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Between the relatively robust federal Charter School Program, the new ability to use Title I set - aside funds for critical course access, and fast - moving innovations in personalized learning, both states and districts have powerful tools for school improvement.

The president's first budget proposal, released in May, includes an increase of nearly $ 200 million for the federal Charter Schools Program and a package of other choice - friendly programs.

Among other recommendations in its Jan. 13 report, the investigative arm of Congress says the department should require states receiving money through the federal charter school program to provide more details on how the money is being used.

These early deficits are often partially offset by start - up grants from the federal Charter School Program and the Walton Family Foundation, which together typically amount to more than $ 500,000 per school, spread out over several years.

Average per - pupil public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000, depending on the states and cities where schools are located.

The federal Charter School Program, which provides charter start - up funds, requires that states disseminate charters» best practices to districts.

• The RSD, conceived originally as a modest pilot program that had awarded turnaround charters for just four schools prior to Hurricane Katrina, was dramatically enlarged by Louisiana policymakers as a way to get public schools open after the ensuing floods, and was propelled by more than $ 20 million in federal charter school funding.

«If you look at folks who have received funding from the federal Charter Schools Program, for instance... those are the people getting schools off the ground.

Such requirements are already the case, or at least they are implicit in all current state and federal charter school laws.

Charter school supporters say money flowing to the state from federal charter school grants would offset much of the total.

The Trump Administration's proposed $ 167 million funding increase for the federal Charter Schools Fund as well as implement education tax credits into the proposed revamp of the tax code are already dead in the water.

With support from the federal Charter Schools Program grant, Adams Traditional founders were able to find and furnish their first facility, partnering with the Arizona Charter Schools Association and Charter School Development Corporation to search for properties.

In 2011, the federal Charter Schools Program shifted from awarding funds liberally to requiring serious state plans.

«His leadership on behalf of the federal Charter Schools Program has enabled the dramatic growth in the number of high quality charter schools, ensuring that hundreds of thousands more students now have access to better schools regardless of their family income or zip code,» she wrote in a statement.

She is an active supporter of the federal Charter Schools Program, which has been instrumental in the growth of charter schools, especially those with a strong track record of success in serving educationally disadvantaged students.

Four public charter school champions in the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking support for an increase in federal funds for the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP).

A timely bill in 2010 would also allow Maine's participation in the Federal Charter School Grant Program, which awards 3 year grants of over $ 450,000 for planning and start - up expenses for each chartered public program.

On Monday, the Arizona State Board of Education made this possible by approving federal Charter School Program grants to schools that will mainly serve low - income families.

Previously, federal charter school funding could only be used to open new schools.

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But officials at the federal Charter School Program have said California's law doesn't go far enough.

At issue are kickbacks for high priced merchandise, misuse of federal charter school expansion funds, grand theft, racketeering, fraudulent invoices, overcharging families for uniforms... the list goes on.

The department's application for a federal charter school expansion grant has also been criticized for including several errors.

Local Talk News profiles New Leader Jessica Rooney, one of only 12 recipients of a federal charter school program start - up grant which she will use to open People's Preparatory Charter School in Newark.

This lottery follows the Utah State Office of Education and Federal Charter School lottery guidelines.

Her school choice proposals were rejected, although the federal Charter School Program got a small bump.

Every few years the CDE has applied for and received multi-year federal Charter Schools Program grants.

Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools which has endorsed DeVos, wants to see an increase in funding for federal charter schools to $ 1 billion by 2020, more investment in R&D, and assurances that new funding does not come at the expense of «existing funding for Title I and IDEA» at public schools.

Witnesses testified about how charter schools were succeeding, how federal charter school funds were assisting them, obstacles to operating charter schools, and how federal programs, in general, help or hurt charter schools.

Three of Lane County's four applicants for federal charter school planning grants learned this week the money is theirs...

The federal Charter Schools Program offers start - up and expansion funds, and has supported nearly a quarter of all new charter schools in the country.

In responding to the Idaho Education News article, the state department of education's spokesperson on school choice issues said the state no longer applies for federal charter school start - up dollars because the feds «want states to have a plan in place to close down low - performing charter schools.

The federal Charter School Program, created in 1995, provides grants to state departments of education to help them plan, design, and implement new charter schools, as well as disseminate information about successful charter schools.

Streamlines federal Charter School Program funding to reduce administrative burdens and improves funding opportunities for the replication of successful charter models and facilities assistance.

The federal charter school program has been instrumental in seeding the development of many of the nation's highest achieving urban schools.

Bottom line here is that Idaho's families and children have overwhelmingly benefited from the federal charter school start - up program, and the state would be smart to revisit its decision not to seek these funds for their children and taxpayers.

After all, the former First Lady's husband, Bill Clinton, has been one of the foremost supporters of charters and other reforms during his tenure in the White House; this includes ushering in the federal Charter School Program, which provides $ 157 million a year to launch high - quality charters.

The Trump Administration's proposed $ 250 million increase in funding for the federal Charter School Fund (as well as another $ 1 billion in Title I funds devoted to expanding intra-district choice for low - income children) is offset by the elimination of $ 2.2 billion in funding for Americorps, the program that helps districts provide poor and minority children with Teach for America recruits proven to improve their academic achievement.

Do you have a story of a charter school you authorize doing great things with their federal charter school program grant?

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«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

City public and charter schools would have to meet the federal «gold standard» for lunches, which requires that a different fruit and vegetable be served every day and that only low - fat or non-fat milk and whole grains be offered.

The ad calls for state lawmakers to raise the charter school cap before applying for Round II of federal cash.

The charter school agreement was reached just days before the June 1 Round II deadline for federal «Race to the Top» funding.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

New York faces a June 1 deadline for relaxing rules for charter schools to boost its chances of winning about half a billion dollars from the federal Race to the Top program.

A little - known federal tax break to finance new charter school construction, the New Markets Tax Credit, is so lucrative that a lender who uses it can almost double his money in seven years.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

Honestly, when you put a charter school promoter in charge of $ 4 billion in federal funds, what else would you expect other than advocacy for privatization?

The pressure is on for New York to pass a new charter - school law before submitting a new application to qualify for up to $ 700 million in federal «Race to the Top» funds by the June 1 deadline.

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