Sentences with phrase «more charter schools there»

looks at the role charter schools are playing in Boston and at political debates over whether there should be more charter schools there.

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Organizers at Pembroke Pines Charter High School said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing thaSchool said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing thaschool if there hadn't been testing that day.

There are currently more than 50 Waldorf - inspired public charter schools in the US, most of them K - 8 charter schools.

There are more landmine up ahead as well, including a likely push from lawmakers in both parties to add more money to the proposed $ 338 million increase in foundation aid and, from Assembly Democrats, opposition to an increase in charter school tuition aid.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

Charter schools have argued that there is a shortage of teachers and that it is hard to hire enough instructors under the more stringent qualification required by the State Education Department.

Lhota: «There's nothing more progressive today than the charter school movement throughout the United Staes.»

But there's no sentiment there to add 100 more charter schools, as Gov. Cuomo has proposed and the mayor has opposed.

«There will be more student aid for charter schools and they will get facilities aid as well,» he said.

Charter schools have argued that there's a shortage of teachers and that it's hard to hire enough instructors under the more stringent qualification required by the State Education Department.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver threw down the gauntlet on expanding charter schools Tuesday, saying there's no reason to add more despite the clamor of parents and education reformers.

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

On charter schools, as of 2008, there were 15,000 school children in NYS charter schools, with more in the pipeline.

Charter schools will also see more money, though a cap limiting how many of the institutions there can be was left in place despite a push by Senate Republicans to lift it.

More to the point, there were too many reasons not to back him, they felt, such as his support for charter schools, his acceptance of the Independence Party ballot line and his indecision on hydrofracking, just to name a few.

Powell said there are 15 charter schools in his East Harlem district — more than any other in the state.

But the laws governing school facilities were written a century or more before charters existed, when there was only one kind of «public school» in this country.

According to the Center for Education Reform, as of January 2003 there were nearly 2,700 charter schools serving more than 684,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, just a decade after the first charter opened its doors.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

They saw that there were success stories but that further work would need to be done to ensure that more of the good charters flourished and fewer of the bad charters remained (just as the case with traditional public schools).

While magnet schools are widely prevalent — there are over 3,000 magnets across more than 600 school districts within 34 states — they have received less attention in the research literature than charters.

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

As blended learning has grown within district schools, it's often been a bit more ad hoc — a class here, one subject there — than in many charters in which blended learning has become a core part of the school's operations.

There are more parents of charter school students in America than there are members of teachers unThere are more parents of charter school students in America than there are members of teachers unthere are members of teachers unions.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

There are different flavors of private - school - choice advocacy, just like there are different flavors of charter - school advocacy, but they are broadly unified by this goal: more choices, more opportuniThere are different flavors of private - school - choice advocacy, just like there are different flavors of charter - school advocacy, but they are broadly unified by this goal: more choices, more opportunithere are different flavors of charter - school advocacy, but they are broadly unified by this goal: more choices, more opportunities.

Some estimate there are currently 20,000 to 30,000 more seats than students in the city's traditional and charter schools.

There were barely more than 100 charter school campuses, serving fewer than 40,000 students.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

It should include more (and better) specialized charters created in systematic ways: schools that focus on STEM, career and technical education, high - ability learners, special education, socioeconomic integration, and other realms within the K — 12 universe that cry out for better options than what's there today.

There seems to be some interest in returning more control and autonomy not simply from the federal government to the states, but from states to local communities — so that communities can decide questions like when to close schools, whether to allow charter schools, and how to assign teachers.

Many hope that by replicating high - performing schools CMOs will provide more consistent results than stand - alone charter schools have achieved, but there is no rigorous evidence yet to support that claim nationally.

The push for rural consolidation is all the stranger given the movement in urban areas toward smaller schools, including charter schools, so that classroom sizes are smaller and there is more accountability among students, parents, and administrators.

There was also another, more subtle reason we sought to bring high - performing charter schools to New York.

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success and less emphasis on single - site schools that increase the variety of schooling options.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

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.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success...

• Best approach for improving education: 77 percent said the focus should be on ensuring that every child has access to a good public school in his or her community; just 20 percent said there should be more public charter schools and vouchers.

There, one finds «Democrats for Education Reform» on one side calling for more charter schools, merit pay, and results - based accountability for educators, and encounters teachers» unions on the other side, defending the status quo.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

There's surely a lot that can be learned from trying to uncover the secret formula that makes these high - performing charters do so well, ideas that can then be applied more broadly in public and charter schools alike.

There are no significant spillover effects on students in district schools located more than a half mile away from the nearest charter school.

There is some evidence, however, that African American students transferring to charters are more likely to end up in schools with higher percentages of students of their own race, a finding that is consistent with prior results in North Carolina (Bifulco and Ladd, 2007).

Even if start - up charters are more likely to succeed than turnarounds, there currently are not enough of them available to kids stuck in failing schools.

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.

[6] There are more students in these 31 choice districts than are served by magnet and charter schools combined in all 13,000 + regular school districts in the U.S. [7] The best designed of these systems are fair to parents and maximize the likelihood that students will be matched with the school that their parents list as most preferred.

While there has been some cooperation in making empty space available, there is still underutilized space that could be used by «proven» charters, like Edward Brooke Charter Schools, that are willing to expand and enroll more students but can not because of the state cap.