Sentences with phrase «larger charter community»

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Unfortunately, it also has an active seismic zone beneath the PF - 4 building, producing persistent worries among the staff and members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, a congressionally - chartered oversight group, that if it experienced a rare, large earthquake, the roof could collapse and toss chunks of plutonium so closely together a chain reaction would ensue, spewing radioactive, cancer - causing plutonium particles throughout nearby residential communities.

Today's charter community boasts large schools, extensive networks, and impressive market share.

The four - day leadership development program drew on the expertise and research of Harvard faculty and leading practitioners in framing the challenges faced by charter schools and their school communities while also addressing the larger state - level policy environment.

According to Education Next's 2015 poll, supporters of charters outnumber opponents by a two - to - one margin, both among the public at large and in minority communities.

In several respects, parents in communities with a charter presence are only marginally more knowledgeable than the public at large.

While charter schools often emerge to fill the gaps left by shuttered Catholic schools, Garnett and Brinig believe that these institutions aren't as effective at positively impacting the community at large.»

We have managed to convince the larger universe of parents that good charters are only for poor children, but of little relevance to suburban communities.

Along with Highville Charter School, Achievement First Amistad Academy and Elm City College Prep and Brass City Charter School in Waterbury, our state's largest school district stands out for the ways in which charters are connected to the communities they serve.

New York State Resource and Computer Training Centers are the largest professional learning communities in New York State with more than 125 Teachers Centers located throughout the state, working with 675 public schools districts and nearly 1000 non-public and charter schools.

Charter schools have traditionally taken hold in large urban communities, and Indiana is no exception.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

This is not a significant issue in a large district like the Jackson Public School District, but this is a significant challenge for those communities in lesser populated areas who want to create a charter school.

Many of the ideas that initially attracted me to charter schools — community empowerment, authentic education for youth left behind, piloting promising practices to share with traditional schools — have often been drowned out by larger political forces.

But we have large wait lists in NY (nearly 50,000 this year) so the charter community is clearly doing many things very well.

But, despite this breadth of teaching models and outreach to the most vulnerable student populations, and despite the fact that we represent half of the charter schools in NYC, we remain an unknown story within the city at large because our schools do their work diligently and without much fanfare in their communities.

She also oversaw Uncommon's parent and community engagement strategy to empower parents as leaders in the charter school and larger education reform movement, and led the advocacy and external affairs strategy for Uncommon NYC.

The trip enabled participants to see a range of secondary learning options for students, including a comprehensive high school with small learning communities, a small school within a larger educational complex, an alternative high school, and a public charter school.

The district's «portfolio of schools» strategy is to provide a range of schools for students: comprehensive high schools with small learning communities, small free - standing high schools, small schools within a large complex, and charter schools.

Success charters receive large donations from the business community.

Once classified as an experiment, Gotham's charter sector is now the largest scaled, high - performing charter district in the country — filled with top, nationally - recognized organizations that support real success for the city's most vulnerable communities.

While they've made academic gains in struggling communities, KIPP and other large charter networks have come under fire recently for high student attrition rates, discipline issues and failing to meet states» standards.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

1 Establish a charter school with selective admissions process and access to more resources inside an existing large school building that you covet — remember that it's easier to target people - of - color communities, which have less political power.

The first major charter question that came to the board this year - Aspire Public School's statewide benefit charter - pitted the charter community against most of the state's large representatives of traditional public schools, including the California School Boards Association and the CTA.

A growing movement: America's largest charter school communities (9th ed).

While some suggest that these demographics indicate charter schools are contributing to the resegregation of public education, charter school advocates counter that charter enrollment resembles the demographic breakdown of traditional public schools in their surrounding districts and neighborhoods, and note that communities often intentionally establish charter schools to reach large numbers of underserved students (NAPCS, 2012).

They reviewed a study by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the largest national community development nonprofit, which has analyzed every rated and unrated charter school bond issued from 1998 - 2011.

Located in one of the largest Spanish - speaking communities in Southern California, El Sol Science and Arts Academy is a dual - immersion charter school in Santa Ana.

The Children's Guild District of Columbia Public Charter School's mission is to use the philosophy of Transformation Education to prepare special needs and general education students for college, career readiness, and citizenship in their community by developing in them critical thinking and creative problem solving skills, self - discipline and a commitment to serve a cause larger than themselves.

He said the concept works, but the state needs to ensure that contracts with independent operators allow enough time to show progress and the Community Schools Office takes steps to ensure locals aren't pushed out of contention by large charter - school lines.

Citizens of the World Charter Schools are built on the belief that the diversity of our communities, and of the world at large, is a great strength.

Help us equip our communities with the tools to find their collective voice and use it to benefit students and the charter school movement at large.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

From 2009 to 2011 she served as community outreach director for Achievement First, the large charter school management company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

According to Russ Weikle, director of the California Department of Education's Career and College Transition Division, school districts, county offices of education, community college districts and public charter schools are eligible to apply for some 50 grants ranging from $ 600,000 up to $ 15 million for larger regional programs.

In the latest PDK / Gallup poll, 65 percent of respondents said they would back new public charter schools in their community and 60 percent said they would support «a large increase» in the number of such schools operating in the United States...

Unlike his younger rival, the east L.A. - born Villaraigosa, 64, is known for his education record and ardent support in the school reform community, which believes he pushed for charters and more accountability in the nation's second - largest school district with little political upside and clear risks.

An ASC consists of the principal, two teachers, two parents, one member of the chartering district's Board, and one community member at large.

The evidence base includes outcomes for schools with a variety of governance structures in many local contexts, ranging from small charter schools to large and small district - run schools in urban and rural communities.