Sentences with phrase «new charter»

«We are asking for 18 months» notice before a new charter opens so that we can analyze potential impact to our budget and adjust accordingly.»

Only 20 percent of the McKinley families transferred their children to the new charter, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Under California's new charter school legislation, Westwood Elementary will become quasi-autonomous though still a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

These four founders designed the school program, worked with Volunteers of America, the authorizer of the new charter school, implemented the technology, and recruited the first students.

Massachusetts is now adding new charter schools «incrementally and in a way that makes sense,» Mr. Chester said.

While the city is nearly certain to reach the limit of the number of charter schools it can approve this year, the State University of New York can still approve more than a dozen new charter schools.

Be sure to read Howard Fuller's Education Week commentary on the NAACP's call for a national moratorium on new charter schools.

Nearly half of all new charter schools (37 of 75 schools) that opened this fall are replications of existing, successful charter schools, up from 35 percent last year.

The law limits the number of new charter schools to 45: five in each of the first three years the law is in effect, and 10 in each of the next three.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a strong ally of Mr. Obama, is seeking a small increase in state funding for new charter schools.

The last new charter school was granted approval in 2007.

In this 2002 report, and even prior to more recent studies like the 2004 LAO report, which called charter schools «a viable reform strategy,» the AFT demanded a halt to new charter schools «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness or viability is presented.»

For new charter schools, the organization applies first to the local school board; if the board rejects the application, the organization may appeal to the state superintendent of public instruction.

An additional 87 new charter schools opened their doors, bringing the total number of charter schools in California to 1,184.

Steve Sundquist, who served on the Seattle School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the group.

Authorizers play a powerful role in supporting proposed new charter schools by requiring applicants to articulate how they will support all students — students with IEPs in particular.

At a celebration for the 10th anniversary of Sisulu - Walker Charter School of Harlem, the first charter school in the city, Mr. Bloomberg said he would create 100 new charter schools, doubling the current number of the publicly funded but privately operated schools in the city.

That law would allow as many as 45 new charter schools to open in the next six years, run by nonprofit organizations under contract, or «charter,» with a local school district or with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

St. Louis Language Immersion Schools opened last week, one of three new charter schools in St. Louis this year, and an example of a new kind of creativity arriving in the city in recent years.

The Obama administration, as part of a strategy to promote school reform, has promised to double funding for new charter schools with high academic standards, which many believe are key to improving the nation's K - 12 system through competition with traditional public schools.

ACNW is currently accepting proposals for new charter schools in the state of Minnesota.

He decided to build his new charter school in an Atlanta neighborhood the public school district defined as an «area of need.»

The positive student achievement gains were announced during a new school year that has 78 new public charter schools opening their doors for the first time - a 15 percent increase in the number of new charter schools compared to last year.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) set or tied its national record for the number of new charter school opened in a single year at 23, equaling last year's record.

The bill would provide extra support for charter school expansion, including providing new incentives for raising or abolishing charter school caps, and for taking decisions for authorizing new charter schools away from local school boards — despite substantial research showing that charter schools overall are no better than traditional neighborhood schools.

Just to illustrate how charter school growth is swamping any unionization efforts, NEA and AFT would have had to organize 47 of those 381 new charter schools just to maintain their small market share.

Since building costs are often the biggest challenge for schools, and the most significant roadblock to new charter schools opening despite increasing demand, implementing policies or programs to lessen those burdens would go a long way.

In the first of those parent triggers (McKinley Elementary School in Compton, CA, December 2010), the charter school operator that had been poised to take over the school didn't do so; instead, it opened a new charter school a few minutes away.

Florida was one of the states leading the nation in charter school enrollment growth, adding about 23,500 new charter school students this year, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools said.

If the matter is placed on the ballot, the new charter school law would be suspended until after the general election, said Mount Vernon School District Superintendent Mack Armstrong.

Most criticism is directed toward an early draft, which said it wants to spend $ 490 million to open 260 new charter schools in the district.

LANSING, Mich. — Former NBA player Jalen Rose described to the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday how his new charter public school will help kids catch up academically, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Eventually the state board would set more rules in response to the state's new charter law, including the process for shutting down an unsuccessful school.

One of the Gates Foundation's most consistent collaborators is the New Schools Venture Fund, which provides venture capital for new charter - school operators.

While a new charter school was not allowed to move into McKinley, the Celerity Educational Group opened Celerity Sirius Charter School near McKinley in September 2011.

And second, it's impossible to know whether «selection effects» played a role — whether the new charter schools performed better because they attracted better students.

Charter - school authorizing policies differ from state to state and are perhaps the greatest determinant of when, where, and what kind of new charter schools can open — and how long they stay in business.

Bill Clinton was an early champion, and George W. Bush and Barack Obama spoke favorably about charters and supported the federal program that provides funds to start new charter schools.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to regular public schools.

• Maine's new charter school law, which brings the total number of states, along with the District of Columbia, with charter schools to 42

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).

An analysis released in today's Education Gadfly finds that new charter schools in disadvantaged communities are almost four times as likely to reach above - average rates of student achievement as the closest district school.

Earlier this month I had the privilege of visiting the USC Hybrid High School (HHS), a new charter school in Los Angeles and winner of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.

About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.

While in New York he served as Deputy Chancellor, launching the Innovation Zone, a network of 100 21st Century schools that use technology to personalize student learning, and leading the city's efforts to turn around more than 100 failing schools and start 500 new charter and district schools.

(Sec. 4301) The bill replaces the existing charter school grant program with a program awarding competitive grants to state entities and, through them, competitive subgrants to charter school developers to open new charter schools and expand and replicate high - quality charter schools.

Between 1991 and 2000 alone, 36 laws were enacted governing the creation of new charter schools and two created new full school choice programs.

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High School.

Among them is a provision that would let communities effectively block new charter schools in a community by allowing them to count seats at in - district «innovation» schools and in - district charter schools in the calculation used to determine when the local cap on charters has been reached.

Adam Emerson, the author of the study and the new charter school chief in Florida (congrats btw Adam) wrote: