Sentences with phrase «local charter community»

The local charter community has had some luck getting legislators out to visit our charter schools this fall.

James Merriman, C.E.O. of the New York City Charter School Center, said, adding that the question «worries everybody» in the local charter community.

Not exact matches

At 6 p.m., NYC's Charter Revision Commission holds a public meeting and hearing soliciting input from New Yorkers on how best to improve the efficiency of local government and strengthen democracy, Bronx Community College, 2155 University Ave., Bronx.

Ms. Evans is a licensed captain who ran a charter fishing business with her late husband, and is a founding member of the Fisherman's Emergency Fund, a nonprofit «dedicated to providing a safety net to the local fishing community in times of devastating loss,» according to a release she sent out last week.

Still on the table: Education funding — a battle that is again pitting traditional public schools against charters — worker's compensation reforms that the business community and its Senate GOP allies have been pushing, and the governor's ongoing desire for local government consolidation.

A group led by Christina Johnson, an educator and local resident, applied to the SUNY Charter Schools Institute earlier this year to establish the Mohawk Valley Community Charter School within the Utica School District to serve elementary - aged children.

Killian also served on the Westchester County Charter Revision Commission from 2011 - 2014, on the Rye Town Park Commission and co-founded RyeACT (Rye Action for Children and Teens), which is a coalition that brings our community together to educate and empower local teenagers to stay off drugs.

State legislators addressed members at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call for an increase in school funding, more Teacher Centers, an end to the charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning Schools initiative.

Twenty - eight local children lost at least one parent in the burning wreckage of the chartered DC - 9 and a whole community was left reeling and stunned.

One solution being tried by a range of institutions from the federal government to local community development organizations is to make charter schools look more attractive to lenders by promising to repay the loan should the school default.

Since the charter school movement began in 1991 in Minnesota, these schools have filled a need in American society, giving individuals, communities, and local associations a chance to create their own schools — with tax dollars paying the basic costs.

Despite the drenching antireform downpour, charter schools are gaining in respect, numbers, and political adherents, mainly because they are digging deep roots in local communities.

The highest - performing charters have sprung from the needs and desires of the local community.

There have been heartening instances where chartering enabled a community — threatened by a consolidation effort — to maintain a local school, preserving the community and its heritage.

Local charter school leaders were supportive, but their naiveté about the political process stood in sharp contrast to the strategic organizing in the labor community.

They also struggled with local community politics because state charter laws required them to contract with nonprofit governing boards rather than run schools directly.

There seems to be some interest in returning more control and autonomy not simply from the federal government to the states, but from states to local communities — so that communities can decide questions like when to close schools, whether to allow charter schools, and how to assign teachers.

The best charter leaders are masterful at bringing a breadth of voices from their local communities into the conversation.

In a 2012 article, «Civil Rights, Charter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local commuCharter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local commucharter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local communities.

In response to widespread demands for better public education and for more choice among public schools, a number of state legislatures in the early 1990s permitted educators and local communities to develop charter schools.

The authors refuse to accept the fact that the charter financing mechanism is being used to strengthen not only local communities but also private tribes.

The message of persistence, says Terry Croy Lewis, the executive director of the Colorado Charter School Institute, was clear: «Legislators knew the issue wasn't going away, that every year the reform community would come back demanding that local revenues be shared equally with all students attending public schools,» she said.

High - quality charter schools like these are the norm, giving families access to local, public, and effective educational options in communities where traditional district schools aren't meeting the needs of students.

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

Among them is a provision that would let communities effectively block new charter schools in a community by allowing them to count seats at in - district «innovation» schools and in - district charter schools in the calculation used to determine when the local cap on charters has been reached.

This can only come from empowering local school communities to design their schools, giving them charter - like budget and staffing flexibility in hiring and staff reductions and then holding them accountable for performance, parent satisfaction and enrollment.

New York State law has required charter schools to grant admissions preference to students living in the local community school district since 2007 — 08; prior to that, many charters followed this practice voluntarily.

For instance, Michigan's charter school law allows many organizations to grant charters, including local school districts, intermediate school districts, community colleges, and state universities.

The school is governed by the Cherokee Charter Academy, Inc., which consists of local community board members: Danny Dukes, Kim Cochran, Susan Imrie, Wendy Prichard, Josh Fuder and Mark Johnson.

A poll released last week from Sacred Heart University's Institute of Public Policy proves what we've been saying about our state's public charter schools all along: locally, Connecticut's charter schools stand out for being community - centric and community - focused, resulting in strong local support for them.

