Sentences with phrase «on failed charter»

The rap on CPS used to be that it wasn't tough on failing charters.

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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.

Though prior instant runoff proposals originating in the City Council have failed, the group of electeds and advocates sought to seize on an opportunity presented by the mayor's creation of the Charter Revision Commission.

Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state exams, and changes to teacher tenure.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Thousands of city charter school kids got a day off school to take part in a huge rally on the steps of the Capitol that called for an end to the «failing schools crisis.»

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Thousands of parents, teachers, children and supporters of New York City charter schools gathered at Foley Square on Oct. 2nd to call on city and state leaders to address what they call a «failing school crisis.»

Bloomberg heaped praise on UFT President Mike Mulgrew, whose union is under fire from charter school advocates who believe it blocked efforts to raise the cap in Albany in advance of the state's «Race to the Top» application (which failed).

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

Councilman Mark Treyger of Coney Island said the same people who fought for the charters stood on the sidelines while the Bloomberg administration closed countless schools, saying the schools were failing.

The bills that were passed also failed to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the state — but they did unlock a cash freeze that has prevented charters from getting their first increase in per - student funding since 2009.

Ludington agreed, ruling that by failing to attach the pay raise to a notice on the budget hearing, the legislature circumvented the county charter.

In response to a question on whether the state should raise its cap on charter schools, Mr. Hawkins said, «Public schools fail because we're the most - segregated state in the United States.»

Loosely based on real - life events, «Won't Back Down» tells the story of a single mom who teams up with a disillusioned teacher to transform a failing public school into a charter school.

So, the CRP authors are most certainly slinging their arrows in the wrong direction by focusing on the failings of charter schools.

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

If schools are failing on multiple fronts, the better strategy may be to bring in a new operator as a charter school.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

Neither sector has cause to brag about racial diversity, but it seems clear that the CRP report points its lens in the wrong direction by focusing on the failings of charter schools.

Where we have strong charter schools which have found a way to serve many of the children we have failed in our mainstream system, shame on us if we don't embrace these proven providers and give them the chance to scale up their success.

But some high - profile bills failed to pass in the session that ended June 1 — including a proposal to lift the cap on the number of charter schools permitted, a request that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has made of all states.

Viewed from Education Next's offices in Massachusetts, where efforts to lift the state's cap on charter growth in urban areas have failed despite the sector's excellent track record, the contrast is striking.

Cities where chartering has scaled must invent interconnected processes for determining who can run schools, how kids enroll in schools, how new schools are opened, how failing schools are shuttered, and so on.

Reform advocates call it «churn,» the business of aggressively and systematically zeroing in on the least successful schools, ousting failed managers, and reorganizing the schools as open - enrollment, citywide charter schools.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

Meanwhile, charter leaders mobilize their parents based on the unlikely premise that failing school districts will send their children back to awful district schools.

Rather than proceed with the second half of the suit, which rested on claims that charter schools had failed to comply with statutes and sponsorship contracts, their opponents withdrew it in December and instead appealed for regulatory help from a newly - elected Democratic governor and a legislature whose Republican majority had been reduced.

We investigated further whether certain types of charters are likely to succeed or fail by separating charter schools into categories based on their mission statements.

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An Orange County charter school that earned two Fs in a row on Florida's school report card has shut down because of a state law that makes closure all but automatic after double failing grades.

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This fall, the charter school board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the applicatiocharter school board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the applicatioCharter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the application form.

Although Deming focused on public charter schools rather than pivate vouchers, the logic is essentially the same: expand the horizon of low - income children beyond their toxic neighborhood and failing school, and you change their lives.

The sector's less sober members beat up on traditional schools and districts for «failing our children» and encourage them to emulate charters that are effective with the «same children.»

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

Unfortunately, for every year a child who wants access to a public charter school who is stuck on a waitlist or without a school nearby, we're failing to follow through on the vision lawmakers had twenty years ago.

The law put a much greater focus on quality in charter school authorizing, for instance by mandating the closure of any charter school that fails to meet academic or financial benchmarks for three consecutive years.

Should charters be held to enrollment standards that other schools can not meet, while districts continue to practice questionable policies such as the warehousing of special need students in select placements (while often failing to follow - though on their obligations for services, we might add)?

It also would have allowed an unlimited number of «conversion» charters: existing public schools converted to charters if they failed to make adequate progress on test scores...

While it failed to «change the mindset» of the American people on education, he takes some comfort in the fact that the candidates talked about «standards, a longer school day, a longer school year in some cases, better teaching, and incentive compensation and charter schools.»

So it seems that authorizers are generally unwilling to close a school that is failing to comply with federal or state law, but they are also unwilling to require the school to make changes to its special education program, presumably because the authorizers see this as infringement on charter autonomy.

Avoid expanding school privatization options, including privately - operated charter schools, vouchers and neo-vouchers, such as tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, which research shows: (1) fail to deliver on the promise of better learning opportunities and student performance; (2) siphon limited resources from local community schools; (3) open up the potential for violating students» civil rights; (4) hinder transparency and accountability; and (5) tend to lead to more schools being racially segregated.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

This report does not focus on academic closures or academically failing charter schools.

Expanding charter schools and passing school - voucher legislation, as being voted on right now in Harrisburg, will end the public school monopoly that has failed low - income neighborhoods.

Mr. Cerf, a Democrat who clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court and worked in the Clinton White House, pushed many of Mr. Klein's most controversial education changes, expanding charter schools, closing failing schools and using test scores to evaluate and compensate teachers.

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.