Sentences with phrase «not go to a charter school»

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J.O. then finds one LAUSD school to let him on campus with cameras — West Adams Prep, a public charter school — but he still isn't allowed to go into the school kitchen and instead is assigned to work with a group of culinary students.

«Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools and he represents a districts where most people can't afford elite private schools and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education,» Bloomberg told WOR's John Gambling.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

«Every student, they count,» Mecozzi said, «but when I look at our budget and I realize how much money is going into charter schools, and a lot of the charter schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»schools, and a lot of the charter schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»schools.»»

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

«This idea that we should close schools to open up charter schools I don't think is an accurate way to go,» Heastie said.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

«Our school system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in Broschool system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in BroSchool in Brooklyn.

«If you are going to be a Democrat and you believe in bread - and - butter Democratic issues like funding public schools, you should do that and not keep — you've got to fund the schools better and not keep siphoning off money for vouchers and charters,» Nixon said.

Talk of vouchers and charter schools is not only going to destroy education for our children, it will cost jobs, Flynn said.

Steve Zimmerman, who leads a coalition of independent charter schools in New York City, said Loeb's remark «certainly isn't going to help the charter movement, which is already being tarnished by association with the current administration.»

But he's found some roadblocks, and has had to go a route he didn't expect at the outset: charter school.

One of them was he wasn't going to be able to fix the school system from the top down,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Cschool system from the top down,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School CSchool Center.

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

«They're just playing to Bloomberg and the charter - school crowd and they know the bill isn't going to pass the Assembly,» is how one leading Assembly member put it.

«We're not going to be in a situation where charter schools stop, not if I have anything to do with it,» Cuomo said.

That difference was the result of some $ 5,500 per student in local tax dollars going to district schools that charters such as Omega did not receive — all this in addition to money for facilities and other outlays that were also denied to Ohio charters.

The school district may be glad to see the school go; the charter authorizer may not have the capacity or the philosophical inclination to intervene.

The study was designed as a gold - standard randomized field trial, in which students were (by means of a lottery) randomly given the opportunity to go to charter schools or not.

«It's not that we're going to support charter schools and not traditional schools, we're not «all in» on charters, like in New Orleans.

San Antonio parent Kerri Smith sent a two - page letter to every Texas official overseeing charters, explaining, «Had my children not been given the opportunity to attend a BASIS school, I truly fear that they would have continued to go through traditional public school in the middle of the pack, not reaching their full potential and not being fully prepared to go off to college one day.»

Put aside the crystal clear anecdotes that go beyond the on average results — something education researchers are not good at doing — that show that for certain students in certain circumstances, full - time virtual charter schools are absolutely the best place for them to learn and that these students have not only been successful in these environments, they have also thrived in ways they would not have in traditional brick - and - mortar schools.

Unlike a badly designed charter school study recently released by Mathematica, which compared students who changed schools with those who did not, MDRC studied only students who moved to a new school regardless of whether they attended a small one or went elsewhere.

And we can't assume that all parents are going to want the same changes — which might be why parents in traditional public schools are less satisfied with engagement efforts than those in charter and private ones.

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.

The president has made his commitment to charter schools known, and this has not gone unnoticed.

«What is the [charter] movement going to do for the 98 percent of American kids who aren't going to our schools?»

At GreatHearts charter schools «the point is not to cordon students off from technology — but to teach students how to go back and forth thoughtfully between various media and understand the costs and benefits of each.»

One was that students not offered vouchers went on to attend high - performing public schools (either traditional or charter schools).

Given the district's ongoing challenges — and the possibility that the school board would not authorize the new charter school with Wilson gone — Summit and Super School leaders agreed to abandon the project in Oakland, Solomonschool board would not authorize the new charter school with Wilson gone — Summit and Super School leaders agreed to abandon the project in Oakland, Solomonschool with Wilson gone — Summit and Super School leaders agreed to abandon the project in Oakland, SolomonSchool leaders agreed to abandon the project in Oakland, Solomon said.

The most striking finding was that charter — high school attendance may positively affect the chance that a student will graduate and go on to college — two critical outcomes that have not been examined in previous research — suggesting the need to look beyond achievement - test scores when measuring the effectiveness of charter schools.

«Turning around» low - performing schools is a euphemism for NCLB - style punishments: if scores don't go up, schools are closed, privatized, turned into charters or handed over to the state.

He did things that aren't easy for a Democrat on the national stage to do: He advocated charter schools, tussled with the teacher unions, and went after the schools of education.

Today, charter schools are promoted not as ways to collaborate with public schools but as competitors that will force them to get better or go out of business.

Our opposition is never going to believe that charter schooling is an effective reform, but I think there are a lot of people in the middle who either don't know what a charter school is or are misguided about what it is and how it functions.

So, she made the decision to help start a charter school called Making Waves Academy in the San Francisco Bay area, but even after four years, she didn't feel she was having the broad impact she could and decided to go back to school herself.

It won't be the first time voters have gone to the polls to have their say on charter schools.

But what was the plan for the kids who weren't going to charters, for all of the kids to be sure that their schooling would be stable and positive?

«My school is doing a great job preparing us for the future — but we shouldn't have to go without resources every kid should have in their school in 2016,» said Rahmatou Kone, a student at Harriet Tubman Charter Sschool is doing a great job preparing us for the future — but we shouldn't have to go without resources every kid should have in their school in 2016,» said Rahmatou Kone, a student at Harriet Tubman Charter Sschool in 2016,» said Rahmatou Kone, a student at Harriet Tubman Charter SchoolSchool.

«What is a charter school going to offer in terms of pedagogy or instructional value that isn't available in our city?»

«If you're a charter school and your students aren't learning to read, you're probably not going to stay in business,» she says.

«It would not really be helpful for me to take a kid who's going to an inner - city Boston charter school and say, «What if he went instead to the Weston public schools?»»

It seems that this hasn't gone unnoticed by Connecticut residents, as more than 40 percent of resident polled say the state should ease restrictions on charter school enrollment to accommodate kids on waitlists.

In November, I went before the Texas Supreme Court on behalf of Neighborhood Centers, Inc. (Baker Ripley) to argue that public charter schools are not subject to the Texas Whistleblower Act.

«I don't think we're going to learn a lot by looking at states with only six charter schools that started last year,» she says, noting that in their first year or two, charter schools can be «oddball» places, operating out of makeshift facilities and populated by students whose parents are either very experimental or desperate to improve their child's failing performance.

Hartford vs. Charter Schools: Servicing students who go home to households where English in not the primary language:

He even went so far to say charter schools are «not going to expand greatly in the coming years.»

What they may have is a school around the corner called a «charter school» that they can go to because it's a new school... but not necessarily a better school.»

The State Board of Education planned to decide this month whether or not to give the go - ahead to 18 charter schools that hope to open in the Fall of 2016.

OPPONENTS OF charter schools are going to have to come up with a new excuse: They can't claim any longer that these non-traditional public schools don't succeed.