Sentences with phrase «into charter»

If a school failed to make progress over five years, it might be closed or privatized or handed over to the state authorities or turned into a charter school.

But I - 1240 allows for existing schools to be converted into charter schools, and there are enough underutilized school buildings around the state to potentially mitigate this problem.

The whole notion of diverting the best teachers away from the classroom and into charter school - run «training,» at a time when there aren't enough staff to even maintain existing programs, let alone enhance efforts to promote quality educational programs, is a farce.

Twenty - five years into the charter schools movement, many of the founders and key players have moved on in their careers, retired, or even passed away.

Decades into the charter school experiment and more than a decade into the DeVos influenced school landscape, Detroit has 30,000 more school seats than it needs and schools go into heated competition to fill those seats in time to get state money determined by headcount.

When the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, the $ 490 million blueprint to turn half of Los Angeles» public school system into charter schools, was first leaked to Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume, it triggered an uproar among the city's education community.

Huberman calmly responded that Chicago schools — following policies that he and his predecessor had laid down — would make all schools excellent by pouring money into charter schools, teacher recruitment and evaluation, and by shutting down low - performance schools.

The first attempt at prompting a trigger occured in Compton in 2010, where a petition was presented to turn low - performing McKinley Elementary School into a charter school.

Campbell said that the goal of her bill is to alleviate the hundreds of thousands of students who are on waiting list to get into a charter school.

The 44 - page memo reveals the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation's $ 490 - million plan to place half the students in Los Angeles Unified School District into charter schools over an eight - year period.

Shasta Charter Academy (6 - 12) has its value for teacher influence written into its charter contract with Shasta Union High School District.

In that speech he made a claim about how he helped turn around a school in Chicago by firing the teachers and turning it into a charter school.

The protestors oppose the «parent trigger» laws that inspired the events of the film, through which parents can take over a failing school and possibly turn it into a charter school.

Gov. Nathan Deal is proposing a new state school district that would take over failing schools and, possibly, convert them into charter schools.

When a public school is made into a charter, it's removed from public oversight or electoral control: there goes community choice about school closures or educational policies.

Xavier University has announced a new program, designed to get more local teachers and teachers of color into charter schools.

The decision to convert the Muskegon Heights Public School district into a charter school district was a financial one.

Some districts are more rigorous in their charter applications and other districts like Denver are very open, so the growth in Denver, especially in looking at the turnaround and transformation are strongly suggested that they turn into charter schools rather than in other districts that we looked at in Pueblo and in Center and in Sheridan where they're really putting all their efforts into making the traditional school successful rather than turning it into another model..

Dr. Steve Chestnut of Maricopa School District has the distinction of turning six district schools into charter schools, according to his resume.

Yet in Texas alone, 105,000 kids are waiting to be admitted to charter schools, and throughout the nation, more than a million children await acceptance into charter schools.

As the New York court observed, funneling public dollars into a charter school is inconsistent with the State's constitutional obligation, because «to divert public education funds away from the traditional public schools and toward charter schools would benefit a select few at the expense of» the majority of students in public schools.

Bobb's plan called for an aggressive conversion of failing DPS schools into charter schools, but had been since tempered by Roberts.

What does a child need in order to get into a charter school?

Parents will have little or no voice once a school is turned into a charter; most charter school boards are made up of businesspeople who do not have children in the school,

If you go back and read the comments you will see that every time I've raised this issue, charter school administrators and supporters have challenged my assessment saying that the lottery system ensures that everyone has an equal chance to get into the charter school.

both the Hartford Courant and the CT Mirror took note of the massive amount of corporate funds that are pouring into the charter school lobbying effort.

It's been supported with documentation for years that the government is trying to dismantle public education to force students into charter schools that have no school boards with elected officials in order to have complete control over education.

Because state takeovers have been characterized by conversion of public schools into charter schools; schools unaccountable to elected boards, with little duty to report on its finances, yet they receive millions in public funds.

The business community it putting tens of millions of dollars into the charter school system.

[But even statements like that didn't stop the Malloy administration from pouring even more money into the charter school.]

The problem is pervasive.The achievement gap extends beyond LAUSD and deep into charter schools as well.

In Philadelphia, approximately 40 percent of all public school students are now being diverted into charter schools.

Those that didn't meet federal standards for improvement after four or more years were subject to be placed into «corrective action,» which could have resulted in replacing teachers, converting a school into a charter school or closing it altogether.

«It is extremely disappointing that the governor would appoint a person so into charter schools as she is,» said Andrea Johnson, president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers.

Shelley Potter, president of San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel, protests ahead of SAISD's vote to turn Stewart Elementary into a charter school ran by Democracy Prep.

But she learned that what she actually signed was a petition to convert Desert Trails Elementary School into a charter campus, a change she says she had specifically told organizers she didn't want.

While Voices says it's not fair to compare schools that are serving fewer high - need students, the New Haven - based group says isolating minority students into charter schools is not the best practice.

The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing racial isolation and improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.

The last few months have been a painstaking uphill battle for Parent Revolution, the group of organizers and McKinley Elementary School parents trying to turn one vastly underperforming Compton campus into a charter school.

Principal Shawn Toranto announced the organization was awarded a $ 1 million federal startup grant to allow the charter school to grow into a charter management organization and operate two schools in 2013 - 14.

At an unannounced Compton Unified School District meeting last night, district officials demanded that McKinley Elementary School parents — over 60 percent of whom petitioned in December to turn their children's campus into a charter school — come to campus and verify their signatures next week.

If the organization said it can raise fourth - grade math scores in two years, close achievement gaps or graduate 100 percent of high schoolers, those promises go into the charter.

When Bakke was ousted from AES in 2002 after its stock crashed, he moved into the charter management business.

New Orleans turned nearly all of its public schools into charter schools.

And if that doesn't work out, they will have it converted into a charter school, thank you.

The award surprised Palm Lane parent Cecilia Ochoa, one of the leaders in a successful petition drive to turn her children's school into a charter.

Eventually, 50 percent of teachers sign as well as parents and the intrepid duo finally turns the school into a charter school run by the Viola Davis character.

What changed that, Pinkston contends, was when state superintendent Kevin Huffman and the ASD leader Chris Barbic turned the agency into a charter authorizer.

«Take it over, kick out bad teachers and turn it into a charter school and that is not a solution that is going to improve student's education.»

Under «parent trigger,» if a majority of parents at a public school that is supposedly «failing» sign a petition, the school can be converted into a charter school.