Sentences with phrase «good authorizers»

We need good policy; we need good authorizers.

What difference do good authorizers make, and is authorizing getting better?

«It's a combination of some really brilliant people who have started schools and a really good authorizer that's willing to close schools that are not closing the achievement gap.

Not exact matches

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

But analysts, authorizers, regulators, and other policy makers also make mistakes, especially if they rely predominantly on test results that are, at best, weak predictors of later - life success.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

She also wondered whether authorizer capacity might be playing a significant role (i.e., good policies probably can't compensate for an authorizing body with a small staff and little expertise).

Just as choice and competition are good for students and schools, choice and competition are good for authorizers.

They are used by regulators — whether authorizers, portfolio managers, or harbor masters — to identify good and bad schools, to determine whether they should be included as choice options, and to shape the goals schools should pursue.

• Manage the actions of the dozen charter authorizers, the Detroit Public Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something better.

So if the charter board, local authorizer, and parents think a school is doing a good job even if test scores look «bad,» we should defer to them.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

This is the genius of effective charter school authorizers that look at a school's big picture as well as its scores.

To provide students with better options in the future, authorizers need to close virtual charter schools that are persistently failing.

School choice allows educators to shape a school that reflects their vision and values, so long as parents think the result is good for their child (and, for charters, so long as authorizers are okay with the outcomes).

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

In part, that's because authorizers, bankers, and donors are paying increasing attention to how well the schools are governed.

As the head of Fordham's authorizing shop in Dayton, I set out to determine which indicators the best charter school authorizers in the nation were using — measures that transcended test scores.

Overall, authorizers» scores improved over last year's, and large authorizers (those with 10 + schools) scored better than small ones.

The good news is that it's common for authorizers to use parent or student satisfaction survey data as one of many pieces of information in school accountability plans.

They are places where authorizers can see with their own eyes that weak instruction, mediocre curricula, poorly prepared or demoralized teachers, and often well - meaning but ineffective leaders add up to poor educational experiences for their charges.

The best we can say to authorizers is to exercise your authority wisely.

NACSA surveys show that about 90 percent of large authorizers now use performance frameworks — either their own or those created by states — which almost always give weight to growth as well as absolute scores.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

As Andy Smarick has argued, the private school choice sector needs something akin to authorizers as well.

As the charter authorizer, our job is to keep our strong focus on quality — closing low - performing schools, helping promising schools improve, encouraging our best schools to expand, and applying rigorous oversight to approve only the most - promising new applicants.

Authorizers stand behind creating better public schools in a challenging system, a better education for all kids, and a better way to get there.

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.

Just as school leaders select teachers with a «growth mindset,» — expecting them to learn, adapt, and get better — authorizers must seek learning organizations and create the space for them to grow.

We're here to support authorizers making tough decisions to create better schools in a challenging system.

2) How many charter authorizers actually do a good job of judging school quality — how representative is the highly idealized, romantic fantasy Mike has provided here of the way charter authorizers typically work back here on Earth Prime?

And we even consider going back to the original charter concept — allowing schools to negotiate their own unique performance expectations with their authorizers, rather than being held accountable to the One Best System's standards.

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.

Schools run by CMOs have produced greater gains in student learning on state assessments than their district - school counterparts, while the mom - and - pops have fared less well, possibly making the single - site schools less attractive to authorizers.

They have access to a strong authorizer and very good funding and can steer clear of the district's perpetual dysfunction.

Smart practitioners continue to advance this field; see Medler and Baxter's very good piece on early - stage accountability, Roen's smart piece on continuous improvement, and Siedlecki's piece on developing authorizer talent.

And the group's ranking of Michigan's charter school authorizers — based on the test scores of the schools they oversee — is a good conversation starter.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

And, as it should be, we in the charter world are still quite free to work with our authorizers to come up with something better.

No charter school or authorizer is responsible to provide something better for these kids.

In the county's larger districts, school leaders are taking a wait - and - see attitude knowing full well they can apply later to become an authorizer.

White founders, funders and authorizers have rarely asked these communities what is best for their children.

There is great power in working collaboratively with all charter authorizers and tapping into expertise at CPS, as well as around the country, that has often been underutilized.

A non - profit charter school authorizer in Minnesota called Innovative Quality Schools (see https://iqsmn.org) provides a good example of how this kind of school district could operate.

With that in mind, I was encouraged to see that the majority of surveyed authorizers think charter schools should enroll roughly the same proportion of students with disabilities as traditional districts schools and collect enrollment as well as performance data.

Authorizers are key to ensuring that only applicants well prepared to serve students with IEPs are given that privilege.

«I feel good about that, but I also feel good about the decision not to be an authorizer this year,» she said.

Shannon Bauer is the Manager of Talent Development Programs at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices inAuthorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices inauthorizers engage with best practices in the field.

A nationwide ranking of charter school policies released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NASCA) finds Mississippi has one of the best charter school laws in the country based on authorizer quality and school accountability.