Sentences with phrase «charter sector by»

Authorizers can accelerate improvement in the overall quality of the charter sector by «restarting» low - performing charter schools: that is, transitioning the charter — and responsibility for governance and school management — to a high - performing charter school or network, while maintaining the existing population of students.

Shapiro writes that his bold agenda was «to grow the charter sector by 100 schools, create a $ 20 million merit pay pot for teachers and make it easier to fire teachers with poor ratings.»

(Due to the Teflon heavily applied to the charter sector by political leadership and the press, the now - extensive reporting on the Gulenist schools hasn't given them a bit of trouble.)

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

In 2012, the legislature seemingly weakened its oversight of the charter sector by eliminating a requirement that the state education agency report on charter school quality each year.

States like Massachusetts, Texas, and Denver have tried to compensate for local funding discrepancies in their charter sectors by providing higher state funding to charter students, but that move hasn't closed the funding gap.

Not exact matches

The move comes after Laïta signed a charter for unified values across the French dairy sector supported by the French National Federation of Dairy Farmers (FNPL) earlier this year.

4.31 The ACCC Chairman, Graeme Samuel, noted that the Charter will benefit consumers by promoting competition in the supermarket sector, particularly by helping to address concerns about creeping acquisitions.

a loss of $ 50 million for the charter sector next year, and a cumulative loss of $ 1.7 billion by 2025 - 26.»

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.

Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

Along with the power to resolve, say, the UFT's grievances — perhaps by crushing the charter - school movement — the WFP now has juice to impose indirect tax increases and other commerce - depressing restrictions on the private sector.

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.

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 Assembly's new formula means a loss of $ 50 million for the charter sector next year, and a cumulative loss of $ 1.7 billion by 2025 - 26,» the Academy said in a statement.

He said state lawmakers «should refuse to reward their intransigence» by denying additional funding to the charter sector until they change their ways.

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.

Another top rival of AQE is the charter school sector, backed by wealthy private donors who have been regular contributors to the governor and to legislators friendly to charter schools in the state Senate.

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.

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

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.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

If this comes to pass, we can imagine a charter school sector characterized by both scale and a diversity of entrepreneurial schools, a future in which grassroots charter schools remain the heart of the movement, but in a sustainable fashion.

It means its subscribers don't care if a school comes from the district sector or the charter sector — what they care about is if the school is doing right by kids.

An Ernst & Young study of 430 loan transactions by 15 community - development financial institutions (CDFIs) involving 336 charter schools found a foreclosure rate of 1 percent, lower than the corporate sector debt - default rate of about 3 percent.

By now, education observers are aware of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's incursion on the Big Apple's charter sector.

School communications in the charter sector are also perceived by parents to be more extensive than those in the private sector.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

This study, and the companion study by Cheng and Peterson, nonetheless provide the first descriptive accounts of differences in perceptions across the charter, district, and private sectors.

The two top priorities are drawing together staff from both sectors to deal with Common Core challenges and boosting the number of special education students taken by charters.

Neither sector has cause to brag about racial diversity, but it seems clear that the CRP report points its lens in the wrong direction by focusing on the failings of charter schools.

Critics often suggest that superior performance in the charter sector is a result of high levels of attrition, caused by implicit or explicit efforts on the part of school staff to «counsel out» the students who are hardest to educate.

And if you are frustrated by comparisons between your schools — your overregulated, hyper - unionized schools — and the autonomous charter sector, you are right to be.

We did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Indeed, D.C.'s charter school sector, overseen by the independent D.C. Public Charter School Board, comes across as the purest form of this new charter school sector, overseen by the independent D.C. Public Charter School Board, comes across as the purest form of this new Charter School Board, comes across as the purest form of this new system.

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.

Prodded by Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other veteran private - sector reformers, the Obama administration has lent unexpectedly forceful support to such causes as common standards, better assessments, charter schools, merit pay, refurbished teacher preparation, and the removal of ineffective instructors.

Not surprisingly, we get a charter sector that is largely developed and run by white folks from elite college.

The poster boy for PM, New Orleans, with its exceptional hurricane origin and large charter sector to advocate on its behalf, reverted to control by the previously reviled and inept locally elected school board in about a decade.

A central part of the plan to push back the decline of Catholic education is to treat the city's successful charter school sector as a model, rather than a competitor, although charter schools have been contributing to the Catholic sector's population drain by attracting low - income families who choose a free charter over a tuition - based parochial school.

But in the case of a large independent charter sector, the question is whether the entire system can ever be uniformly governed by anyone or anything.

Though I'm thoroughly disappointed by PCSB's position, the board deserves credit for helping produce a terrific charter sector.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presides over this dual system, where the traditional D.C. Public Schools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter Schoolcharter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter SchoolCharter School Board.

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.

The authors of the North Carolina study attempt to control for hard - to - measure permanent characteristics of students who attend charters by estimating what is known as student «fixed effect» models, which involves measuring how student performance changes as students switch between the charter and traditional sectors.

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.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

The charter sector has the advantage of its programs being tuition - free but is limited to operating in specific places where charters have been approved by a state - determined authorizer.