Sentences with phrase «educational model charter schools»

Following each column, some very angry and frustrated parents write to make it clear that not only did their children benefit from charter schools but that my comments are an assault on the very essence of the educational model charter schools provide.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Daniel and I developed a business plan to support our educational model; central to our plan was creating charter schools not because we believe charter schools are the silver bullet but because we believe the charter structure gave us the autonomy we needed to implement and sustain our design.

Much good has been accomplished by chartering over these twenty - five years, and the ranks of charter schools today include a fair diversity of educational models.

My colleagues in Washington, D.C. (see «D.C. Students Benefit from Both Sectors,» forum, Spring 2015) contend that the best educational model is one in which charter schools coexist with traditional district schools.

Having worked for years with often troubling charter school authorization policy, Smith says he is acutely aware of the risks of opening up a «Wild West» with an untried educational model.

First, Noble's educational model is broadly consistent with the practices of high - performing charter schools, and our secondary analysis suggests that scaling and reproducing these results is feasible.

We put up with all of this because, as charter schools, we're granted the autonomy to provide educational services in a way that makes sense to us, and we are free to experiment with new models and create the innovative, exciting public schools to which folks in our communities want to send their kids.

NBFA is a tuition - free, public charter school, proudly distinguished by: • A progressive educational model that weaves trauma - sensitive, emotionally responsive practice into every classroom • Social emotional learning steeped in child development best practices • Parental involvement, in and outside of the classroom • Consistent, competitive high - school placement at such schools as Kolbe Cathedral, Hopkins and Fairfield Prep NBFA is located on an «urban campus» at 184 Garden Street, Bridgeport, CT (within a mile of the University of Bridgeport and the beach at Seaside Park).

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

While these 21 charter schools serve a variety of locales and grade levels, the common denominator of all CSDC client schools is that they each exhibit strong leadership, a clear educational mission and vision, a compelling academic model, a close relationship with the community and demonstrated interest and demand from parents.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

While these charter school organizations serve a variety of locales and grade levels, the common denominator of all CSDC client schools is that they each exhibit strong leadership, a clear educational mission and vision, a compelling academic model, a close relationship with the community and demonstrated interest and demand from parents.

This educational model separation borders on apartheid, and is promoted both by established, self - interested districts and by the mainstream charter movement that has lost interest in attracting cultural and socioeconomic diversity into its schools.

CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

As Mississippi considers expanding access to its charter schools, we should consider the worldwide successes of such educational models.

It is past time for all Maine legislators and educational leaders to support innovation with accountability through the public charter school model.

City - based education organizations, or «harbormasters» and others who coordinate efforts to improve education within a city to incubate new school models; work to attract talented entrepreneurs to develop break - the - mold innovations; and build an infrastructure of charter school supports that allow operators to focus more energy spent on innovative educational approaches, not operations.

While Connecticut's minority legislators are absolutely right to be demanding that the state support successful educational models that provide all children with a quality education, Connecticut's charter schools are simply not one of those models.

California Charter Schools Association: As Congress further deliberates the reauthorization of the ESEA, inclusion of the charter model as an effective option to create learning environments where both students and teachers thrive, will be critical to ensuring an educational system that is rigorous and Charter Schools Association: As Congress further deliberates the reauthorization of the ESEA, inclusion of the charter model as an effective option to create learning environments where both students and teachers thrive, will be critical to ensuring an educational system that is rigorous and charter model as an effective option to create learning environments where both students and teachers thrive, will be critical to ensuring an educational system that is rigorous and robust.

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?

Charter schools offer a variety of educational models.

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Dear Parents, Inspire Charter Schools is a public school using an innovative educational model to provide your child with the best education possible.

«As the nation's voice for educational choice, we will continue to proactively advance the idea that students and families deserve to have educational options that they've been demanding in every state — whether that is in a traditional district school, charter school, magnet school, private school, or through online learning and blended models.

Michael Horn, director of the Christensen Institute, explains that while many charter schools have succeeded in helping students, they have done so with an educational model that differs only at the margins from traditional schools.

Dr. Budde illustrated his points with a model school system that allowed groups of teachers to receive charters from the school board, granting them the authority to manage schools and try new educational approaches within the existing structure of their home districts.

When that school opened, a number of Massachusetts charters were already achieving great success with educational models that hold students to very high standards and expectations.

Furthermore, we believe readers are more interested in examining the quality of the Los Angeles public education system along with the creative ideas and educational models, such as charter schools, that are delivering much - needed results and have the power to transform the system.

(b) The purposes of establishing charter schools are: (i) to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education; (ii) to provide opportunities for innovative learning and assessments; (iii) to provide parents and students with greater options in selecting schools within and outside their school districts; (iv) to provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with alternative, innovative methods of educational instruction and school structure and management; (v) to encourage performance - based educational programs; (vi) to hold teachers and school administrators accountable for students» educational outcomes; and (vii) to provide models for replication in other public schools.

While Montessori, in and of itself, is a unique educational model, the Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) Public Charter School pairs it with second language development and inspires children to learn as part of a natural process of their development.

My time as a teacher in the public school system, educational consultant, and mother of three children who attend a Denver area charter school has taught me that charter schools and the autonomy, choice, and diverse models of education they represent play an important role in making sure that each student and family has access to a high - quality school that is most suitable for them.

Still left to be decided: the educational requirements charter schools will be measured by, in a model contract the commission still must approve.

The charter school industry's unregulated, taxpayer - funded business model of education is a «fiscal and educational disaster,» concluded a report that is the result of investigations, visits and interviews over the course of a year.

This model public / private partnership charter school dramatically changed educational opportunities for the South Central Los Angeles community and served as a catalyst for the growth of charter schools regionally and nationally.

Michigan's charter school «industry» — and that's what it is, an industry; not an educational system, but rather a business model designed to steal public money and slip it into private bank accounts — is wildly out of control, an unregulated Wild West playground for unscrupulous hucksters, quacks and charlatans who see our school system and our children as an untapped well - spring of profits.

The colleges that many charter school students end up in suffer from «many of the same pathologies as public K - 12 institutions,» such as a lack of resources and lousy educational models.