They engage in a holistic approach to reviewing new and
expansion charter applications that uses a blended and balanced assessment of strengths and weaknesses of leadership, academic program, finance, and equity that a scoring rubric would not.
Not exact matches
«Imagine a governor of a state that has fairly severe caps on
charter expansion and a need to get in an
application under Race to the Top.
Even before a single dime was disbursed from the «Race to the Top» fund, we saw state legislatures take actions to support things like
charter school
expansion: Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Rhode Island were not exactly lining up to help
charter schools until Duncan made clear that it would impact these states»
applications for federal funding.
Prioritize strategies that incorporate
charter school conversion, replication, or
expansion in
applications for Section 1003 (b) sub-grants.
On March 2, 2018, we published in the Federal Register a notice inviting
applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2018 for CSP — Grants to
Charter School Developers for the Opening of New
Charter Schools and for the Replication and
Expansion of High - Quality
Charter Schools, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers 84.282 B and 84.282 E.
The department's
application for a federal
charter school
expansion grant has also been criticized for including several errors.
If the Board received more than 12
applications in a single year from qualified applicants, then the proposed law would require it to give priority to proposed
charter schools or enrollment
expansions in districts where student performance on statewide assessments is in the bottom 25 % of all districts in the previous two years and where demonstrated parent demand for additional public school options is greatest.
Members also voted to make changes to the
charter school
application and processes [see here for details] and they voted to ask the State Board of Education to lobby the General Assembly for special waivers related to
charter school
expansion.
A number of news outlets reported that federal lawmakers are investigating the details of Ohio's $ 71 million
charter expansion application because State Superintendent Richard Ross apparently waited until the
application was submitted before addressing evidence of
charter - school score scrubbing.