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When I was in the charter sector at Roxbury Prep, we had teachers come back three weeks before the start of school so we could use that time to plan, focus on what our students would need, and make sure that we were as ready as possible for a great school year.

Members of the UFT and its state affiliate, NYSUT, sent nearly 2,000 faxes and made nearly 1,000 phone calls to get their message to the Senate Republicans, who were pushing to expand and enrich the charter sector at the expense of neighborhood public schools.

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The organic sector is protagonist of Milano EXPO 2015 during its last month thanks to the Organic Week organized at the Biodiversity Park and to the edition of the Charter of the International Organic Action Network.

The organic sector is protagonist of Milano EXPO 2015 during its last month thanks to the Organic Week organized at the Biodiversity Park and to the edition of the Charter of the International Organic Action...

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.

In the upcoming session, Cuomo has already hinted at a robust education agenda that includes further strengthening teacher evaluations and boosting the charter school sector.

After months of aggressive advocacy explicitly aimed at protecting and growing the state's charter sector, the group sent out a report detailing test scores at some of New York City's worst district schools.

At 3:30 p.m., Families for Excellent Schools holds a rally calling for the charter school sector to grow to 200,000 students by 2020, Foley Square, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., musician Common and others march to double NYC charter school sector to 200,000 Children by 2020, Prospect Park, Captain Vincent E. Brunton Way and Prospect Park Southwest, Brooklyn.

The administration's fairly recent attempts to smooth relations with the sector have made FES» argument — often blared through speakers at rallies — that de Blasio wants to close charter schools ring hollow.

De Blasio has even offered some praise for pockets of the charter sector, and announced a modest olive branch earlier this year, with a $ 5 million project aimed at boosting collaboration between charter and district schools.

Still, de Blasio is often at odds with the sector and its backers over granting charter schools space in public buildings.

At a speech outlining his K - 12 education agenda last month, de Blasio offered some rare words of praise for the sector, saying he believes collaboration between district and charter schools is «essential.»

On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., «thousands of teachers will rally in Foley Square to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to support growing the charter sector to 200,000 students by 2020,» per Families for Excellent Schools.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

At the same time, in cities where charter sectors have blossomed (e.g., New Orleans, Detroit, Newark), communities are demanding more democratic control.

The Institute has a right to fear that its efforts to «make historic strides in improving its schools and establishing the highest performing charter sector in the nation,» to quote the book's preface, are at risk of being diminished and diluted.

Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.

Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natiCharter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector naticharter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector naticharter sector nationally.

We are saying that a plain look at the data suggests that the charter sector she supported is significantly outperforming the traditional district system.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Our finding that charter school sectors in all 28 states that we study demonstrate higher productivity and / or return on investment than their traditional public school sectors has ruffled some feathers at the National School Boards Association.

At the pinnacle of the pyramid are Transformative Charter Sectors.

There's lots of important work out there aimed at improving the way the charter sector works, but it often gets overshadowed by articles that are just thinly veiled attacks on the idea of charter schooling.

Furthermore, the sector's performance is far from exemplary at this point, and aggressive efforts by state charter officials to recruit top operators from around the country have been hampered by Nevada's abysmally low per - pupil funding.

Some charter schools do far better than others at educating their students, a reality that has profound implications for charter - goers, and for the charter sector writ large.

As EdNext readers know, Doug Harris's New York Times critique of Betsy DeVos set off a round - robin of blogs and tweets pitting «choice purists» against «regulators,» with the performance of charter sectors in Detroit and New Orleans at issue.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Given its evenhanded approach, Charter Schools at the Crossroads constitutes a perfect anchor text for a full overview of this major sector of American schooling.

Charter Schools at the Crossroads begins with the first charter - school law (Minnesota, 1991) and chronicles the sector's growth to today's 6,800 schools serving 3 million students, or 6 percent of the K — 12 public - school enroCharter Schools at the Crossroads begins with the first charter - school law (Minnesota, 1991) and chronicles the sector's growth to today's 6,800 schools serving 3 million students, or 6 percent of the K — 12 public - school enrocharter - school law (Minnesota, 1991) and chronicles the sector's growth to today's 6,800 schools serving 3 million students, or 6 percent of the K — 12 public - school enrollment.

And wouldn't it be more productive for children if we looked at the potential role of the charter - school sector in the world of special education instead of looking at the lack of special education services in the charter - school sector?

All three of the truly spectacular scores (Higley, Chandler and Phoenix Elementary combos at 95, 95 and 99th percentile respectively) came from situations where both the district and charter sectors grew rapidly.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

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.

Aside from variable performance of the sector at large, charters are not financially viable organizations in the long run.

The only major national evaluation of the charter sector was carried out by economist Margaret Raymond at Stanford University.

Again however take a look at Louisiana's charter sector - again low scores and low gains.

Next let's look at statewide charter sectors - these are the states with charter sectors large enough to make the sample in both 2009 and 2017 in 8th grade reading:

On the positive side, the District of Columbia's charter school sector has produced better academic results at a fraction of the per pupil costs in the District.

In truth, Catholic education could have seized on many previous moments — the 1972 White House report on the sector's troubles, the 1983 call to arms of A Nation At Risk, the 1992 launch of charter schooling, the 2008 White House report on the sector's troubles, and so on.

At the very least, the progress of the charter sector in New Orleans will stagnate.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

• In all but the private sector, parents of elementary - aged children are more satisfied with their schools than are parents of children in their high - school years, but charter schools gather higher rates of satisfaction than assigned district schools at all age levels.

[The second piece] is communications; making sure that everyone out there knows what a charter school is and being a voice for the sector at the federal level... If we're not defining who we are and what we're about, our opposition will — and they already have, to a great extent.

The best evidence suggests that, at least in urban areas, a regulated charter sector can substantially improve results, much more than we have seen in Detroit.

Ensuring that all students can access and thrive in the charter sector is central to the sector's credibility as a viable option at scale across the nation.

Before joining the Charter Center in 2007, he worked at the Walton Family Foundation where he helped develop and implement the foundation's grant making in the charter school Charter Center in 2007, he worked at the Walton Family Foundation where he helped develop and implement the foundation's grant making in the charter school charter school sector.

We work with leaders at all types of schools in every sector — MPS, independent charter, and private Choice — at every point along the path to high - quality.