Sentences with phrase «into urban charters»

The idea of middle - class parents tapping into urban charters is unsettling.

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The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

Adopt This: At Chicago's Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, 100 % of the students are accepted into college, and 95 % enroll in college.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

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So how do we transform today's urban district systems into chartered systems?

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These principles can be translated easily into urban public education via tools already at our fingertips thanks to chartering: start - ups, replications, and expansions.

Memphis is not the first diocese to work with charter leaders to «convert» struggling urban Catholic schools into public charter schools, but its «conversions» are certainly the most prominent.

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

NBFA is a tuition - free, public charter school, proudly distinguished by: • A progressive educational model that weaves trauma - sensitive, emotionally responsive practice into every classroom • Social emotional learning steeped in child development best practices • Parental involvement, in and outside of the classroom • Consistent, competitive high - school placement at such schools as Kolbe Cathedral, Hopkins and Fairfield Prep NBFA is located on an «urban campus» at 184 Garden Street, Bridgeport, CT (within a mile of the University of Bridgeport and the beach at Seaside Park).

The charter - school concept has also attracted new institutions into early education, says Tim Knowles, director of the Urban Education Institute, which is part of the University of Chicago.

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Academy for Urban Leadership Charter School in New Jersey held it's annual college fair where Juniors and Seniors were able to meet with college representatives all over the tri-state area for guidance with their journey into higher education!

Charters were just one piece of a broader dream for advocates, who sought to make New York City — the nation's largest school district — into the central urban laboratory for education reform.

Nine urban school systems, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, entered into the compact with charter schools.

The school would be the second attempt by the Urban League to bring a charter school into Miami's urban Urban League to bring a charter school into Miami's urban urban core.

The Broad Residency identifies and supports the transition of talented professionals into full - time management roles in urban school districts, charter management organizations and state departments of education.

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Urban parents jockey furiously to get their kids into gifted, magnet or charter schools, often miles away from their home.

Putting aside why Jumoke, the charter school management company that was hired to take over and run the Dunbar elementary school is looking for four new teachers, over a month into the new school year, the job posting announces that the charter school company wants educators who will «sweat the small stuff» and are committed to «embracing the challenges facing urban schools with a mantra of «No Excuses» and a willingness to do «Whatever it takes.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

As upcoming EdChoice research shows, innovative options like arts - based charter schools may actually attract suburban families to re-invest in urban communities, whether by dining at local restaurants after school functions or even moving back into the city to be nearer to their school of choice.

TFA has funneled a growing constituency of brand - new recruits into charters in large urban districts that have recently laid off hundreds of experienced teachers, including Philadelphia (where 99 percent of corps members teach in charters), Detroit (69 percent) and Chicago (53 percent).»

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The power plant was eventually converted into a technology - focused charter high school, while the Allstate building became a magnet for photographers and bloggers seeking to capture evidence of America's fading urban cores.