Sentences with phrase «number of charter schools in the state»

This promising pattern of performance may well reflect the fact that a surprising number of charter schools in these states serve suburban students, bucking the national trend of charters concentrating in big cities.

Ammiano also notes that the current cap is much higher than the actual number of charter schools in the state, but the growth in the number of charter schools is accelerating.

Flanagan and Senate Republicans want to expand the number of charter schools in the state as a condition of extending mayoral control; Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie continues to oppose any effort to link charter schools to a deal.

The bills that were passed also failed to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the state — but they did unlock a cash freeze that has prevented charters from getting their first increase in per - student funding since 2009.

In this view, Cuomo will cave on most of his other proposals — like merit pay and stiffer teacher evaluation standards — as long as he gets a higher cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The average performance composite among traditional public schools increased from 67 percent in 1996 — 97 to 75 percent in 1999 — 2000 as the number of charter schools in the state increased from 0 to more than 70.

Despite the rapid growth in the number of charter schools in the state, the 12,000 students enrolled in charters in 1999 — 2000 represented just 1 percent of North Carolina's 1.25 million public - school students.

Paterson said he thinks New York could have won $ 500 million to $ 700 million in the Obama administration's «Race to the Top» program to improve public schools if the Legislature made two changes he urged: lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in the state from the current 200 and ending a measure that prohibits student...

In fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school system.

A California coalition founded by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, and a schools superintendent is gearing up to put a ballot initiative before state voters in the fall that could dramatically expand the number of charter schools in the state.

Sixteen of the 25 charter states limit the number of charter schools in the state.

GAO analyzed federal data on the number and characteristics of students with disabilities; visited charter schools and school districts in three states selected on the basis of the number of charter schools in the state, among other things; and interviewed representatives of federal, state, and other agencies that oversee charter schools.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has pushed the hardest, enacting a law that removes the cap on the number of charter schools in his state, authorizes all universities to register charters and expands an existing voucher program in the state for students to attend private and charter schools (in some cases managed by for - profit companies).

In addition to supporting the movement, Klein has emerged as a strong voice in the effort to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state legislature.

Massachusetts voters will weigh in this fall in a referendum on whether to increase the number of charter schools in the state

Senator Elizabeth Warren has announced her opposition to a Massachusetts ballot measure that would expand the number of charter schools in the state, draining hundreds of millions from public schools every year.

It will also double the number of charter schools in the state's lowest - performing school districts.

MASSACHUSETTS This week The Boston Globe highlighted the «ready for battle» Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance after the group sent a letter to all 200 state lawmakers urging them not to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

They have raised the cap on the number of charter schools in the state and implemented scholarships for low - income students and students with special needs.

«We've seen tremendous growth in the number of charter schools in the state, and in the number of students served by charters, which we feel certain will continue.

As the number of charter schools in the state increases, the staff that oversees them must grow as well.

That includes the 1993 law that permitted charters in the state and a 2011 vote to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

Ms. Moskowitz has used her high test scores to argue that she should be allowed to open more schools, and an effort by Mr. Cuomo to raise the limit on the number of charter schools in the state could make it easier for her to do so.

Last Friday, the New York Assembly voted to more than double the number of charter schools in the state, in hopes of winning some $ 700 million.

As Wagner reports, Republicans, who took control of the state legislature in 2010 and the governorship in 2012, are intent on expanding education options in the state by providing some parents with school vouchers to transfer their children to private schools and by increasing the number of charter schools in the state.

MarylandCAN seeks to change state law in order to dramatically increase the number of charter schools in our state.

The lawsuit argued that limiting the number of charter schools in the state denies students the opportunity for a quality education.

I was just looking at some updated «State Education Reform» statistics from the National Center of Education Statistics and was trying to make sense of the numbers of charter schools in each state.

In fact, the (Walton - funded) National Alliance for Public Charter Schools declares that having no limit or caps on the number of charter schools in a state is the No. 1 «essential component» of a model charter law.