Sentences with phrase «for quality charter»

NACSA worked for many years to bring important modernizations to this program, and for the first time ever the Charter School Program includes explicit support for quality charter school authorizing.

Through all these conversations, and in all these activities, I'm heartened to see a common thread — stakeholders coming together to create a deliberate foundation for quality charter schools in their community.

The Office of Innovation and Incubation's work is aligned with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality schools.

in my career at NACSA, I'm still that ambassador for quality charter schools — but in a different way.

Before joining NACSA, Amy served in leadership roles within the charter sector, including the Director of Portfolio Management at Highmark School Development and as the founding Executive Director of Philadelphia Charters for Excellence, Philadelphia's leading advocate for quality charter schools.

Louisiana Charter Law includes a mandate that charter school authorizers follow the National Association of Charter School Authorizers» (NACSA's) «Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing» to ensure they are following best practices both in the evaluation of charter school applications, as well as in oversight of existing schools.

The 2012 edition of NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing provides authorizers with new guidance related to the oversight of special education.

The cornerstone of these practices is NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, first published in 2004 and regularly updated as the field evolves.

Alumni from the NACSA Leaders Program are equipped with the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage the challenges authorizers face in aligning their agency's policies and practices with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing and advocate for policy that supports quality authorizing.

The Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, first established in 2004, reflect the lessons learned by experienced authorizers.

Not exact matches

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May 2 Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

The State Education Department rejected 15 charter school applications for reasons of quality control and not politics, Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch insisted.

«There is incredible momentum behind raising standards for students and teachers and for increasing the number of high quality charter schools,» Sedlis said.

We support the commitment for $ 1.5 billion over 5 years for «high quality» universal pre-k; charter schools would be eligible for pre-K funding.

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

«To the extent that quality seats are not available for students, and you have the opportunity to have a charter school come in and provide quality seats, I think it's incumbent upon us to embrace that.

The Governor is helping to create the conditions for further growth of high quality charter schools and is giving hope to thousands more children.

In a statement from the Alliance for Quality Education, the group knocked the charter - school executive for welcoming Ivanka Trump for a tour of Success Academy 1 in Harlem.

The union - friendly Alliance for Quality Education suggested lawmakers address inequality instead of propagating more charters.

The UFT / NYSUT lawsuit, which asks the court to overturn the Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.charter schools or the public schools of other states.»

In a statement, D.O.E. spokeswoman Devora Kaye said: «After engaging stakeholders around these proposals, the panel decided to postpone the vote to allow for additional feedback and to ensure that every student in the building — district or charter — receives the high quality education they deserve.

«Under their leadership, rental assistance for new and expanding New York City charter schools will increase, translating into more high - quality schools being opened.»

«And beyond that having a presidential charter actually is the beginning of a new chapter for us, we get to move forward with a little bit more confidence in springing our steps in planning the next step for Ashesi and we also take on more control or more responsibility for quality assurance within our operation which is up until now been done by UCC and UMaT.»

Unlike Governor Cuomo, who supports privatization in the form of charter schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our public school system.

At a preemptive news conference with education advocates, The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says wealthy supporters of expanding charter schools have spent nearly twice that amount, and have contributed large sums to the governor's campaign.

Demand for high - quality charter schools like Girls Prep Bronx is highest in the Bronx, and one in every three families on charter school waitlists are Bronx families.

The pro-public school funding group the Alliance of Quality Education said the IDC has already «failed» the roll call for voting for more money for privately run charter schools.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

«As parents, we are outraged that Success Academy charter schools can enter a New York City public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Education.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

Their dream, to provide quality medical care for Jewish immigrants in surroundings where their language and customs were understood, was achieved in 1926 when The Miriam received a charter from the Rhode Island state legislature.

Even making the payments on a low - interest loan is a heavy burden for many charter schools - a burden that detracts from their ability to offer a high - quality education.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

However, many others believe charters divert resources from traditional public schools and don't meet up to accountability measures.These opposing views often lead to friction among people who actually have much in common: a genuine concern for children and the national right to high - quality public education.

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.

For those of us who are as committed to charter quality as to quantity, it's pretty obvious that bipartisan politics tend to produce better policy.

The latter might sound good to advocates for greater school autonomy, but it has created many problems in terms of charter school quality.

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.

Both the District of Columbia's and Denver's charter schools have strong community support, which coupled with demand for high - quality charter schools, continues to spur growth.

The first step to gaining back and building support for charter schools is to combine our first principle — holding them accountable for providing a quality education — with our second principle — ensuring that they are accessible to all families.

We're long overdue in asking whether the charter sector could grow more quickly with quality, what's holding it back, and what are creative new ways for successful charters to expand their reach to more students.

In 2017, the New Mexico Public Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter school moratorium by noting, «The families of New Mexico continue to seek alternative, quality choices for the education of their children.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

The papers in this series, co-authored by Steiner, Daniela Doyle and Joe Ableidinger, offer practical ways for city - based organizations to support creation of high - quality charter schools, foster development of talent pipelines, and guide prospective investors.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

DPS's new SchoolChoice enrollment system minimizes favoritism, fosters integration, and increases demand for high quality schools by using the same process to place students in most schools, including charters and district - operated schools.

But I'm convinced that, at this point in time, the way to create lots more «high - quality seats» for lots more kids is to make sure that charter schools and private school scholarships receive funding parity with «the system.»