Sentences with phrase «of multiple charter»

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The MX spacecraft architecture supports multiple applications, including delivery of scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon at low cost using a rideshare model, or charter science expeditions to distant worlds.

The Jakarta Declaration, signed at a subsequent conference, reiterated the principles of the Ottawa Charter and emphasized the importance of combining multiple strategies for health promotion.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Among other things, the rule requires states to identify low - performing schools for comprehensive or targeted support and improvement, and requires that each state's statewide plan use multiple indicators of student success that are the same for all public schools (including charter schools).

In addition, by serving multiple charter schools, a trust wouldn't be crippled by the closure of a single charter school.

By serving an entire region or market's group of charter schools, the real - estate trust would look familiar to state officials and to lenders: a single entity that grasps the intricacies of real - estate finances and serves the individual needs of multiple schools, as school districts do.

This would facilitate the establishment of both individualized charter schools and multiple private companies with powerful education brand names.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Wintercharter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, WinterCharter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

This might look like charter - school agreements in the early days — customized contracts that consider «multiple measures» and qualitative judgments that are better aligned with the mission and approach of the schools being evaluated (like the ones you love, Governor «Moonbeam» Brown).

It's a chapter of implementation, of 17 or so requests for proposals, of multiple sets of regulation, of working with our 694 public school districts — and charter school districts beyond that — as we implement, piece by piece, this reform work.

Rhode Island's charter - school law allows multiple schools and an unlimited number of students to be governed by a single charter and a single school board.

And, unlike more loosely organized school networks, CMOs manage their schools directly, either under contract to a school board of trustees or under a fully integrated governance structure (in states where single charter school boards can operate multiple schools or campuses).

In the studio our guests are Kathleen Jara, violinist and resident El Sistema artist at the Lab Charter School; Lawrence Scripp, co-founder of the school, long an education specialist at the New England Conservatory of Music; and the prolific Harvard Ed School Professor Howard Gardner, best known for his work on «multiple intelligences.»

(Houston has no common lottery, but its best - known networks of high - performing charters — KIPP and YES - PREP — each run a single lottery for their multiple schools.)

Similarly, Osborne's swift critique of policies allowing multiple charter authorizers to operate in one area doesn't engage with the legitimate concern that a single - authorizer environment can constrain school supply, homogenize offerings, and concentrate too much power in one government body.

Like most Americans who have ancestors from multiple countries or even continents, charters were born of disparate theories, education initiatives, and social philosophies.

Massachusetts has strong standards and high NAEP test results, but a weak charter - school law with multiple levels of restrictions.

With tens of thousands of students on charter waiting lists and multiple high - quality operators poised to expand, opponents and proponents of Question 2 agree that the stakes are high.

Mike claims that he, as a charter school authorizer, looks for multiple signs of poor performance before ordering a school of choice to be closed.

And finally, large charter management organizations (CMOs) may attempt to leverage economies of scale by replicating a single model at multiple schools.

This report, written for the National Charter School Resource Center, presents five recommendations, with multiple means to implement each, for facing the challenges of adequately assessing virtual schools.

There is a huge amount of success to celebrate in this chart for multiple state charter sectors, most of which have either unusually large gains, or unusually high scores, or else unusually high scores and gains.

He collaborated with districts and charter schools across the state in developing their local activities, launched multiple innovative programs with non-profit organizations and institutions of higher education, and worked with the Professional Standards Board and State Board of Education in constructing policy frameworks.

Reville said that an example of tight control in Massachusetts was that there aren't multiple authorizes of charter schools, just a single authorizer with «very clear standards and procedures.»

Neither side is wholly satisfied: liberals complain that not every needy kid has equal access to charter options and that not every charter is good at meeting every kid's needs, while conservatives lament that the hand of government still weighs upon these schools and the marketplace is constrained in multiple ways.

She has collaborated closely with the Education Service Center 20 in Texas and the Maricopa County Education Service Agency in Arizona to support multiple districts simultaneously with school design work, career pathway development, and creating role - specific professional learning modules She is leading a project to consider how innovative staffing models can maximize personalized learning in a variety of district, charter, and private schools.

This estimate shows that at a minimum, more than 520,000 total individual students many of whom are on multiple charter school waitlists in the hopes of increasing the chance of getting into at least one are on waitlists across the country.

Two recent analyses of multiple studies concluded that charters do not hurt outcomes at other schools — and may even help improve them, by creating competition.

This survey is based on charter school waitlist data compiled from multiple data sources, including several state departments of education and state charter school's associations.»

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

Lauren also has led multiple trainings and presentations to members of the charter school community across the country on civil rights issues.

Prior to joining HOPE, Zach worked in multiple roles with Teach For America - New Jersey and YES Prep Public Charter Schools in Houston where he also earned his business certificate from the Rice University Jones School of Business.

Unlike traditional public schools, charter schools must be re-authorized every few years, which means they don't exist in perpetuity to fail multiple generations of youngsters.

Furthermore, stringent oversight of charters at the school level is a dubious claim when the current law allows governing boards for charters as well as, when applicable, parent corporate boards that oversee multiple charters, to be composed of the following related - party combinations:

(September 1, 2015, Columbia, MD) Charter Schools Development Corporation (CSDC) is pleased to announce that it has received a $ 5 million grant under the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Credit Enhancement for Charter Schools Facilities Program that will enable the organization to expand its lending and development capacity to multiple charter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commuCharter Schools Development Corporation (CSDC) is pleased to announce that it has received a $ 5 million grant under the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Credit Enhancement for Charter Schools Facilities Program that will enable the organization to expand its lending and development capacity to multiple charter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commuCharter Schools Facilities Program that will enable the organization to expand its lending and development capacity to multiple charter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural commucharter schools over a broad geographic area, with a new emphasis on serving schools located in rural communities.

This opinion piece argues that the financial autonomy of charter schools should be severely curtailed, as there are multiple examples of charter schools abusing public money.

But as successful public charter schools continued to grow and expand their impact beyond a single site, and as organizations developed school designs that could be implemented at multiple locations, networks of public charter schools emerged.

Did you know that there are a handful of charter networks in Santa Clara County that are leasing private buildings AND using district facilities for multiple schools?

In addition to her work at Ingenium Charter School, Price has published multiple articles and presented a number of workshops on Common Core State Standards and teacher professional development.

KIPP, which has multiple schools in California, was named one of the nation's best charter school systems this year.

Adam Levinson, interim director for the office, told Policy Watch he would have to survey the state's ever - growing ranks of charter schools to compile such information, but multiple state officials agreed last week that a number of North Carolina's public charters include leaders from outside North Carolina.

The presence of multiple authorizers can strengthen a state's charter school sector...

◦ Consolidate under a single charter the charters of multiple high - performing charter schools operated in the same district by the charter school's governing board

Like Watkins and her multiple hats, most of the signatories of today's Tribune letter pop up whenever charter schools need to put a parent face on.

Apparently, the «multiple measures» sauce is entirely for the district goose, and charters shall continue to be measured by the narrowest parameters of success.

Over the course of a decade, multiple superintendents and board members have enjoyed strong backing to give parents freedom to choose outside their neighborhood schools, to partner with charter schools, and to increase autonomy for district - run schools.

States should update authorizing laws to incorporate multiple pathways and new capacities that reflect the realities of the charter landscape, and take advantage of emerging opportunities to add quality educational options.