Sentences with phrase «into quality charter»

My children sat on charter school wait lists for more than three years to get into quality charter schools.

An increasing number of local education agencies are tying to curtail their availability, even though at least 50,000 children remain on waiting lists to get into a quality charter school.

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«Under their leadership, rental assistance for new and expanding New York City charter schools will increase, translating into more high - quality schools being opened.»

Success Charter Network says its expansion into the Upper West Side will bring high - quality public education to a district that needs it.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Today, a mere nuisance has burgeoned into the foremost hurdle to the rapid expansion of high - quality charter schools.

But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Denver is a story of innovative superintendents and boards incorporating charters into a comprehensive system, learning from them, and giving families more quality choices.

Let me ambitiously attempt to synthesize the major arguments into a unified theory: the Wise Wonks» Hierarchy of Charter School Quality.

There's an ongoing discussion about how to best monitor the quality of pre-k programs, particularly those operated by charter schools, which I'll get into in a later post.

The School Board should help encourage new, high quality charter operators to come into New Orleans to open new schools or take over charters that are foundering.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

Why are there 850 students stuck on waiting lists to get into one of these high quality charter schools?

«My foray into the charter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive dicharter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive diCharter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive diCharter School in 2006, where he is currently executive director.

By placing all district and charter public schools into these quality tiers, the Association is now poised to investigate where students lack access to quality schools.

Twenty - plus years into the charter law in Arizona, we can say with confidence that growth of quality education in our state is a direct result of your work.

Based on the principles of data - driven instruction, this interactive session will provide an overview of how charter boards can use interim and summative data — academic, financial, and operational — to ensure quality governance that takes into account the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools performance framcharter boards can use interim and summative data — academic, financial, and operational — to ensure quality governance that takes into account the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools performance framCharter Schools performance frameworks.

For KIPP — and Democracy Prep — the takeover offered a rare opportunity to walk into a ready - made school, complete with students and a fully furnished, light - filled building in a city where schools compete for students and high - quality facilities for charter schools are scarce.

Instead of supporting «parent trigger,» which replaces one school for another and turns the public school into a non-unionized charter school, let's assure that children get experienced, high - quality educators who won't leave after 2 - 3 years.

Far from being anathema to progressive values, high - quality charter schools demonstrate how to translate these educational values into practice by committing to college success, increasing teacher diversity, rethinking school discipline, and supporting vulnerable populations.

«What we have here, it's about defending DCPS from the popularity of the charter schools, and it has nothing to do with getting more kids into quality schools.

If the school board fully moves away from managing schools, it would even allow for greater school choice to be fostered; the school board would take on the role of charter school authorizers, bringing in high - quality charter operators into the county and offering greater choice.

One step would be to get the Wolverine State's American Indian tribes to get into the charter authorizing and charter school operating game; the governor can already look to the example of Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college that has authorized 44 charters in the state, and is working with the College Board on efforts to improve the quality of schools it oversees.

«It's a very good mix of high - quality charter management groups coming into the state as well as home - grown proposals.»

To date, New Hampshire has quite successfully taken reformation of its public school system into its own hands through an innovative new learning model, raising teacher quality, promoting charter schools, and raising the dropout age, just to mention a few examples.

They selected the top three public charter systems — Achievement First, IDEA Public Schools and KIPP Schools — and ultimately found that KIPP Schools deserved recognition for its ability to provide a high - quality education to students across the country, particularly noting the network's ability to scale, adapt to new locations and pursue continuous innovation by bringing technology into the classroom.

The 11 cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania through 2012 have been popular among families seeking alternatives to the traditional public schools, but their quality has been called into question because most of their students have been unable to reach state benchmarks on math and reading tests.

The poll, commissioned by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the California Charter School Association (CCSA), offered insight into how parents and voters view public schools in Los Angeles as The Broad Foundation and others including CCSA continue to solicit input on how best to increase access for families seeking high - quality public schools.

We are also beginning to dig into issues that ranked high among our survey respondents, including charter schools, testing, and «accountability» and look forward to working to working together to ensure that all PA public school children have access to quality schools.

Center City PCS transformed seven inner city parochial schools into public charter schools, and thus extended access to high quality programs in some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city.

Charter schools were meant to be laboratories for educational innovation — a place to develop experiments that could be incorporated into the public school system — and not a replacement for inclusive, high - quality public education.

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.

«After no longer tolerating this one bad apple, the charter school community rallied together to ensure that their former students have a soft landing into high - quality programs,» said Caprice Young, chief executive of California Charter Schools Assn., which has no affiliation with the California Charter Acharter school community rallied together to ensure that their former students have a soft landing into high - quality programs,» said Caprice Young, chief executive of California Charter Schools Assn., which has no affiliation with the California Charter ACharter Schools Assn., which has no affiliation with the California Charter ACharter Academy.

The changes, which went into effect on June 8, amends 19 TAC Chapter 100.1033 (b) and includes changes to how a charter school may request an amendment for relocation, expansion, and High - Quality Campus Designation.