Sentences with phrase «commonwealth charter»

Additionally, Ms. Levenson served as a hearing officer / consultant for the Massachusetts Board of Education in all phases of an administrative hearing concerning a commonwealth charter school's application for renewal of its charter.

This makes sense in terms of the text of Massachusetts» charter cap law itself, which, as discussed in the Definition section, places an emphasis on lower - performing school districts (tending towards cities, not suburbs) and higher population districts, with Commonwealth charter schools prohibited in communities with fewer than 30,000 residents.

True to that challenge, Phoenix now operates three schools: two Commonwealth charter schools in Chelsea (opened 2006) and Springfield (opened 2014) and an in - district school modeled after Phoenix Chelsea's commonwealth charter structure in Lawrence (opened 2012)-- an innovative step in a state turnaround initiative.

(3) In any fiscal year, if the board determines based on student performance data collected pursuant to section 1I, said district is in the lowest 10 per cent of all statewide student performance scores released in the 2 consecutive school years before the date the charter school application is submitted, the school district's total charter school tuition payment to commonwealth charter schools may exceed 9 per cent of the district's net school spending but shall not exceed 18 per cent.

At the request of a school district from which a commonwealth charter school enrolls students, the charter school shall provide to a third party mail house the addresses for all students currently enrolled in the commonwealth charter school from the district; provided, however, that the information shall not be provided if a student's parent or guardian requests that the school withhold that student's information.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

(s) A charter school shall operate in accordance with its charter and the provisions of law regulating other public schools; provided, however, that sections 41 and 42 shall not apply to employees of commonwealth charter schools.

The commonwealth shall incur charter school tuition payments for siblings attending commonwealth charter schools to the extent that their attendance would otherwise cause the school district's charter school tuition payments to exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending or 18 per cent for those districts that qualify under said paragraph (3).

All such transportation shall be determined in advance of the approval of the district's final budget for a fiscal year; provided, however, that a commonwealth charter school shall be required to determine such transportation in the first year of its operation as soon as practicable.

Each district shall be permitted to supply a mailing to the third party mail house and pay for it to be copied and mailed to families of students from said district enrolled in the commonwealth charter school.

The board shall develop procedures and guidelines for revocation and renewal of a school's charter; provided, however, that a charter for a Horace Mann charter school shall not be renewed by the board without a majority vote of the school committee and local collective bargaining unit in the district where said charter school is located; provided, however, that a commonwealth charter shall not be renewed unless the board of trustees of the charter school has documented in a manner approved by the board that said commonwealth charter school has provided models for replication and best practices to the commissioner and to other public schools in the district where the charter school is located.

In any fiscal year, the board shall approve only 1 regional charter school application of any commonwealth charter school located in a school district where overall student performance on the statewide assessment system is in the top 10 per cent in the year preceding charter application.

«Charter school», commonwealth charter schools and Horace Mann charter schools unless specifically stated otherwise.

(z) Each local school district shall be required to grant a leave of absence to any teacher in the public schools system requesting such leave to teach in a commonwealth charter school.

The board shall not approve a new commonwealth charter school in any community with a population of less than 30,000 as determined by the most recent United States Census estimate, unless it is a regional charter school.

(ii) No teacher shall be hired by a commonwealth charter school who is not certified pursuant to section 38G unless the teacher has successfully passed the state teacher test as required in said section 38G.

(i)(1) Not more than 120 charter schools shall be allowed to operate in the commonwealth at any time, excluding those approved pursuant to paragraph (3); provided, however, that of the 120 charter schools, not more than 48 shall be Horace Mann charter schools; provided, however, notwithstanding subsection (c) the 14 new Horace Mann charter schools shall not be subject to the requirement of an agreement with the local collective bargaining unit prior to board approval; provided, further, that after the charter for these 14 new Horace Mann charter schools have been granted by the board, the schools shall develop a memorandum of understanding with the school committee and the local union regarding any waivers to applicable collective bargaining agreements; provided, further, that if an agreement is not reached on the memorandum of understanding at least 30 days before the scheduled opening of the school, the charter school shall operate under the terms of its charter until an agreement is reached; provided, further, that not less 4 of the new Horace Mann charter schools shall be located in a municipality with more than 500,000 residents; and not more than 72 shall be commonwealth charter schools.

Commonwealth charter schools; Horace Mann charter schools; applications; enrollment; employees; funding

(ff) Commonwealth charter schools shall be funded as follows: the commonwealth shall pay a tuition amount to the charter school, which shall be the sum of the tuition amounts calculated separately for each district sending students to the charter school.

(q) A charter school may be located in part of an existing public school building, in space provided on a private work site, in a public building or any other suitable location; provided, however, that no school building assistance funds authorized under chapter 70B shall be awarded to a commonwealth charter school for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing or improving a commonwealth charter school.

