Sentences with phrase «entire charter school movement»

That gave me the leverage to help the entire charter school movement to push back and to speak up about alternatives.

As a School Member, you also help the entire charter school movement because the backing of over 800 California charter school members strengthens our advocacy work in the legislature, courts, and the executive branch.

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And Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal wrote an entire New York Post op - ed last year decrying what he described as de Blasio's «systematic campaign to destroy the city's burgeoning charter school movement.»

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Microsoft Founder Bill Gates, whose foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to charter schools, have both warned charter school operators that a lack of accountability for under - performing schools was giving the entire movement a black eye.

Bob Schulman has represented Texas charter schools since the very beginning of the movement in Texas and Joe Hoffer has represented Texas charter schools for his entire legal career.

This demonstrates that the charter school movement is generating a great return on investment for California taxpayers, one that we hope the entire public education system will one day be able to achieve.

CCSA's straightforward and transparent Accountability Framework provides all charter schools with tools to examine their individual performance, and also helps present a clear picture of the performance continuum across the entire movement.

This accountability strategy aimed to provide a clear, simple and fully transparent framework that provides all charter schools with tools to examine their individual performance, and also helps present a clear picture of the performance continuum across the entire movement.