Sentences with phrase «charter sectors there»

It does not follow that every state should rush to amend its charter policies to match those of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, or Utah, but the obvious flourishing of the charter sectors there offers food for thought.

The extraordinary scale of the charter sector there makes New Orleans a lightning rod for both challenges and promising practices that could have a nationwide impact.

Not exact matches

THERE should be more chartered accountants within the public sector, according to newly appointed Institute of Chartered Accountants WA regional manager Con Abbott.

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.

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.

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.

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

• However, there continues to be wide variation in performance within the national charter sector.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

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.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

There are many thorny issues with which a city must grapple when its charter sector grows beyond 30 percent (e.g., enrollment, facilities, transportation).

There is concern, perhaps warranted, that the growth of a charter sector could force further consolidation and, ultimately, the dissolution of distinct communities.

It seems clear, then, that if the charter sector hopes to contribute to transformational numbers in high - quality public schools, the current CMO approach alone can't get it there.

There's also a promising, if slower - growing, sector known as «free schools,» akin to start - up charters.

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 schooThere'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 schoothere 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.

There is considerable evidence to suggest that going back to the original Shanker vision — schools that give teachers voice and integrate students — would put the charter sector in a much better place moving forward.

Since then, the charter sector has grown quickly: there are now over 6,000 charter schools operating in 43 states.

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.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success and less emphasis on single - site schools that increase the variety of schooling options.

There is a huge amount of success to celebrate in this chart for multiple state charter sectors, most of which have either unusually large gains, or unusually high scores, or else unusually high scores and gains.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success...

As a final matter, Smarick notes that there is a glaring lack of collaboration among high - quality schools from the charter and private school sectors (though there are some exceptions, including initiatives undertaken by Schools That Can and the Philadelphia Schools Partnership).

While Partnership leaders are hosting education reform leaders and visiting Success Academy, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools charters for inspiration, they say there's plenty they don't want to take from the charter sector.

Again, there is a great deal to like here - multiple charter sectors with large gains (MI, WI, GA, MD, TX) or high scores (CO, ID) or both high scores and gains.

I also think there's a lot of evidence that the charter sectors in portfolio / quarterback cities are making a lot of gains.

But there is significant variation across states, schools, and student populations in the approach to autonomy, accountability, and management of the charter school sector.

There is no magic number that will mean the charter sector has fulfilled its duty to special education, and policy should not be created under this assumption.

There are many interrelated storylines: turnover in city government, shifting demographics, the creation of a non-district charter sector, the mayoral takeover of the district, Michelle Rhee's hiring, the teachers» union scandal, implementation of a new teacher evaluation and compensation system, and the elevation of Kaya Henderson after Rhee's departure.

[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.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

This was not philanthropy; it was a profit - making venture.6 Investors quickly figured out that there was money to be made in the purchase, leasing, and rental of space to charter schools, and an aggressive for - profit charter sector emerged wherever it was permitted by state law; in states where for - profit charters were not allowed, nonprofit charters hired for - profit operators to run their schools.

Ohio and Utah have distinctly troubled charter sectors, as does Arizona, where there are no laws against conflicts of interest and where for - profit charters do not have to open their books to the public.

When we have a very high - performing charter sector, I think there are insights for the larger system there.

Ohio and Utah have vied for the distinction of having the most troubled charter sector, along with Arizona, where there are no laws against conflicts of interest and for - profit charters do not have to open their books to the public.

Despite these negative findings, there are some bright spots in the report, and the charter sector in Ohio should take note and follow the lead of the high performers.

As the below chart shows, there were exciting gains in that sector as well — yet another compelling data point to suggest that the success of the charter sector did not come at the expense of traditional schools.

At the same time, just like in the district - run sector, there are a lot more charter schools that have low and relatively equitable suspension rates — a little more than one - third.

There's never been a better time to find a job in Georgia's growing public charter school sector.

But there is another place with a scandal - plagued charter sector that gets less national attention than it should: California, which has more charter schools and charter school students than any other state in the nation, and where one billionaire came up with a secret plan to «charterize» half of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

But there is a potentially troubling development in Indiana's charter sector.

Rarely does a week go by when there is not an article in a local or national newspaper related to concerns about equal access and problems associated with educating students with disabilities in the charter sector.

There's a caveat here: Newark happens to to have «an unusually effective set» of charter schools, comparable only to Boston's sector.

There is growing consensus in the charter school sector that the success of chartering as an education reform will be measured not by the number of schools in operation (as was the...

From its primary publication: «There are billions being made in the privatization of public sector institutions and government services, including the charter school industry.»

: «There are billions being made in the privatization of public sector institutions and government services, including the charter school industry.»

Idaho's public charter school sector has grown to almost 50 schools and there are now about 20,000 children enrolled in the state's charters (about 7 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students).

There tends to be, however, greater variability in charter school achievement, with the charter sector having a greater share of both low - performing and high - achieving schools.

At the same time, the report identifies areas of focus as the sector has further to go in meeting the academic needs of all students, because there are still too many under performing charter schools in the state.

He represents a school of thought in one of the most persistent and nebulous debates of the charter sector: whether there is a harmful lack of diversity in the publicly funded but independently run schools of choice.