Sentences with phrase «increasing number of charter schools»

Their bills would «fix» NCLB by strengthening state accountability systems, improving teacher and principal professional development programs, combining federal education programs and increasing the number of charter schools, they said on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.

An increasing number of charter schools are using «blended learning» models, where students go to school but spend lots of time in front of keyboards and screens.

As Wagner reports, Republicans, who took control of the state legislature in 2010 and the governorship in 2012, are intent on expanding education options in the state by providing some parents with school vouchers to transfer their children to private schools and by increasing the number of charter schools in the state.

But voters thought funds should be directed at traditional public schools rather than creating new charter campuses, with 59 percent favoring investments in traditional public schools over increasing the number of charter schools.

Okay, how about getting rid of forced unionism, increasing the number of charter schools and instituting universal school choice whereby parents get to choose where to send their kids?

Despite operating with a staff that has varied between three and eight personnel — not enough to handle the increasing number of charter schools, State Superintendent June Atkinson has pointed out in the past — the Office of Charter Schools has engaged in numerous lengthy investigations of schools among the state's 140 + that have come to its attention for experiencing governance or financial problems.

Anyone who views the strings attached to the supposedly increased dollars will immediately see that Pryor, with Malloy and Jepsen to help him, is cynically using the inequities in order to push his agenda of privatizing and increasing the number of charter schools — which are not better than well - resourced, well - staffed (no TFA, please) public schools — indeed, with their shaming rituals, bare - bones curriculum, and newbie teachers, they are much worse.

Under Newark Public Schools» current reform strategy, Quitman faces competition from an increasing number of charter schools looking to enroll the same students.

For the increasing number of charter schools with a mission to serve particular groups of low - performing students, or for those who serve those students by chance, this trick of perception that a school is «struggling» or failing because of their proficiency scores poses a serious problem for evaluation.

(«The Clinton Administration is committed to increasing the number of charter schools from 400 to 3,000 by the year 2000 by expanding start - up funds; promoting excellence; and ensuring equity,» states the document.)

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The state committed to adopting the Common Core standards, tying teacher evaluations to test scores, turning around or closing low - performing schools and increasing the number of charter schools, among other things.

Silver's opinion on revamping teacher evaluations was unclear, but he opposed the education tax credit and increasing the number of charter schools.

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

It recently raised the possibility that it won't endorse anyone in the gubernatorial race due to a considerable difference of opinion with AG Andrew Cuomo's platform, which includes increasing the number of charter schools and a property tax cap.

But all have said they feel lawmakers deserve their first pay bump in more than a decade, which was then tied to increasing the number of charter schools in New York.

A source said Cuomo spent Wednesday trying to broker a deal over mayoral control, which balanced the desire of Senate Republicans (which Cuomo shares) to increase the number of charter schools against the Democrat - dominated Assembly's refusal to budge.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders continue to talk with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about a «grand plan» to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorize sales taxes around the state and, possibly, increase the number of charter schools.

By the end of May, state lawmakers reached a deal to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and usually not unionized, to 460 statewide, up from 200, while also increasing state oversight of them.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

Carl Heastie, center, the Assembly speaker, has refused to yield to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in New York State.

Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein continued their full - court press to increase the number of charter schools in New York with a race to the pews on Sunday.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Bloomberg turned nearly all the city's high schools into schools of choice, increased the number of charter schools from 22 to 159, instituted a grading system for schools, and closed those that were failing to educate their students.

A long - time proponent of charter schools, Morgan was vocal in her support for the 2012 amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that expanded school choice and allowed the state to authorize and pay for an increased number of charter schools.

I applaud all efforts to extend vouchers to more students, and I support the Obama Administration's efforts to increase the number of charter schools within a state.

Massachusetts voters will weigh in this fall in a referendum on whether to increase the number of charter schools in the state

A few states and districts nationally have experimented with one or two of these reforms; many states have increased the number of charter schools, for example.

On this occasion, the federal government invited state education agencies to apply and use the grants to increase the number of charter schools in the country.

Last month Gov. Ricardo Rosselló signed legislation to increase the number of charter schools and voucher programs.

Best - case scenario: A charter school is successful, and two positive pressures are felt: to increase the number of charter schools and to improve the more traditional schools.

The second bill - just as important - would dramatically increase the number of charter school openings in the lowest - performing 10 percent of school districts.

Milwaukee, New York City, Buffalo, San Diego, and a host of other school districts are increasing their numbers of charter schools, contract schools, and innovative new district schools.

Red State Or Blue State, Parents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the state.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

He talked about his desire to increase the number of charter schools and other school choice options because «the traditional way, it's not working so well.»

Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the state.

The Malloy administration's extraordinary efforts to increase the number of charter schools and privatize even more of the state's public education system took a giant leap forward at the last State Board of Education meeting.

Brett Bymaster, a community activist in San Jose, California, here describes the chain's current plans to increase the number of its charter schools.

«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.

PEFNC's «public charter school accelerator» program seeks in increase the number of charter schools, which are public schools funded by taxpayers but operate outside the traditional public schools system.

While Democratic Party centrists in Clinton's mold have been some of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for charter schools, Clinton's comments come as many within the Democratic Party are pushing back against so - called education reformers who want to dismantle teacher protections and increase the number of charter schools.

MarylandCAN seeks to change state law in order to dramatically increase the number of charter schools in our state.

As the year opened, the LA Unified Board of Education in the same week hired a new superintendent and unanimously voted to oppose a $ 490 - million draft plan from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation that sought to rapidly increase the number of charter schools in the city so that charters would encompass half the «market share» of the entire district.

threatening to increase the number of charter schools within the District, the Board needs to make it clear to the CSD that usurping their power is not acceptable and that they must vote on all material revisions to the charters that they have authorized.

Tennessee was one of the first to win the competition, nabbing $ 500 million to adopt the Common Core, revamp teacher evaluation systems to include student test scores, improve the worst - performing schools and increase the number of charter schools.

Louisiana Charter Schools in Action (LCSA) advocates for Louisiana's charter school community by increasing the number of charter school champions, educating stakeholders, and lobbying public officials to support high quality charter schools.

Malloy and his operatives now want to expand this outrageous money grab with a plan to increase the number of charter schools in Connecticut and implement a new funding proposal that would see an additional $ 40 - $ 50 million a year diverted to the private corporations that own Connecticut's existing charter schools.

Tennessee also passed a law making it easier to increase the number of charter schools, which are public schools that are privately operated.

Increasing numbers of charter schools in the United States, secondary school academies in England, free schools in Sweden and private schools in Australia are examples of expanding school choice policies.