Sentences with phrase «local authorizers»

To compensate for that, the mayor got on the phone and called the local authorizers, which were universities, and said, «We'd like to get some great schools to St. Louis.

Of all charter schools closed by local authorizers or their own boards, the vast majority had financial problems — meaning that they generally suffered from a lack of parental demand.

So if the charter board, local authorizer, and parents think a school is doing a good job even if test scores look «bad,» we should defer to them.

Upon denial by a local authorizer, applicants may submit their petitions to the State Board of Education.

The charter contract is a legally binding document between the following parties: the petitioner, the local authorizer and the State Board of Education.

After approval by a local authorizer, the petition must be submitted to the Charter Schools Division at the Georgia Department of Education.

Petitioners who chose to revise their petition must have their local authorizer reapprove the revised petition.

If need be, the state board can override the local authorizer's denial, which it did most of the time.

For those charter schools that have collective bargaining units, some adapt the agreement of the local authorizer, while others negotiate separate agreements with employee groups.

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * 2011 - 12 Budget Brief Posted * Legislative Update * Pupil Demographic Requirements * Local Authorizer Input * New and Expanding Charter Schools Reporting Deadline

Not exact matches

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

Local school districts are the primary authorizer for most charters, but charter schools can also be approved by their county or the state board of education if rejected by their district.

At the local level, few schools or authorizers are willing to do anything that might threaten their ability to attract and retain families.

Only one of Detroit's charter authorizers is local — DPS, which authorizes 13 schools; the rest are colleges and universities with headquarters outside of the city.

Local leaders also told us that they believe the governor is the only official who has the needed credibility and authority to weigh in on negligent charter authorizers.

It is not the state, which defers oversight to local education agencies and charter authorizers.

Ninety percent of authorizers are local school districts, many of which view charters as an administrative inconvenience, competitive nuisance, or worse.

Local school districts now constitute 90 percent of charter school authorizers and could have fostered the kind of cross-fertilization Shanker envisioned, but they've tended instead to treat charters as distant cousins.

Twenty groups hoping to run new charter schools submitted 43 applications to a review committee, comprising a team from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representatives.

In addition to dedicated professional staff and board members, our vision requires efforts from a broad coalition of authorizers, superintendents, and state and local advocacy organizations, as well as public officials, civic leaders, funders, and others.

One local organization, sympathetic to charter schools, recently lamented that when four low - performing schools came up for renewal, they dodged closure by shopping around for a charter authorizer who would take them.

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

Two parallel processes are being set up to start up to 40 of the new public schools in five years: the Charter School Commission and local school boards that apply to be authorizers through the State Board of Education.

(A statewide charter authorizer would effectively supersede and therefore negate authority of local charter authorizers such as Metro.)

Charter schools will be authorized through two different paths in Washington: through local school boards that get permission from the State Board of Education to be authorizers and through the new statewide commission.

Unlike many other states, advocates say, Massachusetts» governance system designates state education officials as sole authorizers of independently run charter schools, overruling local mayors and unions.

The Tacoma School Board's original objection to charters focused on the loss of control, but Santorno agreed with Redinger that not becoming an authorizer may mean giving up whatever local control the district could maintain.

Varies: authorizers may include state or local school board, local university and / or private entity

The organizations must win approval either from a local school board that applies to the state to become a charter authorizer, or from a recently appointed statewide charter commission.

Charter schools will be authorized through two different paths in Washington: local school boards that get permission from the State Board of Education to be authorizers, and through the new statewide commission.

But a 2008 law that created the Georgia Charter Schools Commission as an independent charter - school authorizer gave Madati some recourse by allowing him to apply for approval under that new entity, rather than the local district.

Every KIPP school is approved to operate by a charter school authorizer — typically a district school board, university, or state department of education — that makes sure the school is living up to the commitments in its charter and is in compliance with relevant federal, state, and local requirements.

Do you believe the recent charter authorizer bill is taking away local control from local education boards?

Authorizers are usually non-profits and include universities but in most cases, local school boards authorize charter schools.

Charter public schools are held accountable by their authorizer (usually the local school district) and, most importantly, by the families they serve.

In order for a local school board to become an authorizer, the board must have approval from the state board of education.

Currently local districts and the state are authorizers.

Charter support organizations and charter school authorizers such as local boards of education, are also members.

The certification levels of proposed teachers may be considered by the local and state authorizers when evaluating the petition.

The report recommends several solutions including that legislators and policymakers address these barriers by providing equitable and adequate special education funding to charter schools and authorizers through a system that prioritizes accountability, local control, and responsiveness to evolving needs of students.

The charter school law that passed in 2001 allows the Indianapolis mayor, public state universities and local school boards to act as authorizers.

They are run by independent boards instead of elected local school boards and answer to an authorizer that oversees their charter agreement.

This guidance provides valuable information and suggestions to assist schools, state and local education agencies, authorizers of charter schools, parents, and other stakeholders in understanding how federal laws function to provide protections for students with disabilities in order to ensure they receive a quality education free from discrimination.

Their authorizers, state departments of education and local school districts all collectively share responsibility, and each has room to improve.

While many states such as Texas have an authorization process that allows state education agency authorization and to a lesser extent local districts, other states such as Ohio allow a broad mix of authorizers to approve charters, including local districts, higher education institutions, and non-profit agencies.

The ability to collectively voice concerns and advocate for improved special education policies with charter authorizers, special education local plan areas, and the California Department of Education.

Question: Under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), what revenues are included in the calculation of the oversight fee that charter school authorizers are allowed to charge their charter schools?

During her time in the state legislature Ms. Morgan was a co-sponsor of the 2012 Constitutional Amendment, which allowed for an alternate state authorizer to open charter schools denied by local school districts.

Local school boards account for 173 of 175 potential charter school authorizers in Kentucky and are required under KRS 160.1594 to, among other tasks, «solicit, invite, and evaluate applications from applicants.»

In 2012, Morgan co-sponsored state legislation that allowed an alternate state authorizer to open charter schools denied by reluctant local school districts.