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In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

Also at 10 a.m., state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, state Sens. Jeff Klein, Leroy Comrie and Martin Golden as well as Assemblymen Luis Sepulveda and Felix Ortiz participate in the 14th annual Charter School Advocacy Day, Empire State Plaza, Convention Center, Empire State Plaza Concourse Level, Room 130, Albany.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

The salty speech came on a day when union officials discussed hot - button issues such as teacher seniority rights and charter schools.

Bitter rivals from their days as City Council colleagues, the two squared off again this year when Mr. de Blasio initially pulled the plug on three of her charter schools.

As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance data in assessing teachers.

On the same day as upstate protests, UFT members on March 24 picketed the offices of Republican senators Andrew Lanza on Staten Island and Marty Golden in Bay Ridge to tell them that our public schools — not wealthy charter chains — need their support.

About 90 other charters from New York City and upstate will participate in the rally, which is being held the same day as a long - planned rally in support of the mayor's pre-K plan.

What we should have are public media which operate as such, and therefore they operate under a charter which guarantees their independence and allows them to be able to comment objectively on what is going in the society at any given time, and not necessarily act as propaganda vehicles for the party of the day.»

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is the latest member of Trump's Cabinet who has been caught flying on a private charter plane at taxpayer expense, reportedly taking a flight to Ohio, only a day before Tom Price resigned as health secretary for doing the same.

Some want the current majority to maintain control and continue pushing for changes such as a longer school day, more charter schools and a teacher contract that holds educators more accountable for performance.

«There's plenty of issues we can work on together on charter schools, but it's not fair to link the charter school issue to something as fundamental as how we run our schools every day for 1.1 million kids,» de Blasio said.

One day after her organization scrapped its pre-K program over a bitter contract dispute with the de Blasio administration, Moskowitz blasted Hizzoner for failing to provide facilities for charters as mandated by state law.

Recently residents of Rockland County were asked to sign an internet petition asking County Executive Day to veto the proposed Rockland County Charter changes as being nothing more than cosmetic.

Organizers with the deep - pocketed charter school lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools promise the same flashy production values as in previous pro-charter-school rallies, when performers such as the musician Questlove entertained thousands of students whose schools gave them the day off.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

As more schools move forward with their own efforts, many are taking their cue from the mavericks on time and learning: charter schools, where more than two - thirds run on longer days, many successfully.

05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

To Danni Brown, a 6th grader at the St. Louis Charter School here, the difference between the school she now goes to and St. Ambrose School, the Roman Catholic school she attended previously, is as clear as day.

As the authors themselves note, across the country only 2.5 percent of public school children roam the halls in charter schools each day; the remaining 97.5 percent are compelled to attend traditional public schools.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

That seemed to take some of the air out of the room, but the point was reinforced the next day by Meg Campbell, founder of Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston, who was firmly in the computers - as - tools camp.

She has worked as a Registered Nutrition Consultant for the prestigious Health Doctors Clinic, an Integrated Medical Clinic, Harley Street, W1, The Diagnostic Clinic, W1 and Charter Day Care, W1 an eating disorders clinic.

HCZ's work with traditional public schools does not have the same number of hours each day as our work with our charter school kids, but the dedication is the same.

Charter School for Science and Technology had what one 4th grader described as «the best day of the year.»

In the early days of NCLB, most schools in «corrective action» chose the «other» option of school improvement (as in, doing something other than closing the school, chartering it, laying off staff, etc.).

Paul Vallas, who as superintendent of the RSD since 2007 has lengthened both the school day and the school year, sees technical as well as political reasons why charters are here to stay.

In November, Tennessee provided a perfect and alarming example of how this might play out with regard to RTTT: though the state lifted its charter cap as Duncan desired, in the span of two days Memphis and Nashville denied all 24 charter applications submitted to them.

Two strategies are particularly attractive: reopening these schools as charter schools, or contracting with a for - profit or nonprofit manager to run their day - to - day operations.

Some come as early as half an hour before their school, Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Academy Charter School, opens for breakfast at 7 a.m. Classes end at 5 p.m., but many kids are reluctant to go home at 6 p.m., the end of a long day.

And as Goldstein argues, it has everything the other great charter cities have, plus a preponderance of fantastic «no - excuses» charter schools — because, at the end of the day, it's all about the schools.

It finds that teachers in traditional public schools are three times as likely to be «chronically absent» from school as charter teachers, meaning they are absent more than ten days per year.

Founded in 2000 as the state's first independent public charter school, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movement.

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Charter school leaders must spend a significant portion of every day defending their success against legislative bills masquerading as attempts to hold them accountable.

Charter schools can also set policies that are not possible in public schools - policies such as requiring parent participation in the school, requiring longer school days (such as at KIPP), requiring longer shool years (KIPP again), etc..

such school employee shall also file a written report in a manner prescribed by, as applicable, the school district, board of cooperative educational services (BOCES) or charter school with the principal, superintendent, or their designee no later than two school days after making an oral report;

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Then on June 23, the day before the Democratic primary, Rangel showed up as the surprise commencement speaker at the Harlem Link Charter School graduation ceremony.

In a compelling recent blog post, Nathan Gibbs - Bowling warned that, as Washington State's new Teacher of the Year, he won't be taking positions on most of the hot policy topics of the day (Common Core, charter schools, etc.).

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

Because local control rules the day in the «live free or die» state, New Hampshire's districts and charter schools were free to interpret and implement this mandate as they saw fit.

• Extension of the school year or school day • Replacement of staff members relevant to the school's low performance • Significant decrease in management authority at the school level • Replacement of the principal • Restructuring the internal organization of the school • Appointment of an outside expert to advise the school • Replacement of all or most of the school staff (which may include the principal) • Reopening the school as a public charter school • Entering into a contract with a private entity to operate the school • Takeover the school by the State

Years later, as a charter parent, she struggled to keep up with KIPP's demands: Students have to be in uniforms every day.

AB 1594 by Assemblyman Mike Eng, D - Monterey Park, would require charter schools to provide each qualified, needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced - price meal as defined under the federal child nutrition program regulations, each school day.

Whether it is pay for performance, charter schools, an expanded school day, new teacher evaluations, or a myriad of programs with varying acronyms, it seems as though «this» is the answer for which we have all been searching.

Charter schools receive public funding but, unlike public schools, employ mostly nonunion teachers and have autonomy in school districts, which allows them to set their own conditions, such as longer school days.

The CEC would hire a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and contract with independent organizations such as charter management organizations (CMO) to run the day - to - day operations schools, including management of human, curricular, and financial resources.

My daughter is now only a few days to graduating from Mycro Charter High School as her class Salutatorian.