Sentences with phrase «offered by charter»

Put differently, the referring court wonders whether the level of protection offered by the Charter is higher than that under the ECHR.

We celebrated CIMA's three remarkable exhibitions (on Fortunato Depero, Medardo Rosso, and Giorgio Morandi), our twelve research fellows, and the vital support offered by our charter members and friends.

Many among Washington's 1 million K - 12 students will benefit from the alternatives offered by charter schools.

Charter schools shall attempt to fill vacant seats up to February 15, excluding seats in the last half of the grades offered by the charter school, and grades 10, 11 and 12.

Our neediest schools in the poorest neighborhoods are being shut down and evangelized with «choice» offered by charter schools, many of which are cold business enterprises.

In a separate study conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Amanda Olberg and Michael Podgursky looked at alternative retirement plans offered by charter schools in several key states where participation in the state system was optional.

Allison said he believes in the promises and potential offered by charter schools, but repeated his fear that charter schools may siphon more money from traditional public schools.

These test results are not necessarily a reflection of the quality of education offered by a charter school like Trinity on a RTC campus, but are certainly impacted by these students» life challenges.

A different but equally positive reaction is evoked by Deborah Kenny's intensely personal account of the grit, resolve, and courage that led her to take the opportunity offered by the charter school movement and create a model school that her students were immensely lucky to attend.

HUD (the Federal Government's Department of Housing & Urban Development) and its subsidiary the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) are in the business of insuring certain types of mortgage loans offered by chartered banks.

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A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency over its proposal to offer charters that would let so - called fintech companies do business nationwide.

The proposed offer apparently unplugged an earlier bid for TWC by Charter Communications, a smaller cable company majority - owned by Liberty Media.

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.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

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.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

After a bid from the nation's largest cable provider, Comcast, to purchase Time Warner Cable was dropped earlier this year, Charter Communications made an offer to buy the company, a merger that is now pending review by federal regulators.

Moskowitz, naturally, says she'd be delighted to help the mayor by expanding her charters to offer pre-K.

Tusk said he did offer some suggestions on how to deal with Moskowitz, but he he said he was uninvolved in the battle that was then brewing between charter advocates, led by Moskowitz, and the de Blasio administration.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

The proposals now before the City Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislatively.

Because SNIEDC is chartered by the Seneca Nation, we are uniquely positioned to offer this product.

Questions asked included whether Cardinal Dolan supports the income tax surcharge that is part of the mayor's plan, what the 1,700 seats offered by the Archdiocese are currently used for, pending education tax credit bills, how the mayor expects to get his pre-K plan approved despite continuing disagreement with Governor Cuomo, guidelines governing church / state separation, how enough sufficiently - credentialed teachers can be in place for September and whether the pressure over his charter school actions is causing Mayor de Blasio to change his views.

It was the charters» first win in the dispute, which began in the fall of 2015 when Success Academy, which had just begun offering prekindergarten in three of its schools through the city's universal prekindergarten program, refused to sign a contract required by the city.

We also offered the schools outside evaluations by a Massachusetts - based team of charter experts that provided school leaders and Fordham with thorough analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of individual schools and assisted in developing plans for bettering their performance.

Though Proposition 39 compels districts to provide facilities for students within their boundaries who attend charter schools, districts can make the policy inconvenient for charter operators by offering short - term leases and multiple, separate spaces for a single school.

The papers in this series, co-authored by Steiner, Daniela Doyle and Joe Ableidinger, offer practical ways for city - based organizations to support creation of high - quality charter schools, foster development of talent pipelines, and guide prospective investors.

Often, these schools are taking advantage of the innovations offered by blended learning technology platforms and combining them with the regulatory freedom offered under charter school laws, waivers of seat time requirements, and teacher reforms to develop entirely new models of education.

In my own address to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education this year, I reported that K - 12 online education options continue to expand, with students participating in site - based online labs, hybrid courses, and part - and full - time virtual options that are offered by a variety of providers including charter schools, districts, state supplemental programs, corporations, and colleges.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

However, the results of such experimental studies apply only to the programs offered by and the type of students who apply to the specific oversubscribed charter schools evaluated.

This approach, which is used by Caroline Hoxby and Jonah Rockoff in their study of charter schools in Chicago (see «Findings from the City of Big Shoulders»), is useful for determining if a particular charter school or the education program it offered is effective.

Many charter schools attract students by offering a unique philosophy, culture, curriculum, or organizational style.

By failing to offer more advantaged families any benefits, the charter movement then loses their political support, and advantaged families have much more political power than disadvantaged families.

The methods used by the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) to analyze charter school effectiveness offer a reasonable alternative when the gold standard is not feasible or possible.

Many charter schools tout attributes similar to those offered by the church's schools, such as disciplined environments, an emphasis on personal responsibility and character development, and distinctive instructional and curricular approaches.

She knew it might be a long shot, but the work that was being done at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she serves as CEO, was already in line with the goals of the initiative: creating educational opportunities for children in distressed communities by offering «cradle - to - college» services.

This makes sense in some ways: Charter schools are fiercely independent by design, and they take full advantage of autonomy and decentralization to offer unique learning environments to the communities they serve.

By comparing students who randomly receive offers to attend a charter school to those that randomly do not receive lottery offers, the study estimates the causal impact of enrolling in a charter school for both special education and general education students.

The numbers reported in the table are regression - adjusted differences by win / loss status, where a win means a student was offered a spot in a charter or pilot school in the relevant risk set (this is the ever - offer instrument).

The 2018 Distance to School Report analyzes how far students travel to attend public charter schools, including by students» demographics and grade levels and schools» locations, program offerings, and quality.

In practice, the use of lottery instruments is complicated by the fact that the odds of being offered a seat at a charter or pilot school vary with the number of applications and the extent to which an applicant's chosen schools are over-subscribed.

In practice, about a fifth of lottery winners never attend a charter school, and some lottery losers eventually end up in a charter school (by entering a future admissions lottery, gaining sibling preference when a sibling wins the lottery, or moving off a waitlist after the offers coded by our instrument were made).

Free to students who are admitted by random lottery, charter schools offer a quality public education to the children who otherwise have nowhere to turn.

These figures plot reduced - form ever offer effects by grade and 4th grade cohort for charter applicants.

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.

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

Students from grades 4 & 5 from Imagine Me Leadership Charter School travel to Washington D.C. and Howard University to take part in the first of a series of college experiences offered by the school!

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