Sentences with phrase «charter systems want»

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

Not exact matches

Another major issue still unresolved, according to Tom Precious of The Buffalo News: whether to drive more money to charter schools, as Senate Republicans want, or into the traditional public school systems, as Assembly Democrats insist upon.

The commission wants the IPCC and HM's chief inspectorate of policing to be merged to create a new system of oversight in which individual officers are «chartered».

Though he has been light on details, Trump is pushing an agenda that includes more charter schools and a voucher system for students who want to attend private schools.

Charter school interests that was to see de Blasio's power over the school system weakened and real estate interests that want to see the status quo maintained in the rent laws spent big money to help the Senate Republicans and Cuomo in this election cycle.

For example, the D.C. Public Charter School Cooperative, with 21 members, aims to provide information to members about the complexities of special education, hire and make available specialized staff that no school would want to employ alone, and develop a Medicaid billing system to increase reimbursements for special - education services.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

If the state or school system or charter school wants to systematize this (and assist its teachers) by setting forth a scope and sequence, textbooks, units, midcourse assessments, and such, that's fine, too.

In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

Almost nobody wants out of this system — well, a handful of charter - school parents don't want their kids «identified» — and just about everyone except the taxpayer gains from its continued growth.

In a Washington Post op - ed and Education Next article, the board's executive director and chair explain that they don't want high - quality charters to become the system or even to predominate.

If you're interested in chartering, school - level accountability, or The Urban School System of the Future, you definitely want to check it out.

While charters have become the consensus approach to school choice in American education, the fact is that today's charter systems offer very little choice or competition - which is just the way the unions want it.

And those systems don't want charter schools competing for students and dollars.

But if change in practice is what you want, charters and choice may very well be the delivery system to get you there.

He wants to train up super-talented people to be superintendents and turn them loose on urban school systems, to invest in charter school networks that are hitting their numbers and performing miracles regularly.

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

Several conservative Democrats want approval of monitored public charters to be included as part of a budget deal, but it's unclear if they have enough momentum to get there, especially because liberals already have conceded on a bill mandating stricter teacher - evaluation systems.

Boehm extolls the charter school system: «Pennsylvania boasts a robust charter school system that includes cyber charter schools; the Education Improvement Tax Credit, or EITC, which provides an average scholarship of $ 1,000 to low - income families who want their children to attend private schools; and rules that allow parents to teach their students at home.»

In a statement, Fisher said he supports charter schools «because I want to increase public educational options for underserved students as well as to strengthen the overall public - school system.»

She co-located some charter schools in traditional public school buildings and even wanted authority to charter her own schools within the traditional system.

The pro-privatization LA School Report (LASR) spun a school board committee meeting last month to say that just about everybody in LAUSD wants charter schools to be included in a universal enrollment system.

If we want to manage the reform of our public schools intelligently — if we want to think strategically about the future of our entire public school system — we have to relax our attachment to complete charter autonomy.

But no, you rather just try to destroy charter schools, which parents are flocking to, because they want to escape from the very school system you essentially control.

However, if the governor wants his state's students to compete in a «21st century economy,» he'll need a 21st century education system — which some states are finding goes beyond charter and public schools.

According to the May 20 survey by Critical Insights of Portland, 70 % of Maine families want charter school options within our system of public education.

Further, why would Gates, one of the most generous contributors to public schools (his dollars have even reached Clark County) want to cripple the public education system that he is trying to help sustain with a «yes» vote, if charters did present a threat?

Ramona Edelin, executive director of the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools, said it is not surprising that the chancellor of the traditional school system would want a say in which charters are approved and where they're allowed to open.

If elected California governor, both the attorney general and the former eBay executive want to expand charter schools, consolidate categorical programs and simplify the per - pupil funding system into block grants that provide extra support for disadvantaged children.

She has worked with the Georgia Department of Education helping school districts that want to become charter systems.

Supt. Michelle King was hired in 2016 by a board that wanted her to win back students who had left the school system for charter schools.

«Under present law, people are free to float as many charters as they want, without really taking into account the impact on the district system, which at this point is serving higher - needs students in disproportionate representation.»

We wanted to recognize and reward the most outstanding academic performance among charter management organizations so that public school systems nationwide — whether district or charter — could learn from their success.

... This is trending toward a dual school system: One school system for the privileged kids, or the kids who don't have big problems... the charters, that are allowed to choose their students and exclude those they don't want.

In the Oct. 13 interview, Green clarified that he is not opposed to charter schools, but he wants them to work closely with the school system.

«What they want is a state - chartered school system.

(LOS ANGELES) Eighty - seven percent of Los Angeles residents support improving the public education system, nearly three in four favor expanding charter public schools and 69 percent want more charter public schools in their neighborhoods, a new poll of 1,150 Los Angeles voters released today showed.

We want to call them the bad guys why because unions, and local school systems couldn't do what charter schools in Hartford have been doing for years???? 3 Lets be real clear if the traditional system were healthy people would not be looking for choice.

Charter schools rationalize these issues by beginning and ending with the argument that they have «open lottery systems» that provides every child who wants to attend an equal opportunity to do so.

No one wants to see students suffer because of system that is inadequately meeting their academic needs, however, communities also bear the brunt of a failed charter school.

But the new student attendance policy coupled with the fact that the virtual charter schools» contracts don't require students to be actively working online for a minimum amount of time would suggest that there is great potential for «gaming the system» by those who want to invest minimal effort in order to progress through the state's public educational system.

Although I am new to Brass City Charter School and the public charter school system as a whole, I know first - hand the positive benefits this environment is providing to our child, and I know that I want him to grow with this Charter School and the public charter school system as a whole, I know first - hand the positive benefits this environment is providing to our child, and I know that I want him to grow with this charter school system as a whole, I know first - hand the positive benefits this environment is providing to our child, and I know that I want him to grow with this school.

If the corporate executives and hedge fund managers who support charter schools really want to create alternatives to the public schools system, then they should use their wealth to set up private schools and stop diverting taxpayer funds to schools that do not adhere to the standards and principles of our public schools.

In Detroit, tea party extremists and billionaire donors are fighting a deal to save the district from bankruptcy, in part because the democratically elected mayor wants district and charter schools to be unified under one system of transparency, accountability and funding.