Sentences with phrase «largest charter school operator»

Are you surprised that the largest Charter School operator in America is a Turkish political movement using our tax dollars to bring their people (they call them teachers) into America to support a political agenda in a foreign land?

James has also led the legal case against the city's largest charter school operator, Success Academy, over accusations that the network counsels out students with disabilities.

Ben also serves as Chairman of the Board of KIPP New Orleans Schools, the largest charter school operator in New Orleans.

Green Dot is one of the largest charter school operators in the city.

Imagine Schools, a large charter school operator, has held meetings in Loudoun County, Va., west of Washington, to gauge parental interest in charters marketed partly as an alternative to overcrowded schools.

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Billionaire Dan Loeb is stepping down as chairman of Success Academy, NYC's largest charter - school operator — and will be replaced by an equally monied but less controversial chief, venture capitalist Steven Galbraith.

A diverse coalition of charter advocates rallied at City Hall on Friday to raise the cap, including several small independent charter operators who don't usually ally themselves with larger organizations, such as Families for Excellent Schools.

Billionaire Dan Loeb is stepping down as chairman of Success Academy, the city's largest charter - school operator — and will be replaced by an equally monied but less controversial chief, The...

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

«We see more and more charter school authorizers in cities with large charter market shares (like Washington, DC, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans) are starting to encourage high performing charter school operators to take over and restart low performing charter campuses.»

Charter school operators reap their largest profits through unreasonably high lease payments on buildings that the public will never own.

The battle between traditional schools and charters has been particularly sharp in the Houston ISD, the state's largest district, which is threatened with a state takeover unless it turns over 10 underperforming schools to a charter operator.

Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school company that was co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, is continuing its campaign to get the Hartford Board of Education to close the Clark Elementary School and hand it over to the charter school opeschool company that was co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, is continuing its campaign to get the Hartford Board of Education to close the Clark Elementary School and hand it over to the charter school opeSchool and hand it over to the charter school opeschool operator.

Rep. Rick Glazier (D - Cumberland) sees the provision in the technical corrections bill, along with allowing for - profits to shield salary information as laid out in SB 793, as part of a larger plan designed to protect private, for - profit charter school operators (sometimes referred to as education management operators, or EMOs).

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

Brown Act requirements, for instance, have been interpreted to call on charter operators to hold their board meetings in each jurisdiction where they have schools — posing a logistical nightmare for large operators with schools scattered statewide.

Andy Smarick said that it can be harder for rural areas with fewer people, a smaller workforce, and less ability to attract charter school operators, to make the changes seen in large cities.

... Pupils at the nine schools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chaschools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chaSchools, one of England's largest school chains....

The school district, in anticipation of Tuesday's meeting and questions for the charter division, issued a statement saying, «As the nation's largest authorizer of charter schools, LA Unified has established positive and collaborative relationships with our charter operators.

DeVos has also owned shares in K12 Inc., the nation's largest operator of for - profit charter schools.

As the year unfolds hopeful charter operators will apply to run schools, others may learn they have to shut down, and some may be taken over or absorbed by larger charter networks.

Fast - growing South Nashville will be home to four of the new schools, while the nation's largest charter operator will take over a still - undetermined low - performing elementary school

In interviews with Abell, large charter operators said restrictions in the Maryland law would discourage them from starting new schools, though the researchers cautioned that some of those operators have not looked extensively at the state's law.

Rocketship Education, the upstart charter operator that has posted impressive test scores for traditionally struggling students, won approval early Thursday morning to more than triple its charter network by opening 20 new schools in Santa Clara County — the largest single charter - school approval in the state.

In Michigan, where NHA is the largest charter - school operator, state education regulators have voiced similar frustrations about the degree to which these private firms are shielded from having to answer to the public about how money is spent.

But to read local media reports and talk to close observers in the state's largest city, there's really only one plan: a proposal that would wrest direct control of all 34 Kansas City Schools from the district and hand over management to charter operators and nonprofits.

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.

So now, she says, she's appealing to the larger legislature and amendment process to ensure that any charter school expansion excludes for - profit operators.

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

have been among the most vocal proponents of diverting scarce public taxpayer funds to Achievement First, Inc, the large charter school management company, to former charter school operator Dr.» Michael Sharpe and his disgraced FUSE charter school chain and Steve Perry, the controversial anti-teacher former Hartford school administrator and self - described «most trusted educator in America,» who, thanks to Governor Malloy is opening his own privately owned but publicly funded «boutique» charter school company.

We partner with school operators — education entrepreneurs — who join our network for the opportunity to autonomously design, launch, and manage new schools, and want the support and resources of a large successful charter network.

In fact, the only person in the story likely to be doing very well is Mr. Packard himself who used to pull in a salary of $ 5 million to run the K12 Inc. family of for profit virtual charter schools (with an educational record so dubious that the NCAA refuses to accept credits from the schools) and whose Pansophic Learning is now the largest for profit operator of charter schools in Ohio.

Investors delivered a strong censure to the country's largest online charter school operator at its annual meeting Wednesday, voting down its plan for executive pay.

This report finds the seven largest charter operators, who all contract with educational management companies, have per pupil administrative costs that are $ 406 higher than the overall average for charter schools.

That's believed to be the largest grant of public capital funds to a U.S. charter school operator.

Likewise, Table 2 also illustrates in blue that many large operators, filing a single AFR, have low administrative costs: Premier Charter High School, The Odysssey Preparatory Academy, Inc., EDUPRIZESCHOOLS, and Benjamin Franklin Charter School.

The Broad plan points to three of LA Unified's largest charter operators that have received Broad largess — Green Dot Public Schools, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.charter operators that have received Broad largess — Green Dot Public Schools, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.»