Sentences with phrase «just about charter»

Former Senate President Andy Gardiner, who has a son with Down syndrome and helped create the program, said he hopes the «governor is mindful» that the bill isn't just about charter schools and that many families will be affected by his decision.

It's not just about charter schools versus public schools — there are a lot of nuances we need to consider.

«School choice isn't just about charter schools, but allowing students to attend the schools that help them thrive, regardless of zip code.»

Former Senate President Andy Gardiner, who has a son with Down syndrome and helped create the program, said he hopes the «governor is mindful» that the bill isn't just about charter schools and that many families will be affected by his decision.

We're not just about charters, and that's by design.

Not exact matches

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, known as the «notwithstanding clause,» has just about acquired the status of a zombie law in recent decades, left largely untouched by legislatures (at least in the Rest of Canada).

Those who don't care for either kind of fishing can just charter the 44 - foot yawl Ondina for a day's cruise about the harbor.

People are very passionate about this neighborhood school and don't understand my decision but the charter school just lines up better with my daughter and her academic learning style.

... Many of us also believe that charter schools are public schools and deserve... support as well, so it's really just about finding the right balance of that and getting this done.»

«We'll do about 1,000, almost 1,100 FAFSAs a year, just in Buffalo Public Schools and another 250 in the charter schools,» he says.

The mayor also had to accept two unpalatable concessions just to get the bare minimum: agreeing to publish information about the city's schools budgeting and changing the way many of the city's charter schools are run.

About half of charter school applicants are female, just like students in the traditional public schools (see Figure 2).

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

And by the end of the legislative session, he got just about everything he wanted in a school reform plan: expansion of charter schools, private school vouchers, and college scholarships for students who graduate high school early.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

As a result, this simple correlation tells us nothing about whether charters increase segregation or just tend to locate in areas where the schools are already segregated.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

The school started by Deborah Meier, current scourge of standardized tests, charters, accountability, and just about everything associated with Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein, who initiatiated the school report cards program?

«At the end of the day, parents don't care about charter, union, traditional, they just want a good school for their kids,» says Riley.

A large part of the explanation — about 80 % of the difference — can be explained by the fact that charters are just less likely to classify students as disabled and more likely to declassify them.

Almost nobody wants out of this system — well, a handful of charter - school parents don't want their kids «identified» — and just about everyone except the taxpayer gains from its continued growth.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

In just about every dimension that affects post-secondary education, students who got high lottery numbers (and hence were much more likely to enroll in a charter school) outperformed those assigned lower lottery numbers.

After all, while we may indeed be entering a new phase of the charter school debate — one where charters have lost much of their luster — prudence suggests awaiting further confirmation before concluding we've just witnessed a sudden about - face in a two - decade trend.

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A recent review of media articles about charter schools in just the past year found that: • Charter schools are increasing segregation and excluding children with the greatest need (research studies from NYU, Rutgers, Western Michigan University, media reports from Orlando, L.A., New Orcharter schools in just the past year found that: • Charter schools are increasing segregation and excluding children with the greatest need (research studies from NYU, Rutgers, Western Michigan University, media reports from Orlando, L.A., New OrCharter schools are increasing segregation and excluding children with the greatest need (research studies from NYU, Rutgers, Western Michigan University, media reports from Orlando, L.A., New Orleans).

The root causes of this debacle are a badly drafted (so - called «strong») state charter law that enables just about anyone who wants a charter to get one, and the absence of any community - wide mechanism to ensure that there is a at least one good school for every child.

Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

Read more about why his work with charter schools is more than just a job.

«What's important when you're embracing a new approach to education, like charters and vouchers, is to think about how those impact all the children, not just those who get the vouchers or get into the charters,» Russakoff said.

Russakoff: What's important when you're embracing a new approach to education, like charters and vouchers, is to think about how those impact all the children, not just those who get the vouchers or get into the charters.

Expressing concern about the feasibility to do just that, State Board member Wayne McDevitt ran through a lengthy list of all of the oversight and monitoring responsibilities that are placed on the shoulders of a very understaffed Office of Charter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litiCharter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even liticharter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litigation.

Those that Francom expects to attend the meeting just want to learn more about charter schools.

An estimated 610,000 students are on waiting lists to attend charter schools — a jump of about 200,000 from just two years ago, a national organization says.

It just serves to confirm that charter schools could care less about the academic success of children and really just care about the almighty $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $..

The governor's press release appears to say those should be criteria for NEW charters but what about the existing charters and note that it is a long list that begins with students in poor communications so can they keep doing what they are doing and say they meet the new criteria because they are poor — just not as poor as the kids they leave behind in the district schools.

If you look at just about every independent analysis of the performance of students in the full - time cyber charter schools compared to their traditional brick - and - mortar counterparts, they do quite poorly.

So that was just one school district and I read later about another school district doing the same thing, also complaining about how much money it was «losing» by having the kids enroll in charter schools versus staying in the traditional public schools (TPS).

The Building Hope Annual Report has just been released and it makes for interesting reading for those who want to know more about the challenges facing charter public schools as they open new facilities.

Just 53 parents at Desert Trails, a school of about 600 kids, made the final call to turn the building — and the public funds to run it — over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town.

for school year 2017 - 2018 has received little backlash, which could mean one of three things: either the district has done an effective job communicating and engaging the public, or charter schools have taken top billing — again, or everyone is just silly happy about the proposed salary increases.

[But] half of our top high schools are charter schools: when we bragged about [that] after we've just said, «Let's be clear.

Authorizers in Florida are just now completing their review of new charter proposals using a much more robust process, and we are hearing that authorizers are making better decisions about which schools to open based on better information.

The $ 902 million budget for school year 2017 - 2018 has received little backlash, which could mean one of three things: either the district has done an effective job communicating and engaging the public, or charter schools have taken top billing — again, or everyone is just silly happy about the proposed salary increases.

Today, the nation's charter schools number close to 7,000 and serve about 5 percent of the students in the U.S. — just half of those who attend private schools, and slightly more than the 3 percent who are homeschooled.

Enemies of reform, complain about people like Dr. Noguera at your own risk, because in urging him to abandon charters you just may get what you ask for.

«As soon as I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schools.

The pro-privatization LA School Report (LASR) spun a school board committee meeting last month to say that just about everybody in LAUSD wants charter schools to be included in a universal enrollment system.

After hearing about a charter school that had to leave their campus and find a new one just a month before school started, I couldn't help but wonder, «Could that be us?»