Sentences with phrase «like early charters»

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The scant regulation early in the country's life, and the wide variety of paper currencies in circulation via private banks and other state - chartered companies like insurance vendors and railroads, meant a free - for - all for any enterprising soul with a flair for forgery.

And as the early talks went nowhere, Sprint started looking for other merger partners, like cable companies Charter Communications (chtr) and Comcast (cmcsa), which are just getting into the wireless business.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

He also had very harsh words for Mayor Bill de Blasio, criticizing him for trying to shut down charter schools and stressing that he was referring to liberal Democratic politicians like him when he made his derisive comment about «New York values» earlier in the campaign.

By all means, we should do everything we can to boost those numbers, starting as early as possible, and including common - sense reforms like reintroducing serious academic content to the elementary and middle school curriculum and replicating «no excuses» charter schools like KIPP.

This might look like charter - school agreements in the early days — customized contracts that consider «multiple measures» and qualitative judgments that are better aligned with the mission and approach of the schools being evaluated (like the ones you love, Governor «Moonbeam» Brown).

Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

«I don't feel that charters are going to go away, but I do believe they will become so hamstrung they will become like the traditional school system,» said Donald Hense, the founder of one of D.C.'s largest charter networks, at the National Press Club earlier this month.

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 1.9 to $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating most teachers» aides positions in classrooms or cutting early education programs being considered.

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will likely result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating teacher's aides positions in classrooms or cutting out Smart Start and More At Four early education programs already on the table.

In schools like McKinley Elementary in Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sides.

Charter proponents like Hawkes are deriding a seeming reversal in fortunes for North Carolina's bustling charter sector, which has surged from 100 to 167 schools in roughly five years, before SBE members seemed to signal a more surgical approach to charter openings earlier thisCharter proponents like Hawkes are deriding a seeming reversal in fortunes for North Carolina's bustling charter sector, which has surged from 100 to 167 schools in roughly five years, before SBE members seemed to signal a more surgical approach to charter openings earlier thischarter sector, which has surged from 100 to 167 schools in roughly five years, before SBE members seemed to signal a more surgical approach to charter openings earlier thischarter openings earlier this month.

Rosselló delivered a televised address in early February announcing a package of educational reforms he'd like to bring to the island — including charters, vouchers for private schools, and the first pay increase for teachers in a decade.

You know, Abrasion was one of those charters like Esperanza (UNO - Chicago) that were approved very early on before most of us were able to come up for air from rebuilding our homes.

In line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects.

Our school, like so many charter schools, began with a big idea by our founding leaders and a leap of faith by our early families and supporters.

Education reform issues like teacher tenure, teacher certification, teacher evaluations, early childhood education, charter schools, school funding and more need input from all educators.