Sentences with phrase «former charter school principal»

In November 2013, without informing Stamford, charter school chain founder and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor directed former charter school principal and State Department of Education «turnaround» director Morgan Barth to solicit charter applications targeting Stamford and select other cities.

Although I'd mostly come to hear perspectives from charter supporters in the crowd, I found myself instead listening, horrified, as keynote speaker Steve Perry, a former charter school principal - turned - showman from Connecticut, shouted non-stop insults during his entire keynote address.

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Yvonne Minor - Ragan, an educational consultant and former principal at Westminster Community Charter School, will take on that new role at BUILD Academy, where the state has stepped in after years of poor academic performanc...

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

Dr. Chang, a former biology teacher at Compton High School and a founding principal of a charter school in Venice, CA, also previously served as special assistant to the superintendent of School and a founding principal of a charter school in Venice, CA, also previously served as special assistant to the superintendent of school in Venice, CA, also previously served as special assistant to the superintendent of LAUSD.

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

Some panelists include Steve Perry, principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School; Dr. Ramona Edelin, former director, D.C. Association of Charter Public Schools and Russlyn Ali, former assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.

We explored this issue with a roundtable of current and former principals, including Sharif El - Mekki, principal of Mastery Charter School — Shoemaker campus in West Philadelphia, PA; Trevor Greene, 2013 NASSP National Principal of the Year and executive director of human resources of Highline Public Schools in the state of Washington; and Brad Seamer, assistant principal at Harrisburg High School in Soutprincipal of Mastery Charter School — Shoemaker campus in West Philadelphia, PA; Trevor Greene, 2013 NASSP National Principal of the Year and executive director of human resources of Highline Public Schools in the state of Washington; and Brad Seamer, assistant principal at Harrisburg High School in SoutPrincipal of the Year and executive director of human resources of Highline Public Schools in the state of Washington; and Brad Seamer, assistant principal at Harrisburg High School in Soutprincipal at Harrisburg High School in South Dakota.

Here's the third of four parts on California charters, written by Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education.

In this post, Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, explains why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mission.

This post, written by Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, details issues on which many charter school supporters don't want to focus.

David Riddick, Incoming Principal of Fenton Avenue Charter School, former LAUSD teacher and administrator I am proud to be a part of a school that accomplished an unheard - of feat - leaving the constraints of a large district to run a school that works for the staff and students that aSchool, former LAUSD teacher and administrator I am proud to be a part of a school that accomplished an unheard - of feat - leaving the constraints of a large district to run a school that works for the staff and students that aschool that accomplished an unheard - of feat - leaving the constraints of a large district to run a school that works for the staff and students that aschool that works for the staff and students that attend.

In 2010, former charter - school leader David Hill was named director of academic operations for the so - called Jubilee Schools, and he instituted changes across the network — extending the school day, strengthening school culture, putting more emphasis on attracting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.

Aside from Martin emphatically declaring that «school choice is the Black choice,» and former Chicago principal Troy LaRaviere's disruptively passionate pushback and pleas to sign on to his petition to rid public education of charter schools, the disagreement did not fall there.

David Tokofsky, a former LA Unified school board member who works for the principals union, pointed out that the school board and superintendent should have more scrutiny of the charter schools that will be getting the extra $ 2 million a year, especially if they continue to remain on the state's improvement list.

As a former charter school executive, I experienced how parents and principals alike cut off real solutions at the pass.

Schmerelson is a former teacher, counselor principal at a middle school; Rodriguez taught at a middle school and co-founded a middle school charter school.

As the former principal of this school, which follows the Big Picture Learning philosophy of — one student at a time — and seeks to connect students to their interests and passions, I know the other variables at play, e.g. over 75 % are chronically truant (not a new practice they develop but one that's existed for some time), thought the school serves about 140 students, it's not unusual that nearly double that figure are served in a given year (it's the nature of serving students in foster care and others that are highly mobile), over 2/3 are transfer students who were «counseled out» by other LAUSD district and charter schools.

Rasheki Kuykendall - Walker, K - 8 Assistant Principal and former teacher, Roots Public Charter School

«Testing is the curriculum» now in many schools, says former DCPS principal Patrick Pope, now principal at Friendship Technology Prep Middle School, a DC charter.

Pryor's gotten new members onto the State Board of Education (Andrea Comer) who brainlessly promote charter schools; he's retooled the State Department of Education with never - before certified charter drones and former Achievement First principals like Morgan Barth.

Case in point: in the June 2016 school board elections in Riverside County, CCSA Advocates supported Barbara Hale, a former teacher who became a principal at Sycamore Academy, a TK - 8 charter school in Wildomar.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry verSchools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry verschools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

The three finalists for the top job at Lycée Français de la Nouvelle - Orléans are the charter school's current academic director, the principal of a high - performing Uptown charter high school, and the former administrator of an immersion school in Maryland, Lycee officials announced Monday night.

Sierra - Krumrie replaces former principal, Mark Hage who accepted a position as principal at Hollywood Academy of Arts and Science, an «A» school managed by Charter Schools USA in Hollywood, FL..

Timothy Goodwin, a former Hartford school principal who is trying to start his own charter school in the city called Community First, said Perry's collaboration sounded «awesome.»

Readers know that Perry, who has failed to show up for his City of Hartford principal's job more than 20 percent of the time, has created his own charter school management company and is now trying to open a charter school in Bridgeport with the help of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and Finch's disgraced campaign treasurer and former Bridgeport Board of Education Char Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr..

Principal at Frederick Douglass (Mastery Charter Schools); Former Principal at Mastery's Grover Cleveland; Former teacher for Achievement First and KIPP (Relay Graduate School of Education, 2015d)

Assistant Principal of Instruction at Thomas Elementary (Mastery Charter Schools); Former Teach for America Corps member (Emily Hergott, n.d.)

Director of Specialized Services for Mastery Charter Schools; Former Assistant Principal of Specialized Services and Special Education Coordinator for Mastery's Clymer Elementary; Former Philadelphia Teaching Fellow (Melinda Shorday, n.d.)

Assistant Principal of Instruction at Thomas Elementary (Mastery Charter Schools); Former teacher, teacher's coach, and testing coordinator for Scholar Academies; Former Teach for America Corps member (Chanel Ward, n.d.)

And what a surprise that the co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (Stefan Pryor) and the former principal of an Achievement First, Inc. school (Morgan Barth) are bringing together schools from around the state so that they can «learn» about best practices from two privatized, «no excuses» schools that have been taken over by the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school chain.