Sentences with phrase «city charter schools»

Students who attended inner - city charter schools from kindergarten through eighth grade improved their academic achievement considerably.

F.E.S. executive director Jeremiah Kittredge urged elected officials to «put kids ahead of politics,» and New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merriman told Capital, «If this lawsuit were a toy, it would be covered in lead paint.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

School leaders Ronelle P. Swagerty of New Beginnings Family Academy in Bridgeport, as well as Dr. Barbara Ruggiero of Brass City Charter School in Waterbury also took home Torchbearer Awards.

Ms. Reilly also has maintained an active pro bono practice, including successfully representing a coalition of New York City charter schools in defending against challenges to their co-locations by individuals and governmental entities within the district school buildings.

Fifty - two percent of city charter school students were in 90 - 100 % minority schools, compared to only 34 % of traditional public school students — a difference of eighteen percentage points, very similar to the overall difference of twenty percentage points between the two sectors of schools (Table 22 on p. 63 of our report).

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

Northeast Charter Schools Network Connecticut State Director Jeremiah Grace said, «We could not be more excited for the Brass City Charter School community on this well - deserved honor.

The Daily News calls it a plan «to kill city charter schools by a thousand cuts.»

Co-founded in 1996 by Jeb Bush with what he called in an email a «powerful sense of pride and joy,» Liberty City Charter School was the first school of its kind in Florida and a pioneer in a booming industry and national movement.

The 60 charter schools operating in New York City have provided a unique opportunity for the New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project, of which we are a part, to conduct a randomized field trial of the impact of charter schools on student achievement.

In contrast to the findings of a 2010 report by the Independent Budget Office, Wilson and Trichter find that «New York City charter schools receive significantly less public support than district public schools.»

«He negotiated a budget deal with state lawmakers that guarantees future New York City charter schools rent - free space in under - used public school buildings or funding to offset the cost of renting a building.»

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz said Tuesday she hopes to have 100 schools in her New York City charter school network within the next 10 years, and predicted another battle with the de Blasio administration over school space.

ALBANY - Thousands of city charter school kids got a lesson in New York politics - and a performance from Ashanti - as the battle over Gov. Cuomo's education agenda raged in dueling rallies at the Capitol Wednesday.

But according to a pro-charter organization, city charter schools currently have 2,500 empty seats, and a review of SUNY authorizing documents shows that current schools are already authorized to enroll another 27,000 students in the coming years.

Third, just the other day, a USA Today column called for shuttering a Kansas City charter school whose students recently won the National Society of Black Engineers Robotics Competition because its test scores are only average.

Perhaps the most damaging is his promise to «kill city charter schools by a thousand cuts.»

At Success Academy, a fast - growing network of city charter schools known for a demanding approach to instruction and test preparation, virtually every grade tested had at least a 50 percent passing rate, with half the grades achieving at least 85 percent.

On February 2015 DSC - NY member Advocates for Children of New York released the Civil Rights Suspended: An Analysis of New York City Charter School Discipline...

Hartford, Connecticut — Today, Brass City Charter School opened its doors to 114 new students for its first day of class.

I see Brass City Charter School as not only an opportunity and an investment but a way of securing a better future for my child.»

These videos offer images of high quality early learning in a first - grade classroom at Bronx Community Charter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwest Bronx.

Inner city charter school operators like Eva Moskowitz and Geoffrey Canada and the KIPP schools do a far better job — with fewer tax dollars — than traditional public schools.

Jason Botel, a Maryland education advocate and founder of a well - regarded city charter school, is expected to be named a senior White House adviser on education.Politico first reported the news Tuesday night, and said Wednesday that Botel would be working...

(Gov. Cuomo told business leaders that the state would step in to pay the rent of city charter schools denied free space under a crackdown by Mayor De Blasio, according to two sources.

About 1,400 New York City charter school parents and advocates will lobby state legislators in Albany on Tuesday as they prepare to do battle with the de Blasio administration.

Thousands of parents, teachers, children and supporters of New York City charter schools gathered at Foley Square on Oct. 2nd to call on city and state leaders to address what they call a «failing school crisis.»

As a result, New York City charter schools now enjoy some of the greatest protections in the nation.

On Thursday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced that his office had commenced audits of the financial and operating practices of four New York City charter school entities.

Last year, two lawsuits were filed to reverse 30 New York City charter schools co-locations.

An investigation by the state teachers union has shown that New York City charter schools alone have at least $ 323 million in unrestricted net assets, most of it in cash.

In June, A-list stars including Beyoncé, Jay - Z, and Jon Stewart performed at a fundraiser for a New York City charter school sponsored by the Robin Hood Foundation, whose board includes actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

Cheering and chanting for choice, an unprecedented crowd of roughly 25,000 parents, children and teachers swarmed Prospect Park on Wednesday to demand the doubling of city charter school seats by 2020.

Anonymous's temperament and tastes are well - suited to his chosen pedagogical world (a rare trip to a New York City charter school evokes fear and alienation — he describes the intersection at 2nd Avenue and 125th Street as «wide and empty»).

Read more about how the Park City charter school community came together now!

Two floors above Wadleigh in the same building, at the Success Academy West, a New York City charter school where Simmons teaches, 96 percent of the students were proficient in math and 75 percent in reading and writing.

Brass City Charter School depends on the generosity of foundations, corporations, public agencies, and individuals to realize its mission of providing our students a rigorous, well - rounded and emotionally supportive education that will eliminate the achievement gap characteristic of urban underserved students and enable them to lead meaningful and productive lives both for themselves and for their community.

Furthermore, C3S cheer the Governor's proposal to make rental assistance for New York City charter schools permanent.

DeBlasio and Thompson have each supported policies that would harm city charter schools.

Furthermore, C3S cheer the Governor's proposal to make rental assistance for New York City charter schools permanen...

The state Education department is giving seven city charter schools $ 500,000 each to help them share best practices with traditional Big Apple public schools, department officials said Wednesday.

Supports the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education goals of improving coordination of higher education with K - 12, and preparing more inner - city students to succeed at the public universities of Massachusetts (by supplying well - trained teachers to inner - city charter schools which specialize in this mission).

After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, he joined Teach for America at age 22 and went on to found an inner - city charter school dedicated to getting poor black and Latino students to and through college.

Accordingly, we have conducted an analysis of New York City charter school state test scores that will allow the public to better understand the performance of individual schools and the sector overall.