Sentences with phrase «includes charter school»

The coalition includes some charter school advocates, labor representatives, Republicans and Democrats.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, is staunchly opposed to any mayoral control agreement that also includes a charter school provision.

Jody and I ended up visiting a few public schools including a charter school, a regular public school and an International Baccalaureate World school (also public).

It also includes charter schools and home schools.

Each city's version of the program would be unique, but presumably each would include a charter school as well as intensive preschool programs, after - school tutoring, and family counseling.

Governor Cuomo's executive budget calls for universal full - day pre-kindergarten for all, including charter schools.

Also, the governor's budget does not include charter schools in the smart schools bond act.

It's part of a continuing expansion of Saint John and its affiliates, including a charter school, a planned second charter and the leafy McCarley Gardens housing complex which it plans to sell to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

The straight one year mayoral control extension does not include charter school provisions, and leaves the sales tax re authorization in limbo.

The project, dubbed Alexander Landing, was submitted to the Empire State Development Corporation and would also include a charter school, a medical facility, retail, parking and open space, according to Crain's.

Major issues in the 2016 legislative session included charter schools, energy, early education, and taxes.

Among other things, the rule requires states to identify low - performing schools for comprehensive or targeted support and improvement, and requires that each state's statewide plan use multiple indicators of student success that are the same for all public schools (including charter schools).

One of the 2003 allocations went to Self - Help Ventures Fund in Durham, North Carolina, which will use its $ 75 million allotment to originate loans for commercial and community facilities, including charter schools.

The Nashville agreement, for example, promises to «include charter schools in the long - term strategic plans of the district including, but not limited to, student assignment planning and facility usage.»

They are also expected to debate other education issues, including charter schools and distance education on July 5 and 6.

Third, the choice movement, including charter schools, magnet schools, vouchers, and outsourced school management, has shown us what it means to devolve authority from bureaucratic systems to individual schools and families.

An abundance of K — 12 opportunities — including charter schools, district schools, district open enrollment, magnet schools, and private choice programs — gives Arizona parents many exit options.

In my own address to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education this year, I reported that K - 12 online education options continue to expand, with students participating in site - based online labs, hybrid courses, and part - and full - time virtual options that are offered by a variety of providers including charter schools, districts, state supplemental programs, corporations, and colleges.

She starts small, asking the principal to switch her daughter from the abusive, lazy teacher she currently has to the marginally better one across the hall, but eventually moves on to other options, including a charter school lottery with too few seats.

Chicago teachers were prohibited from striking for at least 18 months and banned from bargaining on a number of issues, including charter schools, privatization, and class schedules — provisions they are still seeking to overturn seven years later.

In Oakland, Calif., a plan to include charter schools in the district's enrollment system, which would have benefitted parents in desperate need of educational options, was scuttled amid protests and charges of racism.

However, not long ago, a study by the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst demonstrated that curriculum has an even greater effect on student outcomes than most popular policy levers, including charter schools, teacher quality, preschool programs, and even standards themselves.

The panel calls on federal, state, and community leaders to plan carefully so that such alternatives — including charter schools and vouchers — actually help children whose parents exercise new options, while avoiding harm to the...

(All data include charter schools.)

This report also supports desegregation but it recognizes that desegregation is best achieved through a fully developed system of choice and competition that includes charter schools, school vouchers, and a well developed system of choice among traditional public schools.

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.

Students who remain somewhere in the Chicago public school system (including charter schools) appear in our database, making them «observed noncompliers.»

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

The ESD data include charter schools, traditional public schools, and selective - admissions magnet schools run by the Detroit Public School (DPS) system.

By the next day, the building — including the charter school signage outside — was completely gone.

The push for rural consolidation is all the stranger given the movement in urban areas toward smaller schools, including charter schools, so that classroom sizes are smaller and there is more accountability among students, parents, and administrators.

Including charter schools?

Information about local district rankings increases public support for school choice programs, including charter schools, parent trigger mechanisms, and, especially, school vouchers for all students.

Some 76 percent attended an assigned public school, 14 percent attended a chosen public school (including charter schools), and 10 percent attended either a religiously affiliated or secular private school.

A former assistant U.S. secretary of education, he is the author of many books, including Charter Schools in Action and Troublemaker (both Princeton).

Here are the scores for schools, including charter schools, in Orange County.

«For the [2014 Washington DC] lottery, families submitted rank - ordered lists of their preferred schools from a long list of options, including charter schools and traditional public schools.»

Brian Gill studies K — 12 education policy, including charter schools, educator effectiveness, and the implementation and impacts of high - stakes testing and other accountability regimes.

This year, in the last few hours of lawmaking, the Colorado legislature changed that funding requirement with a law mandating that school districts equitably share voter - approved property tax revenue with all schools in the district — including charter schools.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

However, we have a wait - list right now of schools that want to work with us, and that includes charter schools, private schools, suburban schools.

* Might include charter schools and public alternative, special education, or vocational schools.

Jen Walmer, state director of Democrats for Education Reform, explained, «Our focus was always on ensuring that all kids enrolled in public schools — including charter schools — had equal access to local revenues.

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

School property means in or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground, parking lot or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public elementary or secondary school, including a charter school; or in or on a school bus, as defined in Vehicle and Traffic Law section 142.

This interactive tool also includes 50 - state maps of each school choice approach including charter schools, magnet schools and school vouchers.

And all pre-k vendors — including charter schools — have to agree to a twice - annual program quality inspection.

(Note: The interactive graphics do not include charter schools that function as LEAs; they only include traditional districts.)

If current trends continue, we» re going to see a bi-modal system develop, with public schools (including charter schools) and ultra-elite private schools monopolizing the education space as the plethora of smaller private and parochial schools that once fell between them gradually fade away.

Low - density areas pose challenges to new entrants to the education system, including charter schools, because it is difficult for them to attract enough students to survive.