Sentences with phrase «four new charter schools»

In the memo to the P - 12 Committee, Cosimo Tangorra, Jr. wrote, «The Commissioner and Department staff recommend that the Board of Regents consider, approve and issue initial charters and provisional charters for the following four new charter schools.»

In even more arrogant disregard for Connecticut communities, the board approved four new charter schools: Great Oaks Charter and Capital Harbor Prep Charter in Bridgeport, the Booker T. Washington Charter in New Haven and the Stamford Charter School for Excellence in Stamford.

(HARTFORD, CT)-- The Connecticut State Board of Education approved four new charter schools today, one in Stamford, two in Bridgeport, and one in New Haven.

The State Board also approved four new charter schools.

State Charter Association Congratulates Four New Charter Schools Slated to Open in 2017 - 4/13/2016 National education reform leader joins charter school community at Capitol for Charter Awareness Day this Thursday - 4/18/2016

Our Interim NYS Director Andrea Rogers commented on SUNY's approval of four new charter schools in the Daily News.

However, despite that opposition from the local officials responsible for education policy and despite the fact that Connecticut doesn't even fund its existing public schools adequately and the fact that the State of Connecticut is facing a massive $ 1.4 billion projected budget deficit next year, Governor Malloy's former Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved four new charter school proposals last spring.

Not exact matches

Four charter schools are expected to be approved for New York today that state officials say illustrate the original goal of the charter movement: innovation.

All 17 Success Academy seniors from the New York City network's first charter school have been accepted to four - year colleges.

The Legislature's refusal four months ago to lift a cap on charter schools helped doom New York's first shot at as much as $ 700 million in aid.

On Thursday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced that his office had commenced audits of the financial and operating practices of four New York City charter school entities.

Party officials chose her Wednesday night from among four original candidates including former Council Member - at - Large Charley H. Fisher III; Duncan Kirkwood, Western New York advocacy manager for the Northeast Charter Schools Network; and James Blackwell, son of former Legislature Chairman Roger I. Blackwell.

My views on how to solve some of these seemingly intractable education problems have been informed by two experiences: my four years as chair of the New York City Council's education committee and, more recently, my role as founder and executive director of a new charter schoNew York City Council's education committee and, more recently, my role as founder and executive director of a new charter schonew charter school.

In New York City, four years after entry in kindergarten, 74 percent of students with IEPs remain in their original charter school, compared to 69 percent of students who began in a district school.

Hernandez, who leads next generation learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund, predicts that the best new apps will push the boundaries of early childhood development and learning science in at least four areas: executive function, creativity, number sense, and phonemic awareness.

In New York City, four years after entry in kindergarten, 74 percent of students with IEPs remain in their original charter school, compared to 69 percent of students who begin in a district school.

Meanwhile, we have already added 14 new charter schools during this period (with four more scheduled to open next fall), 25 new charters (including 5 Horace Mann charters) have been awarded (17 of these have involved «proven provider» status).

When the school board finally turned 36 schools over to new management, only four were awarded to charter school operators.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

In New York there was not only a new governor in the statehouse - a Republican - but he had pushed through a charter school bill and was now serving his third four - year teNew York there was not only a new governor in the statehouse - a Republican - but he had pushed through a charter school bill and was now serving his third four - year tenew governor in the statehouse - a Republican - but he had pushed through a charter school bill and was now serving his third four - year term.

Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schools.

Clearing some of the fog is The Lottery, a new documentary film by Madeleine Sackler that tracks four families hoping to enroll their kids in one of the Harlem Success charter schools.

Charter agreements have four «systematic advantages» over the current arrangement of schools: the ability to start new, diversity of options, the opportunity for replication and expansion, and the possibility of closure.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

The mayor has the power to charter five new schools a year, and if he opens only four one year, he can authorize six the next.

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An analysis released in today's Education Gadfly finds that new charter schools in disadvantaged communities are almost four times as likely to reach above - average rates of student achievement as the closest district school.

