Sentences with phrase «debates about charter schools»

Teaching is beginning to encounter a push toward a market approach, as evidenced by debates about charter schools, school choice, and school vouchers.

A number of forward looking cities have set aside contentious debates about charter schools, and have instead chosen to embrace high - quality charter schools in their reform strategies.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

Insist on an evidence - based debate about charter schools and vouchers.

Breathtaking results from yet another study, and the announcement that three prominent Boston lawyers plan to mount a constitutional challenge to Massachusetts» charter public school cap, have reignited the seemingly endless debate about charter schools» place in the commonwealth's education marketplace.

Not exact matches

Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

«Do I think there will be discussions about charter schools and a robust debate?

UPPER WEST SIDE — A state senator's use of the n - word is adding fire to an already heated debate about Harlem Success Academy's plans to open an Upper West Side charter school.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

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.

The debate has raised uncomfortable questions about charter school discipline of black children.

In recent weeks, an ongoing debate about charter - school authorizing has roared back to life.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

In joining this debate, Greene mischaracterizes generally positive findings by Harris's Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA) about the role of my organization, The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), in managing the Louisiana Recovery School District's (RSD) application processes between 2008 and 2013.

Before the debate, learn more about the issue, as well as the speakers» stances on charter schools and educational equity.

One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

The Education Next poll leaders didn't explore why support for charters has dropped so precipitously, though they speculated that a growing public debate about charters, including a call for a freeze on new charter schools by the NAACP, played a role.

After all, while we may indeed be entering a new phase of the charter school debate — one where charters have lost much of their luster — prudence suggests awaiting further confirmation before concluding we've just witnessed a sudden about - face in a two - decade trend.

In the heat of the school choice debate, one of our parents at North Broward Academy of Excellence wants to spread the good news about charter schools.

It matters because if we are to debate charter school policy or support or criticism of charter schools, we need to be clear what and whom we are talking about.

Amidst all of the political back and forth about charter schools, no one seems to be discussing the most important people in the debate — our students with the greatest needs.

Charter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special EduCharter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Educharter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Education.

I remember that when I made my first attempt to go back to college four months after having my daughter Cereta in 1999, I read a book for one of my educational courses about the debate over charter versus traditional schools.

Whatever anyone thinks about charter schools or district schools, education reformers or teachers unions, Democrats or Republicans, or any other false choice that has divided our politics and our district, let's stipulate that everyone on all sides of this debate are good people who care about kids.

In the education reform debate, school choice options — namely charter schools — are among the most buzzed about topics.

When all of those mothers and grandmothers were calling me each August, they did not care about the charter school versus district school debate.

As the debate about the value of charters is heating up to new levels since the news that billionaire school reform leader Eli Broad and several other powerful players are planning a massive expansion of charter schools in LA Unified, these numbers are likely to be spun in both directions by the opposing sides of the charter debate.

Nationwide the charter school sector has grown over the past few decades amid a debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.

This is not to start a debate about charter vs. traditional public schools.

I remember when I made my first attempt to go back to college four months after having my daughter Cereta in 1999, I read a book for one of my educational courses about the debate over charter versus traditional schools.

Amid debate about where charter schools fit into the spectrum of public education options, I accepted an invitation to visit Horizon Science Academy - McKinley Park on Chicago's South Side.

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, October 23, 2016 For more than a decade, a political debate took place in the media, across the state and under the Capitol dome about whether Mississippi would allow public charter schools to operate.

«My position about charter schools is I think it's an interesting idea, and I think unfortunately it's been caught up in the ideological debate between left and right and has been distorted in the battle,» Marshak said.

What stands out most about the debate around unionizing charter schools, however, is how shockingly little we know about what it even means.

The report generated a little buzz, as it was used to inform the debate between Hillary Clinton's campaign and charter defenders about whether or not most charter schools serve hard - to - teach kids.

Education advocacy — and I'm talking mainly about the debate on charter schools, vouchers, and tracking school progress (aka accountability)-- deserves your attention.

I hope we can move past tired debates about whether charter schools should, can or do serve students with disabilities.

Hidden behind the debate about turnaround programs, charter schools, standardized testing, evaluation methods and the common core curriculum rages a far more fundamental argument; what do we actually expect our public education to achieve... What is the purpose of public education?

Adding to the performance debate are questions about whether charter schools should «backfill» seats that open up when students leave during the year by admitting new students from their waitlists.

And the debate continues to boil as legislative leaders talk about rewriting the state's 16 - year - old charter school law to add protections for charters and local communities.

New Jersey's ongoing debate about whether traditional public schools or charters do a better job educating students got some provocative new data yesterday, courtesy of a study from Stanford University that came down on the side of the charters — particularly in Newark's embattled school district.

The story of the two schools highlights the fissures in a national debate about what to do with charters that don't perform well.

Charter schools» ntense rate of growth has fueled an equally intense debate about the role they'll play in the future of U.S. education.

Truthfully, there is no national debate about the future of public charter schools.

The rise of charter schools and academies has precipitated a Cambrian explosion of new ideas and innovations, stimulating a debate about methodology led by teachers themselves.

Achievement First Inc. one of the nation's larger charter school management companies with 20 schools in New York and Connecticut, is rapidly expanding in Connecticut, despite the fact that the 2012 education reform debate is supposed to include a discussion about whether the state should make greater use of the charter school model.

«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

The debate erupted during talks about the renewal and a new application for two charter schools run by Partnership to Uplift Communities (PUC).