Sentences with phrase «concerns about charter school»

In recent weeks, some African - American organizations have raised concerns about charter school funding, spending and performance.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

Consistent with other studies, they found that some of the concerns about charter schools can be put to rest and that some of the anticipated benefits of charter schools have not become a reality.

In the last post, I shared the Florida Auditor General's concerns about some charter schools.

The national board of the NAACP, which has long expressed concern about charter schools, is scheduled this weekend to vote on whether to approve a resolution — passed at the group's convention this past summer — that calls for a moratorium on their expansion.

Randi started out talking about all of her concerns about charter schools and all the reasons why they aren't the solution.

This was not the first time the organization expressed its concern about charter schools.

What would be so helpful is for you to focus in on your own personal stories or concerns about charter schools, written up in a paragraph, and either e-mailed or faxed to your House representative.

A number of bills addressing concerns about charter schools are also still pending, and while some may see some life or at least hearings in the fall, others that would require local approval of charters, for instance, or tougher restrictions on them are maybe too contentious.

«I'm actually very concerned about charter schools pulling kids from the public schools and what that's going to do to our schools that we've invested a lot in.»

Not exact matches

Families for Excellent Schools added in a news release they are also concerned about that the administration «also continues to hint at plans» that would roll back charter co-locations.

He also expressed concern about the administration's effort to redirect a $ 210 million construction fund used to build space for charter schools toward pre-K, and its plans to charge better - financed charter schools rent.

The more I hear charter school advocates advocate for charter schools — the more concerned I become about the other 90 %.

«However, we still have concerns about the inconsistencies of Senator Flanagan's position and the policy implication of his efforts to expand the number of charter schools.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

«What this rally is about is the anxiety and the concern levels of the charter school parents of those charter schools that already have their permits, have their charters and unfortunately don't have the locations identified.

If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before — as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general — they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio's election, and the mayor's immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.

Parents of 70,000 charter students are concerned about the future of charter schools.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

Charter parents report more extensive communications with their children's schools than parents in the other two sectors, but they also express greater concern about a paucity of extracurricular activities.

States are right to be concerned about how to best regulate virtual charter schools — they ought to measure their results based on the growth of individual students and shut down poorly performing ones.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

• Charter schools are no panacea, and legitimate concerns exist about the effectiveness of for - profit education.

Raising the Cap on Charter Schools (Fox 25 WXYT, 11/2/16) Harvard Professor of Education Heather Hill, has closely studied ballot question two and is concerned about raising the cap.

Concerned about the growing political pushback, CPS made two agreements that would likely prove incredibly hard to maintain: a five - year moratorium on any further enrollment - related closings and not to lease or rent empty buildings to charter schools.

She echoed my concern about 500 - page charter - school applications, noting, «That's not progress.

Don Soifer, a longtime member of D.C.'s charter - authorizing board, says parent members «help with the flow of critical information,» getting word to the board about issues at the school before they begin to fester, and getting word to parents about board actions and concerns before they reach the rumor mill.

And charter - school supporters, though they remained concerned about funding for state - authorized charters, cheered the new income that would soon be flowing toward district charter schools.

It is one thing to share the authors» concerns about equity and current threats to social cohesion (which I do) and quite another to think they have made the case either that charter schools are threats to those values or that schools controlled by elected school boards effectively promote them.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

It also gave the movement a populist patina, making it seem that if you were concerned about the plight of poor inner - city children, you would certainly support the creation of many more charter schools.

Not surprisingly, therefore, public school districts are concerned about the revenue lost when their students enroll in charter schools.

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High Sschool, Oakland Technical High SchoolSchool.

A 2010 study by the Brookings Institution, a center - left Washington, D.C. - based think tank, looked at one of HCZ's two Harlem charter schools and expressed grave concerns about the resources required to expand the HCZ model.

To support my case, I presented three categories of evidence: (1) the fact that national reform groups seem deeply concerned about Detroit; (2) the similarity in performance between the city's charter and traditional public schools; and (3) the large negative effects of two statewide voucher programs on student outcomes.

The natural growth in enrollment during the past decade meant that most large districts were much more concerned about where they would house the students who did not leave for a charter or private school.

The recession has intensified school districts» concerns about competing for public funds with charter schools.

There is concern about time and energy required for overseeing a charter school and the possibility a legal challenge will be filed to delay or derail the law.

«Family concerns about education affect readiness and retention of military personnel,» said the report, citing the Department of Defense, which recommended in 2008 that military families in areas with poorly performing public schools be offered charter school options.»

Taxpayers across Arizona should be concerned about the potential conflicts of interest plaguing 77 percent of charter schools due to the high rate of related - party transactions.

While more families are attracted to charters for their typically smaller campuses with science, special education, alternative classes and other themes, those in charge of traditional schools and teachers unions are concerned about losing so many students.

In a conversation with Jim Vance, an anchor for Channel 4 news, the chancellor also addressed challenges with working alongside one of the nation's largest charter school markets, and concerns about high rates of principal and teacher turnover and a declining number of African American teachers in the school system.

Angel spoke about the immediate concern of two new proposed charter schools in Pittsburgh, and the negative impact that would have on students in the district.

Ramona Edelin, executive director of the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools, a membership group for charter school administrators, says, «What's so powerful to me as an educator of 45 years is that some of these schools are having stunning success with the students that so many are concernedSchools, a membership group for charter school administrators, says, «What's so powerful to me as an educator of 45 years is that some of these schools are having stunning success with the students that so many are concernedschools are having stunning success with the students that so many are concerned about.

Expressing concern about the feasibility to do just that, State Board member Wayne McDevitt ran through a lengthy list of all of the oversight and monitoring responsibilities that are placed on the shoulders of a very understaffed Office of Charter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litiCharter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even liticharter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litigation.

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, the school's leaders were concerned about what would happen to the charter's 560 students.

Charter schools had become a bone of contention among lawmakers as some questioned the accountability of charters after high - profile problems with the Hartford - based Jumoke Academy that included financial miscues, nepotism and concern about a former chief executive officer who had lied about having a doctorate degree before admitting that he did not.