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.
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.
The Principles & Standards
for Quality Charter School Authorizing, first established in 2004, reflect the lessons learned by experienced authorizers.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Not exact matches
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 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.&
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.&
school districts, other
charter schools or the public schools of other states.
charter schools or the public
schools of other states.»
«Under their leadership, rental assistance
for new and expanding New York City
charter schools will increase, translating into more high -
quality schools being opened.»
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 Edu
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 Edu
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.
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.
The latter might sound good to advocates
for greater
school autonomy, but it has created many problems in terms of
charter school quality.
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.
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.»
If traditional public
schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment
for young adolescents to prepare
for college preparatory high
schools or high -
quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of
charter schools, magnet
schools, and other choice strategies that do.
The city has isolated examples of
quality schools and
charter authorizers, parents who are empowered to be active choosers, and wide - open spaces
for education entrepreneurs.
Research on teacher
quality,
charter schools,
school leadership, class size, and other factors in
school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies
for reducing gaps in student achievement.
Therefore, it's up to
charter school leaders and teachers to prove to parents that their children are getting a high -
quality education and laying the foundation
for a life of opportunity.
Charters are important
for stimulating improvement in all public
schools — and providing even more
quality choices — as research has clearly shown that they do.
We see only slight changes in people's views on the
quality of the nation's
schools,
for instance, or on federally mandated testing,
charter schools, tax credits to support private
school choice, merit pay
for teachers, or the effects of teachers unions.
He called the results a turning point that demonstrated the political power of
charter school backers as well as others who are seeking more high -
quality learning opportunities
for local students.
Go to «Technology Workshops
for Teachers Make Computer Connections» and «A
Charter School Charts Success with a
Quality - Control Initiative.»
No one should be surprised that NACSA's criteria have no relationship to their own metric
for school quality — test score growth — given how well Arizona
charter schools appear to be doing even while NACSA gives the state a very low score
for charter quality.