Sentences with phrase «if more charter»
If more charter schools begin to use their flexibility of governance and enrollment to find new ways of giving teachers input in school decisions and enrolling integrated student bodies, we could see exciting new models unfold.
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For a few hundred more dollars, you can do a custom charter flight to a destination of your choice, and you can even choose to fly on a faster aircraft if you'd like.
It probably won't make Wynne any more popular in Harper's eyes, and will be one more reason for him to avoid meeting with her, but it could also be the first shot in a Supreme Court challenge of the legislation, which could conceivably be much faster - tracked than it would be if we had to wait for a Charter challenge the traditional way, which could conceivably help save lives, going back to the thrust of the Bedford decision in the first place.
Organizers at Pembroke Pines Charter High School said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing that day.
The Earth Charter is the project of a loose group of NGOs who hoped to use their accreditation to the 1992 UN «Conference on Environment and Development» at Rio de Janeiro (the «Earth Summit») to get a document containing some more radical environmental views on the formal agenda and, if possible, adopted.
If the IOC neglects to use the Olympic Charter as a cudgel, it's only because the committee feels more urgent work must be done.
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Article 5 The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
If NYSUT sent even more money then it already does to GOP office holders Flanagan would be working to ban all charter schools.
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Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota also turned out for the demonstration that ended at City Hall Park, but families there were more interested in sending a message to frontrunner Bill de Blasio, who has vowed if elected to reverse the city's policy of giving charters free space.
Mahoney says the county would do even more if it was allowed by the county charter or state law, but some agencies like Veteran's Services are required to have their own department.
If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before — as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general — they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio's election, and the mayor's immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.
The GOP - controlled Senate warned it's prepared to leave without extending the mayor's authority over New York City schools if the Democratic - controlled Assembly refuses to negotiate on its priorities, which include more charter schools.
«And if you want to help some charters, some charter kids or create some more good charter schools, I'm all for that.
Cuomo has suggested $ 1.1 billion in additional education spending — but only if lawmakers agree to implement tougher tenure rules, teacher evaluations more reliant on student test performance and the authorization of more charter schools.
A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.
«Their fear, writ large, is if you have a city that says, I don't want to have any more charter schools, that a city could basically stop the creation of more charter schools by limiting the location and the funding,» he said.
And if you want to help some charters, some charters, and create some more good charter schools, I'm all for that.»
Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.
Instead, if a charter school in New York receives more applicants than it has places, it must enroll students based on a random lottery.
In both cities, students with existing IEPs are significantly and substantially more likely to remain in their kindergarten school if it is a charter than if it is a district school.
However, if we do not control for school policies and look at the simple correlation between a charter school's years in operation and student achievement, we find that older schools have more positive achievement effects.
Our communities will be — and should be — more willing to do that if we as charter advocates can with a straight face say that the charter schools that exist today accept all kids and serve them well.
If we could make a dent in one district, it would have more effect nationally than me flying around and creating little charter schools everywhere.
Charters in Massachusetts would have been better positioned politically if they had not previously neglected to benefit more middle and upper - middle class families.
If a company needs 30 principals, the average hire is more apt to resemble the typical principal than the renegade that a stand - alone charter school might seek.
States where a greater fraction of teachers were covered by a union contract in 1987 were much less likely to pass a charter law in the 1990s, more likely to pass a law later (if at all), and more likely to pass a weaker law.
It means that traditional public schools are really capable of making significant progress if only they become more open to learning from successful charter schools.
Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).
Their aim is to determine if charter students nationwide are more or less likely to attend school in such hypersegregated environments.
If passed, this would lift arbitrary caps on funding and allow more charter schools to open, but it has strong opposition funded by state and national teachers unions.
Charter enrollment is even more impressive if you look at the fine print: In 2008, charters enrolled 48 percent of public - school 6th graders, up from 36 percent a year earlier.
If chartering is to live up to its promise as an alternative to the district - based system of public education delivery, authorizing must get more attention.
If parents are generally more satisfied with charter schools than district public schools, what can they do to ensure that charter schools have the political and financial support to keep growing?
For the comparison among charter, public, and private school teachers, I assumed that charter and private schools face more competition than public schools, since a greater share of charter and private schools get funding only if they attract students.
If just one - tenth of one - percent of these funds find their way into charter school development projects, that would mean $ 6 billion in new capital going towards charter construction — nearly three times the amount of investment that the NMTC program spurred over more than a decade.
Still, if North Carolina's traditional public schools improved in response to their presence, the apparently negative effects of charter schools on the achievement of students who attend them could be offset by more positive statewide effects.
If charter schools actually did all of the above — instead of merely being periodically accused of it — activists would be roaring to close them down even more than they currently are.
All of this might be more tolerable, they say, if it were true that «achievement trumps diversity,» the banner under which nondiverse charters supposedly march.
Because of this talk and his subsequent if short - lived advocacy, Shanker is often credited with conceiving the very concept of charters, although he drew on work published more than a decade earlier.
The question is whether American education would be better off if the charter sector had more pillars.
If you had to name the «mastermind» behind the push to bring more charter schools to San Antonio, it would be Victoria Rico, who is something of an accidental school - reform champion.
School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school services.
If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.
Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.
If Success can help chart a course back to the original vision of charters as laboratories of innovation and reform, that would be an even more amazing success story than the one already being written.
Charters were Shanker's way of saying that the union could see the virtue of a more market - like system if it were carefully controlled and if teachers played a central role.
Second, choice - based reforms such as charter schools and vouchers, if thoroughly implemented (and combined with more rational state funding), could eliminate a significant amount of the complexity associated with district finances.
She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.