Sentences with phrase «of more public charter school»

Bills being considered in the Texas Legislature's special session may put a roof over the heads of more public charter school students.

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The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

There are currently more than 50 Waldorf - inspired public charter schools in the US, most of them K - 8 charter schools.

First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

Another major issue still unresolved, according to Tom Precious of The Buffalo News: whether to drive more money to charter schools, as Senate Republicans want, or into the traditional public school systems, as Assembly Democrats insist upon.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Mount Vernon — Accusations of impropriety continue for Mayor Richard Thomas, who is already facing corruption charges as the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting more than $ 100,000 as a trustee of the Amani Public Charter School in violation of state education law.

Republican state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan will insist that more charter schools be allowed to open in New York City as part of any deal to extend Mayor de Blasio's authority over the public - school system, The Post has learned.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

With just days to go before the April 1 deadline to finalize the state budget, he said Senate Republicans were pressing for the elimination of the charter cap and more money for charters at the expense of public schools.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Cuomo has been supportive of strengthening charter schools, putting him at odds with Democrats who back more money for traditional public schools.

City charter schools in public school buildings are far more overcrowded than their district - run counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.

And after asking for permanent mayoral control of the public schools, then retreating to a three - year continuation, de Blasio is being made to swallow a puny one - year extension — plus 25 more charter schools.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

I am voting Green because Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will fully fund our public schools, will stop the over-testing of our students, and will not open more privately managed charter schools.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands more kids in the Bronx the chance to participate in a program or attend a school that could change their lives.

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

More than half of all charter schools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Sschools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Sschools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent SchoolsSchools.

Klein, who oversaw more than 1,600 public schools with 136,000 employees and a $ 21 billion operating budget, also helped grow the number of charter schools in the city.

For every move de Blasio has made to treat charters less favorably relative to traditional public schools than they were treated by the previous administration, Cuomo has countered with promises of more charter funding and benefits.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

A new Quinnipiac poll released on Nov. 19 found that New York City voters are divided on the idea of more charter schools, but many believe those charters should pay rent for using public school buildings.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.

Numerous studies, including six separate analyses by the U.S. Department of Education (each of which relied on state - level data), have concluded that charter schools are more segregated than traditional public schools.

But the laws governing school facilities were written a century or more before charters existed, when there was only one kind of «public school» in this country.

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And as Waldorf methods have become more accessible and better understood, more teachers have joined charter schools specifically inspired by Waldorf methods or have adopted some of its approaches for their own classrooms within traditional public schools.

Based on a wealth of existing evidence, however, we are unable to share in the team's optimism that more complete data might show narrower differences in segregation between charter and traditional public schools.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

The key flaw in their report, as we describe in more depth in the article, is that the CRP authors compare the racial composition of all charter schools to that of all traditional public schools.

Another 18 school districts enroll more than 20 percent of public school students in charter schools (see Figure 1).

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

As a major aspect of a school model, it is more readily associated with charter schools, such as Summit Public Schools and Rocketship in Silicon schools, such as Summit Public Schools and Rocketship in Silicon Schools and Rocketship in Silicon Valley.

• More than half of the charter kids studied live in poverty — higher than the traditional public school rate.

Our analysis presents a more accurate, but still imperfect, picture of the levels of racial segregation in the charter sector relative to the traditional public - school sector.

Ideally, to examine the issue of segregation, we would pose the question, Are the charter schools that students attend more or less segregated than the traditional public schools these students would otherwise attend?

Notably, discussions held under the auspices of the compact led Boston Public Schools to lease three empty school buildings to charter school tenants, and the district is planning to lease one more before the end of 2013.