Sentences with phrase «charter sector work»

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.

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.

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The following day, Ragone had a conference call with another former Bloomberg aide who now works for the charter sector, Bradley Tusk.

And chiming in on behalf of charters, James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center: «The charter sector is looking forward to building a strong working relationship with incoming CommissioneCharter School Center: «The charter sector is looking forward to building a strong working relationship with incoming Commissionecharter sector is looking forward to building a strong working relationship with incoming Commissioner Elia.

Finding and keeping great talent to work in Dayton's charter sector was a nut that k.i.d.s. never cracked.

Thanks to two decades of smart reforms and the work of countless stakeholders, our great city has an exceptional charter sector and a rapidly improving district sector.

• Will organizations working in the charter and district sectors become openly hostile to those working in the private school sector, with its emphasis on vouchers and tax credits?

But while we're seeing truly great progress in supporting the quality growth of the public charter school sector, there's still a lot of work to be done here in Newark.

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

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.

Both the charter school sector and the district have worked hard to put aside the «us vs. them» mentality that plagues many other systems and create a truly collaborative environment.

Working to improve charter authorizing — and its equivalent in the private schools sector — remains a top priority.

I think there is much to learn from the charter sector's success in math, and we intend to build bridges across sectors to advance all of our work.

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.

This variation highlights the challenge of designing federal policies that work well in states that vary in terms of district size, charter enrollment, size of the private sector, and existing choice policies such as interdistrict choice, charters, and vouchers.

You would want to put in place a strong authorizer, ample funding, and a charter - friendly law and work to build a great charter sector like those in place in cities like Boston, New Orleans, and the District of Columbia.

It can work with Congress to offer additional grants for charter school start - ups and perhaps create a similar funding program to encourage innovation in the private sector.

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

Members of the National Advisory Board work with NACSA to advance excellence and accountability in the charter school sector through effective charter school policy and thoughtful charter authorizing practices.

Her work has implications for how to tease out important ideological differences unfolding across the charter sector, as it relates to privatization, equity, and issues of power and control of teaching and learning in largely segregated and underserved Black / African American and Latino / a communities.

In these two posts, Jay and Matt use NAEP charter sector gains in Arizona, Michigan, and Texas — as well as the mediocre NAEP scores seen in Louisiana's charter sector — to argue that portfolio management and quarterbacks aren't working.

Why not embrace models, including in the charter schools sector, that work overtime to help low - income kids make the transition from high school to college or career?

However, breaking through the logistical hurdle of a fractured charter sector, building strong relationships where none generally exist, and convincing the sectors that it may be in their best interest — as well as their students» — to work together is no small task in Cleveland.

And although the sectors identified «exploring how charters can address the needs of the lowest - performing district schools» as a focus of the city's Gates compact work, they have not committed to enrolling proportional shares of special education students, like their counterparts in Denver.

Corey provides legal counsel and guidance to Charter Center staff, while also working on a variety of projects that benefit New York City's charter school Charter Center staff, while also working on a variety of projects that benefit New York City's charter school charter school sector.

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.

«The work has been complex and challenging, and it has required the district to forge a new kind of partnership with the charter school sector in ways that few other cities have seen.»

But the unabashed embrace she's received from many of them as nominee for Secretary of Education is hurting the charter school brand and all of us who are working to sustain an innovative sector of autonomous and accountable public schools.

Perhaps the most significant takeaways were the acknowledgement that the full spectrum of students with special needs could be served much better by the charter sector, a shared desire to document and disseminate evidence - based best practices, and a common commitment to work together across organizations to develop communities of practice and replicate extraordinary programs for students with disabilities.

Most recently he co-authored two CRPE reports on the challenges of public oversight in cities with large charter school sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cities.

With the return to local control, NPS leaders will need to work with the city's surging charter sector to ensure opportunity and equity citywide.

Join the only community that works to advance excellence and accountability in the charter authorizing sector.

She expressed her interest in working with independent charter schools and seemed eager for the Coalition to share our stories, and our data to illustrate the inequities we are battling in the charter sector.

The bone thrown out to those of us who work in the charter sector displays an underlying contempt for what we actually do.

Jeffries said this work includes promoting both district and charter schools in places like Denver, and fighting against «bad actors» in the charter sector — a move that would seem essential today, given the growing stories about

In an attempt to make good on its promise to work more collaboratively with the local charter sector, the city Department of Education announced the first batch of schools participating in a new «charter district partnership program» on Thursday.

In addition to our other work, we are currently in the process of pulling together what we call our Equity Coalition, an advisory body comprised of leaders from across the special education and charter school sectors, who will help us wrestle with the most challenging issues we face and lend their collective expertise to solving them.

She adds that the charter sector «is working as it was intended: creating pressure on administrators to improve the quality of their schools.»

More and more teachers are choosing to work in the charter school sector because they value autonomy, innovation and flexibility,» said Dr. Tony Roberts, CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Assoccharter school sector because they value autonomy, innovation and flexibility,» said Dr. Tony Roberts, CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools AssocCharter Schools Association.

But as the charter school sector expands and matures, the database of what's needed and what works grows more robust.

This turn of events is of real consequence to those of us working in the independent charter sector.

The theoretical merits of these and other options are worth debating, but no reforms will work according to design if they are implemented without formal cooperation with the charter sector.

Through its policy and advocacy work, NACSA seeks to create conditions that promote excellence and ensure accountability throughout charter school sector.

We are encouraged by this progress and we look forward to working with leaders on the Hill, as well as with our allies in the charter sector, that are helping inform these debates.

Not all has worked entirely as planned, but people are not arguing to end federal involvement in the charter sector.

Her career in the charter sector began in Dayton, Ohio where she worked with a charter authorizer and charter management organization.

A chartered accountant (as well as a qualified teacher and with an MA in languages from Cambridge University...), Bob worked in the professional services, corporate commercial and charity sectors both in the UK and internationally, before joining Education Development Trust in 2014.

INCS work to support an effective charter public school sector in Illinois is made possible by the investment of many partners and champions.