Sentences with phrase «new authorizers»

Madison School Board member Ed Hughes wrote against the proposal on his education blog last week, saying the proposal allows new authorizers to «operate with a free hand in the state's largest urban areas.»

Under Walker's proposal, the board would include the state superintendent of public instruction and members appointed by the governor and other legislators that would have the power to create new authorizers.

The second is a new authorizer accountability framework that the state will begin implementing in January 2015.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

DCPS could continue to run its schools as it saw fit, but each would have a contract with the new authorizer, which could close those that persistently fail.

A low - performing school may shop for a new authorizer to avoid closure, or reopen under a new authorizer after closure.

Instead, some charter schools identify and «hop» to a new authorizer willing to work with them to avoid accountability and remain open.

«High - quality charters with good track records won't have a problem finding a new authorizer,» she said.

«Orphaned» schools must seek new sponsors About to be orphaned, dozens of schools are looking for a new authorizer.

If the applicant is an existing school seeking a new authorizer, VOA staff visit the school and try to talk to students, staff and parents.

The state of Ohio is in the process of implementing a new authorizer accountability framework that imposes consequences for poor practices.

Not exact matches

Bellafiore served as president of the SUNY's Charter Schools Institute, which was created by the Board of Trustees to implement their new role as a charter school authorizer.

The two charter authorizers, the SUNY Board of Trustees and the Board of Regents, will now be able to authorize new charters on a first - come, first - served basis.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

DCPCSB could serve as the authorizer, or the city council could exercise its power under the charter law to create a new, non-district authorizer.

New York City has three charter school authorizers.

After fruitlessly seeking new sponsors to take on the potential «orphans» — eligible organizations feared the political, financial, and legal - liability risks — and after much internal soul - searching and debate, Fordham decided in 2004 to apply to become a school authorizer and by June 2005 we found ourselves occupying that hot seat.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

In a new analysis of the charter school experience in South Carolina, Jonathan Butcher and Joel Medley observe, «despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.»

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

Under the new public program, any private school that wants to participate — meaning, receive public dollars — submits an application to an authorizer.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

The first is a new, rigorous application process for any new entity wishing to become an authorizer.

The district could voluntarily begin the shift to an authorizer, developing a new relationship with its schools and reworking its administrative structure to meet the new conditions.

While the law gives ODE the power to prevent any ineffective authorizer from approving new schools, it may only close authorizers with which it has contracts (13 out of nearly 70 authorizers statewide).

Beginning in January 2015, ODE will implement a sponsor ranking system, through which it can prevent an authorizer from opening new schools or revoke its authority to oversee community schools altogether.

You would want to put in place a strong authorizer, ample funding, and a charter - friendly law and work to build a great charter sector like those in place in cities like Boston, New Orleans, and the District of Columbia.

The New York State Board of Regents this week refused to approve early renewals recommended by their authorizer for ten Success Academy charter schools.

South Carolina appears on track to enact legislation that would create both a statewide authorizer for charter schools and a new statewide district exclusively for those schools.

Twenty groups hoping to run new charter schools submitted 43 applications to a review committee, comprising a team from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representatives.

In the place of the closed schools, assuming the state authorizer assents, will be nine new public charter schools.

Although New York's Pre-K for All legislation gives the authority to monitor pre-K programs to charter school authorizers, it also sets quality standards and monitoring requirements that differ from authorizers» typical practices.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

It can create a great new non-district authorizer, and maybe even a cross-sector chancellor or a Hill - Jochim board to help organize the system.

Fordham is a charter authorizer itself (in our home state of Ohio) and we're keenly aware of the need to balance the risk that a new school may struggle academically against a charter's right to autonomy and innovation.

In joining this debate, Greene mischaracterizes generally positive findings by Harris's Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA) about the role of my organization, The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), in managing the Louisiana Recovery School District's (RSD) application processes between 2008 and 2013.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

I'm not sure I can prove it with hard data, but it sure seems clear to me that the cities and states with some of the highest - performing charter schools (Boston, Washington, D.C., New York State, Tennessee) are also home to some of the most thoughtful and effective authorizers.

New Orleans has two authorizers: the OPSB and BESE.

As the charter authorizer, our job is to keep our strong focus on quality — closing low - performing schools, helping promising schools improve, encouraging our best schools to expand, and applying rigorous oversight to approve only the most - promising new applicants.

Here's a map from the new NACSA @qualitycharters report on state charter authorizers showing how many authorizers each state has.

Sample clients: Stranahan Foundation, New Orleans Early Education Network, Sesame Workshop, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, Teach For America, Walton Family Foundation

The case study is an important contribution to a relatively new field, examining how one successful charter authorizer is advancing student achievement and increasing the number of high - quality charter seats available.

«We see more and more charter school authorizers in cities with large charter market shares (like Washington, DC, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans) are starting to encourage high performing charter school operators to take over and restart low performing charter campuses.»

Before that, Mr. Field was the deputy chief of Charter, Partnership and New Schools with the School District of Philadelphia, where he authorizer new schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter schooNew Schools with the School District of Philadelphia, where he authorizer new schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter schoonew schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter schools.

Charter school publications include: Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future; Quality School Ratings: Trends in Evaluating School Academic Quality; Searching for Excellence: A Five - City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality; and New Orleans - Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities.

In the 2013 - 2015 state budget, money for districts will be tight again, creating a new round of challenges, which D'Andrea says will probably include merit pay, a teacher effectiveness program, the expansion of school choice, and maybe the creation of a statewide charter authorizer.

It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).

«Authorizers should open lots of innovative and new kinds of schools, but they also have to be able to close them if they fail kids.

City and state leaders can accomplish this by ensuring that charter authorizers are paying attention to recruitment and admission practices, by ensuring that schools are getting their fair share of funding, by giving charter schools access to excellent special - education expertise and networks, and by promoting innovative new approaches through grants and charter — district partnerships.