Sentences with phrase «idea of charter schools»

I still think the original idea of charter schools has a lot of merit.

It did not take long for educational entrepreneurs to marry the revolutionary communications technology of the internet with the revolutionary educational idea of charter schools.

Shanker later made an inspired link between his push for standards and the nascent idea of charter schools, publicly funded schools that would operate independently of school districts but be subject to tough performance requirements.

Perhaps there are some who are pleased with this outcome but not those who brought the original idea of Charter Schools to Minnesota.

The idea of charter schools is that competition and choice makes all schools stronger.

One fifth grader made an emotional plea as she expressed how upset she was at the idea of a charter school crowding into her school — P.S. 308 in Bedford Stuyvesant.

To be effective, these authorizers must want to be in the charter schooling business, need to have the resources and staff to do the work, and must be committed to the idea of charter school autonomy.

Brookings Institution scholar Diane Ravitch says Shanker «initiated the idea of charter schools,» while the authors of Charter Schools in Action credit Shanker with coining the term «charter schools» after visiting a school in Cologne, Germany.

Figure 11 shows that when given a choice of supporting or opposing charter schools, 62 percent of the public says it favors» the formation of charter schools,» nearly identical to what PDK finds (66 percent favoring» the idea of charter schools»).

Sorry folks, but the idea of charter schools came from educators and civic leaders of all stripes.

«No one started bothering me about the property until I brought up the idea of a charter school,» Owens told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

There's lots of important work out there aimed at improving the way the charter sector works, but it often gets overshadowed by articles that are just thinly veiled attacks on the idea of charter schooling.

The consultant went on: «de Blasio is deeply hostile to the idea of charter schools.

Albert Shanker first proposed the idea of charter schools in 1988 as laboratories from which the traditional public schools could learn.

The statute requires that commission members support the idea of charter schools as a strategy to strengthen public education.

Ryan Grant, a fifth - grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states, plus the experience of having a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

The Washington Education Association clearly doesn't like the idea of charter schools, but it would be nice if they'd let a couple open and operate before hauling out the ruler and rapping knuckles.

Ryan Grant, a fifth grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states plus the experience of parenting a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

Some members of the Tacoma School Board are tiptoeing carefully around the idea of charter schools — and whether they want to signal their intent to become an authorizer of the independently run, publicly funded schools...

- A PTA activist and lawyer from Redmond who pushed the state PTA to support the idea of charter schools.

The idea of charter schools opening by next fall might be overly optimistic, given the short timeline for creating the commission.

The statute requires members of the commission support the idea of charter schools as a strategy for strengthening public education.

CLINTON: I have for many years now, about 30 years, supported the idea of charter schools, but not as a substitute for the public schools, but as a supplement for the public schools.

Each year, more and more parents are turned on to the idea of charter schools.

When the idea of charter schools came along — public schools that would 1) run themselves independently of the bureaucracies that were / are a huge part of the problem, 2) would get to hire their own staff members ensuring «fit» with the school, AND 3) would be held accountable for results in educating students — many amazing people stood up and said they would create and run great public schools where they were needed the most.

«The idea of charter schools offering a particular program... is one of the premises on which chartering is based,» said William Haft, associate director of National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

For the past few years, the idea of charter schools, school choice and other education reforms have sprung up again.

One of the greatest teacher unionists came up with the idea of charter schools as laboratories of innovation that would help fulfill the promises of American public education.

The idea of charter schools isn't going away.

«I actually like the idea of charter schools in districts where the schools are not succeeding and not meeting the students» needs,» Crisfield says.

If the idea of charter schools is to free teachers and principals from government bureaucracy, then the scandals and the lawsuits have provided ammunition for those who see the need for at least some kind of governmental oversight.

63 percent of Americans, 55 percent of public - school parents, 73 percent of Republicans, and 55 percent of Democrats favor the «idea of charter schools» (PDK / Gallup 2014, p. 19, table 18b).

The idea of chartered schools as incubators for education change was put forward by progressive educators and teachers union leaders.

The idea of charter schools has long failed to gain traction in Kentucky — but that could be changing...

It's worth noting that the first person to come up with the idea of a charter school was AFT president Albert Shanker; but his charter schools, if implemented would look nothing like the ones around today.

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A recent national poll indicated that 51 percent of all Americans support the idea of charter schooling.

He said he would not stop talking about the need for better medical and mental health care for poor children because it affects their ability to learn, and that the idea of charter schools must live in a room big enough to accommodate Black Lives Matter warriors, personal responsibility stalwarts, social justice advocates and free market champions.