Sentences with phrase «nation running a charter»

Peterson is currently the only mayor in the nation running a charter school authorizer out of his office and has proven himself willing to be judged by the results.

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According to the Center for Education Reform, 19 of these companies ran 350 charter schools in 2001 -» 02, about 14 percent of the nation's charter schools.

It profiles eight schools that the department regards as among the best of the nation's roughly 3,000 publicly financed but independently run charter schools.

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 the state.

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

But as these publicly funded, privately run schools have proliferated across the nation, Mississippi's charter - school growth has been relatively sluggish.

This fall, New Orleans» state - run Recovery School District will become the nation's first big - city school system comprised entirely of charter schools.

Summerfield Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford County.

Our founders and leaders have been instrumental in innovations such as open enrollment and public school choice, the nation's first charter school law, and schools designed and run by teachers.

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a front - page story purporting to show that «betting big» on charters has produced «chaos» and a «glut of schools competing for some of the nation's poorest students.»

Los Angeles already has the highest number of independently run charter schools of any other city in the nation: 228 with 107,000 students.

Independently run but publicly financed, charters are still a small percentage of the nation's nearly 100,000 public schools, but they're popular.

In fact, our nation's capital now has 120 charters, run by 66 nonprofit organizations.

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizCharter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizcharter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

Discussions were taking place in Hartford about turning over one or more of the local schools over to the nation's biggest charter school chain, the KIPP Foundation, which runs 130 schools around the country.