Sentences with phrase «expanding urban charter schools»

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«Next year, we want to expand to work with both charters and traditional district schools in other urban regions.»

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.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

For the past 25 years, charter schools have been steadily expanding their reach, particularly in urban centers, now serving over 6 percent of K - 12 students.

Now the Jared Polis Foundation and Urban Peak are teaming up to expand services to create a charter school, Van Leeuwen said.

That's why he expanded high - performing charters like Noble Street and Urban Prep and shut down the highest amount of low - performing schools in American history — the majority of which were located in African - American communities.

Step up to the «school choice» smorgasbord, where with Indiana phasing in one of the nation's most expansive school voucher programs and charter school options expanding (at least in urban areas), parents face a growing array of choices for where to send their kids to school.

The NAACP may soon have one message for state governments and others looking to expand charter schools in urban communities: don't.

Interestingly, two well - established Camden charter networks are seeking to use the Urban Hope Act to expand in the city and take advantage of its freer provisions for schools facilities.

Your paper raises the spectre that a charter school «bubble» may be forming, particularly in urban areas where these schools are expanding the most rapidly, and often with the least oversight.

Many urban districts across the nation have expanded the proportion of charter schools; increased the percentage of teachers trained in alternate certification programs; widened attendance zones; adopted voucher programs; constructed new facilities; and changed their relationships with teachers unions.

In October 2012, the Jumoke Academy's CEO, Michael Sharpe, named her to the post of Chief Operating Officer for FUSE (Family Urban Schools of Excellence), the new charter school management company that Jumoke created to expand and «replicate» its sSchools of Excellence), the new charter school management company that Jumoke created to expand and «replicate» its schoolsschools.