Sentences with phrase «local charter sector»

Charter - school advocates cite Mastery as a golden model of «no excuses» education within a local charter sector that often suffers from mixed test scores and financial corruption.

In an attempt to make good on its promise to work more collaboratively with the local charter sector, the city Department of Education announced the first batch of schools participating in a new «charter district partnership program» on Thursday.

As a result of the compact, BPS and the local charter sector have established several school - to - school partnerships (some including local parochial schools) in order to share and develop effective instructional practices.

The city also has the option of turning the school into a charter under state receivership law, but the administration is highly unlikely to choose that option considering de Blasio's intermittent feud with the local charter sector.

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.

States like Massachusetts, Texas, and Denver have tried to compensate for local funding discrepancies in their charter sectors by providing higher state funding to charter students, but that move hasn't closed the funding gap.

Placing public charter schools on a par with TPS in receiving local educational funds, as Colorado plans to do, would bring over half the cities in our study to funding parity across the two public school sectors.

In Indianapolis, the local nonprofit The Mind Trust recently analyzed projected teacher needs across the city's charter sector and plans to use the data to inform the way it supports schools of all kinds.

In states like Colorado, where charters are perceived as public schools serving local students, advocates may find they can build bipartisan support, especially in light of traditional conservative support for charter schools and the sector's continued focus on serving disadvantaged, urban students, which appeals to liberals.

Worse yet, I was personally present with local and national union leadership when they acknowledged that reality and celebrated that much of the money donated by Mark Zuckerberg was going to go into the pockets of their teachers rather than towards a radical expansion of the charter sector — as had been the case, for example, in New Orleans.

Several local and national philanthropies have supported its charter sector as well as the district itself.

And in New York, the chancellor of the state board of regents, Merryl Tisch, has said her state won't compete if unions and state lawmakers don't agree on changes to improve the state's charter school sector and teacher - evaluation system, local media reports said.

With the return to local control, NPS leaders will need to work with the city's surging charter sector to ensure opportunity and equity citywide.

Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.

Rarely does a week go by when there is not an article in a local or national newspaper related to concerns about equal access and problems associated with educating students with disabilities in the charter sector.

Policy disappointments «have multiplied, and some charter leaders say President Donald Trump's embrace of school choice has left the local sector grappling with a communal identity crisis.»

«The charter sector is really run state by state, just as our district - managed public schools are, and most policy is at the state or local level, and that's true for charter schools as well,» New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merrimacharter sector is really run state by state, just as our district - managed public schools are, and most policy is at the state or local level, and that's true for charter schools as well,» New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merrimacharter schools as well,» New York City Charter School Center CEO James MerrimaCharter School Center CEO James Merriman said.

In these cases the local district can be the charter sector's strongest ally and can supply charter schools with access to critical resources such as facilities and transportation.