Sentences with phrase «for charter sector»

With specific advice for charter sector leaders, policymakers and philanthropists, Going Exponential offers strategies that could enable every child living in poverty to have access to schools as good as today's top ten percent charter schools by 2025.

Through a combination of research and outreach, together authorizers and the Department have fostered innovation and spread best practices for the charter sector across the country.

The report recommends establishing an alternative school for the charter sector.

Secretary DeVos is right when she says that American state schools appear to have grown accustomed to being in receive mode, waiting for orders from on high as to what they are to do next; while independent schools continue to enjoy their autonomy and capacity for innovation, which was once a rationale for the charter sector as well, but that sector has lost its vitality since philanthropists suborned leading educational entrepreneurs into specializing in test prep, so impatient did they become to see the effects of their spending reflected in national test score reports, an improvement that has not been forthcoming.

De Blasio announced a $ 5 million commitment to boosting collaboration between charter and district schools in September, and offered some extremely rare praise for the charter sector along the way.

The strategic question for the charter sector might be which horse to back in the short - to medium - term: selective chartering or a district - wide replacement strategy?

Is it better for a charter sector to coexist with a substantially traditional school district, as is the case in Washington, D.C.?

Frankly, I don't see a lot of upside for the charter sector in allowing its reach to exceed its grasp.

Some charter schools do far better than others at educating their students, a reality that has profound implications for charter - goers, and for the charter sector writ large.

Pluralism is an important value for the charter sector, and is worth taking some risk to achieve.

Little systematic evidence exists on this question for the charter sector in general, much less for KIPP schools in particular.

«The Assembly's new formula means a loss of $ 50 million for the charter sector next year, and a cumulative loss of $ 1.7 billion by 2025 - 26,» the Academy said in a statement.

The following day, Ragone had a conference call with another former Bloomberg aide who now works for the charter sector, Bradley Tusk.

a loss of $ 50 million for the charter sector next year, and a cumulative loss of $ 1.7 billion by 2025 - 26.»

I could go on about standard errors being bigger for charter sectors and whatnot, but who are you going to believe a boring statistics lecture or your own lying eyes?

Not exact matches

The move comes after Laïta signed a charter for unified values across the French dairy sector supported by the French National Federation of Dairy Farmers (FNPL) earlier this year.

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsycharter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary BetsyCharter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

The charter introduces a target for public sector net debt as a percentage of GDP to be falling at a fixed date of 2015/16.

In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

Flanagan said he expects charter school advocates to push for legislation that would benefit the sector, but the cap would be a «subtext» to those discussions.

The de Blasio administration's complicated relationship with the city's charter school sector is being put to the test as the city prepares for another dramatic increase of its pre-kindergarten offerings.

For the purposes of encouraging high national productivity, government, labour and the private sector must collaborate to institute a management and labour productivity crusade including the introduction of a Service Charter that ensures that productivity is matched with remuneration.

Recent state budgets have been good to the charter school sector, which Cuomo has been allied with for years.

At 3:30 p.m., Families for Excellent Schools holds a rally calling for the charter school sector to grow to 200,000 students by 2020, Foley Square, Manhattan.

Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

While the two halves of the charter sector are holding different lobby days, they will be advocating for overlapping legislative priorities.

Both Senate bills also include a sweetener for a pocket of the charter school sector and a legislative priority for the New York State United Teachers.

That expansion would turn her network from a formidable sector within the Department of Education to a complete alternative school system in New York City, comparable to the nation's largest charter networks and a constant force for City Hall to reckon with.

Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter schools, pushed high - stakes testing and undermined public schools.

De Blasio has even offered some praise for pockets of the charter sector, and announced a modest olive branch earlier this year, with a $ 5 million project aimed at boosting collaboration between charter and district schools.

The new SUNY regs stemmed from a side - deal hashed out between the city and the charter school sector in June that helped pave the way for an extension of the law giving Mayor de Blasio control of the city schools.

At a speech outlining his K - 12 education agenda last month, de Blasio offered some rare words of praise for the sector, saying he believes collaboration between district and charter schools is «essential.»

On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., «thousands of teachers will rally in Foley Square to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to support growing the charter sector to 200,000 students by 2020,» per Families for Excellent Schools.

Disagreement among the sector on de Blasio's new charter effort is sure to be a welcome side effect of the speech for the de Blasio administration.

And a spate of political victories for one part of the charter sector — the large networks FES represents — has shed light on a chasm within the sector that may complicate future charter advocacy, as the city's independent charters keep waiting to see their policy priorities fulfilled.

In a potential boon for charter schools, Gov. Cuomo has proposed abolishing the cap that limits the sector's expansion in New York City.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

Moskowitz, who has become an unofficial — and controversial — spokeswoman for New York City's growing charter sector, spoke about a wide range of topics, including her network's expansion, her philosophy on schooling, and her troubled relationship with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Although the charter sector ultimately gained an advocate in Governor Andrew Cuomo and successfully lobbied for a sweeping pro-charter law passed during the last legislative session, Moskowitz said she refers to this spring as «the dark period.»

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 number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

For instance, consider the impact of a student who is not in special education moving from the district sector to the charter sector in Denver.

But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.

In both, the relatively low enrollment of students with severe disabilities in charter schools accounts for very little of the gap, as there are very few of these students in either school sector.

Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces high - performing high - poverty schools.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Nonetheless, it would be a mistake to rely on EMOs alone to sustain the charter school sector over time, for three reasons.

This piece limits its focus to three organizations that use parent mobilization and advocacy to catalyze district sector and charter sector reform: Parent Revolution, Education Reform Now, and Stand for Children.

It's not only dastardly Trump, but also those state - level zealots who will destroy «public education as we know it,» unleashing charters upon the people without nary a concern for quality, bringing a new winter of despair to the entire K — 12 sector.