Sentences with phrase «mayoral academies»

About Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) is a network of tuition - free public schools chartered by the Rhode Island Department of Education.

Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) was the first mayoral academy charter school to open its doors.

Some charter schools, like Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy in Rhode Island and High Tech High in California, achieve socioeconomic and racial diversity by enrolling students from across a region.

In 2010, Chiappetta was appointed as executive director of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies Blackstone Valley — a network of tuition - free public schools chartered by the Rhode Island Department of Education.

Mayor McKee in 2008 contracted with education consulting firm Public Impact to analyze student achievement and education spending in Rhode Island, and in the Blackstone Valley region in particular, and to assess the potential impact of mayoral academies for urban ring communities.

The first mayoral academy charter, granted in 2009, permitted RIMA to launch five schools serving more than 2,000 students in four communities, two of them urban (in Central Falls and Pawtucket) and two suburban (in Cumberland and Lincoln).

RI passes mayoral academy legislation, allowing for greater accountability and autonomy, including more opportunities for professional development.

In the 2017 - 18 school year, the Greenfield model will serve students in Elm City College Prep Elementary School, Achievement First Aspire Middle School and Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy Middle School.

A member of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academies network, BVP's mission is to prepare every scholar for success in college and the world beyond.

The battle for mayoral academies was no exception.

The report, «Boosting Performance and Containing Cost through Mayoral Academies,» contrasts the low performance of low - income and minority students and the wide achievement gaps in traditional district schools, and the high performance of low - income and minority students and smaller achievement gaps in high - performing charter schools in neighboring states.

It soon became clear that if mayoral academies were to become a viable public school model, one organization would need to function as «harbormaster,» committed to making the sector as hospitable as possible for the opening of new, high - quality public schools, and easily identifiable as the one to go to for answers and assistance.

Importantly for RIMA, the new funding formula made the creation of new public schools, including mayoral academies, budget - neutral for the state, eliminating a strong disincentive to charter school growth.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses mayoral academies with (from left to right) Providence mayor Angel Taveras, Lincoln town administrator T. Joseph Almond and Cumberland mayor Daniel J. McKee, November 2011.

The law permitting mayoral academy charter schools freed the schools from Rhode Island's tenure, prevailing wage, and pension laws.

The fight to get Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy approved took more than a year and involved, in one way or another, every political leader in Rhode Island.

In late June 2008, on a close 41 — 30 vote to defeat a budget amendment on the House floor, the bill to create mayoral academies cleared its final meaningful hurdle.

By Lindsay Priam, Talent Recruitment Associate I was personally drawn to pursue a career at Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) Mayoral Academy because I wanted to be part of a team that believed every -LSB-...]

In 2009, Mr. Chiappetta joined Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) Mayoral Academy as the founding Head of School for the first BVP elementary school.

CUMBERLAND — Every inch of the new Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academies High School is laid out with educational and building efficiency in mind, say its leaders.

Funding for the Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academies continues to be a topic of contention for the schools» sending districts, particularly in Cumberland, where the school district paid out $ 3.9 million in tuition for students attending the charter schools, up from $ 125,000 in 2008.

For example, Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy serves four adjacent Rhode Island communities, drawing students evenly from two higher - income suburbs and two lower - income cities.

«We are talking with many school operators both inside and outside Rhode Island about partnering with us to open additional mayoral academies,» said Michael Magee, CEO of the organization.

In addition, Rhode Island Mayoral Academies wants to hire Achievement First, a charter management operator, to open as many as five schools in Providence and Cranston, starting in 2011 or 2012.

Over the course of the application process for the second network of mayoral academies, we saw a downside of having a charter growth effort identified with mayors.

We invite you to include Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy in your annual charitable gifts.

A member of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academies network, BVP's mission is to prepare every scholar for college and the world beyond.

Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy (AFPMA) opened in August 2013 with 176 students in a former district school building.

In February 2009, Rhode Island Mayoral Academies (RIMA) was incorporated to fill that role.

Also in 2009, by a margin of 47 — 26, the House appropriated the funding necessary to open the first mayoral academy.

Governor Donald Carcieri, Speaker Gordon Fox and Mayor Daniel J. McKee cut the ribbon at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy's 2009 opening, surrounded by (from left to right) Cranston mayor Allan Fung, R.I. attorney general Peter Kilmartin, former senate majority leader Daniel Connors, R.I. commissioner of education Deborah Gist, former president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools Nel - son Smith and former R.I. representative Mary Ann Shallcross Smith.

In addition to many of the mayors who had supported the mayoral academy concept from the beginning, Governor Donald Carcieri, Commissioner Deborah Gist, and Speaker Fox attended and spoke at the ribbon - cutting ceremony for the first mayoral academy in October 2009.

A number of them have sought to transfer lessons learned from the mayoral academies to their district schools with some early success.

I applaud everyone that's brave enough to break the status quo... so that Johnny and Jane can compete with not [just] a kid from New York or California but with a kid from Tokyo or Berlin... Vote yes to our children's future and let's give the mayoral academies, with the chief executive officers, the people that run our cities and towns, the opportunity to put a plan together with the best and brightest minds in this world, all for the betterment of Rhode Island.

Nevertheless, the mayors faced significant opposition in proposing the mayoral academy legislation.

The participation of mayors in the governance of mayoral academies has been wholly positive.

The authors recommended that «Mayoral Academies should be required... to construct their lotteries in order to achieve a mix of distressed urban and other students.»

Depending on the enrollment area, a mayoral academy board might have between two and six mayors to choose from to serve as board chair.

Nor has involvement in mayoral academies been a political liability for the mayors.

RIMA appoints approximately one - quarter of the mayoral academy board and works with the involved mayors and CMO or executive director to develop the rest of the board to everyone's satisfaction.

The plan called for a New York — based charter management organization (CMO) to provide management services to the mayoral academy board.

Mayor Daniel J. McKee speaks at the ribbon - cutting ceremony for Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy's first permanent school facility.

The answer to the mayor's question turned out to be «mayoral academies,» highly autonomous, socioeconomically diverse, regional public schools of choice governed by mayor - led boards.

He is a founding board member of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies and lives with his wife, Grace, and son, Quinn, in Newton, MA.

Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy may have one of the most compelling launch stories of any charter school network in the nation.

Because of serious budget woes in the state, however, the earliest a mayoral academy could conceivably open is fall 2009.

Rhode Island has enacted legislation permitting the creation of «mayoral academies» — public charter schools overseen by a group of municipal leaders and intended to serve a diverse student population regionwide.

The success of Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy, a regional charter school model in Rhode Island, provides a useful example.