Sentences with phrase «close failing charters»

And many charter authorizers have managed to build a credible and valid set of data that allows them to close failing charters at the end their first five - year term.

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It is too hard and it takes too long to close a failing charter school here.

In contrast to some other states with big charter sectors — notably Michigan, where DeVos just helped kill a proposed state law that would have made it easier to close failing charter schools — Louisiana has been relatively aggressive in shaping the available options, repeatedly closing charters that underperform.

In fact, the State Board of Education is not allowed to accredit or close failing charter schools.

Today, NACSA launched One Million Lives, a multi-pronged campaign to provide better schools to one million children by closing failing charter schools and opening many more good ones.

Not exact matches

NYSUT's spending came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a series of changes to the state's education policies, including a new criteria for teacher evaluations, a strengthening of charter schools and making it easier to close schools deemed to be «failing.»

He has hammered Emanuel for closing 50 failing conventional public schools and increasing the number of Chicago's charters.

Councilman Mark Treyger of Coney Island said the same people who fought for the charters stood on the sidelines while the Bloomberg administration closed countless schools, saying the schools were failing.

Efforts to fix these problems, like NACSA's call to close 1,000 failing charters and authorizers» tougher standards for charter approvals, are showing signs of success.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

A third faction, let's call them the Prudent Expansionists, have thought it just dandy that NCLB would invite bad schools to close and reopen as good ones, but doubt that the charter sector has the capacity to restructure vast swaths of failing public schools.

Nelson Smith explains why, if failing district schools are to reopen and become successful charter schools, they need first to close.

And if a charter school fails to keep up enrollment, it will close.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

Bloomberg turned nearly all the city's high schools into schools of choice, increased the number of charter schools from 22 to 159, instituted a grading system for schools, and closed those that were failing to educate their students.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

When a charter school fails to satisfy its parents and / or sponsors, it loses customers and closes down.

To provide students with better options in the future, authorizers need to close virtual charter schools that are persistently failing.

Some charter schools have failed and been closed and others will meet the same fate.

The next possible exception, Presidio charter school (ranked # 11 in Arizona), which has a high economically disadvantaged population fails under closer scrutiny to be much of an illustration when you discover it only has 30 students enrolled in 10th to 12th grades combined!

«When charters perform poorly, he said, some states «fail to take action to either improve them or close them, which is the essence of the charter school compact.

As long - failing schools were closed and charters expanded enrollment, all public school students — charter and traditional — started improving their math growth and proficiency scores.

So it seems that authorizers are generally unwilling to close a school that is failing to comply with federal or state law, but they are also unwilling to require the school to make changes to its special education program, presumably because the authorizers see this as infringement on charter autonomy.

(Interesting to note that when failing traditional public schools are closed in Philadelphia and Chicago, the teachers unions and their fellow travelers scream, but if a charter school closes — nary a peep from them.)

But some charter schools have failed and closed.

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

A failing school should be closed immediately or turned over to another charter school operator.

As authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

Mr. Cerf, a Democrat who clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court and worked in the Clinton White House, pushed many of Mr. Klein's most controversial education changes, expanding charter schools, closing failing schools and using test scores to evaluate and compensate teachers.

Eventually, if the school kept failing, it was at risk of having its staff fired or having the school closed, handed over to state control or private management, or turned into a charter school or «any other major restructuring.»

In 2013, the Texas Charter Schools Association took a strong stand and supported the Texas Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 2, which requires the commissioner of education to close charter schools failing to meet state financial and academic standards for three consecutive years or at the time of charter rCharter Schools Association took a strong stand and supported the Texas Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 2, which requires the commissioner of education to close charter schools failing to meet state financial and academic standards for three consecutive years or at the time of charter rcharter schools failing to meet state financial and academic standards for three consecutive years or at the time of charter rcharter renewal.

NACSA is to be commended for leading the effort to demand quality in the charter sector and pushing states and authorizers to adopt robust principles and standards and to close failing schools.

If a charter school fails to achieve results, the school's authorizer can close it.

Charter schools that persistently fail should be closed.

As charter school authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

In theory charter schools can be closed for failing to meet the terms established in their charter, but in reality, this often proves difficult to enforce.

Part and parcel of a charter school authorizer's oversight responsibility is the unenviable task of closing a school that fails to pass muster.

Earlier this month, he signed legislation allowing local school governing boards to close failing schools, convert them to charter schools, or fire a failing school's principal and half the staff.

The charter school approval process should be designed to ensure that all charter schools opening in North Carolina have more in common with the best charter schools than with those that have failed and closed.

When public charter schools fail to meet their goals — whether for academic, financial or operational reasons — they should be closed, even if we have invested federal dollars in them.

It's easy - use The Tests to label schools as failures... Close the failing schools... Fire the administrators and teachers... Hire TFA monkeys and call them teachers... And open charter schools funded by tax dollars.

His unprecedented autonomy allowed him to engage in bold experiments regarding the governance and operation of the city's schools, expanding choice at all levels of the system by closing failing schools and opening charter schools, decentralizing authority, and creating a new accountability system to drive innovation.

The Assembly bill would force failing public schools to close and reopen as independent charter schools.

But the damage might be irreparable: thousands of closed schools, worse conditions in those left open, an extreme degree of «teaching to the test,» demoralized teachers, rampant corruption by private management companies, thousands of failed charter schools, and more low - income kids without a good education.

Exempts for - profit charter developers from the current charter law and requirements that they close if they fail.

When the experiment fails, i.e. the charter school is bad, it closes.

Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a cop out by those whose job it is to find good solutions for public schools.

Related: Why Louisiana officials closed a struggling charter school while keeping a failing one open