Sentences with phrase «of charter school authorizers»

This article was adapted from a speech given at the annual conference of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in Savannah, Georgia, in 2007.

Given this documented performance and the existing role of charter school authorizers in the state of California, we would encourage authorizers to hold clear, consistent and robust minimum performance expectations for all schools in renewal, including online charter schools.

In the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, Joey Gustafson took a close look at the work of charter school authorizers and at efforts to improve their effectiveness.

In April 2011, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers agreed to assist DPS as the district designed a competitive and rigorous RFP (Request for Proposal) process to identify schools that it would authorize as charters beginning in fall 2011.

Early on, the role of charter school authorizers seemed so straightforward that little focus was placed on them, while the politics of chartering and the action surrounding the schools themselves consumed most of the attention.

Local school districts now constitute 90 percent of charter school authorizers and could have fostered the kind of cross-fertilization Shanker envisioned, but they've tended instead to treat charters as distant cousins.

National Association of Charter School Authorizers president Greg Richmond pointed out that there are real, substantive disagreements over how to understand the civic mission of schooling.

In fact, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers promotes «default closure» policies that automatically close schools based on low test score performance.

Consult this resource often as a guide to understanding and fulfilling the critical responsibilities of charter school authorizers.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers informs members that one of their core responsibilities is making sure schools are open to all, said Alex Medler, a vice president of the group.

Nelson Smith of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers responds to John Oliver's charter school segment: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver's Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools.

The Role of Charter School Authorizers discusses the responsibilities charter authorizers have to ensure that schools under their purview are meeting their legal obligations and providing excellent services to students with disabilities.

In fact, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers also offered a response to the report, and included some suggestions into the mix for authorizers that might need to step up their approach on this topic.

A recent report from the National Alliance of Charter School Authorizers provides a detailed look at the ways in which Ohio can act to create higher - quality education.

This brief for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers explores how and why authorizer hopping happens and offers recommendations to stop it.

Part and parcel of a charter school authorizer's oversight responsibility is the unenviable task of closing a school that fails to pass muster.

A recent nationwide report on charter school policies from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers ranked Mississippi sixth among the 43 states with charter school laws

During Mayor Ballard's tenure, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers designated the mayor's office as a model authorizer.

Anecdotes Aren't Enough: An Evidence - Based Approach to Accountability for Alternative Charter Schools National Association of Charter School Authorizers Alternative schools — whether charter or traditional — are schools whose mission is to serve special populations including adjudicated youth, dropouts, pregnant teens, and recovering addicts.

This could happen by expanding the number of charter school authorizers in Milwaukee (and statewide) as well as increasing the purview of existing charter schools.»

These 11 dimensions are the brainchild of a group of charter school authorizers, charter school operators, and some other experts in accountability.

All annual audits and fraud risk assessments should be posted on the websites of charter school authorizers, typically the local school system;

In 2000, a small group gathered in Detroit to hold the inaugural meeting of a new membership organization of charter school authorizers.

Public Impact worked with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers on a series of publications specifically on «starting fresh» — the chartering and contracting options.

CPS is the nation's third largest school district and a national leading charter authorizer, implementing all 12 essential practices established by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers as critical to fostering high - performing charter schools.

In addition, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers noted the state - wide charter school district's commitment to creating parent - choice options.

NACSA is a professional membership organization that supports the work of charter school authorizers, provide information and services to authorizers across the country, and support school system leaders interested in applying best practices from charter schools in their own systems.

If the school board fully moves away from managing schools, it would even allow for greater school choice to be fostered; the school board would take on the role of charter school authorizers, bringing in high - quality charter operators into the county and offering greater choice.

For the first time, the state followed guidelines set by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in deciding which applications to approve and deny, Cerf said.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers works to increase and improve quality educational opportunities for children by strengthening charter school authorizing.

He is also a founding board member of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Greg Richmond is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

A third organization, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), gives low marks to the laws of all four states.

We examined data on school authorizations, openings, closings, and enrollment, and reviewed information on Bay Area charter authorizers from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

For example, the annual report released by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), «The State of Charter School Authorizing 2011,» shows that of the nation's nearly 1,000 authorizers, more than 850 are school districts.

James N. Goenner is the president and CEO of the National Charter Schools Institute and a former chairman of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Speakers included Brian Gill of Mathematica, Alex Medler of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Will Pinkston of the Nashville School Board.

Several years later, CMU played a founding role in the establishment of both the Michigan Council of Charter School Authorizers and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Why does this sector of school choice have no counterpart to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to promulgate a code of sound practices and invite membership from organizations that adhere to these?

Debating this issue were Charles Barone, policy director, Democrats for Education Reform; Robin Lake, director, Center for Reinventing Public Education; Mike Petrilli, executive vice president, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Delia Pompa, senior vice president of programs, National Council of La Raza; and Nelson Smith, senior advisor, National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

This points to the critical role of charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of directors).

A staunch advocate for charter schools, he serves on the review board for the Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools and the boards of directors of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and 4.0 SCHOOLS.

The original executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board, former president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, current senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and much more, Smith understands chartering and school governance inside and out.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers, created in 2001, is the kind of institution necessary to support the charter school movement as it matures.

And NACSA, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, has embarked on a Starting Fresh campaign, urging districts and states to opt for close / reopen rather than retread.