Alturas International Academy School Type: Charter Public Location: Idaho Falls Grades Served: K - 8 ’20 in 10 ′ Investment: $ 1,000,000 over five years ’20 in 10 ′ Impact: 538 new seats About the School: Alturas International Academy promotes academic distinction, while empowering students to be principled and intellectual leaders as they explore, create, investigate, and analyze in a safe, engaged, collaborative environment that inspires them to make a genuine difference in their local and global community.

After meeting the whirlwind application deadline, working with partners in their target communities to assess need and tailor their school design, and making their case at a public hearing, one local and two state charter schools are on their way:

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

Renaissance Charter School at Plantation students will be able to maximize their potential for successfully actualizing their goals with confidence and intrinsic motivation, thereby enabling each student to become a lifelong learner and strong functional contributor to their local community as well as their global community.

WHO: Public charter school students from Great Oaks Charter School — Bridgeport WHAT: Student volunteer work at a local farm WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. WHERE: Reservoir Community Farm, 1469 Reservoir Avenue, Bridgeport, Ccharter school students from Great Oaks Charter School — Bridgeport WHAT: Student volunteer work at a local farm WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. WHERE: Reservoir Community Farm, 1469 Reservoir Avenue, Bridgeport, CCharter School — Bridgeport WHAT: Student volunteer work at a local farm WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. WHERE: Reservoir Community Farm, 1469 Reservoir Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06606

Charter schools should be available to students wherever there is a need and sufficient demand from the local community.

Still, each of the 24 charters in Connecticut is a unique environment designed to work for the surrounding community and attract local students year after year.

Avoid expanding school privatization options, including privately - operated charter schools, vouchers and neo-vouchers, such as tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, which research shows: (1) fail to deliver on the promise of better learning opportunities and student performance; (2) siphon limited resources from local community schools; (3) open up the potential for violating students» civil rights; (4) hinder transparency and accountability; and (5) tend to lead to more schools being racially segregated.

It's unsurprising coming from the county that houses schools like Booker T. Washington Academy, a recently named School of Distinction that prides itself on its homegrown community roots, and Elm City Montessori, which remains the state's sole local charter — receiving funding and support from the New Haven Board of Education.

The solutions to every perceived or claimed public education problem seem to revolve around standardizing teachers and children, closing public schools, giving away taxpayer resources like school buildings to charter schools, and stripping local control from community stakeholders.

Recognizing the importance for teachers to resemble their student populations and be invested in the local community, a charter school network in California is offering teaching jobs to graduating seniors.

Tuesday's event will include opportunities for media to speak with school leaders, students, and families, as well as local and state elected officials, regarding the unique challenges facing Connecticut's public charter school community.

This type of true public charter school would help silence the critics of certain charter schools that may be reinforcing racial and economic segregation, stripping control from local communities, «creaming» students, and inhibiting transparency of funding and accountability.

In 2016, the DC Public Charter School Board granted our Local Education Agency (LEA), Hope Community Public Charter School, continuance to operate in the District of Columbia at out 10 - year charter Charter School Board granted our Local Education Agency (LEA), Hope Community Public Charter School, continuance to operate in the District of Columbia at out 10 - year charter Charter School, continuance to operate in the District of Columbia at out 10 - year charter charter review.

The Teacher of the Year award recognizes charter educators that advocate for charters at the local level, are innovative in their approaches to educating all students, and serve as a leader on their campus and within their communities.

OAKLAND, CA - Oakland area leaders joined local charter school leaders and supporters to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the California Charter Schools Act, with a community rally and information expo at Preservation Park on Sacharter school leaders and supporters to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the California Charter Schools Act, with a community rally and information expo at Preservation Park on SaCharter Schools Act, with a community rally and information expo at Preservation Park on Saturday.

Approving Referendum 55 will allow local communities to convert persistently failing public schools into tuition - free, charter public schools.

Bubbling opposition to the idea of a phased - in approach that entails co-locating charter schools within traditional public schools and allowing the charters to expand one grade at a time — a tactic that charter operators endorse as a way to gradually build community support and resources, but local school districts are reluctant to participate in.

For Charter School parents, it is imperative that we advocate for the de Blasio Administration to be inclusive and «fair» to local community charter schools by providing access and support to DOE resources and fCharter School parents, it is imperative that we advocate for the de Blasio Administration to be inclusive and «fair» to local community charter schools by providing access and support to DOE resources and fcharter schools by providing access and support to DOE resources and funding.

All HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL schools will actively communicate ways in which representatives of the Local Wellness Committee and others can participate in the development, implementation and periodic review and update of the LWP through a variety of means appropriate for HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.