Sentences with phrase «kids out of the charter»

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PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

A number of Assembly members who haven't spoken out against efforts to limit charter schools have long waiting lists in their districts of kids wanting to get into those schools.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Mulgrew mocked the opposing rally as «the little show» and criticized organizers for taking charter school kids out of the classroom.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Looks like the clock is about to run out on thousands of out - of - luck kids at Success Academy charter schools.

Voucher supporters, charter advocates, standards nuts, teacher - effectiveness fanatics — we all fundamentally believe that fantastic schools staffed by dedicated educators can help poor kids climb out of poverty and compete with their affluent peers.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

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.

Mike Goldstein, the founder of Boston's MATCH Charter School points out that we get to watch our kids play volleyball and basketball.

If the only alternative to the charter is the district school you just pulled your kid out of how lousy does the charter have to be before the district school starts to look good?

For example, we have kids coming out of Camden traditional schools and moving to renaissance schools (district - charter hybrids) or charters, and the other way around.

While newspapers are reporting on parents who are opting their kids out of state testing, students in Brooklyn who attend Uncommon Schools charters are gearing up for the tests in «wacky and joyful» ways.

Charter schools and authorizers have the luxury of defining whom they will be responsible for; kids who don't get into charter schools or are pushed out of them for some reason are no longer the school's — or the sector's — responsiCharter schools and authorizers have the luxury of defining whom they will be responsible for; kids who don't get into charter schools or are pushed out of them for some reason are no longer the school's — or the sector's — responsicharter schools or are pushed out of them for some reason are no longer the school's — or the sector's — responsibility.

It is unprepared to serve the kids put out of charter schools because it was trying to cut fixed costs of school buildings and the central office in ways that reformers (like me) say they should do.

The level of support in the classroom for teachers and kids didn't change, though, and in fact became strained because of the money that was flowing out of the district into charters.

As CCSA points out, there are 40,000 kids on charter school waitlists in Los Angeles, unable to enroll in a high quality school of their parents choosing because there aren't enough seats.

My involvement in developing more charters like Roxbury Prep grew out of the fact that the autonomy - for - accountability exchange could be a lever to create better outcomes for kids.

Charters may have released some of that pressure by taking those kids and families out of the system.

Charter schools tend to deal with them by kicking them out, considering the education of the other kids important too.

and the charter kids with high test gains turn out to have higher incomes, and the control group with higher 4 - year graduation is lower, will you switch your view on which is the better indicator of long - term benefit?

Wallace called on the parents of the 630,000 students in charter schools to get active in the campaign, including making what he called CPK — a «call per kid» to help get out the vote on Villaraigosa's behalf.

There are options besides Districts of Choice and charter schools for parents to transfer their kids out of their districts:

Those out - of - date textbooks had been in kids» hands long before charter schools were created.

An article published in yesterday's New York Times announced that the principal who had purportedly created a «got - to - go» list of kids to be «counseled out» of a Success Academy charter school in Brooklyn was taking a leave of absence.

But perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of Berends» research on Indianapolis charters is why parents picked their kids» school in the first place.

announced that the principal who had purportedly created a «got - to - go» list of kids to be «counseled out» of a Success Academy charter school in Brooklyn was taking a leave of absence.

Some have come out to oppose the Governor's proposals, but I will tell you that it is wrong to cheat public charter school kids out of the resources given to district school kids.

Charter schools do serve hard - to - teach kids, and most of them don't push them out.

One of the messages that came out of the hullabaloo last week was that charters were «taking our kids.»

Post the grades online and give parents the option of transferring their kids out of failing schools or converting them to charter schools.

And the bottom line of every charter network: Research the hell out of which colleges work for their kids, and make sure they go there!

The charter schools are horrendous labour abusers - not only are they taking advantage of the children and families who don't know enough to keep their kids out of these schools — the staff are in constant fear for their job and are forced to work very long hours.

I'm not saying that charter schools or magnet schools are the ONLY answer — they're not — but they are the ONLY option for a kid at a Hartford School so out of control that monthly fire drills are conducted only at 2:30 pm because the staff can't get kids to re-enter the building after the drill (true story.)

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.

LAUSD loses over $ 500 million a year because of students who enroll in charters, but even at Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, which send 95 percent of their kids to college, the vast majority eventually drop out.

But critics charge that charters achieve these kinds of effects by pushing out kids with learning disabilities or problematic behavior — or avoid such children altogether.

By the same token, when under - funded and under - resourced public schools do not show «adequate yearly progress,» our response should be to find out why these schools are struggling, and provide them with the materials and support they need to improve — not for the charter management companies that run these schools to walk away before the end of the school year, forcing families to scramble to get their kids placed into public schools with little notice and no assistance.

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

Their dogmatic belief that poverty is the root cause of educational underachievement is a cop - out in an age in which there are great examples of schools, traditional, charter and private, who are helping kids reach brighter futures.

From half - day trips for mum, dad, and the kids — through to extended safari type charters to the Tip Of Oz, or live aboard game fishing out on the Great Barrier Reef, this will be an experience where the memories will last a lifetime.