Sentences with phrase «heavily on charter»

The Louisiana, Michigan and Tennessee districts all depend heavily on charter school operators to turn around the failing schools they absorb.

They say student achievement is much more than a score on a standardized test and that it's a mistake to rely so heavily on charter schools.

Not exact matches

Having Viacom content helps Charter add video subscribers at a time of increasing competition from virtual streaming services like Hulu and DirecTV Now, while Viacom is still heavily dependent on cable and satellite companies for distribution, according to Evercore ISI.

The vagaries of a banking system with many smaller participants relying heavily on a market - based system of funding could be mitigated by an evolution to fewer nationwide banks backed by FDIC charters - and therefore not be as affected by the whims and fluctuations of capital markets.

In a recent filing, Charter makes it clear that the company is taking an «inside out» approach to wireless, by focusing heavily first on indoor connectivity (leaning largely on its existing WiFi hotspot footprint), then shoring up cellular tower support down the line.

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

Asked yesterday about the Success Academy network's extremely high test scores this year, de Blasio replied: «Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep, and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

He was also helped by StudentsFirstNY, a charter school supporter who invested heavily in Senate Republicans in 2014 and has reported spending $ 1.49 million on the race in the past two weeks, $ 250,000 of which came from a group backing education tax credits.

Charter school advocates have also spent heavily on lobbying, with one group, Families for Excellent Schools, spending close to $ 9 million last year, according to state filings.

Charters are on the rise nationwide, but for now most are constrained by laws that have been heavily influenced by the unions.

His group's One Million Lives program aims to open up high - performing charter seats for one million additional students — a strategy that leans heavily on closing the bad charters.

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.

And unlike charter networks that rely heavily on outside philanthropy, Icahn schools run solely on the roughly $ 14,000 the city provides annually for each student (amounting to about $ 250,000 per classroom).

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Ironically, the DOE and Charter School authorizers are increasingly forcing community charter schools to adapt to the traditional testing model that evaluates the overall performance of the school heavily on the test Charter School authorizers are increasingly forcing community charter schools to adapt to the traditional testing model that evaluates the overall performance of the school heavily on the test charter schools to adapt to the traditional testing model that evaluates the overall performance of the school heavily on the test scores.

The events at Charlottesville from a month prior still weighed heavily on me, I learned the only parent organization independent of the school district was losing its funding, and more than one thousand charter school parents signed a petition demanding a little respect only to be greatly disrespected — again.

Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the procharter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the proCharter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the procharter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the procharter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36

Many of the largest and most successful organizations working to improve education in America, such as KIPP charter schools, the Boston Teacher Residency, and Reading Corps, rely heavily on volunteers and other resources provided by national service programs to make their transformative results possible.

Oversight depends heavily on self - reporting by charter schools or by whistleblowers.

(Due to the Teflon heavily applied to the charter sector by political leadership and the press, the now - extensive reporting on the Gulenist schools hasn't given them a bit of trouble.)

«Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

In addition, this state's largest charter authorizer, Miami - Dade — run by the terrific Assistant Superintendent Tiffanie Pauline, who happens to be a Black woman — oversees a strong portfolio of schools and is leading efforts to focus more heavily on student outcomes and promoting transparency.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

Rhode Island is already experimenting heavily with various forms of digital learning, with two new virtual charter high schools; an annual statewide conference on innovation, technology and learning; and a homegrown nonprofit institute that provides professional development and consulting to districts interested in expanding digital learning.

Turner - Agassi builds a real - estate empire with tax payer dollars on secretly negotiated charter school land deals Tennis star Andre Agassi has invested heavily in charter schools nationwide.

Charter school advocates have also spent heavily on lobbying, with one group, Families for Excellent Schools, spending close to $ 9 million last year, according to state filings.

Kamei's appointment signals a shift on the board which until this year leaned heavily pro charter.

Urban Day Academy, the school Williams championed, closed its doors last year after converting from a traditional private school to one heavily dependent on vouchers, and finally to a charter school, without ever finding a way to make the numbers work.

It has long been suspected that high attrition in the «no excuses» charters results in part from codes of discipline that rely heavily on excluding students for what public schools would consider to be minor infractions.

One of them, Shavar Jeffries, president of the Democrats for Education Reform, an influential political action committee supported heavily by hedge fund managers favoring charter schools, merit - pay tied to test scores and related reforms, issued a statement that went so far as to say that the original draft on education was «progressive and balanced» but that the new language «threatens to roll back» President Obama's education legacy.

Specifically, the Board finds as follows: Rocketship Charter Schools Rely Too Heavily on Uncredentialed Instructional Staff.

Before the school opens next year, Johnson will be trying out his curriculum — which is heavily focused on long - term projects and online learning — with a small group of students who attend an established charter school network, allowing him to make tweaks and improvements.

For now, no - excuses charters remain a niche phenomenon that relies heavily on private funds.

Oversight depends heavily on self - reporting by charter schools or the reports of whistleblowers.

Louisiana's business leaders invested heavily in certain BESE campaigns, in part to ensure their agenda on issues such as charter schools, vouchers and teacher compensation remained in place.

A public charter school, Morris Jeff Community School relies heavily on state and federal per pupil funding through Louisiana's Minimum Foundation Program.

Of particular note is that while pledging to support Hartford's Public Schools, Bronin relied heavily on donations from the Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry, collecting huge amounts of money from charter school advocates and Greenwich residents Jonathan Sackler and Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, as well as employees, board members and lobbyists for Connecticut's charter sCharter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry, collecting huge amounts of money from charter school advocates and Greenwich residents Jonathan Sackler and Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, as well as employees, board members and lobbyists for Connecticut's charter scharter school advocates and Greenwich residents Jonathan Sackler and Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, as well as employees, board members and lobbyists for Connecticut's charter scharter schools.

The announcement comes a week after published reports that FUSE, which also manages the heavily state - financed Jumoke Academy charter schools in Hartford, had employed a registered sex offender at Dunbar despite a management agreement stating that «no employee of Jumoke who will work at Dunbar or who will work directly with Dunbar students is listed on any Sex Offender Registry.»

Alternative charter schools have complained that the association's accountability system relies too heavily on the Academic Performance Index - which does not always account for the kinds of students and their varied problems that end up in the alternative programs.

Instead of taking seriously these high quality studies, charter critics rely heavily on a report released in 2004 by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

With only five lawyers on staff, however, we had to rely heavily on pro bono counsel, led by David Wotherspoon at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, to take on and help manage this demanding trial that included analysis of several sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

As the mayor of a city with the largest municipally - owned charter school system in the state, a father and a grandfather, this weighs heavily on me.