Sentences with phrase «faced by the charter»

This tale of two schools illustrates a fundamental challenge faced by the charter school movement.

But her battles with the city's education department over space in underused school buildings resonate throughout the book, illustrating just one of the many obstacles faced by charter entrepreneurs nationwide.

The four - day leadership development program drew on the expertise and research of Harvard faculty and leading practitioners in framing the challenges faced by charter schools and their school communities while also addressing the larger state - level policy environment.

During a concluding session of the institute, the educators contemplated whether the changing political landscape could help to eliminate the misperceptions long faced by charter schools.

Securing equitable facilities is one of the biggest challenges faced by charter schools.

Despite intense funding, facilities and authorizing challenges faced by charter schools, heroic efforts are being made by charter leaders, teachers and staff to expand, replicate and open new schools to meet the unrelenting parent demand for better educational options for their children.

Financing a charter school can be one of the largest roadblocks faced by charter schools.

Not exact matches

They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The $ 234 billion in announcements for the month included several multibillion dollar M&A moves, most notably the $ 78.4 billion bid by Charter Communications to acquire Time Warner Cable (a deal that likely will face substantial regulatory scrutiny).

Mr. Blake has emerged as one of the mayor's Democratic critics, having stood by e-hail app Uber and charter schools in the face of attacks from City Hall.

Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over education reform.

Since under the County Charter, the County Executive, is the «chief budget officer of the county» his lack of understanding of the county budget, shows the extent of the learning curve faced by Mr. Lacorte and the time that would have to be spent actually learning how county government and budgeting works.

Lasher, who has faced questions over his work for charter schools in the past, was bolstered this week when he was endorsed by a half dozen sitting Democratic state senators.

Eunic Ortiz, president of Stonewall, wrote, «Any school in NYC — public, private, charter, or otherwise — that face a serious threat will and do receive sufficient NYPD - appointed security that is funded by the city.

Any legislation to roll back the new regulations would face a significant hurdle in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans who support charter schools — as does Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, of the Bronx, and Gov. Cuomo.

That followed a massive and showy rally put on by Families for Excellent Schools, the charter advocacy group, where Ms. Moskowitz, often seen as the face of charter schools, did not speak.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public schools during this period were more positive in schools with charter schools nearby than in schools not facing charter school competition.

Overall, charter school performance is undercut, nationally and in many states, by a subset of low - performing charters that face the threat of NCLB restructuring themselves.

While they are supported by many families, charter schools face frequent public criticism — including by Baraka — that they are destroying the school district.

Some studies, like those by Hoxby (see «Rising Tide,» research, Winter 2001) and by Holmes, Desimone, and Rupp (see «Friendly Competition,» research, Winter 2006) have found a small bump in a district's achievement when it faces charter competition.

The programs there are achieving substantial economic integration in private schools and in charter schools that have been created by the states to face the new competition.

And though charters have taken to putting a good face on things by comparing themselves to their local district schools, which is fair, the truth about quality is uncomfortable.

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

New charter schools face challenges encountered by fledgling small business, including start - up costs, creating time for planning, cash flow constraints, and attracting students and staff.

But in states like Florida, where charters are perceived by many as vehicles for privatization and profiteering, even as they grow in popularity with families, charter advocates are likely to face continued controversy and conflict.

Second, charter schools always face the possibility of closure for low performance, and this threat may pressure the schools to avoid risk by imitating successful charter models.

«Future Schools: Blending face - to - face and online learning,» by Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff This feature, an early article on blended learning, profiled several charter schools using the hybrid approach.

That question — related to the evolution of urban K — 12 systems with district and non-district charter sectors — is being faced by cities from coast to coast.

Facing an April 30 deadline to surrender the schools, the HISD trustees earlier this month proposed allowing Energized for STEM, a charter network authorized by HISD and operating four schools, to take on the management, budget, curriculum and turnaround efforts.

This action by the NAACP is a slap in the face to 700,000 African American children currently benefiting from public charter schools and the millions of African American parents struggling to give their children a quality education.

The Newark school district, long under control of the state of New Jersey, faces challenges driven in part by strong parent demand for high - performing schools and the rapid growth of a high - performing charter sector: The sector currently serves 27 percent of Newark's students and is anticipated to serve 40 percent by 2018 — 19.

Wednesday's event will include opportunities for media to speak with school leaders, students, and families, as well as local and state elected officials, regarding the history of charter schools in Connecticut and current challenges faced by our schools.

One of the biggest challenges facing charter schools is finding quality, affordable facilities — a challenge often compounded by difficulties in securing a loan or a lease.

The brave group of four, faced with the hardest part of the job of a school board member, voted to forever close the doors to the city's first charter school — led by a nun.

Charter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special EduCharter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Educharter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Education.

Charter students can not face any cuts in the short term, and deserve to be funded equitably by our state moving forward.»

By pushing new school board members to pick on a top performing charter school whose focus is to graduate seniors and encourage higher education is ignoring the real issues public schools are facing.

The Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program was established in 2001 to address a critical problem faced by many charter schools — lack of suitable facilities and difficulty obtaining financing to secure suitable faciCharter School Facilities Program was established in 2001 to address a critical problem faced by many charter schools — lack of suitable facilities and difficulty obtaining financing to secure suitable facicharter schools — lack of suitable facilities and difficulty obtaining financing to secure suitable facilities.

They said the district faced a $ 100 million shortfall over the next three years, largely due to falling enrollments caused by the rise of charter schools, and staff reductions need to be considered.

As ever, we enter the New Year both greatly optimistic about the incredible opportunities that lie before our movement and greatly sobered by the unconscionable levels of resistance that many charter schools continue to face.

CCSA is offering assistance, resources, and connections to immigration organizations to charter schools affected by ongoing challenges families may face related to immigration.

Challenges faced by rural charter schools — including barriers in human capital, transportation, and facilities.

That means that California is now home to 912 charter schools and well over 316,000 students, all of whom deserve better than schools facing an untenable cash flow situation caused by State deferrals, apportionment funding delays and difficulty in securing affordable short - term loans.

Considered by many nationally as a symbol of reform and innovation, California's charter schools nonetheless face today perhaps their greatest political challenge since the movement began two decades ago.

Despite successful growth in numbers and quality, the charter sector faces future challenges public charter schools will not meet these challenges by doing more of the same.

Conducted by the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) charter school organization in 2016, the survey attempted to get a sense of the challenges facing college - going alumni of KIPP's 200 schools in 20 states plus Washington D.C. Twenty - five of those schools are in California.

Your organization is also focusing on legislative change in regards to small school accountability; changes in rules that will help to minimize the risk of failing to meet state standards faced by smaller charters due to lower student accountability group ratios than what is typically found in larger school systems.

«Turnaround» schools (SPI Lowest 5 %, Graduation Rates Lower than 60 %, or Schools currently receiving School Improvement Grants) would be subject to «aggressive turnaround interventions» and inclusion in a «Commissioner's Network»; then could face takeover by the State, and / or State - mandated operation of public schools by universities, the State Education Resource Center (SERC), Regional Education Service Centers (RESC's) non-profit organizations, charter management organizations, CommPACT, or «other providers or partners with a track record of success.»

Each school year, families who are faced with traditional public schools unable to meet their needs seek better options for their children by applying to charter public schools.