Sentences with phrase «more applications for new charter schools»

The LA Unified school board is expected on Tuesday to deny more applications for new charter schools and charter renewals than they may approve.

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To learn more about how the TCEP grant may help your school achieve its facilities goals, please join us for a webinar on Monday, December 5th at 1 p.m. John Hernandez, the Deputy Director of the Texas Public Finance Authority (TPFA) and Robert Jocius, Senior Program Manager at TPFA will talk in depth about the TCEP program and answer questions about charter eligibility and the new 2016 application.

As charter schools and their advocates push even harder for more taxpayer funds so they can open more charter schools, State Education Commissioner Pryor will play a vital role as the State Department of Education acts on seven new charter school applications that would create spaces for another 1,600 students.

Backers of these reforms are particularly enamored of a new type of charter school represented by the Rocketship chain of schools — a low - budget operation that relies on young and inexperienced teachers rather than more veteran and expensive faculty, that reduces the curriculum to a near - exclusive focus on reading and math, and that replaces teachers with online learning and digital applications for a significant portion of the day.

Intended to make the admissions process easier and more equitable, families considering a new school could submit a single application for nearly all of Newark's schools — district or charter — and be matched by a computer program that considered both their preferences and school capacity.

The preliminary list of co-location proposals is comprised of applications from new charter schools requesting facilities for the first time, existing charter schools requesting renewals of their current facilities and existing charter schools that might need more space to accommodate a growing student body.