Sentences with phrase «individual charter schools»

Because enrollment policies and procedures vary from school to school, families should contact individual charter schools to obtain specific enrollment information.

Although we respect the work of individual charter schools that are making strong student gains, the practical need to collect comparable data makes the inclusion of all charter schools impossible.

The provision in the technical corrections bill, if adopted, could make it easier for national for - profit charter school management companies like National Heritage Academies (NHA) or Charter Schools USA to also have greater influence on individual charter schools in North Carolina — a move that coincides with an interest by some lawmakers to dramatically increase the presence of national for - profit operators in the state.

Nevertheless, most recent book - length treatments of chartering have focused on individual charter schools and the leaders who founded them.

«We have very good and productive relationships with individual charter schools and charter networks, but if this particular charter network does not want to sign this contract, we have to draw a line there,» he said.

A report last April by researchers at Duke University found many individual charter schools in North Carolina were either predominantly white or predominantly minority.

When broken down by individual charter schools, the majority of charters outperform their host districts in at - risk demographics.

And within that cohort, 900 students could have a notable impact on the graduation rate — especially when you consider that nearly 600 of them were not on track to graduate at the time they left, based on the data we received from individual charter schools.

Furthermore, CCSA believes if unfair suspension practices exist at individual charter schools, those schools should improve their policies and their authorizers should hold them accountable.

And the reality of this segregation is indisputable — detailed in publicly available data that individual charter schools report to the New Jersey Department of Education.

However, these averages mask wide variation across individual charter schools in their impacts.

Visit individual charter school websites for schools that are not participating in the ICSN substitute pool as they may have varied positions and pay rates.

«The schools» failure to receive the January payment may ultimately result in the schools» bankruptcy and closure and the relocation of over 16,000 students in the middle of the school year,» according to the document filed by attorneys for BESE, the state Department of Education, the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and several individual charter schools.

The Brookings report said individual charter schools are more racially segregated than the traditional public schools that serve the same geographical area.

The Friday Wire is the League's weekly e-newsletter that recaps news articles about general education and charter schools, highlights individual charter school news and lists upcoming League events.

It also profiles individual charter schools around the state, including Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy in western North Carolina, John H. Baker Charter School in Raleigh, and Gaston College Preparatory and Haliwa - Saponi Tribal School in eastern North Carolina.

The study used a method of pairing individual charter school students with students who had the same demographic profiles and started out with the same test scores but attended traditional schools the charter students otherwise might have attended.

The Arts Ed Profile was administered to all 2,277 schools across LA County, including 81 districts, four charter school networks as well as a few individual charter schools.

This Excel document shows grade - by - grade score comparisons of individual charter schools to their neighborhood district averages for Math and English Language Arts, 2009 - 10.

Although many individual charter schools have made strong student gains and have important lessons to share, the practical need to collect and run comparable data makes the inclusion of all charter schools impossible at this point.

Numbers we previously reported came from individual charter schools and represent two years» worth of data.

Limited data on individual charter schools, both for UWM and the City of Milwaukee, is available through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, but not for the schools as a group.

Applying for Prop. 39 facilities is not only good for individual charter schools, it is also good for the movement.

In New York City, students apply to each individual charter school directly.

Though further research is required to make any firm judgments, the most likely reason for this difference is Denver's use of a universal enrollment system in which charter schools participate compared to the practice in New York City, where parents apply to individual charter schools.

All institutions, whether they are school districts, individual charter schools, charter management organizations, or state agencies, can serve students well or badly.

Winters notes that the special education gap in kindergarten is much smaller in Denver than in New York City, possibly because Denver uses a universal enrollment system in which charter schools participate, while in New York City families must apply to individual charter schools.

The 99 KIPP schools around the country are legally and operationally distinct from the foundation and, up until recently, each KIPP school stood on its own as an individual charter school.

Depending on the size of the school, and the aggressiveness with which local districts decide to «flag» students, individual charter schools can see tens of thousands of dollars in legitimate funding delayed or withheld each year.

Since the disaster, individual charter schools that were meeting academic goals could decide to return to School Board oversight.

And we need to stop comparing district - wide averages of students with disabilities to individual charter schools — the averages hide extreme variation among schools and we should do school - to - school comparisons whenever necessary.

But smaller, individual charter schools have been getting less help from private donors, especially since the 2008 recession, he said.

Co-authored by Education Sector co-director Thomas Toch, this installment of Ed Sector's «Connecting the Dots» series describes the Walton Family Foundation's impact on the charter sector via its investments in individual charter schools, charter management organizations and networks, support organizations, advocacy, and research and information.

Some of the following resources are based on, or reference, the practices outlined in CR 154 but individual charter schools may create their own policies and procedures and should always follow the procedures approved in their charter.

Colorado, for example, passed a law last year that requires each individual charter school to be organized as a nonprofit corporation, separate from its management organization, so that the schools are more accountable to the district.

And even as California continues to strengthen laws that govern the accountability of individual charter schools, the effort does not extend to the parent organizations, which answer to the IRS, not to the school districts.

When you look at schools in other states that don't have high accountability, that don't have the right laws in place, some of the individual charter schools have practices that are unfair, inappropriate or unjust, those things need to be dealt with.

The 63 grants benefit schools serving a total of over 34,000 students and include 9 charter management organizations responsible for 42 schools, 14 individual charter schools and 10 other schools, including several serving children with special needs.

Just as critical, the 6,700 individual charter schools that have opened nationwide are serving as incubators of the most forward - thinking leaders in public education.

Individual charter schools are required by the NYSED to complete 2 safety plans: a District - Wide Safety Plan and a Building - Level Safety Plan.

In addition, concerned citizens in the highly decentralized New Orleans landscape have found it difficult to express system wide concerns or to appeal school - level decisions that seemingly can't go beyond an individual charter school board.

Lewis said that providing buses is up to the individual charter schools, but that the OPSB is working to encourage more of them to provide transportation.

Studies have found that local tests, such as those required by DCPS or individual charter schools, make up the majority of the assessments students take.

Although some individual charter schools have their struggles, the study suggests that students who attend charters generally may be better off than if they had gone to traditional public schools in their communities.

Depending on a student's individual needs and the type of special education arrangement, offering appropriate special education services may result in the charter school working with a school district program, a non-public school or agency, or another charter school to provide a level or type of service that is not available at the individual charter school site.