Sentences with phrase «current number of charter schools»

Annual contributions based on the current number of charter schools authorized.

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As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.

Paterson said he thinks New York could have won $ 500 million to $ 700 million in the Obama administration's «Race to the Top» program to improve public schools if the Legislature made two changes he urged: lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in the state from the current 200 and ending a measure that prohibits student...

Although he agrees that parents need to have more school choice, he says, the way to accomplish that is by tripling the current number of public charter schools.

At a celebration for the 10th anniversary of Sisulu - Walker Charter School of Harlem, the first charter school in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in thCharter School of Harlem, the first charter school in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in theSchool of Harlem, the first charter school in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in thcharter school in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in theschool in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in thcharter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in the city.

And with recent changes in state law, it becomes possible over the next several years to double the number of charter school seats in Boston from the current 5,200.

That would push the number of charter school students to 6,806 compared to the current enrollment of 6,506.

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Brett Bymaster, a community activist in San Jose, California, here describes the chain's current plans to increase the number of its charter schools.

Though Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, offered up $ 1.1 billion in new school aid, he attached strings that could kill the deal for allies of the teachers» unions in the Assembly: a much more rigorous teacher evaluation system to replace the current one, new hurdles for teachers on the path to tenure, and an expansion by 100 of the limit on the number of charter schools statewide.

And under current rules, charter schools can have no more than 15 uncertified teachers on faculty or have more than 30 % of their faculty uncertified, whichever number is lower.

The total tuition amount owed by a sending district to a charter school shall be the per pupil tuition amount as defined above, multiplied by the total number of students attending the charter school from that district in the current fiscal year.

But a number of black Democrats said they mistrusted Republicans» claims of wanting to improve education for black children, a current that flows strongly through their opposition to charter schools.

According to the author, current law only provides an increasing cap on the number of charter schools and little or no accountability.

The increasing number of state legislators, auditors, comptrollers, parents, students and academic institutions that are calling for more accountability in the charter sector are right: If we are committed to a public education system that strives to serve all children, with the understanding and the expectation that each and every one matters, has potential and deserves the resources and opportunity to succeed, then we must rein in the current growth model of charter expansion, and insist instead on a well - regulated and equitably resourced system of public schools that works for all children.