Sentences with phrase «down failing charter»

It praises the State University of New York, one of the oversight entities, for not being afraid to shut down failing charter schools.

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Bloomberg also staked out other stands sharply at variance with those of the teacher's union, calling for merit pay, an increase in charter schools and shutting down more schools he considers failing.

Loosely based on real - life events, «Won't Back Down» tells the story of a single mom who teams up with a disillusioned teacher to transform a failing public school into a charter school.

Those that earn consecutive failing grades are shut down, and high - performing charters are freer to expand.

When a charter school fails to satisfy its parents and / or sponsors, it loses customers and closes down.

An Orange County charter school that earned two Fs in a row on Florida's school report card has shut down because of a state law that makes closure all but automatic after double failing grades.

This fall, the charter school board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the applicatiocharter school board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the applicatioCharter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the application form.

The Star - Ledger reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K - 5, is being shut down for failing to meet student academic and social needs: Kimberley Harrington, then commissioner of the Department of Education, in a Jan. 12 letter to IAT said the state was not renewing the charter because the academy «failed to provide a strong educational program and sustained organizational stability.»

Under the California law, if 51 % of parents in a failing school sign a petition, they can trigger a forcible transformation of the school — either by inviting a charter operator to take over, by forcing certain administrative changes or by shutting it down outright.

reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K - 5, is being shut down for failing to meet student academic and social needs:

The Star - Ledger reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K - 5, is being shut down for failing to meet student academic and social needs:

In the last three years, as the director of Parent Revolution, Austin helped the state pass the nation's first parent trigger law, which offers parents options to improve consistently failing schools by shutting them down altogether, replacing the principal or staff, or conversion to a charter school.

They are the re-democratization of the public school, returning education to its roots in the family and the community, where schools that abuse their charter or fail to perform can be shut down or will simply wither away as parents leave them for other options.

If an existing school fails to meet those standards then a future charter that has not been opened yet would be lost, we would not be able to open those schools so it would actually slow down our growth and it would be a 1 to 1 comparison point....

stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

In the wake of a new state law designed to shut down failing schools, several charter - school sponsors are severing ties with schools they agreed to oversee.

If a school fails to do so, an authorizer is supposed to revoke the school's charter and shut them down.

Charter advocates nationwide have called for stricter rules to make it easier to cull failing charters from the ranks, but in many communities, closing down schools — even relatively new charter schools — has sparked conflict and infuriated pCharter advocates nationwide have called for stricter rules to make it easier to cull failing charters from the ranks, but in many communities, closing down schools — even relatively new charter schools — has sparked conflict and infuriated pcharter schools — has sparked conflict and infuriated parents.

Other top charter lobbyists issued statements saying the NAACP let down the grassroots, but failed to reveal that the moratorium critics they cited were organized by industry - funded groups.

Based on this measure of achievement, some failing schools are shut down, and, in some cases, replaced by charter schools.

Lecker: A writer claimed that if Connecticut charters fail to perform, they are shut down, but that you can not do that to a district school.

Each charter school has to petition for renewal every five years; if it has failed to perform, it gets shut down.

The new mandates recess for some elementary school students, pares down on a few standardized tests and seeks to incentivize charter school companies to set up near chronically failing public schools.

Charter Proponents Focus On Shutting Down Failing Schools On Wednesday morning, NACSA head Greg Richmond will join New Jersey Schools Commissioner Chris Cerf and California charter schools advocate Jed Wallace at Washington D.C.'s National Press Club to announce a new campaign, «One Million Lives,» that aims to crack the whip on thCharter Proponents Focus On Shutting Down Failing Schools On Wednesday morning, NACSA head Greg Richmond will join New Jersey Schools Commissioner Chris Cerf and California charter schools advocate Jed Wallace at Washington D.C.'s National Press Club to announce a new campaign, «One Million Lives,» that aims to crack the whip on thcharter schools advocate Jed Wallace at Washington D.C.'s National Press Club to announce a new campaign, «One Million Lives,» that aims to crack the whip on the duds.

Mayor de Blasio only learned half the lesson — he should be supporting the creation of new small schools and charters rather than doubling down on the failed and expensive renewal model.

When a bank or thrift institution fails, the bank's chartering authority shuts it down.