Sentences with phrase «growing charter sector»

DCPS had closed 23 schools in 2008 in an effort to right - size against the growing charter sector.

And on top of all that, he's the head of a struggling urban school system that many argue has been hurt even more by a fast - growing charter sector.

Both leaders are trying to work past the sometimes vitriolic rhetoric that has pitted the district against the growing charter sector.

For a while, the state's Recovery School District — eerily, it was given that name before Katrina and referred only to academic «recovery» — ran a set of traditional schools alongside a growing charter sector.

Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.

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.

Over 150 parents, teachers and community members showed up at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers offices on Tuesday night to see a free screening of Backpack Full of Cash, the documentary about the growth of the charter industry in the U.S. Pittsburgh has a growing charter sector, with about 11 % of students attending charter schools.

The district also identified and responded vigorously to a number of concerns that the growing charter sector raised.

In particular, a growing charter sector threatens traditional districts by competing with them for students and funding, whereas teaming up with a district may threaten a charter sector's valuable autonomy.

A growing charter sector exerts financial, logistical, and academic pressures on the district.

Moskowitz, who has become an unofficial — and controversial — spokeswoman for New York City's growing charter sector, spoke about a wide range of topics, including her network's expansion, her philosophy on schooling, and her troubled relationship with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., «thousands of teachers will rally in Foley Square to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to support growing the charter sector to 200,000 students by 2020,» per Families for Excellent Schools.

In the first three months of 2014, New York City's charter advocates, with the help of Governor Andrew Cuomo, battled Mayor Bill de Blasio over the future of the city's growing charter sector.

But charter advocates and Cuomo have a different idea, one that will help grow the charter sector.

The Newark Charter School Fund, where FNF's current CEO served as vice president of finance and operations, has received over $ 4 million from FNF to grow the charter sector.

Shapiro writes that his bold agenda was «to grow the charter sector by 100 schools, create a $ 20 million merit pay pot for teachers and make it easier to fire teachers with poor ratings.»

The steps D.C. has taken as its charter sector has grown offer important lessons and guidance for cities to ensure that their growing charter sectors are fully folded into the city's education system.

Host District Support Aid for districts with growing charter sectors.

Not exact matches

The expiration was the result of a stalemate over whether mayoral control should be linked with provisions to grow New York City's charter school sector.

Only 25 of those are in New York City, where the charter sector is growing rapidly.

Tisch, who heads the state's powerful education policymaking panel, said recently she'd like to see the charter sector grow.

After months of aggressive advocacy explicitly aimed at protecting and growing the state's charter sector, the group sent out a report detailing test scores at some of New York City's worst district schools.

At 3:30 p.m., Families for Excellent Schools holds a rally calling for the charter school sector to grow to 200,000 students by 2020, Foley Square, Manhattan.

As the number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

Yet our evidence suggests that the dynamics described in Williams's report of guerilla turf wars may be evolving in many locations to reflect new political circumstances and the growing popularity of a burgeoning charter sector.

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.

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.

There are many thorny issues with which a city must grapple when its charter sector grows beyond 30 percent (e.g., enrollment, facilities, transportation).

There's also a promising, if slower - growing, sector known as «free schools,» akin to start - up charters.

A number of cities are showing that the charter sector is best able to reliably create and grow high - performing schools.

In my view, the report's key shortcoming is that it ignores The Big Question: Since the D.C. charter sector produces several additional months of learning annually for its kids, educates nearly half of D.C. students, has very long waitlists, and continues to grow, and since DCPS continues to struggle, how is PCSB preparing to become the dominant public education provider in the nation's capital?

The D.C. charter sector has grown methodically for almost two decades, now serving nearly half the city's public school students.

Since then, the charter sector has grown quickly: there are now over 6,000 charter schools operating in 43 states.

They help recruit great charters to town or nurture the development of home - grown ones, all the while sharing lessons and resources to make the sector stronger as a whole.

Over time, however, the charter sector has grown in both knowledge and capacity, and as a result, the percentage of charter - enrolled students with disabilities has grown.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success and less emphasis on single - site schools that increase the variety of schooling options.

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.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success...

The money allocated to privately managed charters and vouchers represents a transfer of critical public resources to the private sector, causing the public schools to suffer budget cuts and loss of staffing and services as the private sector grows, without providing better education or better outcomes for the students who transfer to the private - sector schools.

In addition, the charter sector drew a growing share of the remaining public school students.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

Austin's comments are part of growing sentiment among the public sector's top decision makers that charter schools need more oversight.

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.

December 6, 2016 — Serving about six percent of the U.S. school - age population and with one million other students waitlisted, the charter school sector is the most rapidly growing segment in K - 12 education.

As the charter sector has emerged as a durable element of American public education and grown large in some places, a handful of issues come into focus that previously got scant attention.

We grow the charter and digital sectors aggressively and remove the barriers that are keeping them from achieving their full, dynamic potential.

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.

I think what has happened is the charter sector has grown unchecked.

«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.

As the charter school sector has grown too large to ignore in some cities, districts and charters have sometimes begun collaborating or coordinating some efforts.