Sentences with phrase «from charter sectors»

In recent years a school of thought arose in our space that a centralized authority or «harbor - master» could produce better outcomes by carefully controlling both the entrance and the exit of schools from charter sectors, primarily on the basis of standardized test scores.

I think there is much to learn from the charter sector's success in math, and we intend to build bridges across sectors to advance all of our work.

Smarick's study, «The Chartered Course,» explores how private schools and advocates of educational choice can learn from the charter sector.

The school is replacing its dusty slateboards with new whiteboards, and its leaders are picking out new desks for next year, an attempt to be what its leaders call «intentional with branding,» a phrase and philosophy borrowed from the charter sector.

While Partnership leaders are hosting education reform leaders and visiting Success Academy, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools charters for inspiration, they say there's plenty they don't want to take from the charter sector.

The Partnership has advertised Our Lady Queen of Angels as the school that has adopted the most lessons from the charter sector so far.

From the charter sector, the city should take the idea that schools do best when they are operated by non-profit organizations, and, when a school struggles, the best thing to do is to let another non-profit school try and operate the school.

At this meeting we will continue our focus on charter advocacy and what TCSA is doing as an organization, including the addition of our 501c4 Charter Schools Now under the TCSA umbrella, along with the latest information on our CEO search, the most recent news from the charter sector and TEA, and an instructional and quality service update.

Success for the district sector might depend on its picking up innovations from the charter sector.

Not exact matches

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsycharter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary BetsyCharter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

That expansion would turn her network from a formidable sector within the Department of Education to a complete alternative school system in New York City, comparable to the nation's largest charter networks and a constant force for City Hall to reckon with.

And Cuomo is racking up campaign bucks from New York's fiscally - able charter sector.

But sources close to the charter school advocacy sector said the group was no longer getting policy results from the costly rallies, all of which have sought to boost charter schools and critique de Blasio.

That rally proved enormously successful: Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a surprise appearance and vowed to «save charter schools» from de Blasio, kickstarting a close relationship between the governor and the city's charter sector.

The new SUNY regs stemmed from a side - deal hashed out between the city and the charter school sector in June that helped pave the way for an extension of the law giving Mayor de Blasio control of the city schools.

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.

Consequently, the movement of a single student from one sector to another has a much larger impact on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in charter schools than on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in district schools.

For instance, consider the impact of a student who is not in special education moving from the district sector to the charter sector in Denver.

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.)

It means its subscribers don't care if a school comes from the district sector or the charter sector — what they care about is if the school is doing right by kids.

In the companion study to ours, Cheng and Peterson report results for charter parents from the 2012 NCES survey, providing a portrait of differences across sectors that complements the one presented here.

It is exciting to see such strong growth of the public charter sector in Newark, and such fantastic support from all fronts.

What's your best guess for a) how the charter sector of ten years from now will differ from today's and b) how it will differ from its contemporary district sector?

The two top priorities are drawing together staff from both sectors to deal with Common Core challenges and boosting the number of special education students taken by charters.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

Almost 72 percent of BPS students come from low - income families, virtually the same proportion as in the charter sector.

In the traditional public school sector in both Florida and Chicago, high schools are almost always separate from middle schools, which is not the case for charter schools.

From day one, the state's charter sector has had two defining characteristics.

The clearest evidence comes from Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., two cities with significant charter sectors.

In a decade and a half, the charter school movement has gone from a glimmer in the eyes of a few Minnesota reformers to a maturing sector of America's public education system.

Viewed from Education Next's offices in Massachusetts, where efforts to lift the state's cap on charter growth in urban areas have failed despite the sector's excellent track record, the contrast is striking.

I believe we also have quite a bit to share with our peers in the district, charter, and Catholic school sectors, and much to learn from them.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

What makes these programs particularly interesting is that their founders were leaders from the charter school sector who created their own teacher certification and master's degree programs after concluding that the teachers who graduate from most traditional teacher education programs lack the skills needed to teach successfully.

As this report shows, we have much to learn from the private - school, charter, and corporate sectors in recruiting talent.

After all, a common test does make life easier for parents «shopping» for schools across the public, private, and charter sectors and for taxpayers seeking evidence of return on investment from their education dollars.

Not surprisingly, we get a charter sector that is largely developed and run by white folks from elite college.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

Though England is voucher - averse, its charter - like sector is burgeoning, with more than half of all secondary schools now functioning as «academies» (we would say «conversion charters»), having successfully petitioned Whitehall to extricate them from district control.

As if to reward the sector, the budget deal emerging from Congress adds some dollars to the federal charter - support program.

Question: What are the downsides of the charter school model, in particular for serving the needs of inner - city children and those from families in the lower socioeconomic sector?

For lots of reasons; D.C. has great school operators that are expanding; the charter law is quite good; the city has valuable support organizations; and public support has helped insulate the sector from unfounded attacks.

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Furthermore, the sector's performance is far from exemplary at this point, and aggressive efforts by state charter officials to recruit top operators from around the country have been hampered by Nevada's abysmally low per - pupil funding.

To ensure a supply of schools from which families may choose, states should establish a system for authorizing charter schools that enables the charter sector to expand to meet demand; that provides funding under the same weighted formula that applies to all other publicly supported schools; and that offers charter schools access to capital commensurate with district school funding.

The mayor's office staff disdain to play up the rhetoric of free markets in talking about their charter schools, but much of their intelligence derives from outside government: nonprofits and even the private sector.

All three of the truly spectacular scores (Higley, Chandler and Phoenix Elementary combos at 95, 95 and 99th percentile respectively) came from situations where both the district and charter sectors grew rapidly.

My colleagues in Washington, D.C. (see «D.C. Students Benefit from Both Sectors,» forum, Spring 2015) contend that the best educational model is one in which charter schools coexist with traditional district schools.