Sentences with phrase «gain around the charter»

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Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

As the 1990s progressed, however, and the state standards movement gained strength, the ambiguity around accountability — for charters but also for other public schools — started to recede.

These types of gains are consistently reported in charters around the state and the nation.

While we wonder about fewer charter schools, the number of charter students continues to climb, averaging around 200,000 more per year — with a healthy six percent overall gain in 2015 — 16.

Even in the US, where charters first appeared and have grown to around 6 % of enrolments, gains have been limited, as the report is careful to acknowledge.

Charter schools, which are publicly funded but can be privately run, have gained momentum around the country.

Tuck, who has a Harvard MBA, has a strong background in educational reform, gaining national attention for turning around 18 high - poverty, low - performing charter schools in Los Angeles, before then - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who's a candidate for governor, recruited him to improve schools within the conventional public school system.

And for the past year, Governor Charlie Baker has failed to gain legislative approval to create «innovation zones» in which a select group of schools within a district would gain charter - school - like flexibility to extend school days and get around other teacher contract provisions.