Sentences with phrase «opened charters because»

Since 1992, talented folks have opened charters because there were few other ways to get a new idea planted.

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Because of the cap on the number of schools, «Zombie Charters» remain an impediment to opening new charter schools.

I am voting Green because Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will fully fund our public schools, will stop the over-testing of our students, and will not open more privately managed charter schools.

The state's grade dips a little because Connecticut has only a limited open - enrollment system and a charter school law that is rated as weak by the Center for Education Reform.

As long as charter schools aren't kept from opening or expanding because of arbitrary state caps, parents will continue flocking to them.

Though strong expansion continues in places like California and Florida, the 2006 — 07 school year saw 26 states open five or fewer new schools, while 5 states — because of closures — began the school year with fewer charters than they had the year before.

Charter teachers work longer hours because their schools stay open later, and some ask teachers to be at the other end of a phone when students are stuck on a homework problem.

Because it is very difficult for a charter school to opt out of a state plan once it has enrolled teachers, whether a school is currently participating generally reflects a decision it made before it opened its doors.

But by 1993, he said charters are no different from vouchers, because they both open the door to corporations coming in and running public schools.

«We're committed to doing what it takes to open a charter school in Washington state because we think the need exists,» KIPP spokesman Steve Mancini said.

«We have a sense that some districts put their name on the list because they are concerned that someone from the outside might come into their districts and open a charter school.

Because most charter schools lack the open meetings of district schools, the issue might never even be known.

The assertion that charter public schools are opening in locations where there is money available and because of anti-union views is simply false.

Charter schools are serving more minority students because that is their mission: to open in under - served neighborhoods to provide a better education for kids that are not being served well by traditional public schools.

Because they are public schools, charter schools are open to all children, do not charge tuition, do not have special requirements for admittance and are not associated with any religion.

For traditionalists — who oppose the very existence of charters — Noguera's departure (along with one of the underlying reasons — his opposition to the opening of one of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools) pleases them greatly because the generally thoughtful education professor has been one of the few fellow - travelers willing to break ranks with them on the importance of school choice.

«Choice» tends to incite some controversy and even fear because it opens the door to other governance models (like charter and innovation schools), new schools, and different students in schools.

And in most cases, these numbers are lower than the total demand because of either caps they have been put in place by lawmakers or the simple fact that we can not open enough new charter schools to serve all the students that would like to attend.

School districts like Portland that sue people who request records, or charter networks who claim their officials aren't subject to open records law because they work for private nonprofits?

That's because five schools tapped for opening by Hawkes» board, which makes recommendations on charter applicants to the state board, were overwhelmingly voted down by the State Board of Education (SBE).

The second sad occurrence that afternoon was when Charlene Reid, head of the state charter school that wants to open here, told the SBOE that in her meetings with Stamford BOE members over the past couple of months it was suggested that because she was black she was incapable of writing the application.

A recent San Francisco Chronicle article points to the nearly 90 charter schools that may open this fall, in part because «flexibility is allowing charter schools to grow as other public schools are undoing a series of education reforms that began more than a decade ago when California's state budget was flush with cash.»

Be cautious regarding teacher lead charter school because such aharter school is a structure open to take over.

In August 2013, the Anderson Unified School District («District») filed a complaint against the Shasta Secondary Home School («Shasta»), a nonclassroom - based charter school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 4charter school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 4Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47605.1.

Since then I've gotten literally dozens of emails from charter school parents claiming my comments were out of line because the open lottery system guaranteed that everyone had the same chance to get it.

Mayor Jeri Muoio said Wednesday, «because we open a charter school doesn't mean we are not going to try and support the existing public schools.»

Because charters can only open in Connecticut's lowest - performing districts, and we serve a student population that is over 85 percent Black or Hispanic, and nearly 75 percent low - income, charters have the potential to be transformative.

The opening and closing of charters in the City of Trenton is a racial and social justice issue, because real harm is being done to our students, local school system and our community.

Our growth over the past decade has been propelled by educators and parents who are themselves opening their own charters in both urban and rural areas because they believe charters will provide their children with better educational outcomes.

So let's get this right... Friendship Charter Schools turned down «invitations» to open schools in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and North Carolina because those states didn't have «conditions for reform» that made «it conducive to turnaround success,» and at yet the Malloy administration, out of the blue, wants to give them a school in Connecticut?

The virtual charter school backers argued that they have a right to open the school because of procedural mishap by the state education board, and that parents should be able to choose to send them to the school.

Because of «political challenges» in New York City, where a charter skeptic just replaced a pro-charter mayor, AF would seek to open the schools in Connecticut, in «Bridgeport or New Haven,» she said.

Board members disagreed with a separate staff recommendation to deny a new PUC charter petition because of concerns over how the school would be structured and gave the new school the go ahead to open.

«I've seen a number of charter schools that have opened and run for a few years and then just basically faltered because they were unable to focus on their mission and vision,» said Allen Mueller, executive director of the new incubator, who previously was director of innovation for Atlanta Public Schools where he helped authorize the creation of charter schools in the district.

17) Florida: KIPP, the national charter school chain, is about to open a school in Liberty City, Miami, and some are concerned that it is being allowed to do so because of its ties to powerful Florida House Speaker Republican House Speaker Richard Corcoran — who is expected to run for governor.

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Maybe it's because I'm at the New Jersey Charter School Association annual conference and last evening heard Norm Atkins, founder of Uncommon Schools, remark that during Newark's most recent open enrollment cycle half of all Newark kindergarten parents ranked Uncommon as their first choice and listened to his partner Jamey Verrilli describe school choice as a quest for educational justice.

Hawkes, a founder of two Guilford County charter schools run by the for - profit National Heritage Academies, chastised his colleagues following their recommendation of just 11 charter schools out of 71 that applied to open in 2014 because, in part, he received heat from Sen. Jerry Tillman (R - Randolph) about the low number of approvals.