Sentences with phrase «independently run charter schools»

The Globe review offers a rare examination of payroll records at the city's 16 independently run charter schools — public institutions that are overseen by state education officials and operate as separate government entities from the city.

Los Angeles already has the highest number of independently run charter schools of any other city in the nation: 228 with 107,000 students.

During the last school year in Boston, English - language learners made up 13 percent of the combined enrollments at 19 independently run charter schools, the analysis of state enrollment data found.

In the past decade, the district has opened dozens of new district schools and has authorized dozens of tuition - free, independently run charter schools.

The confusion of people even fairly familiar with the unique situation of New Orleans public schools further illustrates the complex system of dozens of independently run charter schools and the handful of traditional schools — and who has control of them.

The plan also embraces the federal emphasis on replacing staff at «failing» schools and converting some to independently run charter schools, most of which are non-union.

Coming up in the Legislature The Senate Education Committee will hold public hearings Thursday on bills relating to professional development in character education (SB 329), tuberculosis screening for school employees (SB 382) and changing the payment schedules for public, voucher and independently run charter schools (SB 383).

Bryan, a Mecklenburg Republican with a leadership role in education, said in August that he planned to introduce a bill that would force five of the state's lowest - scoring schools to close or convert to independently run charter schools.

Unlike many other states, advocates say, Massachusetts» governance system designates state education officials as sole authorizers of independently run charter schools, overruling local mayors and unions.

Ten years ago, advocates said independently run charter schools would be classroom test - kitchens, teacher laboratories, experiments for public education.

In New Orleans, leaders are on the verge of «returning» oversight of independently run charter schools from the Recovery School District to the Orleans Parish School Board.

It profiles eight schools that the department regards as among the best of the nation's roughly 3,000 publicly financed but independently run charter schools.

Not exact matches

Since 1995, the board has approved plans for 159 charter schools, which are independently run public schools that operate free of most state regulations.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presides over this dual system, where the traditional D.C. Public Schools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter SchoolSchools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter Schoolcharter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter Schoolschools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter SchoolCharter School Board.

What is not often debated is that charter schools, which are independently run but publicly funded, generally receive less public funding per student than district - run schools.

Overall charter school enrollment increased by approximately 225,000 students during the 2012 - 2013 school year and there are now more than 2.3 million students attending these independently run, innovative public schools.

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that are run independently and that fill their seats through a lottery of interested students.

Charter advocates wanted to advance a social justice message by emphasizing the impressive results being achieved by the independently run, but publicly funded, schools, which they say are providing a lifeline for thousands of poor and minority students otherwise stuck in low - performing district schools.

Organizers of the alliance conceived of it as a membership organization for state - level charter school associations and resource centers, and hoped it would emerge as the leading voice in Washington for the independently run public schools.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

It should be noted that only six (6) are Charter schools and of those six, only five are independently run charters.

Some members of the Tacoma School Board are tiptoeing carefully around the idea of charter schools — and whether they want to signal their intent to become an authorizer of the independently run, publicly funded schools...

And those parents prefer that the charter school be independently run rather than administered by the Boston Public School deparschool be independently run rather than administered by the Boston Public School deparSchool department.

«For the first time, 10 percent of the schools will have charter school pilot programs, which will be run independently from the district schools,» the Washington Post reported.

When the idea of charter schools came along — public schools that would 1) run themselves independently of the bureaucracies that were / are a huge part of the problem, 2) would get to hire their own staff members ensuring «fit» with the school, AND 3) would be held accountable for results in educating students — many amazing people stood up and said they would create and run great public schools where they were needed the most.

Answer: Independent charter schools at LA Unified are publicly financed but independently run educational institutions.

Over the last decade, the district has expanded the number of high school options families can choose from, with the growth of independently run schools such as charters and of selective enrollment programs, for example.

Charter schools are independently - run public schools that have served at - risk students in New York State since 1999.

Public education in Philadelphia is a mixture of district - run schools, schools operated by private management companies and charter schools, which are public but operate independently from the district.

Independently run, publicly funded charter schools receive state funds based on student attendance (same as traditional public schools); however, they do not receive funds from local tax revenue.

Charter schools allow parents and organizations to start their own schools, run independently but tied to the public school system.

But the most revealing clash involves independently run public charter schools.

Over $ 6 million in aid and grants to support student mental health services and bullying prevention in public schools and independently run private charters.

Charter schools are independently run but publicly funded schools, typically authorized by local districts that are responsible for overseeing operations and performance.

Charter schools, which run independently of the local school board and often use alternative curriculum and styles of teaching, were approved in California in 1992.

Charter schools are public schools that are independently run from state school systems, and are typically funded by school districts or are considered independent charters.

Charter schools, which are independently run, are easier to compare because the standardized test scores are posted for each individual school on the state's website.

He represents a school of thought in one of the most persistent and nebulous debates of the charter sector: whether there is a harmful lack of diversity in the publicly funded but independently run schools of choice.

Charter schools are independently run and publicly financed and overseen by an agency.

Uncommon Schools, Success Academy, Achievement First, Coney Island Prep, Williamsburg Charter High School, South Bronx Classical and Atmosphere Academy are just some of the charters — independently run schools free to make their own rules — in session rigSchools, Success Academy, Achievement First, Coney Island Prep, Williamsburg Charter High School, South Bronx Classical and Atmosphere Academy are just some of the charters — independently run schools free to make their own rules — in session rigschools free to make their own rules — in session right now.

Charter schools are independently run public schools, and there are more than 85 of them in Utah.

The movie features five children and their parents — including a middle - class family from Redwood City — who have applied to independently run public charter schools in search of an education they don't think their neighborhood school will afford them.

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, almost all of the 80 - plus public schools in the city are independently run charters.

Both are run by nonprofit boards that incorporated independently before applying for the charter contracts that gives them the ability to operate public schools.

He argues that it will make New Orleans a new model, radically redefining the role of central school boards just as many urban school districts are shifting increasingly large portions of their students to independently run but publicly funded charter schools.

Charter schools — tuition - free, independently run public schools — make up an increasing share of public school options nationally.

A charter school is an independently run public school granted greater flexibility in its operations, in return for greater accountability for performance.

The data is key to deciphering whether charter schools — which are publicly funded but can be independently run — are holding up their end of the bargain of increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability.

Independently run but publicly financed, charters are still a small percentage of the nation's nearly 100,000 public schools, but they're popular.

The Walton - funded New York Charter School Association, which takes considerable public money and advertises itself as «independently - run public schools,» refused state audits, arguing that they were run by boards outside the public domain.