Teachers and staff, many of whom worked at traditional district schools before working for the charter school, shared their thoughts
on working in the charter school environment.
Not exact matches
«I will continue to
work to extend mayoral control because I believe very strongly
in the accountability it provides, but I also believe that the 50,000 boys and girls
in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx who are now
on waiting lists for a seat inside a
charter school deserve the best possible education we can provide,» Flanagan said
in the statement.
In addition, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and many in his Democratic conference are again livid with Gov. Cuomo, who they believe continues to work against them while cozying up to the Senate Republicans, particularly on the issue of charter school
In addition, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and many
in his Democratic conference are again livid with Gov. Cuomo, who they believe continues to work against them while cozying up to the Senate Republicans, particularly on the issue of charter school
in his Democratic conference are again livid with Gov. Cuomo, who they believe continues to
work against them while cozying up to the Senate Republicans, particularly
on the issue of
charter schools.
He said the union also needs to
work to make permanent the ban
on the use of state ELA and math tests
in teacher evaluations and to make sure the
charter school cap is not increased.
Matthew Titone, who has 954 students
on waiting lists
in his district
on Staten Island's North Shore, said
charter schools in his area «do excellent
work serving kids with special needs.»
In conversations before Malliotakis» arrival, several attendees focused
on the changes being
wrought by gentrification and the consequential need for affordable housing and
on charter schools as their top political interests.
And chiming
in on behalf of
charters, James Merriman, CEO of the New York City
Charter School Center: «The charter sector is looking forward to building a strong working relationship with incoming Commissione
Charter School Center: «The
charter sector is looking forward to building a strong working relationship with incoming Commissione
charter sector is looking forward to building a strong
working relationship with incoming Commissioner Elia.
It's also not lost
on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the
charter school cap and causing the state to lose out
in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also
works for Bloomberg.
A group of parents with children
in schools co-located with Success Academy
charters is calling on the New York State Education Department to temporarily halt all construction work in public school buildings by Success Academy Charters chief Eva Mo
charters is calling
on the New York State Education Department to temporarily halt all construction
work in public
school buildings by Success Academy
Charters chief Eva Mo
Charters chief Eva Moskowitz.
But his efforts came too late; Mr. Cuomo and Republicans
in the State Senate were already
working in private to provide a lifeline to
charter schools, seizing
on what they saw as the mayor's political weakness.
It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid
in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker
work, including studies
on such subjects as the effectiveness of
charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.
05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a
charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP
schools across the country operate
on longer days — her
school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to
work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.
(10/8/09)
Charter Schools Narrow Achievement Gaps
in New York City (10/1/09) What Congress Is Not
Working On (9/24/09)
Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking Teachers with Student Achievement Data (9/17/09)
Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (
in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses
charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «
Schools that
Work» tend not to fare nearly as well
in later outcomes as they do
on test scores.
A comprehensive choice and ESSA guidance package could connect the dots for SEAs and LEAs
on all the authorities
in the statute that could be integrated into a comprehensive vision for
school choice, and describe how they can
work together: Title I, DSS, Equitable Student Funding Pilot, Magnet
Schools Assistance Program,
Charter Schools Grants, and the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant.
At Valor Collegiate Academies — two
charter schools on one campus
in Nashville that serve grades 5 through 8 — the core philosophy is that «really strong SEL
work is very advantageous to kids also doing well academically
in school,» says Todd Dickson, who founded the
schools with his twin brother, Daren.
• Will organizations
working in the
charter and district sectors become openly hostile to those
working in the private
school sector, with its emphasis
on vouchers and tax credits?
BPR: Body Cams,
Charter Schools, And Working From Home WGBH Boston Public Radio, 1/13/15» [Professor] Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, weighs in on [Governor Charlie] Baker's plans for Charter schools and President Obama's Community College proposal.
Schools, And
Working From Home WGBH Boston Public Radio, 1/13/15» [Professor] Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab at Harvard University's Graduate
School of Education, weighs
in on [Governor Charlie] Baker's plans for
Charter schools and President Obama's Community College proposal.
schools and President Obama's Community College proposal.»
We decided to build
on their
work,
in an effort to produce a more complete account of the politics of the
charter school movement.
You
worked on a project
in the 1990s that ultimately called for every New York City public
school to be a
charter (or
charter - like)
school.
Peterson and Finn's previous podcasts:
Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking Teachers with Student Achievement Data What Congress Is Not
Working On Charter Schools Narrow Achievement Gaps
in New York City
This points to the critical role of
charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of dire
charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direc
school authorizers and the tremendous
work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of
Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of dire
Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direc
School Authorizers (NACSA), has done
in carrying the banner for more rigorous
charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of dire
charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit
on the NACSA board of directors).
But job security is history; everyone
in the Algiers
Charter School system, including Lewis - Carter herself,
works on a one - year contract.
They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction
in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation
works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private
schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California
school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of
charter schools and private
school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).
In anticipation of the conference, I spent some time pondering my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on (like Common Core, teacher prep, charter schools, school funding, etc
In anticipation of the conference, I spent some time pondering my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital
in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on (like Common Core, teacher prep, charter schools, school funding, etc
in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to
work on (like Common Core, teacher prep,
charter schools,
school funding, etc).
