Sentences with phrase «debates on public charter school»

Greg Richmond is the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountability.

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With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

Most research on charter schools, and the most intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend them.

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.

These findings shed new light on the public debate over the effects of charter schools on non-charter students.

On June 4, 1996, after six months of debate, excitement, and testimony, Governor John Rowland signed Public Act 96 - 214, which established public charter schools in the State of ConnecPublic Act 96 - 214, which established public charter schools in the State of Connecpublic charter schools in the State of Connecticut.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award iCharter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award icharter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.

The controversial gutted - and - amended SB95, which has seen 40 + versions behind closed doors and would create a charter - managed Achievement School District comprising some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools, looks to be on the move for public debate in the waning days of the 2015 legislative session.

UTLA invited the California Charter School Association to engage in a public debate on the impact of charters in the City of Los Angeles, where charters have increased, according to the ad, by 287 percent.

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.

Public education debates both here and nationwide often focus on school funding, teacher pensions, charter schools and vouchers.

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.

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Changing the Debate on Charter Schools Education Week op - ed by Meghan Carton, a master's candidate at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute

As charter schools have dominated public discussion on education in the past several years, the debate at times has appeared to be between charter schools for the whole country or no charter schools at all.

«Assemblyman Singleton understands the need for greater student achievement in public education and his legislation initiates the debate on many key issues such as independent authorizing authority and greater accountability for New Jersey's public charter schools,» read the statement.

As parents dissatisfied with schools in both districts flock to charters, the debate continues: What is their impact on public education, and can traditional educational models amicably coexist with an alternative movement that shows no signs of abating?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paula White, NJ State Director [email protected] DFER - NJ on Proposed NJ State Board of Education Regulations on Public Charter Schools Newark, NJ — In response to continued debate around proposed New Jersey...

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

The School Of The Future Gets A Dry Run Teachers Union Prez Pens «Imagine» Critique Charter Plans Detailed; Parents Weigh In Elm City Imagine Sparks Debate NHPS, AF Team Up On Experimental School Elm City Charter Eyed For Futuristic «Conversion» City's Charter Network Hires San Francisco Firm To Design The K - 8 Public School Of The Future

The film was shown as part of an initiative of AROS, supported through the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around the coPublic Education, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around the copublic education landscape around the country.