Sentences with phrase «grow quality charter»

The organization's president Joseph Bruno sits on the boards of both the Idaho Charter School Network and Bluum and has been an important partner in the efforts underway in Idaho to grow quality charter schools.

He cheered «real beat - the - odds» charters like KIPP and its ilk, but said there is a grave supply problem — that it's much harder to grow quality charters than advocates would like.

Not exact matches

We're long overdue in asking whether the charter sector could grow more quickly with quality, what's holding it back, and what are creative new ways for successful charters to expand their reach to more students.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

And we have to continue to expand parental choice and grow the number of high - quality charter schools — the kind getting twice, three times, four times, five times the number of low - income students to and through college.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Charter schools are growing in number, improving in quality, and beginning to pose genuine competition to public schools, especially within big cities.

I agree with Bradford that single - site schools and small, locally grown and community - based networks are crucial assets for the charter movement and important contributors to expanding access to quality schools in communities that demand them.

Finally, the authors provide some intriguing suggestive evidence that the improvement in charter school quality is associated with the growing prevalence of charter schools that adhere to a «No Excuses» approach that focuses on strict discipline, high expectations, and increased learning time.

Since leaving the board, Hastings has focused on growing high - quality charter schools and developing technology that could transform education.

«This is tremendous news and it is evidence that charter school quality is continuing to grow,» said Mayor Vincent C. Gray.

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The greater flexibility afforded to charter schools offers opportunity to develop innovative approaches to providing ELs, one of the fastest growing demographic groups among students in the United States, with a quality education.

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Regardless, Democrats have grown less positive about the quality of education provided by charter schools than they were five years ago, even as Republicans continue to stand by the sector.

«We commend President Obama and his administrations continued commitment to growing high - quality public charter schools across the United States.

And that brings us to those unanswered questions: Can the charter - school movement grow to sufficient scale for long - term political sustainability if we continue to use «quality» — as measured by such factors as test scores — as the sole indicator of a successful school?

More than anything else, that's what's keeping high quality charters from growing and replicating.

Our report Going Exponential offers advice for authorizers, school operators, and policymakers about growing successful charter schools, based on research about how organizations have grown quickly and with quality in other sectors.

«Passage of House Bill 467 would be a credit negative for the PSF, as it could potentially weaken the overall credit quality of the program's participants as the PSF extends its guarantee to a growing number of charter schools over time,» Nichols said.

Charter public schools can help add new high - quality seats for the state's growing number of new students.

«Amid a strong and growing charter school sector, the Newark school district has undergone significant changes to reverse course on a decades - long struggle to provide consistent quality education to its children,» Startup: Education Executive Director Jen Holleran writes in the foreword.

The district needed a way to quickly improve quality at district schools and reduce costs to better compete with the growing charter sector, she said.

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In the months ahead, we plan to work side by side with our partners in Mississippi to defend the state's strong charter public school law and ensure that the state's low - income students have access to a growing number of high - quality public school options.»

As authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

The Indianapolis Business Journal quotes The Mind Trust's Founder & CEO David Harris about his concern over maintaining charter school quality as the number of charter authorizers grows.

As a growing, intentionally diverse network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades K - 11.

Get the details about Tennessee's experience and takeaways, plus profiles of several CMOs, in Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, by Public Impact's Juli Kim, Tim Field, and Elaine Hargrave.

As a growing network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 schools.

As the first Latino Mayor of Los Angeles since 1872, Villaraigosa transformed education, growing the number of high - quality charter public schools and increasing the graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students.

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As the report concludes, Clark County will need to create the will that drives ongoing commitment to change policies, then provide the resources needed to grow high - quality charter schools and transform education for all students.

Serving as the advocacy organization that builds the policy environment needed to grow as quickly as possible the number of students attending high quality charter public schools.

I am happy that I have had the support of parents and other charter school leaders that has enabled me to grow through adversities such as decreased funding and finding quality facilities.

Increasing student learning by growing the number of families choosing high quality charter schools so that no child is denied the right to a great public education.

Questions about Quality Education Academy's basketball program highlight criticisms and challenges DPI faces in overseeing charter schools, the privately - run and publicly - funded schools poised to grow rapidly with strong backing from the Republican - led state legislature and Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.

As charter school authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

With charter schools, this typically includes plans for launching and growing high - quality schools, attracting top - flight school leaders and teachers to manage schools and classrooms, and engaging parents and others who are most impacted by school choice.

To promote it, he is blitzing the country and filling the nation's newspapers with an argument that is familiar yet powerful: High quality charter schools are the best hope for urban education, so states and cities should do everything in their power to allow them to grow and prosper, and school districts should embrace them as well.

With over 556 charter schools serving over 170,000 students, our growing movement is supporting Arizona families and providing students with a quality education.

CCSA's vision is to increase student learning by growing the number of families choosing high quality charter schools so that no child is denied the right to a great public education.

«Even though California's charter schools have grown to serve over 580,000 students in 1,230 charter schools, there is still an overwhelming unmet need for quality school choice options as over 158,000 students linger on charter school waitlists.

Peterson and Harris worked to grow the number of high - quality charter schools in Indianapolis as a way to help address the city's critical education needs.

Example projects: Ms. Hargrave's work includes co-authoring the forthcoming The Secret to Sustainable School Transformation: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and co-authoring Teachers Supporting Teachers: State Policies for Non-Classroom-Based Instructors; Growing a High - Quality Charter School Sector: Lessons from Tennessee; The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee; Student Achievement in Charter Schools; Raising the Bar: Why Public Charter Schools Must Become More Innovative; and The Conditions for Success: Ensuring Great Public Schools in Every Neighborhood.

Under the bill, an independent oversight board would be created inside the state Department of Education to review new charters and monitor existing ones in a move to address growing questions about the quality and access of the alternative schools.

«Charter schools continue to grow in California in response to demand from parents for more high - quality options,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association.

«It's a very good mix of high - quality charter management groups coming into the state as well as home - grown proposals.»

«Those who voted in favor of AB 401 today are turning a blind eye to the contributions charters have made to public education in California, and to the growing demand for quality public schools.»