Sentences with phrase «just opened a charter»

Diddy, who just opened a charter school in Harlem, apparently isn't buying Clinton's wide lead among African - Americans over GOP opponent Donald Trump.

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«We want to turn these schools around, but just to blame teachers and close schools and open up charter schools I think is unfair,» Heastie said.

«As parents and as a community, we have to be open to all possibilities, but my position is that charter schools are just one possibility,» said City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, whose district includes Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill.

I was at the Red straw event at Yager bar too... It was definitely too busy and intense... 1 guy opened with I'd just like to let you know I'm a chartered accountant (snore!)

According to the Center for Education Reform, as of January 2003 there were nearly 2,700 charter schools serving more than 684,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, just a decade after the first charter opened its doors.

Following the hurricane, a declaration made by the New Orleans governor stating that it could take upward of a year for schools to reopen prompted the creation of charters by many educators, Usdin said, in an effort just to get schools open again.

Weingarten's New York local supports three charter schools itself, one opened just this fall.

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.

The year before the first charter school opened, Boston Public Schools (BPS) enrolled just under 60,000 students.

Prior to the ruling, unionized Seattle teachers went on strike just as the school year began, leaving charter schools the only public schools in the city open for business.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

It would authorize the state to open just twelve new charters a year, with priority given to school operators seeking to locate in low - performing districts.

In February 2016, CCSA published an «open letter» from charter leaders to the district's board: «While two years ago the L.A. Unified Board of Education approved 89 percent of new charter school petitions, so far this year the board has approved just 45 percent.

The city's charter sector expanded rapidly between 2010 and 2013; 32 new schools opened, a 42 percent increase in just those three years, bringing the total number to 109.

They gave a conditional OK to just nine charters to open for the coming academic year, out of 17 formal applications for 28 schools.

Singer, now 37, had enlisted Cowan, a teacher, to help him recruit 5th - grade students for the charter middle school he planned to open in just a few weeks.

Celebrity involvement has not always resulted in successful schools — former Dallas Cowboys star Deion «Prime Time» Sanders» charter, Prime Prep Academy, closed midyear, just two and a half years after opening, after nonstop financial problems — but as long as charters continue to take over the American educational landscape, so too will these name - brand campuses.

• The RSD, conceived originally as a modest pilot program that had awarded turnaround charters for just four schools prior to Hurricane Katrina, was dramatically enlarged by Louisiana policymakers as a way to get public schools open after the ensuing floods, and was propelled by more than $ 20 million in federal charter school funding.

Renaissance Charter School at Poinciana opened in August 2012 just south of 192 on Poinciana Blvd.. The school is designed to educate grades K - 8.

Last year, City Garden Montessori Charter School opened just north of Tower Grove Park.

The second bill - just as important - would dramatically increase the number of charter school openings in the lowest - performing 10 percent of school districts.

Require that public charter schools be free and open to all students just as traditional public schools are, and that students be selected by lottery to ensure fairness if more students apply than a school can accommodate;

He showed us videos of charter schools with eighty openings and five hundred applicants — which drove home just how badly quality school options were needed.

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.

The number of new charter schools opening in a single school year peaked at 649 in 2012 — 13 and has fallen to just 329 in 2015 — 16.

The fact that Great Public Schools Now is open to supporting any type of high - achieving program (and not just charter schools) is a refreshing development in a city whose school board has been hostile to the expansion of charters.

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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 small district, called Acton - Agua Dulce Unified (AADUSD), is home to just three traditional schools, 1,100 students and one site - based charter school that opened just this year.

California Gov. Jerry Brown, who years ago opened two charter schools, just vetoed legislation passed by legislators who were seeking to bring some accountability to the state's scandal - ridden charter - school sector.

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The Korean - immersion school for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade will be located just a few miles from the nation's very first charter school, which opened in St. Paul in 1992.

They're not being backed by any big organizations, it's just someone that says, «I have a great idea and I'm going to open a charter school,» but they don't always have the knowledge to put those ideas into practice.

Desert Sands hopes to open Evergreen View Charter High School just south of Boeing Field, near the northern edge of one of the four suburban districts.

The AFT simply lumped in other states that just started opening charter schools within the last couple of years.

Just as the Desert Trails charter school opened in July, the school board voted to open its boundaries, so that students can attend any school parents choose in the district.

Just as critical, the 6,700 individual charter schools that have opened nationwide are serving as incubators of the most forward - thinking leaders in public education.

So I just think that there needs to be some filter as to who's opening up these charter schools.

After a rigorous application process, just two were approved to open their doors — Reimagine Prep and Midtown Public Charter School.

Pittsburgh Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt described just how bad Imagine's reputation is when Imagine was trying to open a school in the district: «A lot of my friends in education around the country are very supportive of the charter movement.

The story of Valor begins in 2011, when former Gov. Bill Haslam signed a law that opened up charter schools for students in any school, not just those whose schools were considered to be failing.

This means that just like traditional public schools, public charter schools are tuition - free and open to all students, do not discriminate on any basis, are publicly funded based on enrollment, and are held accountable to state and federal standards.

While this model is not as well tested in New York State, the SUNY Charter School Committee just opened the entire system of SUNY authorized charter schools to give itCharter School Committee just opened the entire system of SUNY authorized charter schools to give itcharter schools to give it a try.

Construction workers in April construct Madison's Badger Rock Middle School, a green - themed charter school that just opened and hasn't been issued a state report card yet.

CSAB vetted three charter school applications this month and approved just one for a 2017 opening — National Heritage Academies - managed Rolesville Charter charter school applications this month and approved just one for a 2017 opening — National Heritage Academies - managed Rolesville Charter Charter School.

Just last year the president of Achievement First, one of the largest nonprofit corporations in the charter school business, with over 20 charter schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, told Connecticut legislators that they were ready to open a new charter high school in Hartford that would provide a racially integrated education.

Just two days ago, as the new Broad Museum opened downtown, UTLA teachers staged a protest rally against the charter expansion plans at the museum, aiming much of their invective at Broad.

Critics say it includes too few quality controls and opens the state up to more underperforming charter school operators, some of which are just out to make a quick buck.

Because of «political challenges» in New York City, where a charter skeptic just replaced a pro-charter mayor, AF would seek to open the schools in Connecticut, in «Bridgeport or New Haven,» she said.

«I've seen a number of charter schools that have opened and run for a few years and then just basically faltered because they were unable to focus on their mission and vision,» said Allen Mueller, executive director of the new incubator, who previously was director of innovation for Atlanta Public Schools where he helped authorize the creation of charter schools in the district.