Sentences with phrase «independent public charter schools»

The perennial debate over the quality and expansion of independent public charter schools continues to dominate discussion.

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

Founded in 2000 as the state's first independent public charter school, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movement.

Independent public charter schools remained the norm as the public charter school movement grew from a fledgling reform effort into a major force in public education, now affecting 2.7 million students and families nationwide.

Victory Education Partners (Victory) advises and serves independent public charter schools and urban school districts.

Hundreds of educators, social justice advocates and practitioners from across the nation will gather on October 11 - 13 at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, New York for the first national Symposium for independent public charter schools.

This new state charter school board is an attempt to limit local control of public education by giving to other entities the power to authorize new independent public charter schools — regardless of whether local school boards and local voters think it is a good idea.

LA has the most independent public charter schools overseen by a single district and usually approves most petitions.

The Parent Trigger Law, a bipartisan effort passed in 2010, allows failing public schools, hobbled by union rules that include controls over teacher performance, work schedule, curriculum, administrative duties and requirements, to be transformed into independent public charter schools.

The Washington teachers union and other associations sued and threatened the state's new charter school law, and in September 2015 the state supreme court ruled independent public charter schools violate the state constitution.

Alliance Renee & Meyer Luskin Academy High School is part of a network of independent public charter schools that provide world - class educational services to address the unique needs of each student.

Instead, as the bus sat, unused in the lot, week after week, it became a symbol for the passive - aggressive relationship that existed between the independent public charter school approved by the state and the local school district.

As an independent public charter school, there is no fee for the normal academic year.

I'm the founder of two independent public charter schools in the breathtakingly diverse borough of Queens and I'm the co-director of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing more than 50 independent public charter schools in the five boroughs.

Through a lengthy master planning process in the community, which included all 5 independent public charter schools, NUSD assessed a great need in school facilities across the district.

Whatever their configuration, networks of public charter schools are generally better able to leverage resources and access more established supports than can independent public charter schools.

The neighborhoods were chosen after examining the performance of all LA Unified schools and independent public charter schools in the city...

High school seniors at Academia Avance, an independent public charter school in northeast Los Angeles, show up to school looking like they're headed to work.

The need for more high - performing schools in their neighborhoods drove most of the parents to work to elect Gonez and Melvoin, but parents at independent public charter schools were particularly ignited by their fear that their children's schools were being threatened by the district.

The LA Unified school board today approved the renewal petitions of three independent public charter schools and approved a petition for one new charter school.

Five independent public charter schools were denied Tuesday night by the LA Unified school board.

Alliance Leadership Middle Academy is part of a network of independent public charter schools that provide world - class educational services to address the individual needs of each individual student.

HighTech Los Angeles (HTLA) is an independent public charter school located in Van Nuys, California.

After controlling for variables such as students» socio - economic status, we found that independent public charter schools (and non-instrumentalities) are much more efficient with taxpayer money.

«We fully anticipate by fall 2016,» Romero said, «there will be an independent public charter school at Palm Lane.»

* UPDATED Five independent public charter schools were denied Tuesday night by the LA Unified school board.

Alliance Leadership Middle Academy is part of a network of independent public charter schools that provide world - class educational services to address the unique needs of each student.