Sentences with phrase «from national charter»

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As part of CCSA's effort to provide members relevant resources on strong financial practices, we are sharing two toolkits from the National Charter School Resource Center featuring successful practices and recommendations for charter school governing boards and authorizers.

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One possibility would have been to require that corporations apply for charters from the national government instead of states.

«Second because the court recognised that Algeria has changed so as to allow us to deport this individual without jeopardising his human rights, thanks to the Algerian Charter on Peace and National Reconciliation and the assurances we have received from the Algerian government.»

Osborne is already facing calls from the centre - right thinktank Policy Exchange to include «a strong set of fiscal rules» in the charter, which would look to impose strict spending restrictions on future governments in order to reduce the national debt.

I covered it in detail in my answer on Skeptics here, the exact quote of # 19 for example is: «The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel is null and void from the very beginning, whatever time has elapsed because it was done contrary to the wish of the people of Palestine and their national right to their homeland and contradicts with the principles embodied in the charter of the UN, the first of which is the right of self - determination

Micah Lasher pushed Mr. Bloomberg's agenda in Albany from 2010 until 2012, when he got the gig heading up the newly formed New York chapter of StudentsFirst, a national organization that advocates expanding charter schools and eliminating teacher tenure.

«We may have another charter soon because we have request from the Nigerian embassy in Tripoli regarding the nationals there that want to be assisted to go back to Nigeria.

Governor Andrew Cuomo will be honored at the U.S. Capitol next month as a «champion for charters,» during National Charter Schools Week, according to a release from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

For about one century, two bodies aspired to the position of being South Africa's national science academy — the Royal Society of South Africa (RSSAf), with a royal charter from the United Kingdom, and the Suid - Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK), with a statute of the South African Parliament.

CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.

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.

Results from our 2009 national poll tell us that a solid research finding has the capacity to shift public support for charter schools from 39 to 53 percent, a substantial increase (see «The Persuadable Public,» features).

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

I'm speaking now particularly to certain charter networks, such as Yes Prep and KIPP, which have apparently found formulas for doing what previously seemed impossible, successfully moving the poorest urban kids from the bottom to the top of the national quartile of educational performance.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

So they moved from outright hostility to a highly conditional embrace, with the National Education Association beginning its own charter school project in 1996 (and subsequently abandoning it).

In 1906, Congress granted a federal charter to the National Education Association that exempted the teachers» group from property taxes on its national headquarters in WasNational Education Association that exempted the teachers» group from property taxes on its national headquarters in Wasnational headquarters in Washington.

Governor Donald Carcieri, Speaker Gordon Fox and Mayor Daniel J. McKee cut the ribbon at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy's 2009 opening, surrounded by (from left to right) Cranston mayor Allan Fung, R.I. attorney general Peter Kilmartin, former senate majority leader Daniel Connors, R.I. commissioner of education Deborah Gist, former president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools Nel - son Smith and former R.I. representative Mary Ann Shallcross Smith.

Some national charter - school leaders fear that school districts may view charter conversion as an easy way to remove low - performing schools from their books without taking the responsibility to actually improve them.

This article was adapted from a speech given at the annual conference of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in Savannah, Georgia, in 2007.

The national charter movement grew because people from diverse perspectives agreed on the need for a new form of public school free of bureaucratic and union constraints.

A lot, it seems, judging from one group's decision to give itself a new moniker: the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

These laissez - faire positions have netted them mediocre ratings from organizations like the National Association of Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter charter growth.

In particular, the study examines ratings derived from criteria favored by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to see if they are predictive of test score growth or enrollment growth.

According to data from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 12 of Detroit's charter schools closed between 2010 anCharter Schools, 12 of Detroit's charter schools closed between 2010 ancharter schools closed between 2010 and 2013.

Like other schools in the Algiers charter network, Behrman was implementing the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), a national initiative to help teachers improve their instruction methods by learning from experienced colleagues designated as mentor teachers and master teachers.

Interest groups ranging from the National School Boards Association to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, from the National Governors Association to the major civil rights groups, all issued statements of approval.

There are talented people pushing hard on the quality - versus - quantity issue, including Nina Rees from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

Those holding the neutral position declined from 44 percent to 36 percent between 2009 and 2010, likely reflecting the heightened attention to charter schools in national debates over education reform (see Figure 2).

The Washington - based National Alliance for Public Charter Schools projects that charters will need anywhere from 6,000 to 21,000 new leaders over the next decade.

The biggest player in the campaign to close bad charters is Greg Richmond from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Twenty groups hoping to run new charter schools submitted 43 applications to a review committee, comprising a team from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representcharter schools submitted 43 applications to a review committee, comprising a team from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national represenNational Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representCharter School Authorizers and local, state, and national represennational representatives.

With major financial backing from the National Education Association, California's largest teachers» union has launched an initiative to organize employees in hundreds of charter schools in the state.

Charter schools now enroll 2.9 million students, up 9 % from last year, according to a new report from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools described in the Washington Post.

We used carefully matched samples of charter and traditional public school students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were uncharter and traditional public school students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unCharter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbiased.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

This has been a good year for evidence on the effectiveness of charters, highlighted by a major national study from CREDO and a new study in the continuing work from New York City.

This summary provides highlights from the first - year report of the National Study of Charter Schools, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education as authorized by the 1994 Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

The charter was drawn up by with representatives of teaching union officials from Unison, the National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Head Teachers, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.

Over the decade, we have witnessed — perhaps contributed to — the advance of school reform: the proliferation of school choice from vouchers to tax credits, charters, and online learning; the evolution of accountability's focus from schools to teachers; renewed attention to national standards; and a more realistic understanding of the uncertain connection between educational expenditures and school quality.

Indeed, the story of charter schooling, a national movement that grew from an early - 1990s Minnesotan pilot program, could serve as an inspiration for conservative policy leaders in the months and years ahead.

«As charter schools continue their reach across the country to respond to increased demand from families, we realize the mounting importance of having a stronger, improved framework in place to inform state and national leaders of what is working and where they can improve,» said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Scharter schools continue their reach across the country to respond to increased demand from families, we realize the mounting importance of having a stronger, improved framework in place to inform state and national leaders of what is working and where they can improve,» said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter national leaders of what is working and where they can improve,» said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter National Alliance for Public Charter SCharter Schools.

«Charter schools are the result of communities coming together to create new opportunities for their children from the leaders who open charter schools and the students who attend them, to the families that choose to join the school community and the policymakers who advocate on their behalf,» said Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National AlCharter schools are the result of communities coming together to create new opportunities for their children from the leaders who open charter schools and the students who attend them, to the families that choose to join the school community and the policymakers who advocate on their behalf,» said Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alcharter schools and the students who attend them, to the families that choose to join the school community and the policymakers who advocate on their behalf,» said Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance.

As part of 2014 National School Choice Week, Bellwether Education Partners will host a webinar on Thursday, January 30 from 1:00 to 2:15 pm (ET) to discuss Andy Smarick's soon - to - be-released paper on charter schooling in rural America.

Improvement for students from low - income families attending charter schools has, however, doubled the national average gain.