Sentences with phrase «chartering policy drives»

Aggressive chartering policy drives away urban Catholic schools.

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This Network has collaboratively developed as a key strategic priority the development and implementation of an Urban and Regional Food Charter for Victoria, as a systemic and integrated text to drive forward legislative and policy change and shape practice across the state.

A Progressive Policy Institute study of D.C.'s charter experience summarized the situation perfectly: «There is no clear evidence that charter schools have had a direct impact on student achievement in DCPS schools or otherwise driven systemic reform.»

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

Accordingly, any policy that drives charters into old molds - making them, in effect, «look and act familiar» as worthy expressions of the existing «system,» producing students who do well primarily on tests organized in ways that reflect this system - undermines the sound intent of the charter idea.

As education experts Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter argue, school policies in recruitment, location, and transportation can either mitigate or drive charter school segregation.98 Some charters, for example, may be highly committed to diversity, but do not have much room to diversify because they are located in homogenous neighborhoods.

As the report concludes, Clark County will need to create the will that drives ongoing commitment to change policies, then provide the resources needed to grow high - quality charter schools and transform education for all students.

Prior to joining the Mayor's Office, Jackie served as the director of assessments for the Tindley Accelerated Schools in Indianapolis, where she created and managed all formative and summative assessments for the charter network, implemented data - driven instruction policies and procedures and offered professional development and support to leaders and teachers.

There are lots of accidents waiting to happen in the skirmishes inherent to the school choice battle, and the only way to protect and improve charter schools is to have strong policies that drive effective charter legislation.

If charter expansion has played a central role in driving these gains, the policy implications would be profound.

I think about the visits from the Policy Director of the New Teacher Project, and the former aide to New York City charter operator, Eva Moskowitz, who said she was moving to Portland and trying to set up a chapter of Democrats for Education Reform, the pro-charter, hedge - fund driven organization.

«Parents of public school children in the state must be aware: As charter school advocates and professionals solidify their hold on the state's education policy apparatus, the drive to transfer public funds from traditional public schools to charter schools will grow,» the Stamford Advocate added.

These members of the Deformer «advance force» parrot a regressive agenda of union - busting, tenure - smashing, and teacher - demonizing, paired with an obsessive devotion to standardized testing, «data driven decision making», charter school expansion, and privatization as the «answers» to the «crisis in public education» — while remaining seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was their policies that manufactured the crisis they claim to be addressing, and which are paying off so handsomely for the investors who fund their charter schools and pay their generous salaries.