Sentences with phrase «more charters like»

I wish we had more charters like http://www.blackriverpublicschool.org/ and would love to know some innovative charters in CT..

My involvement in developing more charters like Roxbury Prep grew out of the fact that the autonomy - for - accountability exchange could be a lever to create better outcomes for kids.

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This week, the telecom giant provided more details about its plans for the 5G home service, which is likely to compete head on with cable giants like Comcast, Charter Communications (chtr) and Altice (atus).

For a few hundred more dollars, you can do a custom charter flight to a destination of your choice, and you can even choose to fly on a faster aircraft if you'd like.

People like him — and there are more than you think — charter a commercial airliner and hop across the country visiting the Meccas of the aviation world.

(Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who, like Price, spent more than $ 1 million on military and charter travel, still has a job too.)

The working theory is that by aggregating TV networks, a merged company could bargain for more carriage fees from the pay TV distributors like Charter or Comcast.

but the most important part is the belief that we are all connected on a deeper level and that our bodies are just instruments helping us charter through this plethora of interactions (between the like) called «life» More like Buddhism with out Budha.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

The preliminary report of the Charter Revision Commission has been released, and while it addresses the issue of term limits — ostensibly the main reason it was convened in the first place — it does not touch some of the more controversial topics, like nonpartisan elections (a past pet issue for Mayor Bloomberg).

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

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.

... I'd like to push more charter schools.»

Mike Mulgrew calling for more accountability for charter schools is like the Pony Express demanding faster service from FedEx.

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Such judgments are more properly rendered by think - tank eggheads like Jerry Benjamin of New Paltz, the father of the charter.

And by not picking a battle with Cuomo over mayoral control, the Assembly and de Blasio may have more leverage on issues like the tax credit, and, of particular interest to de Blasio, the charter cap.

Cuomo has been a strong supporter of charters and close ally of Moskowitz's at times, but has recently inched away from the charter cause in favor of more broadly popular education plans like free college tuition.

Mahoney says the county would do even more if it was allowed by the county charter or state law, but some agencies like Veteran's Services are required to have their own department.

Success students sporting orange ties and pleated skirts flood Harlem and Bedford - Stuyvesant every weekday and more Success schools crop up each fall in neighborhoods not known for having charter schools, like the Upper West Side and Jamaica.

Charter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district sCharter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district scharter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district schools.

That's why I think Bronx residents should do everything we can to give our kids better public education options, from bringing more world class public charter schools to our borough to supporting programs like Borough President Diaz's Gifted & Talented initiative.

Also last week, Daniel Loeb, a Cuomo donor and chairman of the Success Academy charter school network, responded to the story by writing that «hypocrites like Stewart - Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aCharter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level acharter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

He wants teacher performance reviews to rely more on standardized test results, and he'd like 100 more charter schools in New York.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

I just haven't seen the kind of drive for continuous improvement in traditional districts that I've witnessed in charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First, where the very organizational DNA is obsessed with excellence and continuous improvement, always looking for more effective approaches to teaching and learning.

The future of the charter sector must be more Achievement Firsts, University Preps and Blackstone Valley Preps — and fewer failures like ECOT.

New Mexico's charter enrollment growth, like the growth of its student population at large, has been more modest, but it is still above the national average.

The Department of Education would like to see more charter schools and innovative programs, he said, adding that key ingredients for successful schools are high expectations for children and «an unequivocal belief that all children can learn.»

In cities like New Orleans and Detroit, which have especially robust charter sectors, more students attend charters than district schools.

Districts with higher - than - predicted high - school dropout rates were, like states with high dropout rates, more likely to have charter schools and a greater share of students enrolled in charters.

This issue is causing significant pain in places like San Jose and Oakland, which might otherwise be open to more charter schools.

And it is even more amazing considering that some of the highest performing charter schools, like Roxbury Prep in Boston or KIPP Infinity in New York City, serve very disadvantaged students.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

Of the cities we examined, some have large and well - established charter sectors, like Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, while others have more emerging charter school sectors like Little Rock, San Antonio, and Tulsa.

This will also help charter schools, like Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, that seek to enroll more English - language learners or students from other underserved subgroups.

Even as «no excuses» schools like KIPP work to make their programs more intellectually challenging, only a few charter providers (for example, Summit) are experimenting with technology - based, personalized schools and with models that reduce the need for large facilities.

District officials say that as more families like the Aquinos discover online learning, schools risk losing them to virtual charters with enticing television advertisements and billboards — not to mention easy, online enrollment.

Since then, NewSchools has helped launch and grow many more CMOs, mostly in California, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Working alongside NewSchools have been national funders like the Walton Family Foundation, the Fisher Fund, the Robertson Foundation, the Dell Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Charter School Growth Fund (see «The $ 500 Million Question,» forum, Winter 2011).

The truth is that virtual schooling is more like a hybrid of public, charter, and home schooling, with ample dashes of tutoring and independent study thrown in, all turbocharged by Internet technology.

These laissez - faire positions have netted them mediocre ratings from organizations like the National Association of Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter Charter School Authorizers that favor a more - regulated approach to charter charter growth.

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 opportunities.

In addition to well - known charter management organizations like KIPP, Achievement First, and Uncommon Schools, new ones continue to emerge: Green Dot, High Tech High, Aspire, Noble Street, IDEA, and more.

But for the past few years, DPS has treated the innovation school authorization process much like the charter authorization process, and new innovation schools have looked far more like charters — with a year to plan, clear visions and strategies, and careful hiring of teachers.

He first argues that all of the seven Cs principles are essential — that working with them is «more like multiplication than addition» — and makes the case for embracing the true charter model rather than a «charter - lite» approach of limited autonomy and accountability.

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.

One would like to know more on how that law works, and what the state provides to such charters, but Russo is skimpy on these details, as on so many others.

Charters were Shanker's way of saying that the union could see the virtue of a more market - like system if it were carefully controlled and if teachers played a central role.