Sentences with phrase «like other charter»

Presumably the right would have to be — like some other Charter rights — subject to reasonable limits, such as laws that protect other values, e.g. copyright.

The Bronx Charter School proposal, like the other charter school proposals, is about funneling money to various players in the corporate education reform industry.

Like other charter schools the days are long, running from 7:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., and the academics rigorous.

Does your school, like other charter schools these days, benefit from lots of outside money, influential board members, media coverage, or other advantage?

Like the other charter - management groups, the majority of Green Dot's schools are located in the low - income communities of South Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

The submission comes as Verizon and other top Internet service providers like AT&T (t), Comcast (cmcsa), and Charter Communications (chtr) have won several victories over regulations adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration.

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.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the terms laid down by Justice Department and the FCC, Charter will have to avoid anything that looks like data rationing and roll out its broadband network to another two million homes, forcing it into competing with other cable companies.

But other pay TV providers like Comcast (cmcsa) and Charter Communications (chtr) have indicated that programming costs are rising 8 % to 10 % a year.

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.

Like Comcast, Charter announced plans for a mobile wireless service for its customers, and the two have teamed up, in a sense, to ensure they can test the mobile waters without competition from each other.

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.

Take your pick of the √ ºbertall and ask them what life is like standing high among the masses, without charter flights or other NBA - provided boundaries.

Like the G8, we hope to join with other leading open data «nations» and reach a consensus on a data «charter» we can send to the state.

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

Except as otherwise provided in this Charter or the Administrative Code, other appointments to boards and like units shall be made in the manner provided by applicable law.

StudentsFirstNY, a local chapter of the national reform organization, and Success Academy, the city's largest and most powerful charter school network, quickly joined suit, along with other charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First.

Whyland also said Heastie would not allow the tax credit to be linked to passage of any other legislation — like, say, mayoral control of the New York City school system, which some are suggesting could be linked to raising the charter school cap, another issue pushed without success by Cuomo during the budget battle.

Other charter leaders and advocates who attended the rally said privately that they thought that Tuesday could not have gone better for them optically, but offered only generalized press release - type language on the record, to avoid seeming like they were gloating over a rally that overshadowed the mayor's.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aCharter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level acharter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

Mayor Billy Barlow said that's consistent with his right to appoint people to other city committees under Oswego's charter, yet several residents like Tom Ciappa argued that this committee should be unique.

In this view, Cuomo will cave on most of his other proposals — like merit pay and stiffer teacher evaluation standards — as long as he gets a higher cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

Charter school teachers need a union for the same reason as other teachers — to have a voice, to be able to advocate for students without fear of losing their jobs, and to be treated like the professionals they are.

The housing authority, like other public authorities in New York, is a state - chartered entity, though the mayor appoints its seven - member board.

In addition to the responses described above, we find evidence of three other constructive competitive responses: expanding or improving district schools, programs or offerings (6 locations); improving district efficiency (5 locations); and supporting semiautonomous charter - like schools (5 locations).

In other words, DCPS gets charter - like autonomy and charter - like accountability.

But, like other one - off charters, Omega faced severe challenges on the business side.

While learning programs like Core Knowledge and Expeditionary Learning / Outward Bound have seen real opportunities in the charter sector, others have shied away.

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.

Of the cities we examined, some have large and well - established charter sectors, like Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, while others have more emerging charter school sectors like Little Rock, San Antonio, and Tulsa.

This will also help charter schools, like Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, that seek to enroll more English - language learners or students from other underserved subgroups.

And Cruz, like others, talks about the various experiments (like the Jesuits» Cristo Rey network and the conversion of parish schools to charters — see Andy Smarick's comprehensive report for Seton Education Partners about Washington, DC's experience), but doesn't he wonder where the Church's bishops are?

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

Like other small nonprofits, charters are at risk of falling into financial trouble.

Major funders like the Charter School Growth Fund and NewSchools Venture Fund are helping other high - performing charters expand as well.

Like other schools in the Algiers charter network, Behrman was implementing the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), a national initiative to help teachers improve their instruction methods by learning from experienced colleagues designated as mentor teachers and master teachers.

The charter school — like many other issues — is marked by partisanship.

For years, pioneering charter school networks like KIPP, YES Prep, and others won legions of admirers by ensuring that nearly every student they graduated went to college, usually the first in their families to do so.

Take a moment to contemplate that fact: The positive impact of years of work done by thousands of educators to build networks like KIPP, YES Prep, Achievement First, Noble, Mastery, Uncommon, Aspire, IDEA, Harmony, and others is literally negated by the performance of virtual charter schools.

One would like to know more on how that law works, and what the state provides to such charters, but Russo is skimpy on these details, as on so many others.

Some charter laws limit enrollment geographically or numerically; other laws, like New York's and New Jersey's, prohibit cyber-charters.

Like other skeptics, Carter seized on a 2010 report from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes that portrayed many charter schools as doing no better, and indeed sometimes worse, than traditional schools nationwide.

While the ASD and other authorizers like Nevada's State Public Charter Schools Authority create contracts with clear performance expectations, the ESA program provides no apparent standards for judging whether public funds are buying strong outcomes.

Among the first to receive funding was DSST, whose head, Bill Kurtz, pushed for several years to be funded and viewed like any other successful charter - management organization.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

This could involve approaches to assessment and curriculum or organizational innovations like giving more site based freedom over budgets and personnel to other district schools, based on successful charter experiments.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pacharter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, paCharter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, paCharter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

Many reformers are urging a «do your own thing» approach with charter schools, while others push «innovations» like de-tracking, interdisciplinary studies, restructured schools, and so forth.