Sentences with phrase «on real charter»

Upon news of the bill's defeat, Achievement First's Co-CEO, Dacia Toll cheered on the legislators» decision to look the other way on real charter school accountability saying, «The moratorium on public charter schools would have been a huge step backward.»

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The Cummings family story ends (or continues) with the family taking a direction that may bring the worlds of homeschool and real school together: an online charter school where some classes would be «self - directed» and others would «meet in a virtual classroom on a regular schedule.»

It amazes me how corrupt the Repub Senate is... from reliance on gerrymandered districts, adding new districts, buying off corrupt / power hungry Democratic Senators to switch parties (both the Pedro coup and now Jeff Klein), and their corrupt fronting for the NYC Charter school and real estate industries they have used every trick in the book to stay in power.

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.

«My opposition on the issues that are important to the mayor like congestion pricing, like nonpartisan voting, like school governance, like lifting the charter school caps without any reforms... is a real problem for them,» Parker said.

Among the questions spurred by Andrew Cuomo's newfound devotion to charter schools is one with real implications for the governor's re-election: How much more can the Working Families Party take before ditching him and running someone else on its line this year?

He's come under regular fire in his first term from Democrats who claim he's out of step with his own party for his positions on labor issues, support for charter schools and coziness with wealthy real estate developers and financial firms.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday denied any real or perceived conflicts of interest arising from his choice of appointments to his Charter Revision Commission, which includes individuals who have donated to his past campaigns for elected office.

Heartland focuses on free - market issues across the board, including promoting charter schools, lobbying for business - friendly finance, insurance and real estate rules and promoting prescription drug availability before full Food and Drug Administration testing.

And next month the agency wraps up a pilot study on charter boats in Florida and North Carolina of electronic logbooks, which provide real - time reporting of catches.

We use a scientific matching system that leverages 29 DIMENSIONS ® based on features of compatibility found in thousands of successful relationships — Charter Oak dating has never been more real.

I have been involved in many careers from Dental Hygiene, Hands on Healing, Hypnotherapy, Commercial and residential real estate and now a yacht charter business.

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.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadCharter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadcharter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

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.

If employees of charter schools or any outside management companies that run them serve on the schools» boards of directors, they must avoid any «real or apparent conflict of interest» if the school receives money from the Department of Education's charter school program, under new guidelines released late last month.

Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter schooling in rural America — and the very real challenges facing it.

Surely, I thought, he is going to argue that real competition, in the form of charters or maybe even vouchers, would have the same positive, transformative effects on our education system that the liberalization of India's economy has had on its development.

Until there's a very real crackdown on bad charters — well beyond the recent push to get tough with troubled online charters — we should expect charters in the top 20 percent to be viewed cautiously as well.

The problem is that can prevent these storytellers from responding to reality — in this case the real impact of charter growth on traditional districts and schools.

On the third «cost,» it is clear that many districts have struggled for decades to maintain school quality in the face of enrollment losses, and that charter schools are a real (albeit fairly recent) factor.

Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School, run by String Theory Schools, is an urban K — 12 campus that leverages technology and an emphasis on entrepreneurship to make learning relevant and real for students.

, a campaign whose sponsors include proponents of vouchers, charters, magnets and other schools, though the real focus is on vouchers.

Next week (Jan. 27 - 31) is National School Choice Week, a campaign whose sponsors include proponents of vouchers, charters, magnets and other schools, though the real focus is on vouchers.

School property means in or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground, parking lot or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public elementary or secondary school, including a charter school; or in or on a school bus, as defined in Vehicle and Traffic Law section 142.

«The cap,» he told Newsday on September 5, referring to the restriction on the number of charters (200) currently allowed in New York, «The cap in effect — for the moment, anyway — is the only real way to hold charters accountable.»

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

Our near - term focus is on charter schools facilities and other real estate opportunities, while maintaining our long - term commitment to land development projects across Florida.

Our near - term focus is on charter schools facilities, assisted living facilities (ALF) and other real estate opportunities.

But the mayor can still influence on one of the most important issues to charters in New York City: real estate.

Growth Public Schools (GPS) is an innovative K - 8 public charter school that uses real - world project curriculum, innovative personalized learning, a focus on social emotional learning, and a commitment to diversity to prepare students for future success.

To give an idea of the dire need for more charters beyond the current permissible amount, there are about 163,000 students presently on waiting lists all over the City whose parents are waiting for the opportunity to exercise a real choice about their education.

By removing real estate as an obstacle, charters were able to focus on curriculum, students and school culture — especially important because New York charter students receive several thousand dollars less per pupil than children in district schools.

At the center of those efforts is Richard Buery, de Blasio's deputy mayor for special projects.Buery, considered by City Hall officials to be a much - needed bridge to the charter world, has real charter credentials: He created the Children's Aid College Prep Charter and served on the boards of two charters, including an Achievement First school in East New York, where he gcharter world, has real charter credentials: He created the Children's Aid College Prep Charter and served on the boards of two charters, including an Achievement First school in East New York, where he gcharter credentials: He created the Children's Aid College Prep Charter and served on the boards of two charters, including an Achievement First school in East New York, where he gCharter and served on the boards of two charters, including an Achievement First school in East New York, where he grew up.

The real evidence about K12 Inc. and Rocketship Charter Schools is hardly positive, but anyone familiar with the needs of students would recognize the inherent problem with the notion that, «students are supervised by monitors, rather than teachers, saving significantly on costs.»

Charter schools are already held to high standards by their authorizers, and if they do not perform on task, there are very real consequences.

By pushing new school board members to pick on a top performing charter school whose focus is to graduate seniors and encourage higher education is ignoring the real issues public schools are facing.

He also said he would impose a moratorium on the practice of closing low - performing public schools, which has opened up valuable real estate for use by charters.

As Jeffrey Litt, the leader of New York City's Icahn Charter Schools, has pointed out, schools that go through this communal process can foster real collaboration among teachers, enabling them to build on one another's strengths and reduce their workloads by sharing materials.

The real power, however, sits in CCSA's related organization, CCSA Advocates, a not - for - profit 501 (c)(4) whose mission is to increase the political clout of charter schools on local school boards, on county boards, and in the state capital of Sacramento.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

The implication being, I suppose, that no one but a high - ranking charter school corporate official can speak effectively on behalf of Connecticut's charter schools and having Comer on the board is a good idea, despite the very real and perceived conflict of interest that Comer brings with her to Connecticut's education policy setting board.

Turner - Agassi builds a real - estate empire with tax payer dollars on secretly negotiated charter school land deals Tennis star Andre Agassi has invested heavily in charter schools nationwide.

Incessant testing with no relation to the real world, the mindless collection of trivia classified as data, forcing a «business model» like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors on the public schools, driving the arts and the social sciences out of the curriculum, and watching every Chancellor, Superintendent, Commissioner, and Secretary of Education promote charter schools over their own public schools at every turn.

Bennett also pledged his office would soon have a real - time, public spreadsheet available on its website of charter proposals, showing who had applied for charter schools and what stage of the process the application is in.

If the next mayor makes the charters pay rent in the city's expensive real - estate market — essentially imposing a regressive tax on them — over time the schools» budgets will suffocate and they'll start to die.

By working in an environment that values innovation, charter school teachers and staff have the opportunity to have real impact on students and colleagues.

WHY: To encourage and inspire student involvement in improving our environment, increase students» awareness of the connections between our actions here on campus and their impact on the environment, and to celebrate the «greening» of El Camino Real Charter High School.