Sentences with phrase «found rocketship»

After four years in New Orleans, Ryan had the opportunity to move back to Milwaukee to help found Rocketship Education's first school outside of California as a Founding Assistant Principal.

One of the original innovators I would call out is John Danner, who, along with Preston Smith, founded Rocketship Education.

Michael Horn: When you founded Rocketship Education, a school network, you thought a lot about the human capital challenges and opportunities in education gleaned from your own time as a teacher and in technology.

Not exact matches

This is a hat and scarf set I made with a rocketship applique I saw a picture of another rocketship with felt fins but could not find a pattern anywhere, do I made my own.

Horn: Since leaving Rocketship, you founded Zeal, which offers online tutoring.

Founded in 2007 in San Jose, Rocketship has since expanded to 13 charter schools in three regions.

As if Rocketship's references to New Orleans, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Washington DC were not unsettling enough, EdSurge, a corporation that helps schools «find, select and use the right technology to support all learners,» doubles - down on the need to replicate New Orleans» failures with a piece titled, How the «Harbormaster Network» Plans to Spread Nationwide Personalized Learning.

But the charter chain's sky - high student outcomes have not held up: A 2014 analysis by the California Department of Education found that in the previous five years the number of Rocketship students scoring at the «proficient» level or above on California state tests fell by 30 percentage points in English and 14 percentage points in math.

In Nashville, where Rocketship has three charter schools, an audit found they were not providing services to children with disabilities or English Language Learners, and not providing free uniforms to homeless students.

To find out, I visited Rocketship's computerized Learning Lab.

Earlier this year, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson ruled that charters can not require volunteer hours after a report by Public Advocates found that a third of charters illegally required forced work hours (including Rocketship).

Interim County Supt, Dewan, dismisses Alum Rock's 32 page Rocketship analysis with one & only one sentence: «Staff found no indicators of an unsound educational program».

Rocketship also allocates 20 % of its funding to pay steep leasing fees to Launchpad Development Company, which was founded by Rocketship and now owns all of Rocketship's school buildings and facilities.

We ran additional analysis, using the definition provided in the charter petition to Morgan Hill Unified, and found that at best, Rocketship is in the top 12 %, as compared to all schools in California (including continuation schools, a comparison that strikes us as less than flattering).

Franklin McKinley district staff found several major faults with the Rocketship petition.

Hastings is a Rocketship founding supporter, and previously sat on their advisory board.

You can find an overview of Rocketship's charter petition in one of our prior stories.

Specifically, the Board finds as follows: Rocketship Charter Schools Rely Too Heavily on Uncredentialed Instructional Staff.

The board and staff found a number of problems with Rocketship's charter petition.

Most importantly, the Franklin - McKinley staff found that Rocketship has a unsound educational model as a result of using uncredentialed teachers in their schools.

We are particularly concerned about the students and their families which is why we required Rocketship PCS to work with MySchoolDC to help the affected families find alternate, quality education for this fall.»

Founded in 2006 by John Danner and Preston Smith in San Jose, Calif., Rocketship Education is building a national network of high - performing urban college preparatory elementary charter schools whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap.

Although we had some difficulty in some categories because data had not yet been published for recently - opened Rocketship schools, we were able to successfully find most data points needed.