Sentences with phrase «expanding charter sector»

More than 40 North Carolina education leaders convened in January 2014 to consider the challenges and opportunities of an expanding charter sector since the cap was lifted in 2011, and ways that district and charter leaders can work collaboratively to improve how charter schools serve North Carolina students.

We wouldn't have the same expanding charter sector were it not for the credible threat of even more private school choice.

Not exact matches

Members of the UFT and its state affiliate, NYSUT, sent nearly 2,000 faxes and made nearly 1,000 phone calls to get their message to the Senate Republicans, who were pushing to expand and enrich the charter sector at the expense of neighborhood public schools.

Charter schools have the opportunity to contribute to integration across those lines, and our report offered concrete suggestions for incorporating civil rights provisions into charters as the sector expands.

As the charter sector continues to expand, some of its competitors appear to be changing strategy.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

However, perhaps because vouchers didn't expand fast enough or because charters did spread across the country, choice opponents have increasingly set their sights on the charter sector.

We're long overdue in asking whether the charter sector could grow more quickly with quality, what's holding it back, and what are creative new ways for successful charters to expand their reach to more students.

What makes Boston's resistance to expanding charter schools so remarkable is that the city's charter sector includes some of the best urban public schools in the country, of any kind.

As the charter school sector expands, it is necessary but not sufficient to study political and policy conditions, or the growth in the number of high quality charter school seats.

My argument to all of you is that you should fight to expand «sector agnosticism» to all three sectors — district, charter, and private.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

The city's charter sector expanded rapidly between 2010 and 2013; 32 new schools opened, a 42 percent increase in just those three years, bringing the total number to 109.

Others may want to focus on expanding their charter or private school sectors, or on fostering more choice within the traditional public sector.

The study's findings support these school conversions and «are also relevant to the expanding charter school sector, which has the opportunity to choose grade configurations» when schools are established.

For lots of reasons; D.C. has great school operators that are expanding; the charter law is quite good; the city has valuable support organizations; and public support has helped insulate the sector from unfounded attacks.

To ensure a supply of schools from which families may choose, states should establish a system for authorizing charter schools that enables the charter sector to expand to meet demand; that provides funding under the same weighted formula that applies to all other publicly supported schools; and that offers charter schools access to capital commensurate with district school funding.

The Fellowship provides hands - on experience to enhance students» understanding of critical issues impacting education reform and expand their skill sets to prepare them to be change agents and effective leaders within the charter school sector.

This report, co-authored by The Mind Trust and Public Impact, calls on all involved in charter schools to make the sector better, broader, and bigger in order to expand its reach and meet the students» needs — which will require innovation that breaks the mold of most schools today.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

They are also relevant to the expanding charter - school sector, which has the opportunity to choose grade configurations without the disruption caused by school closures.

Many states rushed in recent months to change their laws to better position themselves to win, such as by expanding their charter school sector, or linking student test scores to teacher evaluations.

With a growing charter school sector, a new state - run district with plans to expand, and a reconfigured central office, Memphis is poised to become the next national center for New Orleans - style school governance.

The charter sector has expanded greatly with little consideration for school diversity and integration.

CSDC's business model has expanded in direct response to the growth of the charter school movement and its emerging financial sector.

As school choice expands in both the public sector (e.g., via charter schools) and the private sector (e.g., though vouchers and education savings accounts) it will become increasingly important to understand how families determine where their children will be educated.

Equity investors held conferences to discuss the expanded opportunities for making a profit in the public education sector.5 The tennis star Andre Agassi formed a partnership with an equity investing firm to raise $ 750 million in capital to build at least seventy - five charter schools for forty thousand or more students.

Will Betsy DeVos expand access to charters and private schools, shifting public money to private and quasi-private sectors?

But as the charter school sector expands and matures, the database of what's needed and what works grows more robust.

Common sense solutions to preserving and growing a thriving and accountable nonprofit charter public schools sector by solving issues related to modernizing California's authorizing system, and expanding facilities options for charters.

The charter sector can show how underserved communities are taking control of their children's education through expanded choice.

While Bifulco and Reback offer some policy suggestions for ways to help mitigate financial stress as charter schools expand — such as constraining when students may enroll in charters in order to help districts plan their budgets more systematically — right now ideological divisions have left the two sectors at a stalemate.

Committee lawmakers also signed off on a major charter reform bill, House Bill 779, that, among its provisions, gives charter operators the power to expand enrollment by up to 30 percent without requiring the approval of the state's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter sector.

The charter sector has helped drive innovation in education and has been a pioneer in expanding learning time, using technology to personalize learning, involving parents and community members in school governance and providing wrap - around services to meet the needs of the whole child.

If anyone believes that N.J. should cease to expand its charter school sector, they best first talk to Ms. Cabrera and Ms. Broomfield.

Through this report, we hope to spark more conversation and action to improve and expand the U.S. charter school sector in order to serve more students.

But during the last year, ever since the Mayor meekly crawled to Albany to beg for a one - year extension, the sticking point in negotiations over the renewal of mayoral control has been the urgency of expanding NYC's public charter school sector, de Blasio's favorite whipping boy, which now serves one out of ten students in NYC, most of them poor and of color.

Standardized test scores in reading and math also have improved significantly in both sectors, with charters leading the way at a time when curricula have been enriched and after - school options expanded in both D.C. charters and DCPS.

A big part of DeVos» campaign to promote school choice is expanding the charter school sector.

Still, some district - school advocates are already bracing for the worst — including more school closures and potential service reductions — if the charter sector keeps expanding.

And for - profit firms dominated the expanding charter - school sector.

The charter school authorizing sector continues to expand and improve according to a report released today by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (charter school authorizing sector continues to expand and improve according to a report released today by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

Federal funds are also available to replicate and expand successful schools; help charter schools find suitable facilities; reward high - quality charter schools that form exemplary collaborations with the non-chartered public school sector; and invest in national activities and initiatives that support charter schools.

Good as far as it goes, but this is also another call for Idaho's charter school sector and its allies to do more to grow and expand schools that serve larger numbers of economically disadvantaged and minority students.

Idaho is also similarly well - positioned to expand its charter school sector.

In state after state, lawmakers sought to overhaul school funding formulas, rearrange accountability systems, and expand school choice options like vouchers, education savings accounts, and the charter school sector.