Sentences with phrase «lot about charter»

We had been hearing a lot about charter schools and there was a huge need here.

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Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

Basil Smikle Jr. has a lot of ideas about how to address Harlem's most vexing problems, from crime to housing to underemployment, but his biggest asset as he runs for state Senate against Bill Perkins may be that he supports charter schools.

There have been tiny baby steps, but if you're talking about a European charter and code, you want to do a lot better.

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

Authorizers need to close more low - performing schools, but they also need to get a heck of a lot smarter about who gets a charter in the first place.

While we have learned a lot from the new studies, we still remain in a situation with an unresolved key question about what policies, laws, and incentives lead some charters to flourish and others not.

And reports of «wild west» chartering notwithstanding, you can forget about charters charging prices, or controlling their own admissions, or implementing lots of other variables that make a choice a choice.

Getting a public charter school started taught them a lot about what it means to be civically engaged, and they brought that idea into the school mission.

With a new charter - backed majority on the board, there's lots of speculation about whether the district will accelerate the growth of charters in the years to come.

And I know Dorothy, who is from Ohio, wanted to ask a question about charters, where there are a lot of charters that have been unaccountable and not transparent.

Our opposition is never going to believe that charter schooling is an effective reform, but I think there are a lot of people in the middle who either don't know what a charter school is or are misguided about what it is and how it functions.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

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The makeup of the commission was outlined in the charter schools initiative approved by voters, but the new statute is not specific about a lot of details.

Now Debbie Meier, as many of you know, is not a big fan of charter schools, though she is a whole lot more nuanced about their existence than her blogging buddy, Ms. Ravitch.

Steve Perry's Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School application reveals a lot about Perry's empire building plans.

«Plus, a lot of kids from New Orleans, they would have known teachers and heard about charter schools and how contentious things are.»

When the current NYC administration came into office there was a lot of Sturm und Drang about how it would treat public charter schools.

Diane Ravitch recently came to LA to promote her new book which has lots of negative misinformation about charter schools.

SM: There has been a lot of talk about charter schools in the context of education reform, yet some studies have shown that charter schools as a whole don't necessarily perform better than traditional public schools.

The two words actually mean a lot in the charter world, given that charter schools are beholden to the boards that grant them charters to operate, not the general public, and that they are not required to reveal key information about their finances and governance to the public.

There's been a lot of hubbub about the Wendell Smith Local School Council voting to turn the CPS elementary school into a charter school.

It's not just about charter schools versus public schools — there are a lot of nuances we need to consider.

Through our work with a group of school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs)-- all part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Leading for Effective Teaching project (LET)-- we have learned a lot about what it looks like to provide these three essentials for principals on a systemwide basis.

There's a lot of good information about the bill here, including the Parents Across America position paper on HR 2218 and a hard - hitting PAA fact sheet on the many problems with charter schools that have been reported THIS YEAR alone.

That was 1996, about five years in to the movement and there wasn't a whole lot of attention being paid to charter schools then.

Kayla: During my internship at INCS, I learned a lot of information about the charter school sector and how some of the beliefs the public has about charter schools are myths.

Audubon Charter School has two new options for a temporary campus during a planned two - year renovation of its Broadway building — modular buildings in a parking lot behind the school board offices in Algiers or the site of the former Jean Gordon school near the University of New Orleans campus — but a deadline is looming in about two weeks for a decision, officials said.

You know, NYSUT has focused — as have parents — their attention on the governor in lots of different ways, including the fact that there's been lots of criticism about... preferring charter schools over traditional public schools.

Back during the days when we were educating the public about the need for a constitutional amendment to create a new charter schools commission in Georgia, there was a lot of stiff opposition.

«A lot of it is building up in teachers... and it's not just the uncertainty about whether we're going to shift now and invest in school - choice programs,» Weishart said, alluding to speculation that lawmakers in West Virginia, which currently doesn't have a charter - school law, might introduce such legislation.

«I think charter schools have a lot of potential and value,» she said, «but how about for students like me who need a lot of support?»

And I'm not talking just about the for - profit management companies that run a lot of these charter schools.

Charter School Management Company, reveals a lot about Educators 4 Excellence's mission and purpose.

While there is a lot to be said about the positives and negatives of this system, I set out to correct the most glaring omission — that Charter School Networks were not evaluated as whole -LSB-...]

I guess that is sort of what bugs a lot of people about the whole charter school movement in general though.

And so we have now found out that the charters perform no one iota better but an awful lot of privately held schools are being shuffled about in get - rich schemes.

While there is a lot to be said about the positives and negatives of this system, I set out to correct the most glaring omission — that Charter School Networks were not evaluated as whole districts.

«I'm actually very concerned about charter schools pulling kids from the public schools and what that's going to do to our schools that we've invested a lot in.»

«From the beginning we said to the CTU, «you take care of what you need to do to get your collective bargaining rights protected and we had a lot of people objecting at the state level about this charter levy piece so we'll handle that piece at the state level,»» she said.

There is lots for charter schools to like about the Governor's proposed budget.

reformers means having a lot of charter schools, and I am particularly speaking about those designed to make a profit.

While charter train trips can be a little bit cheaper - perhaps $ 150 U.S. out of a total $ 800 - $ 1,000 price tag - they are also a lot slower.Flight times to Venice from Stockholm, for example, are about 2 hours.

A lot of us know the Charter exits, but do not know a lot about it.

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