Sentences with phrase «from new school operators»

With 90 percent of New Orleans students now attending schools run by charters, New Orleanians have grown accustomed to hearing enthusiastic spiels from new school operators over the past 10 years.

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SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high - performing Success Academy and other charter - school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.

Klein Earns Legislator of the Year Award From School Bus Operators This week the New York School Bus Contractors Association presented New York State Senator Jeff Klein of the Bronx with its Distinguished Service Award.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles teachers union that was aimed at blocking the school district from allowing charter operators to take over new schools.

James Merriman from the New York City Charter School Center recently pleaded with charter operators to acknowledge the unique agreement into which charters entered: «Charter schools are free from a lot of the bureaucracy that entangles district schools.

New Orleans is just one chapter in the much bigger story of a shift from a single government operator of schools to an array of nonprofit operators.

Unlike Sweden, which was taking a perfectly well - functioning school system and handing it over to private operators, New Orleans was starting from rock bottom.

Typically, charter operators open new schools from scratch, Mr. Chester said.

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operators.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

With school operators who are ready to embark on a new journey of blue sky - innovation and want to go from concept to creation... We partner to conceive, build, launch, iterate, and ultimately codify breakthrough new models.

The reactions ranged from shocked (in the case of an advocate for English language learners) to constructive (AFT chief Randi Weingarten, who offered a takeaway for other states) to pleased (charter school operator Eva Moskowitz, whose schools posted high scores on the new exams).

Tuesday, the parents who signed the petition to overhaul 24th Street Elementary will have the chance to go to a public park a few blocks from the school to vote on one of four separate proposals for a new school plan and operator.

The measure also prevents the sponsors of poor - performing schools from opening new ones, makes it harder for academically lagging schools to shop for new sponsors and ensures that classroom equipment purchased with public dollars remains the property of schools — not their operator or management company.

-- A new law to boost charter schools in Texas followed a surge of political contributions from employees and board members of charter school operators.

The list includes two charter school operators already in the city, but also some prominent ones from the outside, including the Mastery charter school network in Philadelphia, Uncommon Schools organization of Newark and New York City, and the SEEDS Schools from Washington, D.C., a residential school network.

Since 2005, New Orleans» educational system has undergone a structural shift - from government as school operator to school regulator.

In interviews with Abell, large charter operators said restrictions in the Maryland law would discourage them from starting new schools, though the researchers cautioned that some of those operators have not looked extensively at the state's law.

While their primary purpose has been to support Eva Moskowitz and the other New York Charter School operators, Families for Excellent Schools arrived in Connecticut from New York last year and registered both Families for Excellent Schools AND Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy as lobbying entities with Connecticut's Office of State Ethics.

Second, existing CMOs often can launch new schools more quickly than new operators starting from scratch because they have an existing educational model and staff capacity to support the creation of new schools.

One resounding piece of feedback we heard from restart operators was for the need to differentiate authorizing practices between restart and new start schools.

Some cities seek new energy from elsewhere, recruiting nationally - proven school operators to come to their hometown and change the education landscape.

Quality of implementation completely depends on the quality of the school operator and their ability to architect new learning environments from scratch.