Last fall, his organization started a new program in four Harlem public schools called the Fifth Grade Institute, an after - school program for 160 fifth - grade students designed to begin catching them up to grade level before the charter school opens in September.

Those states were Michigan and North Carolina, where charter school performance was three to four percentage points lower, and New York, Ohio, and Texas, where performance was 8.7 to 11.4 points lower.

Because charter schools enroll only 1.5 percent of students in America, she said a 3 percent sample amounted to only four fourth - graders in Connecticut charter schools, 14 in the District, 32 in New York, and 38 in New Jersey.

These four founders designed the school program, worked with Volunteers of America, the authorizer of the new charter school, implemented the technology, and recruited the first students.

OFM estimates the charter school bill would add $ 8.4 million to overall state spending over the next four years: $ 7.4 million in per - pupil allocations because the schools would attract some private - school and home - schooled students not currently covered in the state budget, and $ 1 million in new administrative costs incurred by state agencies.

An estimated 45,000 new charter school seats will be needed during the next four years just to meet current demand.

Next school year, the SCPCSD will welcome four charter school transfers from Greenville, a replication charter school in Columbia, and a new school in Goose Creek.

Its proposal would invest $ 47.1 million less than the governor in education reform measures overall, in part, by cutting the number of new charter schools from nine to four.

Prior to joining NCTR, Anne was the Director of Teacher Development for Civitas Education Partners leading instructional coaching, new teacher induction and mentoring, and teacher evaluation systems for four of the CICS charter schools in Chicago.

The governor, the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the House have until March 6 to each appoint three volunteers to the new Charter School Commission for four - year terms.

NEW ORLEANS — The devastation of Hurricane Katrina four years ago brought with it many changes for this city, but perhaps its most enduring mark may be the new charter school system that came cascading in during the storm's aftermaNEW ORLEANS — The devastation of Hurricane Katrina four years ago brought with it many changes for this city, but perhaps its most enduring mark may be the new charter school system that came cascading in during the storm's aftermanew charter school system that came cascading in during the storm's aftermath.

Here's a more immediate benefit: Under a resolution sponsored by Yolie Flores Aguilar, vice president of the L.A. Unified school board, charter operators, along with unions and community groups, could submit proposals to run any of more than 50 new campuses that will open over the next three to four years.

Charter Schools Seeking to Expand Brooke plans to replicate its successful model, opening up to four new schools in the next fiveSchools Seeking to Expand Brooke plans to replicate its successful model, opening up to four new schools in the next fiveschools in the next five years.

Under the proposal, the UW System would be required to create a new office within four months to authorize independent charter schools in school districts with more than 25,000 students — Madison and Milwaukee — without local school board approval.

This September, Lavelle Prep entered Phase II of the «New York State Charter School Dissemination Grant» in collaboration with four community school parSchool Dissemination Grant» in collaboration with four community school parschool partners.

The series includes a guide to help district and state leaders choose the best restructuring option for each school, updated in a 2nd edition released in 2009, and white papers identifying what we know from research about when the first four restructuring options under NCLB work: reopening as a charter school, contracting with external providers, turnarounds with new leaders and staff, and state takeovers.

The national charter network Uncommon Schools held a day - long professional development session for 200 district school teachers in Brooklyn on Tuesday, the second of four yearly training sessions in New York City.

North Carolina approves eight new charter schools for 2019, four in the Charlotte region.

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.

October 27, 2011 — Four students from Mater Academy Charter High School located in Hialeah Gardens (Miami - Dade County, FL) are guest speakers today at the annual conference of the College Board which kicked off on Wednesday, October 26 in New York City.

Any school accepting a grant had to agree to adopt one of four strategies: Replace the principal and at least 50 percent of the staff; close the school and enroll students in another, better - performing school; close the school and reopen it as a charter school; or transform the school through new instructional strategies and other techniques.