The
beginning of a new school year provides a great opportunity for teachers to step back and reflect on the accomplishments of previous years.
Over the past decade, charter school enrollment rose 225 percent, and the
number of new schools rose 118 percent.
Instead of getting your child's teachers presents at the end of the school year, walk in on that first
day of the new school year with a gift to the entire school.
There is a world of difference between one organization's decisions to focus on its existing investments and a decision to place a nationwide moratorium on the
opening of new schools.
A flexible approach The second key priority area for reform relates to allowing a more flexible approach to the design
of new school buildings.
Over the past month, corporate officials have unveiled plans for two major initiatives to create education research - and - development centers to support the
development of new schools.
At this stage, housing builders could be on the hook for as much as 100 percent of the
costs of new school construction.
This is why I'm so glad the nutrient standard has basically bitten the dust in light
of the new school food legislation.
The community moved quickly to address the facilities and programming
needs of the new school district, including building a comprehensive high school.
And the election
of a new school board, opposed to intelligent design, meant no appeal of the ruling would be mounted.
The community moved quickly to address the facilities and programming needs
of the new school district, including building a comprehensive high school.
Even once aware
of a new school choice program, some parents opted to keep their children in their current schools.
Our orientation programs welcome new employees and train the entire
staff of new schools to ensure they impact student learning dynamically and immediately.
The money is gone, but applications for state support
of new school facilities continue to pour in and the panel in charge is facing some difficult choices.
There's also a
lot of new school board officials and superintendents who haven't yet had the pleasure of experiencing late state budget headaches.
And
speaking of the new school year, there's no better way to wrap the week up than by highlighting some of the positive charter school stories across the state.
I'm not authorized to speak for my district, which will of course handle the selection and
hiring of a new school food services director on its own.
The government is changing the law to make it easier for good schools to become academies and to remove some of the planning obstacles to the
establishment of new schools.
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So what happens when you build a
ton of new schools but also lose enrollment to charter schools?
The
start of the new school year brings with it changes in staff and their responsibilities, new students and parents, and a vision for the year ahead.
Even though I haven't been a student or a classroom teacher in a long time, the
beginning of a new school year still fills my stomach with butterflies.
The charter school strategy has the potential to overcome this conventional failure by providing a space within which it's easier to scale up what works via the
creation of new schools.
The grants, to support school leaders who have shown success educating high - needs students, could fund the
opening of new schools or a significant enrollment boost in existing programs.
This provides a variety of «setting up» and orientation activities that teachers can undertake with their new class in the first few
weeks of the new school year.
Funds for capital improvements and the
construction of new schools, including money that comes from construction bonds approved by voters.
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