Sentences with phrase «first charter school legislation»

When I was serving as a cabinet secretary in the Ehrlich administration we passed the first charter school legislation here in Maryland.

Reichgott Junge, who would go on to author the nation's first charter school legislation, was excited by the idea of making teachers feel more invested in schools.

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(Recall that the passage of legislation to implement the state's first charters occured on the former governor's watch, and he later traded a salary hike for state legislators in exchange for agreement on lifting the 100 - school cap).

We wanted to know, for instance, how Minnesota, the state that passed the nation's first charter school law in 1991, is different from Maryland, which passed the most recent enabling legislation in 2003.

Since the first law authorizing charter schools was passed in Minnesota in 1991, 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all adopted legislation supporting public charters.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theschools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theSchools that are now up and running across the state.

Minnesota lawmakers approved the nation's first charter - school legislation in 1991.

The legislation also authorized the state's first charter schools, an innovation designed to challenge the education status quo.

In 1993 it became one of the first states to pass legislation enabling the creation of charter schools.

Mississippi passed legislation authorizing charter schools in 2013 and the first two schools opened in Jackson in 2015, with two more set to open in 2016.

As state senator, she shepherded through the 1991 legislation that paved the way for the nation's first charter school to open in St. Paul a year later.

Twelve years, two failed appeals to Washington voters and one vicious national debate separate the opening of the first charter school in Minnesota and the arrival of charter - school legislation in Washington state.

Through their education nonprofit, Mississippi First, the pair has succeeded in increasing access to sex education in the state, winning federal funding for low - income schools, helping develop and pass legislation to legalize new charter schools and, crafting the legislation that created the state's first - ever state - funded pre-kindergarten program, which debuted at the start of the school year in AuFirst, the pair has succeeded in increasing access to sex education in the state, winning federal funding for low - income schools, helping develop and pass legislation to legalize new charter schools and, crafting the legislation that created the state's first - ever state - funded pre-kindergarten program, which debuted at the start of the school year in Aufirst - ever state - funded pre-kindergarten program, which debuted at the start of the school year in August.

Charter Schools: Charter school legislation was first passed in 2013 to offer new educational options for children living in poorly performing school districts.

Charter Schools: Charter school legislation was first passed in 2013 to offer new education options for children living in poorly performing school districts and it was expanded this session.

Passed legislation allowing CHARTER SCHOOLS in Maine for the first time; so that Maine is now part of the more than 40 states in the country which have this option for parents and students.

«Newly adopted legislation, designed to increase charter school and authorizer accountability while respecting school autonomy, has been described in media reports as the most sweeping reforms of Ohio charter school law since school choice was first introduced 15 years ago,» a draft of the grant proposal said.

In 2001, at the urging of then Mayor Bart Peterson, Indiana lawmakers enacted legislation making Indianapolis the first U.S. city where the mayor can authorize charter schools, which are public schools that are independent from school districts, allowing them more freedom to make key decisions at the school level.

The newest resolution, a copy of which was first posted on the Cloaking Inequity blog, calls for legislation that would put parents on the advisory boards of charter schools and strengthen the investigative powers of government agencies that oversee them.

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

Following Minnesota's adoption of the nation's first charter school law in 1991, state legislation was introduced and passed in capital after capital.

Ember Reichgott Junge, the state senator who would author Minnesota's — and the nation's — first charter school bill, described Perpich's role bluntly: «According to the history books, Minnesota DFL governor Rudy Perpich had nothing to do with passage of chartering legislation.

In 1991, Minnesota became the nation's first state to adopt charter school legislation — and, with it, came the first significant deviation from Shanker's original vision.

Diaz, who collects a six - figure salary, has championed legislation expanding the reach of charter schools in Florida since his first election in 2012.

On April 10, hundreds of people on both sides of the charter - school question gathered outside the second - floor committee room where the House Education Committee was set to vote on whether to send the Senate's charter - school bill to the House floor for debate and, ultimately, the first vote to ever take place on charter school legislation in the chamber.

The legislation also raised the cap on the number of charter schools allowed and created several first - of - its - kind measures to encourage the replication of high - performing charter schools.

However, the situation started to change when the state of Wisconsin enacted the first large - scale school voucher program in 1989 and Minnesota adopted legislation allowing for the creation of charter schools in 1991.

STATE HOUSE — As he prepares charter school legislation he plans to file this fall, Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday said expanding school choice options for Massachusetts students and families will be a goal of his administration's first term.

«During the 2015 legislative session, the governor introduced and championed legislation to improve and expand public charter schools in Maryland for the first time in nearly a decade.

At around the same time, another group of affected parents sued the Province, claiming the funding arrangements violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; as a result, the Province amended its municipalities legislation to provide funding for French - first language schools and the parties involved signed a consent order dismissing the Charter action.