Sentences with phrase «of charter sectors»

As EdNext readers know, Doug Harris's New York Times critique of Betsy DeVos set off a round - robin of blogs and tweets pitting «choice purists» against «regulators,» with the performance of charter sectors in Detroit and New Orleans at issue.

• Maybe most notable is the enormous variation in performance of the charter sectors of various states.

It does not follow that every state should rush to amend its charter policies to match those of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, or Utah, but the obvious flourishing of the charter sectors there offers food for thought.

Cuomo has only recently become a champion of the charter movement, intervening in a battle between the charters and de Blasio on the side of the charter sector, and eventually overseeing the passage of a bill guaranteeing the continued growth of the movement.

While the two halves of the charter sector are holding different lobby days, they will be advocating for overlapping legislative priorities.

De Blasio has even offered some praise for pockets of the charter sector, and announced a modest olive branch earlier this year, with a $ 5 million project aimed at boosting collaboration between charter and district schools.

And a spate of political victories for one part of the charter sector — the large networks FES represents — has shed light on a chasm within the sector that may complicate future charter advocacy, as the city's independent charters keep waiting to see their policy priorities fulfilled.

In doubling down on his scrutiny of the charter sector's scores, de Blasio also directly attacked Success Academy, the city's largest charter network.

As the number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

The future of the charter sector must be more Achievement Firsts, University Preps and Blackstone Valley Preps — and fewer failures like ECOT.

What else, beyond population growth, explains the rapid rise of the charter sector in the Four Corners states?

Demand for seats in charter schools remains high among families but public enthusiasm for continued growth of the charter sector seems to be slipping.

In 2012, the legislature seemingly weakened its oversight of the charter sector by eliminating a requirement that the state education agency report on charter school quality each year.

Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector nationally.

There is concern, perhaps warranted, that the growth of a charter sector could force further consolidation and, ultimately, the dissolution of distinct communities.

The results add one more data point to the diverse assortment of studies about charter performance: an example of the charter sector outperforming, on the whole, nearby traditional schools.

The no - excuses model ought to remain a sturdy pillar of the charter sector, but bona fide school choice means plenty of different options,

Finally, in assessing the charter school movement, Smith considers what Al Shanker (who died in 1997), would think of the charter sector today.

The only major national evaluation of the charter sector was carried out by economist Margaret Raymond at Stanford University.

Worse yet, I was personally present with local and national union leadership when they acknowledged that reality and celebrated that much of the money donated by Mark Zuckerberg was going to go into the pockets of their teachers rather than towards a radical expansion of the charter sector — as had been the case, for example, in New Orleans.

At the very least, the progress of the charter sector in New Orleans will stagnate.

The UCLA report finds that a segment of the charter sector is particularly egregious in its disproportionate discipline of students with disabilities.

That is, before the financial mismanagement and shoddy academic records of the charter sector (particularly glaring in its virtual schools) came to light.

The extraordinary scale of the charter sector there makes New Orleans a lightning rod for both challenges and promising practices that could have a nationwide impact.

The estimate was released by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, as it touts the 20th anniversary of the official birth of the charter sector.

In use by over 75 % of the charter sector, the Common Online Application is one more way for schools to reach the widest audience of eligible families.

However, evidence suggests that the equalizing force of education is succeeding in large parts of the charter sector today.

This is the last of a four - part series on California's charter schools, often called the «Wild West» of the charter sector.

As the below chart shows, there were exciting gains in that sector as well — yet another compelling data point to suggest that the success of the charter sector did not come at the expense of traditional schools.

As we consider the health of the charter sector, it is encouraging to see this sort of commitment from a major authorizer and instructive to note that such steps are too rare.

The growth of the charter sector has been especially strong in the state's urban centers, such as Newark and Camden, where about a third of public school students are enrolled in a public charter school.

The data also affirm the continued robust growth of the charter sector, which served fewer than 3,600 students in the 1998 - 99 academic year.

States with existing regulation of the charter sector, though, are reluctant to relinquish their controls.

The human cost of this charter sector improvement is also not addressed in the study.

He represents a school of thought in one of the most persistent and nebulous debates of the charter sector: whether there is a harmful lack of diversity in the publicly funded but independently run schools of choice.

Authorizers can accelerate improvement in the overall quality of the charter sector by «restarting» low - performing charter schools: that is, transitioning the charter — and responsibility for governance and school management — to a high - performing charter school or network, while maintaining the existing population of students.

Karega Rausch, the interim CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, told The Intercept that their group does not have a hard - and - fast rule, or even guiding data, on the number of authorizers a jurisdiction should have — but they have observed that the overall quality of a charter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authorizers.

«The bill takes pretty good steps in the direction of increasing the quality and the size of the charter sector in Minnesota.»

The first choice of most parents is to send their child to a high - quality neighborhood school, but the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them while at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.

I do think that given the scale of the charter sector and the opportunities ahead for LAUSD, it's going to be a very interesting and broad conversation about how is it that we can break away from the old way of thinking.

One of the charter sector's most vocal groups, Families for Excellent Schools, released a statement with that sentiment on Thursday.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.

De Blasio has even offered some praise for pockets of the charter sector, and announced a modest olive branch earlier this year, with a $ 5 million project aimed at boosting collaboration between charter and district schools.

But Moskowitz has been one of the charter sector's most prominent supporters of DeVos, a billionaire proponent of school choice now heading the U.S. Department of Education, despite considerable backlash to her nomination.

That's also because Success's victory over de Blasio in 2014 directly led to state legislation that has guaranteed the continued growth of the charter sector in New York City: the city is now required to either find charters space in public schools or site them in private buildings at the city's expense.

Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them and at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.

In fact, we have seen how the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them and at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.

The research is particularly important given the rapid growth of the charter sector since the state lifted the charter school cap in 2011.