Sentences with phrase «more charter schools run»

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The marketplace will have more of a role in how schools in the US are run, with a comprehensive withdrawal of publicly provided schools through the distribution of vouchers and fostering of charter and magnet schools.

City charter schools in public school buildings are far more overcrowded than their district - run counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.

Among the questions spurred by Andrew Cuomo's newfound devotion to charter schools is one with real implications for the governor's re-election: How much more can the Working Families Party take before ditching him and running someone else on its line this year?

«More privately run charters schools will do nothing to address inequality,» said the group's director, Billy Easton.

De Blasio, who has come under fire for blocking previously approved sites for three charter schools run by the Success Academy, promised he would approve more co-locations.

The pro-public school funding group the Alliance of Quality Education said the IDC has already «failed» the roll call for voting for more money for privately run charter schools.

StudentsFirstNY, a group that promotes charter schools, stricter teacher evaluations and changes to teacher tenure, has spent more than $ 500,000 to run its own advertisements in New York City and Albany supporting Mr. Cuomo's plans.

As more schools move forward with their own efforts, many are taking their cue from the mavericks on time and learning: charter schools, where more than two - thirds run on longer days, many successfully.

A full - scale transition from a government - run monopoly to a competitive marketplace won't happen quickly, but that's no reason not to begin introducing more competition... We pursued that goal in New York City by opening more than 100 charter schools in high - poverty communities.

Teachers and employers are contributing far more money into Pennsylvania's state - run defined benefit plan than they are into the Chester Charter School 403 (b) plan.

In Massachusetts, where residents will soon vote in a referendum on whether to allow the creation of more charter schools, pro-charter groups are running tv ads including the one shown above.

In Massachusetts, where residents will soon vote in a referendum on whether to allow the creation of more charter schools, pro-charter groups are running tv ads.

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

Through chartering, vouchers, tax credits, ESAs, online learning, course choice, dual enrollment, CTE programs, state - run schools, and much more, state governments have moved far past 1965 - era arrangements for K - 12.

True, the revenue amounts received by charters and TPS are more even once you exclude all of the ways that district - run public schools are forced to be inefficient.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theschools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theSchools that are now up and running across the state.

In particular, he runs four charter school campuses on Chicago's South Side that are graduating more than 90 percent of their students with 95 to 98 percent of those students attending college.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

In the long run, as charter schools become more established, almost all of their students will have entered in the early grades.

Charter schools are privately managed and typically enjoy more autonomy than their district - run counterparts.

And since charter schools enroll far fewer students than district - run public schools, the positive impact on charters should be greater than the negative effect on district schools, where the loss of income will be more broadly distributed.

Overall charter school enrollment increased by approximately 225,000 students during the 2012 - 2013 school year and there are now more than 2.3 million students attending these independently run, innovative public schools.

Implementation of the grant program is running smoothly so far, and charter school operators have testified to the legislature's Education Oversight Committee about their new ability to reach more students due to these grants, said Marcus Brandon, executive director of

Among other things, many charter schools fit more instructional hours into a year by running longer school days and providing instruction on weekends and during the summer (Wilson 2008; Hoxby, Murarka, and Kang 2009; Matthews 2009).

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

Implementation of the grant program is running smoothly so far, and charter school operators have testified to the legislature's Education Oversight Committee about their new ability to reach more students due to these grants, said Marcus Brandon, executive director of NorthCarolinaCAN.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

And finally, can we commit ourselves to a more inclusive and flexible approach to charter authorizing in order to diversify the schools we create and the pool of prospective leaders who run them?

Together we conducted a major teacher survey, and I personally visited 28 charter campuses in Arizona run by 20 different operators and conducted in - person and phone interviews with more than 200 policymakers, district school officials, and charter school teachers, operators, students, and parents between November 1997 and May 2001.

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.

Today, there are a growing number of nonprofit organizations running a dozen or more highly successful charter schools, so we know that scaling is possible.

I actually deprecated that approach to philanthropy in favor of much more ambitious end - runs of the entrenched K - 12 system: all sorts of great charter schools, policy changes (e.g. for special ed), unconventional human - capital development programs, better information for kids regarding their progress (or lack thereof) in school, personalized learning via sophisticated technology, and much more.

And to make it easier for charter school operators to run more than one school, Mr. Bloomberg said he would advocate allowing charter schools to operate on more than one campus.

A related study found this is better achieved in small high schools — including charter and site - run pilot schools in L.A. — compared with the more fragmented social organization of large and traditional high schools.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

KIPP, for instance, runs charter schools in Nashville and Memphis, with plans for more in the works before the state's announcement.

Charter schools are run by private corporations that are often more interested in generating profits than in empowering parents.

The Governance Committee of the Metro Nashville School Board met on Saturday and made recommendations for policy changes that will result in more financial transparency for all schools, including publicly - funded, privately run charter schools.

The pro-Common Core, pro-Charter School group has even hired Malloy's chief adviser, as well as Malloy's former press secretary, to run their PR campaign in support of Malloy's plan to divert even more scarce public dollars to charter schools companies.

«For North Carolina, the Achievement School District would be just another business vehicle to establish more charter schools via a state - run school district that forces schools to be converted,» saidSchool District would be just another business vehicle to establish more charter schools via a state - run school district that forces schools to be converted,» saidschool district that forces schools to be converted,» said Hoyt.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

Here's a more immediate benefit: Under a resolution sponsored by Yolie Flores Aguilar, vice president of the L.A. Unified school board, charter operators, along with unions and community groups, could submit proposals to run any of more than 50 new campuses that will open over the next three to four years.

More than 200 teachers from 17 district schools spent Tuesday at a training run by Uncommon Schools, which has 21 charters cischools spent Tuesday at a training run by Uncommon Schools, which has 21 charters ciSchools, which has 21 charters citywide.

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A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

And they have oversight on how charter schools are run - including special education, budget and more.

In addition, this state's largest charter authorizer, Miami - Dade — run by the terrific Assistant Superintendent Tiffanie Pauline, who happens to be a Black woman — oversees a strong portfolio of schools and is leading efforts to focus more heavily on student outcomes and promoting transparency.

At the same time, just like in the district - run sector, there are a lot more charter schools that have low and relatively equitable suspension rates — a little more than one - third.