizing chaos.

As for the extent of variation in parents» perceptions, it is the private sector that is the most homogeneous, while charter and district schools are for the most part similarly heterogeneous.

In order to maximize the number of responses to questions concerning charter and private schools, respondents were classified as charter - school parents if they currently had a child in a charter school, even if they had other children who attended other school types; as private - school parents if they currently had a child in a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sector.

As mentioned, there is no published comparison of parental perceptions of school life across the charter, district, and private sectors nationwide.

As Neerav Kingsland of the Arnold Foundation tweeted yesterday: «why is it the over-regulated charter sector that has had the most breakthroughs with low income students?»

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

As a result of the compact, BPS and the local charter sector have established several school - to - school partnerships (some including local parochial schools) in order to share and develop effective instructional practices.

But, importantly, mediating institutions can also be the numerous entities that have emerged to fill gaps in the charter school sector such as facilities, talent, enrollment, community engagement, and advocacy.

What they want to know is how to make their state's charter sector work as well as possible — how to write a law in such a way that many high - quality schools will result.

As the charter school sector expands, it is necessary but not sufficient to study political and policy conditions, or the growth in the number of high quality charter school seats.

Less formally, more than 20 cities, through the Gates Foundation — funded District - Charter Collaboration Compacts, have established cooperative working groups focused on a range of topics, such as solving shared problems, addressing gaps in service across sectors for students and families, and sharing innovative practices.

The result is entrenched competition between entire school sectors, such as charter versus district, public versus private.

Almost 72 percent of BPS students come from low - income families, virtually the same proportion as in the charter sector.

A third faction, let's call them the Prudent Expansionists, have thought it just dandy that NCLB would invite bad schools to close and reopen as good ones, but doubt that the charter sector has the capacity to restructure vast swaths of failing public schools.

According to a rigorous Harvard evaluation, every year Jefferson students gain two and a half times as much in math and five times as much in English as the average school in New York City's relatively high - performing charter sector.