The Chancellor of the State University of New York is defending a SUNY board committee's decision to lower some requirements
for teachers at some charter schools.
That proposal would significantly alter standards required
for teachers at charter schools — in some cases requiring only 30 hours of classroom experience to be qualified to teach.
Not exact matches
The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice
for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems
at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very
teacher - directed style that you see
at a lot of so - called «no excuses»
charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.
At the KIPP
charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds
for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym
teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules
for appropriate behavior in
school, college, and professional life.
Cuomo has had an
at - times truculent relationship with
teachers unions, especially when it comes to support
for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger
teacher evaluations.
But
at the same time, the regulations lower the amount of time
for teacher candidate field experience and lessen requires
for charter school certification
for ESOL and special education.
The city's Panel
for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, voted 8 to 4
at its March 1 meeting
at Brooklyn Technical HS to co-locate a new
charter school in Bedford - Stuyvesant's already - cramped PS 308, infuriating the
school's parents, students and
teachers.
At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city
teachers union arrived in Albany to rally
for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher
teacher evaluations and more
charter schools.
Cuomo, too, has been
at odds with the New York State United
Teachers over education policy efforts as well his support
for charter schools.
Meanwhile, Cuomo has also had an
at - times truculent relationship with
teachers unions who are uneasy with his support
for charter schools.
Some
teachers at charter schools, including Albany
charter school instructor Jamal Hood, also rallied
at the governor's mansion, asking
for more money and authorization
for more
schools.
«The reason why I joined this case is because
for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a
teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy
Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break in
School in The Bronx who was stopped near the
school on a lunch break in
school on a lunch break in 2006.
His group collected 4,800 signatures from parents and
teachers at charter schools, asking
for more money in the new state budget to build more
schools, known as facilities aid.
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.
Ms. Moskowitz bashed Mr. de Blasio
for trying to foil the expansion of her controversial
charter schools network and took aim
at the United Federation of
Teachers and the labor - backed Working Families Party
for opposing her
at every turn.
Bloomberg also staked out other stands sharply
at variance with those of the
teacher's union, calling
for merit pay, an increase in
charter schools and shutting down more
schools he considers failing.
The demonstrations were aimed
at Cuomo's plans to increase the importance of standardized tests
for teacher ratings, boost the number of
charter schools and turn over the management of troubled city
schools to outside groups.
Champagne corks popped in Albany yesterday as top state education officials declaimed a new deal with the unions that they said will lead to better
teachers, a greater shot
at federal funds
for New York and possibly a hike in the
charter -
school cap.
State legislators addressed members
at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call
for an increase in
school funding, more
Teacher Centers, an end to the
charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning
Schools initiative.
Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of
Teachers, the union of the city's teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public
Teachers, the union of the city's
teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public
teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism
for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public
schools.
WHEREAS Victory Inc.'s union - busting campaigns have targeted
charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AF
charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT
school educators
at Merrick Academy
Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AF
Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT
School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker
Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AF
Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT
School in Harlem and New York City
Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AF
Charter High
School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT
School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of
Teachers (UFT), and
charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AF
charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT
school educators
at the
Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AF
Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT
School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of
Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United
Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of
Teachers (AFT); and
The UFT, which represents
teachers at three Victory
charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management
at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board
for firing educators
for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.
The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news
for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished
at least a bit
for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay,
charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending
teacher tenure.
By then, she had already worked as a Teach
For America
teacher in Newark, N.J.; helped found a
charter school in Washington, D.C.; and was earning a master's degree in business
at Yale.
From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw
charter schools more as an escape valve
for angry parents and disaffected
teachers, not as a way to create better
schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability
at the
school level, and pushing
schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.
For example, in May the majority of the tenured
teachers at Locke High
School, one of LAUSD's most troubled schools, voted to become an independent charter s
School, one of LAUSD's most troubled
schools, voted to become an independent
charter schoolschool.
This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation
at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers,
charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification
for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»
Chicago
teachers were prohibited from striking
for at least 18 months and banned from bargaining on a number of issues, including
charter schools, privatization, and class schedules — provisions they are still seeking to overturn seven years later.
The three - year contract
for teachers at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston was reached after negotiations with the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers
teachers at the Conservatory Lab
Charter School in Boston was reached after negotiations with the state chapter of the American Federation of
TeachersTeachers, the...
At the same time, opposition to
teacher tenure increases by 8 percentage points, support
for charter schools increases by 7 percentage points, and support
for making
school vouchers available to all families shoots upward by 13 percentage points.
