Sentences with phrase «n't run a charter»

If the first charter applicants in Washington state are mostly new to the field, then the job of reviewing them will be more difficult, since they haven't run charters before.

Not exact matches

That didn't include at least 13 deaths last year in seven crashes involving commercial charter flights in the U.S., and ignored the fact that the FAA was being run by an Obama - era holdover.

Consider: Late in the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 10, as Brees was running through a long checklist of bye - week obligations, he detoured to the Lusher Charter School, not far from his home in Uptown New Orleans.

Which is why he runs not just a charter school but also a parenting program and an all - day prekindergarten and an after - school tutoring program and family - support centers.

The justices voted, 6 to 3, that charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately run — are not «common schools» because their governing boards are not elected but are appointed by the founders of the individual schools.

Lawmakers on Monday passed extender resolutions to keep the government running through the end of May, but also to fund pretty much all of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program — not to mention a $ 2.5 billion water infrastructure package that pretty much all sides want — but not contentious issues like education / charter school funding, raise the age and 421 - a.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of the Success Academy charter school network and a former city councilwoman, would not rule out a challenge against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio when he runs for re-election in two years.

It wasn't a bad idea when Charter Schools were run by the Board of Ed.

De Blasio also said Thursday night that greater equity between «good» and «bad» public schools would mean parents wouldn't have to choose privately run charter schools over traditional schools.

The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

What the Success Academy charter school network could not get through the courts or from the New York State Education Department, it may get from the governor: the ability to run prekindergarten programs without oversight from New York City.

By the end of May, state lawmakers reached a deal to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and usually not unionized, to 460 statewide, up from 200, while also increasing state oversight of them.

He supported charter schools, which are publicly financed but privately run and typically don't employ unionized teachers.

«The governor repeatedly says «money doesn't matter» in education, but when it comes to giving funding to privately - run charter schools, it's all about the money.»

De Blasio told Catsimatidis, his administration has worked with charter schools, adding «it's not fair to link the charter school issue to something as fundamental as how we run our schools everyday for 1.1 million kids.»

The new mayor takes the $ 95,000 post currently held by Tutunjian, who could not run for re-election due to a two - term limit set by the city charter.

Eva Moskowitz, the charter schools titan and bête noire of the de Blasio administration, recently announced she would not run for mayor — an acknowledgment, perhaps, of how difficult internecine warfare against Mr. de Blasio could be.

«There's plenty of issues we can work on together on charter schools, but it's not fair to link the charter school issue to something as fundamental as how we run our schools every day for 1.1 million kids,» de Blasio said.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.

The borough president's job is not clearly defined in the City Charter, which has led the seven Democrats vying for the spot to mold their own ideal of how Queens should be run.?

Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.

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.

«Especially for achievement gap kids, I don't know of any charter schools like a KIPP [Knowledge is Power Program] or a Roxbury Prep that are running on today's ordinary schedule.»

We're not building schools for the OPSB [Orleans Parish School Board], we're not building schools for the RSD [the state - run Recovery School District], nor are we building schools for charters.

A recent Fordham report found that only 21 percent of applicants who did not plan to hire a CMO or an EMO to run their school had their charters approved, compared to 31 percent of applicants who did have such plans.

What Seton is seeking to do isn't much different from what a well - run district or a charter management organization does.

That night I read his proposal that school districts should no longer run schools directly but, instead, oversee performance contracts for charter - like schools, and I could barely get to sleep because I couldn't stop thinking about his idea.

In Chicago, however, we could not run similar analyses because grade configuration is too strongly correlated with charter status; we therefore can not rule out the possibility that positive results in Chicago could be partly attributable to eliminating the transition from middle school to high school.

In order to examine whether charter - school effects might be attributable to eliminating the transition between middle and high school, we restricted the Florida analysis to those students whose 8th - grade charter school did not offer 9th grade and ran our analyses again.

Opposition among antipoverty groups is building on two grounds — that charter schools are done to, not by, families in big cities; and that transfers of funds to charter schools hurt students in district - run schools.

Today it is flourishing, which is not true of the two other New York charters launched at the same time, which have run into financial and programmatic difficulties, as so many charters have.

Not surprisingly, one result is that a substantial number of New Leaders end up running charter schools, small schools, start - ups, or education organizations rather than traditional schools, especially in Chicago.

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.

The question asked in both the EdNext and UAS surveys runs as follows: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

Not surprisingly, we get a charter sector that is largely developed and run by white folks from elite college.

The charter schools can be closed if they don't perform well, and their staffs have jobs only as long as the schools survive, but it is not clear whether the same is true of district - run schools.

Shanker believed students would be better served if charter schools were not only unionized but also allowed teachers significant new say in how charter schools were run.

The people running those schools weren't required to write charter applications, and I suspect few of them could have done it well.

I recall an interview with a teacher at a Chicago charter school, started and run by the Christian Brothers, an ancient Catholic order, during which the teacher complained that the school's problem was that it could not teach about God.

Whose responsibility is it when a charter school gets into trouble — when its students aren't learning or it misses its enrollment targets or money runs short or it closes?

has aimed to train individuals who would not only run schools and school systems, but lead transformative change through a variety of roles and organizations, from charter networks to education nonprofits to state agencies.

That's not only bad for students; it also threatens charter schools» ability to reach the next level of scale and quality they'll need to survive over the long run.

It's also the reason districts can't compete effectively with charter schools and complain that charter growth hurts students in district - run schools.

The vast majority of alternative programs — 87 percent — are run by traditional school districts not charters.

What is not often debated is that charter schools, which are independently run but publicly funded, generally receive less public funding per student than district - run schools.

Learning Without Limits (LWL), a district - run elementary that recently converted to a charter, applied for the blended - learning pilot but didn't make the cut.

Would it be running up the score to note that Arizona would not have done nearly as well without charters?

Aside from variable performance of the sector at large, charters are not financially viable organizations in the long run.

Many of the people starting and running charter schools — most of them earnest and well meaning — either don't really know what they're doing or lack the capacity to do it well.