Sentences with phrase «from authorizers»

Charter schools also have oversight from their authorizers (the local school district, county office of education or State Board of Education).

Additionally, more than 15 percent of schools reported facing restrictions from authorizers in the areas of budget, procurement, board compensation, and management contracting.

Collected from authorizers and support organizations across the country, the resources offer examples of the materials that support each process step.

The process guide is complemented by the Restart Authorizer Resource database, with searchable tools and resources collected from authorizers and support organizations.

Charter management organizations, long hesitant to get involved with restarts (also known as turnarounds) are finally getting into the game thanks to strong signals from authorizers.

Although New York's Pre-K for All legislation gives the authority to monitor pre-K programs to charter school authorizers, it also sets quality standards and monitoring requirements that differ from authorizers» typical practices.

From an authorizer perspective, so long as a school does not have significantly negative test scores, perhaps the school should be able to expand so long as there is parent demand.

The most significant barrier that prevents charters from serving more students with disabilities is the charter school special education legal identity, or the degree to which a charter school is autonomous from its authorizer for special education services.

In San Diego County, one charter school leader noted increased communication from their authorizer and improved quality of services after submitting this notification.

This webinar will cover the most common challenges that new charter leaders face when launching their school, from authorizer relations to business services.

Not exact matches

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

(Arizona has since required that authorizers submit annual reports to the state's auditor general, earning it additional points from NACSA, but the change is too recent to have influenced its charter sector's results yet.)

But charter accountability, which emanated from a diverse provider environment, has shown for a quarter - century that we can have an accountability system that leans on both parental judgments (via choice) and public evaluations (via authorizers).

Chicago has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful charter school authorizers, but Mayor Richard M. Daley's high - profile push to expand on that foundation is fraught with challenges, a report from the Washington - based Progressive Policy Institute contends.

The authorizer can remove it from the public system — meaning no more public funds; per Pierce, the school has the right to stay open, but it must, as it had before, rely on its own streams of funding.

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.

Of all charter schools closed by local authorizers or their own boards, the vast majority had financial problems — meaning that they generally suffered from a lack of parental demand.

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 growth.

While the law gives ODE the power to prevent any ineffective authorizer from approving new schools, it may only close authorizers with which it has contracts (13 out of nearly 70 authorizers statewide).

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.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

Leverage change from the bottom up by helping parents and communities to push authorizers and the district to increase performance accountability.

Beginning in January 2015, ODE will implement a sponsor ranking system, through which it can prevent an authorizer from opening new schools or revoke its authority to oversee community schools altogether.

Authors McShane, Hatfield, and English found authorizers are requiring more and more paperwork from prospective founders, moving chartering away from outcomes - focused accountability.

Too many policymakers and authorizers find themselves unable to truly assess the performance of alternative schools and distinguish, as the report notes, «AECs [that] likely save the lives of many students» from those schools that are «terrible warehouses that temporarily hold kids before putting them on the street.»

In the case of Partnership Schools, the Archdiocese inked an agreement that shifted the Archdiocese role from being an operator of schools to being an authorizer of our network.

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 representatives.

But they offer preliminary lessons from which the authors drew recommendations for existing school boards and authorizers to make charter school restart an effective and replicable strategy.

Some authorizers also look at student retention from year to year as a proxy for family satisfaction.

Charter laws vary from state to state, but typically, authorizers award school charters to a governing board, not to a school's founders or managers.

Authorizers rejected 77 percent of applications from a sample of over six hundred applications from four states.

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

Here's a map from the new NACSA @qualitycharters report on state charter authorizers showing how many authorizers each state has.

In addition to dedicated professional staff and board members, our vision requires efforts from a broad coalition of authorizers, superintendents, and state and local advocacy organizations, as well as public officials, civic leaders, funders, and others.

Alumni from the NACSA Leaders Program are equipped with the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage the challenges authorizers face in aligning their agency's policies and practices with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing and advocate for policy that supports quality authorizing.

Charter school publications include: Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future; Quality School Ratings: Trends in Evaluating School Academic Quality; Searching for Excellence: A Five - City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality; and New Orleans - Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities.

From 2010 - 2017, Sara served on the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, which authorizes charter schools in Washington, D.C. Sara currently serves on the board of the National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

NACSA is a professional membership organization that supports the work of charter school authorizers, provide information and services to authorizers across the country, and support school system leaders interested in applying best practices from charter schools in their own systems.

Some believe the problem is one where the goal of these schools is simply lost in the listening — or lack of it — and that the mom - and - pops could benefit from the assistance of professionals who know how to communicate a good idea to authorizers and philanthropists.

In Indianapolis, authorizers including the mayor's office and the statewide Indiana Charter Schools Board have prioritized scaling up schools that have been successful in Indianapolis and elsewhere, aided by funding from The Mind Trust's Charter School Incubator.

The rating systems inventoried included some from state departments of education, large public school districts, charter associations and authorizers, and private news and advocacy organizations.

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

Charter schools will be authorized through two different paths in Washington: through local school boards that get permission from the State Board of Education to be authorizers and through the new statewide commission.

Whether a district becomes an authorizer or not, charter schools may open in their service area as early as fall 2014 and become the public school for children who used to attend district schools, taking dollars away from those districts.

Mary Jean Ryan, a board member from Seattle, said it will be challenging to oversee what could become a large system of authorizers - if many school boards apply - setting up only eight schools a year.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard was within his authority as a charter school authorizer to close The Project School, according to an e-mail from the school's leader.

The organizations must win approval either from a local school board that applies to the state to become a charter authorizer, or from a recently appointed statewide charter commission.

«We anticipate that we'll be given the opportunity to remain a school until we can apply for a charter from a different authorizer,» Daniel Baron, the school's board president, told StateImpact in an interview Tuesday.

Charter schools will be authorized through two different paths in Washington: local school boards that get permission from the State Board of Education to be authorizers, and through the new statewide commission.