Sentences with phrase «easier for charter schools»

The SUNY Charter Institute, which grants charters and oversees some of the state's most influential charter networks, released proposed regulations that would make it far easier for charter schools to meet requirements that they have certified teachers on their faculty by allowing them to bypass traditionally prepared teachers and create their own programs leading to certification.

He is the chairman of the House Education Committee's Choice and Innovation Subcommittee, and has sponsored legislation making it easier for charter schools to open and operate in Florida.

The evaluation and compensation changes in Indiana came during a contentious 2011 legislative session in which hundreds of teachers protested laws restricting their collective bargaining rights, making it easier for charter schools to expand and introducing an expansive private school voucher system.

Louisiana is also making life easier for charter schools, with new authorizing boards, a fast - track for high - performing networks, and access to facilities equal to that of traditional public schools.

«We need to fund low - performing schools,» Gibbons said, not make it easier for charter schools to expand.

It would also allow the state Department of Education to assume control of failing schools, as well as make it easier for charter schools to expand.

Starting next year, the legislation will make it easier for charter schools to ask to be overseen by a different entity.

MANHATTAN — A day after the State University of New York approved new regulations to make it easier for charter schools to hire teachers without master's degrees — and even without bachelor's degrees — the city and state's teachers» unions filed a lawsuit to stop the standards from being implemented.

Cuomo and Flanagan also want to make it even easier for charter schools to reject, and even kick out, students who don't do well academically and might tarnish the pretty statistics charter schools often paint to suggest they present a much better alternative to traditional public schools.

And to make it easier for charter school operators to run more than one school, Mr. Bloomberg said he would advocate allowing charter schools to operate on more than one campus.

One of them would also make it easier for charter school teachers to unionize.

Not exact matches

NYSUT's spending came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a series of changes to the state's education policies, including a new criteria for teacher evaluations, a strengthening of charter schools and making it easier to close schools deemed to be «failing.»

Cuomo wants to make it easier for a takeover of failing schools and help parents of students in failing schools transfer their children to charters.

City Hall would agree to make it easier for charters to get public - school space or obtain funding to lease private space, said an education official familiar with the discussions.

A SUNY Board of Trustees committee voted to let some charter schools certify their own teachers, making it easier for them to hire instructors.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

Providing cheap financing to charter schools is also a relatively easy way for philanthropies to get involved.

The District of Columbia's public schools are 45 % charter, have high accountability standards, and make it easy for families to evaluate their options and enroll in both district and charter schools.

Overall, most charter leaders we spoke to felt that start - up funding is reasonably easy to secure, especially for school networks with a strong track record of success.

They also agreed to make it easier for parents to enroll their children in charter schools, and promised to make public more information about their track records.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

After all, a common test does make life easier for parents «shopping» for schools across the public, private, and charter sectors and for taxpayers seeking evidence of return on investment from their education dollars.

A highlight of this cooperation is My School DC, a program making it easier for district and charter parents to choose from the many D.C. school options available through a common lottery application sSchool DC, a program making it easier for district and charter parents to choose from the many D.C. school options available through a common lottery application sschool options available through a common lottery application system.

Authors Dr. Anna Nicotera and Dr. David Stuit, respectively senior associate and co-founder of Basis Policy Research, coded charter applications for easy - to - spot indicators and used them to predict the schools» academic performance in their first years of operation.

And while they try to organize our schools into their union, they push for state legislation to make it easier to close our schools and demonize charter schools like ours to their own members, which tells you how they really feel about us.

For those of us who cover the nation's education crisis, it is easy to joke about the ranting and raving of some defenders of traditional public education, who have what they consider to be clever names for charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aimFor those of us who cover the nation's education crisis, it is easy to joke about the ranting and raving of some defenders of traditional public education, who have what they consider to be clever names for charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aimfor charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aims).

He did things that aren't easy for a Democrat on the national stage to do: He advocated charter schools, tussled with the teacher unions, and went after the schools of education.

It's easier for New York's Department of Education to watch more carefully over hundreds (rather than thousands) of charter schools, pressuring the ones that are underperforming and shutting them down if they can't turn things around.

It's not easy chairing the New York City Council's education committee, but Eva S. Moskowitz has left that job for one that may generate even more headaches: She's starting a charter school.

It is easy to forget that many charter school and private school educators entered education for the same humanistic, child - centered reasons as public educators.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confiSchools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools confidently.

The newspaper also takes Bennett to task for putting more state dollars in the hands of for - profit charter school operators and pushing for legislation that makes it easier to get a teaching license in Indiana.

King also discussed implementing a unified enrollment process that will make it easier for families to choose charter, magnet and pilot schools by putting them all on the same schedule.

And, collectively, we're going to have to work at finding ways to make it easier for independent charter schools to open and flourish.

The longer failing schools are allowed to operate, the easier it is for our influential political opponents to push policies making it harder for all charters to thrive.

Matt Barnum, at Chalkbeat, gives an easy - to - read breakdown of «what the NAACP is worried about, what we know about those issues, and what the group's recommendations could mean for the charter school world.»

So, I'm at a loss to explain why Mulgrew wants to pick yet another fight with charter schools, this time over a new provision in the charter law that makes it easier for our staff to send their children to the school they work in.

Meanwhile, state lawmakers in Indiana are now pushing legislation that would make it easier for the state to more quickly take over schools that receive Ds or Fs and put them in the hands of charter school operators.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

Those remarks were delivered by Gov. Markell during an event where he signed a bill making it easier for families to enroll in charter schools and public schools outside their district.

Legislation passed in 2011 makes it easier for groups to start a charter school, but it also gives the IDOE more authority to intervene if these schools don't perform.

A recent Joyce Foundation - Chicago Tribune poll of 1,010 Chicagoans found that 63.7 percent favored making it easier for charters to expand in neighborhoods where there are waits for admission to charter schools, and 67.9 percent said it should be easier for charters to open in neighborhoods with underperforming schools.

Maintaining discipline becomes a much easier task for charters than for district - run schools.

Ms. Moskowitz has used her high test scores to argue that she should be allowed to open more schools, and an effort by Mr. Cuomo to raise the limit on the number of charter schools in the state could make it easier for her to do so.

«This bill would make it far too easy for school districts to close great charter schools, for no good reason at all, and that's not right or fair to us.»

Shapiro writes that his bold agenda was «to grow the charter sector by 100 schools, create a $ 20 million merit pay pot for teachers and make it easier to fire teachers with poor ratings.»

Charter schools, which are independently run, are easier to compare because the standardized test scores are posted for each individual school on the state's website.

If I'm «in it for the kids» and you oppose my stance on teacher licensure, desegregation, charter schooling, or merit pay, it can be easy for me to assert (and maybe even assume) that you're not in it for the kids.

BY WILL SENTELL [email protected] A plan for new management at an otherwise doomed Baton Rouge charter school won easy approval Tuesday from the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.The school in jeopardy, Baton Rouge Charter Academy at Mid City, appeared done in December when BESE voted to close the school amid dismal student -Lcharter school won easy approval Tuesday from the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.The school in jeopardy, Baton Rouge Charter Academy at Mid City, appeared done in December when BESE voted to close the school amid dismal student -LCharter Academy at Mid City, appeared done in December when BESE voted to close the school amid dismal student -LSB-...]

The Massachusetts Charter Public School Association reports that the total number of applications for 16 Boston charters has surged to 35,000 from 13,000 last year, facilitated by a new online process that allows easy application to multiple schools at once.