Republicans and Education (10/15/10) After Rhee (10/7/10)
At the Movies with Paul and Checker (10/1/10) Race to the Top Round 2 (8/9/10) Common Standards Remarkably Uncontroversial (8/9/10) After Bucking Unions, Obama Administration Breaks Ranks with Civil Rights Groups over
Charter Schools (8/4/10) Virtual Education and Common Core Standards (6/23/10) Bang
for the Buck from Race to the Top (6/16/10)
Teacher Bailout Bill, R.I.P.?
In
charter schools, they are paid 6 percent more, suggesting that
charter schools have greater demand
for teachers who have graduated from colleges that rate
at least «competitive plus.»
Twice a month, it's Technology Thursday
for teachers at New Orleans's Martin Behrman
Charter Academy of Creative Arts & Sciences, where Assistant Principal Cherie Goins, also the
school's technology coordinator, presents a three - hour training session that brings staff up to speed on technology
for teaching, record keeping, research, and more.
Using the education department's Office
for Civil Rights data, Miller estimates that about 37 percent of
teachers are absent more than 10 days
at district elementary and middle
schools compared to 22 percent
at charters.
In A Smarter
Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappo
Charter: Finding What Works
for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappo
Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former
teacher at Two Rivers Public
Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappo
Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's
charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappo
charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.
Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of
Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the
Teacher Research
at City on a Hill
Charter Public High
School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the s
School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole -
school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the s
school initiative to instruct
teachers in research methods and implement a
teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the
teacher research component
for faculty and intern
teachers at the
schoolschool.
At BASIS, teachers are first reviewed for their content knowledge; PhDs are not uncommon (see «High Scores at BASIS Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014
At BASIS,
teachers are first reviewed
for their content knowledge; PhDs are not uncommon (see «High Scores
at BASIS Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014
at BASIS
Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014).
As part of our ongoing effort to explore and promote citizenship education
at AEI (see,
for instance, here), we had the pleasure of convening an array of terrific
charter school leaders and
teachers in San Francisco yesterday.
In my research I have identified 34 different examples of
charter school innovation, including small size; untenured
teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and
teacher involvement in
school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended
school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction
for at - risk and other frequently absent students.
For example, the AFT first states, «Charter school salaries tend to be competitive with other public schools at the beginning - teacher salary level and less competitive for more experienced teachers.&raq
For example, the AFT first states, «
Charter school salaries tend to be competitive with other public
schools at the beginning -
teacher salary level and less competitive
for more experienced teachers.&raq
for more experienced
teachers.»
Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching
for two years (average tenure
at KIPP - like No Excuses
charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000
teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City
Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public -
school systems).
At a time when
charter schools account
for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public
school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the
school year with the
teachers they need.
In their work
at the Project
for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with
school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies
for teachers, public
school choice systems, and the effect of
charter and pilot
schools on student outcomes.
School is starting in two weeks at Grove Hall Preparatory Charter School, a brand - new school in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, and for a half - hour this morning, the teachers have been discussing where students should put their
School is starting in two weeks
at Grove Hall Preparatory
Charter School, a brand - new school in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, and for a half - hour this morning, the teachers have been discussing where students should put their
School, a brand - new
school in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, and for a half - hour this morning, the teachers have been discussing where students should put their
school in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, and
for a half - hour this morning, the
teachers have been discussing where students should put their hands.
Initially funded
at $ 650 million, i3 allowed
school districts,
charter schools, and non-profit organizations working in partnership with one of those entities to apply
for grants to support innovative programs aligned with one of four broadly defined federal priorities (e.g., supporting effective
teachers and principals or improving the use of data).
Although the
charter school at which he worked was a supportive environment, both
for its students and
teachers, Lee couldn't help...
Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of
school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid
teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the
charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique
for catching
teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of
school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision
for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look
at home
schooling (2009).
Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach
For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high
school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
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teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary
school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school teacher at a KIPP
school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade
teacher at Brooke
Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach
For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare
teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms
The plaintiff, Michael Caviness, had been employed
for six years as a
teacher of health and physical education and a track coach
at Horizon Community Learning Center, a nonprofit corporation that operated a
charter school in Phoenix.
The idea — professional development summits organized in different parts of Nigeria and taught by experienced
teachers from around the world — stemmed from Enechi's own experience as a new
teacher at Brooke
Charter School in the Mattapan section of Boston, where new
teachers prepare
for their own classrooms by spending one year learning from experienced educators.