Sentences with phrase «national charter»

She's presented at statewide, regional, and national charter schools conferences and has been a national a peer reviewer.

2017 has been a record - breaking year for charter schools, with national charter school enrollment surpassing three million students for the first time.

This accessibility has helped attract some of the country's best national charter operators and helped grow many high - quality local networks and independent schools.

The most recent national charter school study finds a small positive effect in reading and a small negative effect in mathematics.

She said she won't accept any campaign contributions from state or national charter school organizations.

In honor of National Charter Schools Week, May 6th - 12th, I want to take the time to recognize the amazing workRead More...

CCSA is celebrating the return of the Annual California Charter Schools Conference to Sacramento March 16 - 19, 2015 by celebrating National Charter Schools Week during the entire month of May with a conference registration special of $ 325.

CCSA statement on 20th Anniversary of charter school movement, being celebrated during National Charter School Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

With more than 160 schools across the United States, KIPP is one of the largest national charter networks.

This blog entry originally appeared on the blog of the George W. Bush Institute for National Charter Schools Week.

Charter Schools Week is an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of the local and national charter movement, but honoring the excellent work of charter educators is a year - round endeavor.

Mr. Smith spoke about public charter schools in the U.S. and the ninth annual National Charter Schools Conference focusing on...

Finding the Right Match: Excelling in Facility and Finance Navigation from National Charter Schools Institute

Dozens of national charter management companies, funded by a combination of public funds and private donations.

Thousand Oaks, CA — In a historic year that saw unprecedented changes and improvements to national charter public school policy, Compass Charter Schools (CCS), a California public charter school, is...

What is now called Relay was founded as Teacher U in 2007 by three prominent national charter school networks: Achievement First, KIPP and Uncommon Schools (where Lemov developed his method).

De Blasio, Fariña and teachers union officials have insisted charters still be considered laboratories of innovation — their original mission — although prominent national charter leaders have said charters now exist to serve as alternative school systems.

This year, Charter Awareness Day fell within National Charter Schools Week which is currently being recognized nationwide.

[1]- Palestinian national charter still (despite Clinton and Arafat's English - only statements to the contrary) contains the goals of destruction of Israel (articles 19, 20, 21, 22).

So why is a prominent national charter group saying it will spend money this year to try to flip the chamber to Democrats — many of whom were elected with the strong support of teachers unions, charters» frequent nemeses?

She spent the past year working as an Associate Consultant for the nonprofit consulting firm AchieveMission, where she supported talent development and performance management at several national charter school networks and education focused organizations.

This week marked National Charter School Week, a weeklong event that raises awareness about public charter schools, their academic success, and the demand from parents for more school options.

Milestones like National Charter Schools Week and the 20th anniversary provide a natural opportunity for all of us in the movement to celebrate that fact, to invite others to join with us, and to reflect on where we've been and where the next 20 years will take us.

Listen to PRI's Lance Izumi discuss National Charter Schools Week and the need for school choice on «The David Webb Show» on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125.

Her past project work also includes National Charter School Resource Center Task Order 1, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development, the Teaching and California's Future study, and a study examining local partnerships in support of arts education.

The new national charter school study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) has attracted enormous, well - deserved attention.

Pitbull's school will be run by non-profit Mater Academy, which has several Miami - area charter schools, and Academica, a large national charter school management company.

Good Morning The National Charter School Conference is underway in Nashville.

Message from Jed Wallace, President and CEO, CCSA, on National Charter Schools Week and the impact of charter schools in public education.

«Birmingham should look at this from two directions: identifying national charter school providers but also putting a strong emphasis on starting its own schools locally,» said Todd Ziebarth, senior policy director at the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools.

But this is only one achievement celebrated by Copts in the revised national charter scrubbed of most of its Islamist tinge.

In examining the causes of charter school closures in the United States, former National Charter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he studied.

There are, to be sure, several national charter outfits — e.g., Edison Learning, National Heritage Academies, Building Excellent Schools, KIPP — operating in Ohio and some of them do good work.

Born in Houston as the Knowledge Is Power Program for middle schoolers, KIPP is now the biggest and best - known national charter network, educating 88,000 students in 209 schools nationwide.

We used carefully matched samples of charter and traditional public school students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbiased.

Leaders of the fledgling National Charter Schools Alliance are considering dissolving the organization just eight months after it was formed, largely because expected foundation support for the venture failed to come through.

To explore how charters can use this flexibility to create different teacher retirement plans, economist and pension expert Michael Podgursky and national charter researchers Susan Aud Pendergrass and Kevin Hesla studied retirement plans at charter schools across five states: Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan.

Alan Hawkes, a member of the N.C. Charter School Advisory Board who holds close ties with NHA, told his colleagues upon approving relatively few new charter schools for 2015 that Sen. Jerry Tillman's intent was to have many more national charter school operators come into North Carolina and make public school districts feel «threatened and up their game.»

Securing more money would open Chicago up to national charter operations that have shied away from the city because of a lack of facilities and what they say is insufficient public funding, said Phyllis Lockett, president and CEO of the charter advocacy group New Schools for Chicago.

This one - day workshop presented by national charter law experts will provide the legal expertise charter school leaders need to serve their students, staff, and community in understanding the breadth of civil rights law and the ways they are changing with a clear understanding of how they are applied to charter schools.

As you read this, we're fresh off wrapping up another successful National Charter Schools Week and getting ready to launch a year - long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the charter school movement.

New York — As the nation recognizes National Charter Schools Week May 3 - 9, Public Agenda and the Spencer Foundation today launched Charter Schools In Perspective, a set of resources designed to get beyond the polarization this issue can create... Read More

Though National Charter Schools week is over, there are still opportunities to keep the momentum going.

We're excited for Transcend co-founder Jeff Wetzler to present at the upcoming National Charter Schools Conference panel «Walton's Approach to Charter School Supply: Growing & Diversifying.»

The White House also issued a proclamation declaring National Charter Schools Week.

Thirty student acts from charter schools across Georgia, competed at the high energy event which opens National Charter Schools Week (May 3 - 9).