Sentences with phrase «known national charter»

Born in Houston as the Knowledge Is Power Program for middle schoolers, KIPP is now the biggest and best - known national charter network, educating 88,000 students in 209 schools nationwide.

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Sharanya Sharma's second - grade class at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, DC, surveyed people at Reagan National Airport to find out what they knew about how airplanes fly.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

«If you can't use this state as a point for lifting the cap... I don't know what else you can use,» said Ms. Rees, of the national charter - school alliance.

Pete is well known for his interactive workshops on «Leadership» at NECC; the National Charter Schools Conference; National School Boards; IBM Palisades, Tech Forum conferences in NYC; Chicago; and Austin, Texas, as well as the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE.

In these roles, she leads and grows a national network of charter school attorneys known as «The Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing envirocharter school attorneys known as «The Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing enviroCharter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing envirocharter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing envirocharter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing envirocharter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environments.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation's Report Card, show that Los Angeles charter public schools are performing better than non-charter schools locally and nationally.

Foreign nationals are marketed to invest in charters in exchange for citizenship through the Federal EB 5 program, known as the «green carpet to citizenship.»

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«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.

Yet, as the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) shares in the celebratory moment and continues to promote and highlight best practices occurring in charter schools all over the country, we also know that within the charter sector and specifically for students with disabilities, several challenges Charter Schools (NCSECS) shares in the celebratory moment and continues to promote and highlight best practices occurring in charter schools all over the country, we also know that within the charter sector and specifically for students with disabilities, several challenges charter schools all over the country, we also know that within the charter sector and specifically for students with disabilities, several challenges charter sector and specifically for students with disabilities, several challenges remain.

In updating its 2009 national study on charter schools, Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) reaches the same conclusion it did in its previous study: The vast majority of charter schools in the United States are no better than public schools.

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Dacia Toll, well known in the charter school world as the co-founder and co-CEO of the Achievement First charter network, spent time at Valor when the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools helds its annual conference in Nashville icharter school world as the co-founder and co-CEO of the Achievement First charter network, spent time at Valor when the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools helds its annual conference in Nashville icharter network, spent time at Valor when the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools helds its annual conference in Nashville iCharter Schools helds its annual conference in Nashville in June.

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Hawkes, a founder of two Guilford County charter schools that are managed by the for - profit EMO National Heritage Academies, is known for having chastised his colleagues in past email correspondence for their recommendation of just 11 charter schools out of 71 that applied to open in 2014.

At the National Charter Schools Institute, we know that people choose to serve on charter school boards for many rCharter Schools Institute, we know that people choose to serve on charter school boards for many rcharter school boards for many reasons.

(And even with their ability to turn away students who might not test well, charters perform no better on national test scores than public schools that let in everyone.)

The results, based on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly known as the nation's report card, were unearthed from online data by researchers at the American Federation of Teachers — which has historically supported charter schools but has produced research in recent years raising doubts about the expansion of charter schools — who provided them to The New York Times.

When Mr. Fulop takes office on July 1, Jersey City could join New York City, Newark and Bridgeport, Conn., as another local laboratory for a national movement known as education reform that emphasizes tougher standards for teachers, uses test scores to grade schools and educators and promotes alternatives such as charter schools.

In 1938, the Congress chartered the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, as it came to be known.

Consequently, based on these reasons for the Advocate General Article 27 of the Charter as concretised through Article 3 (1) of Directive 2002/14 could be enforced in legal proceedings between private parties, with the possible result of the national norm being no longer applied (para 80).

The Lake & Geauga Area Association of REALTORS ®, also known as LGAAR, is a 501 (c) 6 non-profit trade organization which was originally chartered in 1929 by the National Association of REALTORS ®.