Sentences with phrase «into charter school»

Twenty years into the charter school movement, charter schools have become an integral part of the educational landscape but seem to confront new and sometimes conflicting regulations, rules, budget cuts and legal challenges daily.

According to the charter school proposals Perry and his operation submitted in Connecticut and New York, he and eight of his senior administrators and teachers have been working for the past two years to turn Perry's private company into a charter school management chain.

Maybe if they did, parents would be lining up to get into the district schools just as they are lining up to get into my charter school,» Rodriguez said.

The law requires the district to work with the parents when they turn in a petition to convert the school into a charter school.

San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Steve Malone ruled that the Adelanto School District trustees illegally rejected the petition submitted by a majority of parents to turn Desert Trails Elementary into a charter school.

Both were instrumental in turning Sacramento High into a charter school in 2003, getting rid of the teachers and replacing them with a nonunion staff.

For example, Memorial Charter Academy, which converted from a regular public school into a charter school in 1995, is on the restructure list.

But now we are told, by right wing conservatives who despise social democracy, that public education is an evil and that the best thing for the poor is to get their children into a charter school, nominally public, but typically managed by a private charter school management company (backed by Wall St money).

Most of them we want to pull into the charter school movement where they can see what a great public school is that doesn't have the chaos inflicted by the rapid turnover of a local school board.»

She will be a fierce advocate for Connecticut's nearly 10,000 charter students and families, as well as the families whose children are on waiting lists to get into a charter school.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

What does a child need in order to get into a charter 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.

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.]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

Allow parents in failing schools to immediately petition to turn the school into a charter school.

If a school receives an F grade, allow parents in that school district to immediately petition to turn the school into a charter school.

The parents had advocated for turning the school into a charter school, a plan which was rejected by the school board.

Located in an underserved neighborhood of San Diego, Gompers relied on ExED's assistance as it converted into a charter school after five straight years of failing to meet performance targets.

The speakers were among the 61 percent of McKinley parents who chose to take advantage of California's new Parent Trigger law this month, petitioning that the school be seized from the low - performing Compton Unified School District and turned into a charter school.

Evers said the proposal reminds him of the federal education law No Child Left Behind, which required schools that did not meet federal - imposed standards after four or more years to be placed into «corrective action,» which could have resulted in replacing teachers, converting the school into a charter school or closing it altogether.

The Palm Lane parents used the state's Parent Empowerment Act, also known as the Parent Trigger Law, which lets parents of low - achieving schools collect signatures to petition school boards to reform schools, which can include turning a campus into a charter school.

So she embarks on a campaign to turn Adams into a charter school and enlists a burned - out teacher at the school — played by Academy Award nominee Viola Davis — to help her do it.

The non-profit organization Parent Revolution, currently attempting one such coup at McKinley Elementary in Compton, chose the most extreme option: seize the campus from the district and turn it into a charter school.

Recovery School District superintendent Patrick Dobard agreed to hear her questions, and Bigard began by expressing concern about discipline policies as Walter L. Cohen High School is transformed into a charter school operated by NOLA College Prep.

They are forced, unless they are lucky enough to get into a charter school or specialized magnet program, to attend the school in their district.

By the end of five years, if it was not on track to achieve 100 percent proficiency, the school might be handed over to a private manager, turned into a charter school, taken over by the state, or closed.

Parents first started organizing the Desert Trails Parent Union in June 2011, and the union first filed its petition to convert the school into a charter school on Jan. 12.

One of the main forces behind the shift of Sacramento High School into a charter school earlier this decade announced plans to open ten charter schools in Sacramento County in order to offer better educational choices to students.

After spending three years specializing in special education, I am looking forward to assisting our schools in their growth, answering your questions, and diving deep into charter school law.

Fenton Avenue Charter School, located in the San Fernando Valley, was a traditional public school that converted into a charter school in 1993.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

The district has decided not to convert Inglewood into a charter school next year and has provided the school with some much needed resources.