Sentences with phrase «in charter operation»

The GCI authors and those who are advancing its conclusions either misrepresent or fail to acknowledge this foundational distinction in charter operation, as well as the following truths:

Yes, there is a law that swears that the school board now serving as PM will not interfere in charter operations, but these oaths of non-interference hardly provide any protection.

Not exact matches

In September 2015, the company announced it would suspend operations at CanJet, a charter airline owned by IMP, and explore how to move forward under a different financial plan.

«Our biggest challenge was to obtain a large operating line from chartered banks in order to maintain a comfortable cash flow and run our operations.

The first article in this series provided background on critical aspects of insider trading doctrine (including entity liability and special considerations for CFA charter holders) and described four enforcement patterns bearing directly on hedge fund trading strategies and operations.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

Aided and abetted by the new county charter that gave him the power once enjoyed only by majority party chairmen, Hein calls his seven years in office a period during which he's restructured government from being a «who you know» operation to a «what you know» kind of place.

Even if mayoral control vanishes, charter schools would still face challenges in expanding their operations.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Seneca Gaming Corporation (SGC) is a wholly owned, tribally chartered corporation of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Nation) which operates all of the Nation's Class III gaming operations in Western New York.

«And beyond that having a presidential charter actually is the beginning of a new chapter for us, we get to move forward with a little bit more confidence in springing our steps in planning the next step for Ashesi and we also take on more control or more responsibility for quality assurance within our operation which is up until now been done by UCC and UMaT.»

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

In New York City, the Executive Budget also requires that a charter's entire planned grade configuration — elementary, middle or high school — be located within a single building including grade levels not yet in operation at the time of openinIn New York City, the Executive Budget also requires that a charter's entire planned grade configuration — elementary, middle or high school — be located within a single building including grade levels not yet in operation at the time of openinin operation at the time of opening.

We find no relationship between how long a charter school has been in operation and student achievement after controlling for school policies.

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.

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

Since then, seven «proven» school operators have been granted charters to expand their operations in Boston.

One individual involved with the campaign explained, «Until the charter movement began to develop its own political operation and build a counterweight to the teachers» union, it could never be successful in Albany, regardless of the results the schools produced.»

Governor Deval Patrick, in a nod to the mayor, backed legislation that would expand pilot schooling throughout the state while curtailing charter school operations (see «Accountability Overboard,» features, Spring 2009).

As in our state analysis, an increase in the fraction of a school district's population that is black makes a district more likely to have a charter school in operation and to have a greater share of its students enrolled in charter schools.

But on the eve of his current campaign, Menino asked the legislature to expand charter school operations in Boston.

«There are very few good options in school nutrition, and most schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food nearby.

In three short years, from the 1996 — 97 school year to that of 1999 — 2000, the final year of our analysis, the number of charter schools in operation in North Carolina rose from zero to 7In three short years, from the 1996 — 97 school year to that of 1999 — 2000, the final year of our analysis, the number of charter schools in operation in North Carolina rose from zero to 7in operation in North Carolina rose from zero to 7in North Carolina rose from zero to 74.

At the same time, we know that mainstream schools can be every bit as innovative, customer - responsive and flexible as charters if the professionals in those schools choose and are allowed to make decisions on school policy and operations.

As blended learning has grown within district schools, it's often been a bit more ad hoc — a class here, one subject there — than in many charters in which blended learning has become a core part of the school's operations.

Among those states with charter laws on the books, more than a third have fewer than 20 charter schools in operation.

Our study lacks data on operations and instruction in the charter schools, so we have little opportunity to explore the mechanisms contributing to their success.

Students in these grades make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in traditional public schools, and the negative effects are not limited to schools in their first year of operation.

«I've loved the time I spent in charter schools — helping with operations, observing teacher training, and visiting classrooms,» she says.

Fifth - grade entrants comprise only 13 percent of CCSF's total admittees and only about 6 percent of the admittees in our analysis, which excludes applicants from private schools and does not include charter schools that are in their first year of operation.

The Portfolio Manager would govern schools of all types in a location — traditional, charter, and perhaps private — and select which schools should be allowed to operate, which should be closed, and police certain aspects of their operations, including admissions, transportation, and perhaps special education, discipline, and other issues.

But the practice of chartering has also been criticized for allowing low - quality schools to remain in operation and for siphoning resources away from district schools.

As the RAND study of charter schools and vouchers, Rhetoric Versus Reality, argued, «Judging the long - term effectiveness of the charter school movement based on outcomes of infant schools in their first two years of operation may be unfair, or at least premature.»

Lighthouse Academies, which opened a charter school in the city in 2005, has selected it as the next place to expand its operations.

The presence of these risk factors in charter applications significantly boosted the probability that the school would perform poorly during its first years of operation.

The study includes the first definitive survey of all charter schools (90 % of all charter schools in operation as of the 1995 - 96 school year).

Authors Dr. Anna Nicotera and Dr. David Stuit, respectively senior associate and co-founder of Basis Policy Research, coded charter applications for easy - to - spot indicators and used them to predict the schools» academic performance in their first years of operation.

Publicly funded but privately managed, charter schools are legally held to a far higher degree of accountability under the law in exchange for freedom from many of the rules that govern the operation of public schools.

The Operator: The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a successful statewide online charter school in its sixth year of operation with current course enrollments approaching Charter School (VLACS) is a successful statewide online charter school in its sixth year of operation with current course enrollments approaching charter school in its sixth year of operation with current course enrollments approaching 20,000.

Gill co-directed the first study of the effects of charter high schools on graduation, college enrollment, and earnings in adulthood; and the first nationwide study of the operations of online charter schools.

The Partnership has hired an operations manager, a title and position directly borrowed from the charter world, in each school to implement H.R. and finance protocols, fix leaks and make sure parents have paid their tuition.

Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test scores and whose test results might therefore lag, at least in the first few years of operation.

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For charter schools that have been in operation from one to four years, the advantage in reading is 2.5 percent.

In spite of a wealth of information that points to K12, Inc. running a business operation that has poor returns by failing to adequately educate students, yet continues to profit mightily from state taxpayers, some are still enthusiastic about the prospect of the virtual charter school coming to North Carolina, including Rep. Larry Pittman, a supporter of virtual charters.

For charter schools in operation from five to eight years, Hoxby finds that five percent more students reach proficiency in reading than their public school peers.

Over the next several weeks, I will address the important role that operations plays in a high - performing charter school.

I believe this may prove to be the most far reaching reform in district operations since DPS decided to use new schools (district - run and charter alike) as an improvement strategy.

For Independent Charter Schools: Meet and greet professionals seeking employment in the education field: teachers, specialists, school leaders (deans, principals, assistant principals, executive directors), operations, social workers, guidance counselors and more.

Cambridge, Mass. — According to a new nationwide study, ten percent more of the students in charter schools are proficient on state exams than those in neighboring public schools when a charter school has been in operation nine years or longer.