(c) A commonwealth charter school shall be a public school, operated under a charter granted by the board, which operates independently of a school committee and is managed by a board of trustees.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker recently kicked off yet another battle to lift a state cap of 72 on the number of so - called commonwealth charter schools, which are independent of local school districts and more numerous than the in - district schools known as Horace Mann charters.

Boston is expected to lose as much as $ 130 million per year by 2017, under the legislation approved in January that will allow Commonwealth charter schools to take up to 18 % of a public school district's budget, in cities where MCAS scores fall in the lowest 10 % statewide.

Public school districts are projected to lose more than $ 303 million to Commonwealth charter schools in the 2011 - 2012 school year (minus some short - term reimbursement), an increase of more than 9 % over last year, and the first time in the 15 - year history of this privatization initiative that costs have topped $ 300 million, according to figures recently released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Meanwhile, compared to high - poverty districts, few, if any, Commonwealth charter schools enroll the same percentage of children from low - income families, children with special needs, or children learning English as a second language — the very students who struggle most with standardized MCAS tests.

The BPS will see more than $ 64 million diverted to privately run Commonwealth charter schools this year, forcing the city to eliminate programs, close schools, and cut teaching and support positions.

Horace Mann Charter Schools: There are two types of charter schools in Massachusetts: Commonwealth charter schools and Horace Mann charter schools.

«Both the Phoenix Network and the Lawrence Public Schools District believe that a regional Commonwealth charter school model would provide Phoenix with the opportunity to expand its impact in Lawrence and its surrounding communities of Methuen and Haverhill,» the application reads.

The new school would be regional, serving students from Lawrence, Haverhill, and Methuen, and as a Commonwealth charter, fully autonomous and independent from the Lawrence public school district.

Excel Academy is a publicly funded network of Commonwealth Charter Schools.

We've shifted the paradigm to pull away from a discussion of Commonwealth charter schools exclusively.»

(Our working paper, Abdulkadiroglu et al. 2009, reports results including HCA and discusses the difference between Horace Mann and Commonwealth charter schools.)

In 2009, Mayor Menino tacitly supported an increase in the number of «proven» Commonwealth charter schools that could operate in Boston as part of a broader education - reform bill that invested school districts with greater authority to intervene in low - performing schools and permitted districts to establish a few Horace Mann charter schools without the required union sign - off.

Commonwealth charter schools, in contrast, are fully independent of the local school district.

Regardless of the sponsoring organization or the research design, these studies all reach the same conclusion: Commonwealth charter schools in Boston are exceptionally high performing.

Nevertheless, the Menino administration opposes any further growth of Commonwealth charter schools.

The mayor typically defends his opposition to charter growth by expressing concern over the impact on the BPS budget and his belief that Commonwealth charter schools «pick and choose» their students.

She noted that there is need to respect one another's cultures and traditions, «but we must do so in a manner consistent with equality, as it is clearly stated in the Commonwealth charter.»

Although Commonwealth charters are authorized by BESE and subject to most state laws and regulations governing public schools, they are exempt from certain regulations related to teacher certification and tenure, and they are free from the confines of any preexisting collective - bargaining agreements.

A case could be made for excluding this school anyway: HCA is a Horace Mann Charter school that operates under somewhat different rules than regular Massachusetts charters (known as Commonwealth charters) and pilots.

Commonwealth charters are granted by the state and lie outside of the jurisdiction of local school districts.

Many charter schools outperform neighboring conventional schools, like Massachusetts» Commonwealth charters, the Knowledge is Power Program schools in Texas, or California's Green Dot charters.

This year alone, Commonwealth charters will divert nearly $ 420 million from district public schools after reimbursements are taken into account.

Not less than 2 of the new commonwealth charters approved by the board in any year shall be granted for charter schools located in districts where overall student performance on the statewide assessment system approved by the board under section 1I of chapter 69 is in the lowest 10 per cent statewide in the 2 years preceding the charter application.

Not exact matches

The commercial charter which the Puritans turned into a political constitution for their holy commonwealth was looked upon as a special act of Providence sealing the covenant made with his people.11

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

In a similar way, the Charter of the Commonwealth, which Nigeria is also a member, has as its core principles mutual respect, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability, legitimacy, and responsiveness.»

Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA), also known as «Virginia Space,» is an independent authority of the State of Virginia with a charter to support space - related business, economic development, and STEM education within the Commonwealth.

Indeed, it was King Charles I, in 1645, who gave the Rev. John Eliot a charter to start a school in Boston to, as Eliot said, «fit [students] for public service both in church and commonwealth in succeeding ages.»

Thomas J. Kane, «The cost of the charter school cap: Evidence shows low - income, urban students pay the price» CommonWealth Magazine, October 5, 2016.