Sentences with phrase «offer private charters»

We also offer private charters for groups and individual leisure to explore the islands.

Island Packers offers private charters aboard our three catamarans.

It offers private charters for families and friends who want to go diving and exploring the remote islands of the Exumas.

This St. Augustine fishing charter offers private charters for bachelor and bachelorette parties, sightseeing, and more.

Caicos Dream Tours offers private charters giving guests the option to choose from their impressive fleet of power boats and catamarans to reserve for a half or full day.

We also offer private charter whale watching tours as well as boat rentals, so be sure to stay up to date on our seasonal specials!

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Another option, JetSmarter, bills itself as the Uber of private jets, using a smartphone app to offer instant booking of private charters.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

Award Winner at the 2016 McLaren Vale Regional Awards for best home based business, Integrity Tours and Charter offers tours as either a shared or private group experience for up to 11 people.

In Summer 2017, Barbara partnered with fellow historic Boston brand, Boston Harbor Cruises, to elevate food and beverage options on the BHC private charter fleet as well as to reinvigorate menu offerings at other venues on the Harbor.

The 2017 - 18 Education Guide offers 660 education resources in the Triangle, including area preschools, private schools, public school systems, charter schools, boarding schools and academic resources.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio waded into private - sector labor relations last night on «Inside City Hall,» offering his opinion on the labor strike affecting Spectrum, a subsidiary of Charter Communications, and the company that owns NY1.

Other Democrats took shots at the education portion of the bill, which shifted the regional tallies for charter schools between upstate and New York City, and offered up $ 250 million for private schools in prior - year reimbursements.

Also under the deal, if a new charter approved by the city includes a request for space inside existing city buildings, the city would have five - months to make a «reasonable» co-location offer or pay for private space, the sources said.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

Arizona shows signs of a virtuous circle: suburban charters and private choice programs helped to encourage school districts to offer open enrollment.

The authors find that charters which opt out of the state pension system most often offer teachers defined contribution plans (e.g. a 401 (k) or 403 (b)-RRB-, with employer matches that look a lot like those offered to university employees or private sector professionals.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

Naturally, this leads the fiscally strapped city to seek private buyers for those buildings in the least disrepair and to offer charters more dilapidated buildings that will cost millions to be made safe for children.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

For reformers, the idea is that school districts or chartering agencies should be able to contract with private firms to operate public schools - especially failing ones - in order to take advantage of the greater flexibility, expertise, efficiency, and innovation that the marketplace might offer.

It can work with Congress to offer additional grants for charter school start - ups and perhaps create a similar funding program to encourage innovation in the private sector.

Most private schools convert to charter status in order to offer their educational vision to additional or more diverse students using public funds.

Since all three choice sectors — private, charter, and district schools of choice — are offering parents educational options that are considerably more satisfying, one must expect the market demand for educational alternatives to increase.

The law also requires the city to offer new and expanded charter schools rent - free space in city buildings, or to pay for their rent in private facilities.

For poor parents unable to afford private - school tuition or a home in a better school district, chartering at last offered improved educational options for their children.

Twenty - five years isn't a long time relative to the history of public and private schooling in the United States, but it is long enough to merit a close look at the charter - school movement today and how it compares to the one initially envisaged by many of its pioneers: an enterprise that aspired toward diversity in the populations of children served, the kinds of schools offered, the size and scale of those schools, and the background, culture, and race of the folks who ran them.

Though his own family has had the benefit of private schools, Gates said KIPP charter schools and other alternatives depicted in «Waiting for «Superman»» offer as good an education as he had growing up.

Those who have said they'd like to apply include a couple who run a Montessori preschool in Enumclaw and want to expand to grades K - 3; another couple who operate a home - school support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high school.

Lawsuits Put Children At Risk September 24, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Education choice continues to spread, with 43 states now authorizing charter schools and 28 offering private school choice programs.

«Although the current dialogue about school choice is generally focused on charter schools, vouchers, and the overall diversion of taxpayer monies to private entities, it misses a fundamental reality: Most public school districts already offer a wide range of choices to their students.»

Try to get a charter approved that offers the poor (and everyone else) the kind of education the wealthy commonly access in private schools, and watch the usual charter supporters fade away.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

The report — which is based on a survey of 1,300 professionals who entered a broad range of education leadership jobs beyond the school building — finds that many education organizations, including school districts and charter management organizations, are willing to offer significant management opportunities to young leaders that are on par with, and often exceed, those in the private sector.

With some of the best online charter schools in the country being free, offering electives some public and private institutions don't have, and being easily accessible from anywhere you are, charter schools are proving to be the an increasingly popular educational option for students seeking their general education.

And charter school operators often offer private retirement plans instead of the state pension fund, which can discourage veteran teachers who have years invested in the state plan.»

Education choice continues to spread, with 43 states now authorizing charter schools and 28 offering private school choice programs.

The announcement of closures came two weeks after Gov. Ricardo Rossello signed a bill that initiates a charter schools pilot program in 10 percent of public schools and offers private school vouchers to 3 percent of students starting in 2019 - 20.

Private education is available only to those families who can afford it, but charter schools offer a democratic (and very Canadian) compromise.

Cyber school — An online instructional program (public, private, state, charter, etc.) that offers full - time education delivered primarily over the internet; term used synonymously with the terms «virtual school», «eSchool» and «online school.»

Education choice, either through charter schools and / or private school choice, is mainstream in this country with 45 states now offering some type of choice.

Gov. Scott Walker offers a revised school «report card» in his proposed state budget, which also would lift a state cap on the number of vouchers that let students use public funds to attend private schools and create a state board to authorize charter school operators.

Currently, more and more private and charter schools are offering dual lingual education as early as preschool.

Once the school year ends, Carson will begin a two - year process of building her own K - 8 charter school, one that will offer disadvantaged students the type of foreign language immersion program popular at many private schools.

The announcement of closures came two weeks after Gov. Ricardo Rossello signed a bill for implementing a charter schools pilot program in 10 percent of public schools and offering private school vouchers to 3 percent of students starting in 2019 - 2020 as part of an education overhaul.

Offer valid for charter schools, private schools, and higher education facilities only.

DeVos sought to cut $ 9.2 billion from the department's budget of $ 68.2 billion, eliminating teacher training and college - prep programs for impoverished children while investing heavily to expand school choice through increasing funds for charter schools and possibly offering vouchers for private schools.

SchoolMint can support your end - to - end school choice and enrollment process whether you offer open enrollment, magnet school programs, charter or private school options, or centralized enrollment.

Each school, whatever type it may be, comes with its unique programs, from public schools offering Career and Technical Education classes which aren't offered in private schools, to charter schools offering Advanced Placement courses to students in middle school who are academically ready for them.