In the studio our guests are Kathleen Jara, violinist and resident El Sistema artist at the Lab
Charter School; Lawrence Scripp, co-founder of the school, long an education specialist at the New England Conservatory of Music; and the prolific Harvard Ed School Professor Howard Gardner, best known for his work on «multiple intelligences.&
School; Lawrence Scripp, co-founder of the
school, long an education specialist at the New England Conservatory of Music; and the prolific Harvard Ed School Professor Howard Gardner, best known for his work on «multiple intelligences.&
school, long an education specialist at the New England Conservatory of Music; and the prolific Harvard Ed
School Professor Howard Gardner, best known for his work on «multiple intelligences.&
School Professor Howard Gardner, best known for his
work on «multiple intelligences.»
He will open Unity Prep — a grade 6 — 12, tuition - free, public
charter school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Meanwhile, Beauregard plans to continue
work on his dissertation examining the causal impact of attending a well - established
charter school network
in San Diego, Calif.,
on secondary and postsecondary outcomes.
«Many of the teachers — who
worked at all grade levels
in both public and
charter schools,
in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons
on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project
on the Next Generation of Teachers.
In recent weeks, for example, state affiliates have been pushing for higher taxes on businesses to boost education spending in Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington Stat
In recent weeks, for example, state affiliates have been pushing for higher taxes
on businesses to boost education spending
in Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington Stat
in Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education
in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington Stat
in Wisconsin, and
working to sink an initiative to allow
charter schools in Washington Stat
in Washington State.
That path is a limited replication of No Excuses
schools that rely
on a very unusual labor pool (young, often
work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more
charters that,
on average, aren't different
in performance from district
schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.
«There's a danger of hitting a saturation point with the number of qualified and civic - minded people who can do that kind of
work,» says Soifer, who runs a think tank and is
on charter school boards
in four states
in addition to sitting
on the D.C. authorizing board.
In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcome
In their
work at the Project for Policy Innovation
in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcome
in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been
working with
school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public
school choice systems, and the effect of
charter and pilot
schools on student outcomes.
In January, David Harris left the mayor's office to
work on another side of the
charter school problem: «stimulating supply,» as he puts it.
A new book
on charter schools and segregation, whose senior editor, Iris Rotberg, I first
worked with
in 1970
on the War
on Poverty, has reminded me how tribally divided the policy research field has become.
Its Education Week Research Center gathers authoritative data for the news organization's Counts reports and
works in tandem with the Education Week newsroom
on «data journalism» projects around such issues as corporal punishment,
school policing, and cyber
charter schools.
Ms. Boast contributed to the National Association of
Charter School Authorizer's Core Performance Framework and Guidance and has
worked directly with authorizers
in over 14 states
on performance monitoring and accountability.
One explanation is that the debate about whether
charter schools «
work,» with its focus
on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a
school and what they value
in an education.
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers
in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based
Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011
Charter Philanthropy
in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report
on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the
Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010
Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest
on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research
on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation
in Education and
Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That
Works — May 29.
He is coauthor of
Charter Schools in Action and numerous other
works on education policy and reform.
In the work released Wednesday, researchers assess whether these test score gains are actually putting students on a path to better lives or simply the result of charter schools» effectiveness in «teaching to the test» for the MCA
In the
work released Wednesday, researchers assess whether these test score gains are actually putting students
on a path to better lives or simply the result of
charter schools» effectiveness
in «teaching to the test» for the MCA
in «teaching to the test» for the MCAS.
He has
worked for over 20 years supporting mostly
charter community
schools in Oakland, New Orleans and New York City, and he's even consulted
on education issues
in the Middle East.
Academic Gains, Double the # of
Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains
in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days
in the Life: The
Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to
School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site
in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting
on a Brighter
Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus
on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround
Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture
Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within
School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of
School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia
Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every
School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality
Charter Schools — April 15, 2016
School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
Let's see how this looks
in Ohio, a state where Fordham does
on - the - ground
work, including authorizing
charter schools.
To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national
charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit
charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth
in Detroit compared with other cities
on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to
work better (for example, closing low - performing
charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit
charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual
schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.
On page 87 of Mission Possible, the account by Eva Moskowitz and Arin Lavinia of the
work of their
charter schools, the reader is invited to watch a video of a book discussion
in 1st grade.
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 confi
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 confi
schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality
schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose
schools confi
schools confidently.
WTTW
in Chicago takes a look at Intrinsic
Schools, a Chicago
charter school that uses blended learning and puts lots of students
in one big pod, a large classroom with flexible furniture that a teacher can reorganize to create spaces for independent
work, collaboration, instruction, and 1 -
on - 1 time with teachers.
Tom Luna, Idaho Supt. of Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been
working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice
in public education through more
charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.»
This
on - site workshop will assist
charter schools that are engaged
in the strategic planning process,
working toward long - term sustainability.
After meeting the whirlwind application deadline,
working with partners
in their target communities to assess need and tailor their
school design, and making their case at a public hearing, one local and two state
charter schools are
on their way: