Sentences with phrase «local charter parents»

The Roosevelt district, an inner - city district in Phoenix that was hit hard by charters, sent letters to local charter parents asking why they had left district schools and explaining how the district would serve them better.

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Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.

Moskowitz, the de facto leader of the local charter movement who attacked de Blasio's position on charter schools during the primary, made attendance at the march mandatory for her parents and students, but she remained relatively inconspicuous throughout the morning.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Angry Upper West Side parents and politicians gathered Tuesday outside a local elementary school to protest what they called a «hostile takeover» by a Harlem charter school looking to share their building.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

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.

We can not say for sure with our data, but it may be that parents are more likely to support charter schools in heavily unionized states, perhaps in a desire for more local control and less bureaucracy, or a desire for curricular and personnel policies that are less influenced by the union.

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.

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The parents of charter school students pay local taxes just like the parents of TPS students.

After a dispiriting experience at the D.C. charter school, he moved back home in 2004, and that summer ran a summer program for children at his local food cooperative, telling parents that if they liked his approach, he'd homeschool them for free in the fall to test out his model.

Those local school councils have been stripped of much of their power, but some charter schools and private schools still put parents on their boards, which is an avenue for parent voice and engagement.

The State entity will ensure that charter schools and local educational agencies serving charter schools post on their websites materials with respect to charter school student recruitment, student orientation, enrollment criteria, student discipline policies, behavior codes, and parent contract requirements, including any financial obligations (such as fees for tutoring or extracurricular activity).

Information about local district rankings increases public support for school choice programs, including charter schools, parent trigger mechanisms, and, especially, school vouchers for all students.

Public assessments of local schools would shift in a more skeptical direction; support for universal voucher initiatives, charter schools, and the parent trigger would increase; limits to teacher tenure would gain greater public support; and both teachers unions and demands for increases in teacher salaries would confront greater public skepticism.

Charter and magnet schools are often a coveted choice for parents in urban public school districts like New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford as parents search for alternatives to their local schools.

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.

Support opportunities for parents to enroll their children in local magnet schools and charter schools; and

Although Al was never able — on this issue as on many other reforms that he knew were needed — to get the AFT's state and local affiliates to embrace his visionary thinking, his restlessness with the status quo, his boundless creativity, and his statesman - stature in the education field cause him legitimately to be viewed today as one of the parents of charter schooling in the U.S.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

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.

For example, parents may have chosen a private or charter school that did not perform well on the state's standardized test overall, but the school may have provided a safer environment than the local district school.

Charters are governed by boards comprised of local parents, teachers, and leaders, and accountable to a variety of separate entities such as universities, local nonprofits, and management organizations.

It's a controversial model that, based on the numbers reported in similar programs in Tennessee, Michigan and Louisiana, has produced mixed results and bitter opposition from local parents, many of whom are fired up over the notion of turning over their local schools to outside charters.

National experts on charter school discipline, along with local parents and teachers who have experienced no - excuses and restorative justice school environments will make up the panel set to convene November 17th at Margaret Allen Middle School, 500 Spence Lane in Nashville at 6:30 pm.

Charter schools, formerly an untested notion, have become more familiar and represent for these families the chance to recover the kind of parent - centered local control that they remember as being integral to happy schooling experiences before the No Child Left Behind Act.

If our charter did not exist, many parents would be left without an option and required to homeschool or send their children back to the local school district.

Applications for local charters must be reviewed by the local boards of education, which have 60 days to review them, hold public hearings, survey teacher and parent interest and vote.

The existing law - passed in 2011 - allows parents to convert a low - performing district public school to a charter if a majority of parents signs a petition, but local school boards have to sign off on the conversion.

Jim Spady said Saturday that charters are a way to give educators the freedom to create a school of their dreams, and parents the freedom to choose a school model that's different from what their local school district offers.

When the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools sought to implement a plan last year to address racial isolation, many parents objected, and some local officials, primarily from white suburbs, threatened to open competing charters if the plan went through.

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.

Are you a parent, charter school leader or part of a local community group?

Vesia Hawkins a former Metro Nashville Public Schools student, parent and staffer, says to the local NAACP Nashville chapter in the blog Volume and Light, «Metro Schools is not a district with a charter problem.»

Moreover, charter schools are also required by law to have parent and a representative of the local board of education serve on their board.

Charter schools and local community groups should be encouraged to support parents by providing workshops and instruction on test taking strategies and tips that help reduce their child's anxiety.

Charter Schools are considered local educational agencies (LEAS) and are required to appoint a liaison to help students in temporary housing and their parents.

A recent article in LA Weekly was very critical of some local charters» use of «founding parents.»

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Moskowitz's high praise for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her willingness to host high - profile visits from Ivanka Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan at Success's signature campus in Harlem have angered parents and staffers, and unnerved some of her local allies in the charter school movement.

Not having gifted education in a school district also often results in parents of gifted children removing them from those schools for other options: local public schools of choice, charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, parochial schools, and home schooling.

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They were the same exact kids, except rather than a state appointee running the school, it was a local nonprofit charter board, including two elected parents.

Negotiations continue between Asian Human Services, the local nonprofit that runs Passages, and union representatives, and the school's charter teachers, parents, students and allies scheduled the rally prior to final bargaining sessions and a potential strike.

A conversion charter school petition must be agreed to by a majority of the faculty and instructional staff members, and a majority of parent or guardians of students enrolled in the petitioning local school, before the petition is presented to the local board for approval.

And now, the 24th Street parent organizers have convinced the district to partner with a local charter operator to take over the struggling school; Tuesday parents get to vote on that.

If the judge again rules in the parent union's favor at a hearing later this month, parents who signed the trigger petition will vote Oct. 18 on one of two local nonprofit charter operators that submitted bids to take over Desert Trails in the fall of 2013: the Lewis Center for Educational Research, which runs a popular charter school with a focus on science and project - based learning, and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, which partners with a university and has a focus on classic literature.

Parents in a charter school have a real voice in their local school.

Parents will choose from two local charter operators who submitted proposals: the Lewis Center for Educational Research, which runs a K - 12 charter school in Apple Valley focused on project - based learning; and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, a K - 8 school in Hesperia that partners with the University of La Verne.

The nonprofit, with a roughly $ 3 million annual budget and 35 staffers, now focuses on letting local parents choose their preferred reforms, and emphasizes charter schools aren't always the best option, Rose said.