Sentences with phrase «operating more charters»

If carriers are interested in operating more charters than are available, then the Department must use comparative selection procedures to determine how the charters should be allocated among the interested carriers.

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The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

The Erie County Legislature approved a local law that includes more than 50 revisions to the County Charter that improve how government operates.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

Klein, who oversaw more than 1,600 public schools with 136,000 employees and a $ 21 billion operating budget, also helped grow the number of charter schools in the city.

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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.

Many charter schools are part of organizations (e.g., Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], Edison Learning, Imagine Schools) that operate in more than one state.

Colorado had more than 100 charter schools operating in non-urban communities that same year.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

In addition to charter schools, students can enroll at one of 38 innovation schools, district - operated schools pioneering new school models with more autonomy than traditional district schools.

In 2013, more than 80 percent of New Orleans public school students attend charter schools, including 12 charters that are authorized by the Orleans Parish School Board, which still operates six of its own schools as well.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

Charter schools number 161 in L.A., more than operate in any other district nationwide.

And, unlike more loosely organized school networks, CMOs manage their schools directly, either under contract to a school board of trustees or under a fully integrated governance structure (in states where single charter school boards can operate multiple schools or campuses).

In a dramatic turnaround from its previous strong support for charter schools, the Buffalo, N.Y., school board voted last week to impose a one - year moratorium on allowing more of the independently operated public schools.

Jason Pater, a real estate manager for National Heritage Academies, which operates a network of charter schools in five states, noted that charters have more flexibility to use different construction methods.

It's true that New York charters get several thousand dollars less in operating funds per student than the city's district schools do — and, even more important, they do not get separate capital funding for facilities in Gotham's extremely pricey real - estate market.

The Charter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority stCharter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority stcharter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority students.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

Although they're «schools of choice,» they are operated in more top - down fashion by districts, states, or sometimes universities rather than as freestanding and self - propelled institutions under their states» charter laws.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

Lawmakers could explore rules that exempt e-schools from policies requiring all charters, virtual ones included, to accept every student who applies and instead allow e-schools to operate more like magnet schools with admissions procedures and priorities.

Ironically, the charter school law operates as a de facto universal choice (open to all students in the District regardless of income) and reliably delivers funding of more than $ 14,000 per student.

42 states and the District of Columbia have enacted legislation permitting charter schools, which operate outside the traditional school governance structure and exercise a high level of autonomy in exchange for more stringent accountability.

This however is about 43 % more than the typical state, and a portion of the rest Louisiana's charters are RSD charters operating outside New Orleans.

The for - profit companies that operate some charter and online schools take the idea a step further by arguing that private business models are more efficient than public school systems.

Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the state's largest teachers union, said it favors new rules for charters but opposes any bill that would allow for more charters, which are publicly funded, but operated independent of districts, usually with non-unionized teachers.

In that sense, charters will operate far more like traditional schools than private entities.

Founded more than 25 years ago, they are operated independent of the traditional school district but in addition to the being heldto the same accountability standards as all public schools, charter schools have performance targets that they must meet in order to stay open.

Charter schools operate with considerably more independence than traditional public schools.

Two National Surveys find Charter - School Parents More Satisfied than Those with Children in District - Operated Schools Private school parents most satisfied of all

Many charters can successfully operate with enrollments of 200 - 300, attracting parents who prefer more personalized school environments.

And to make it easier for charter school operators to run more than one school, Mr. Bloomberg said he would advocate allowing charter schools to operate on more than one campus.

Obama said the federal government should fully fund the federal No Child Left Behind law, investing more money in early childhood education, teacher training, and charter schools, which get public money but operate free from many state rules.

First, there aren't that many of them — only nine operate in more than one state, said Greg Richmond, president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

LAUSD - authorized charter schools are invited to learn more about their SELPA options, including the «Charter Operated Programs» (Optcharter schools are invited to learn more about their SELPA options, including the «Charter Operated Programs» (OptCharter Operated Programs» (Option 3).

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.

If a charter school has been operating for more than nine years, ten percent more students are scoring at or above the proficiency level in both subjects.

Charter schools are publicly funded, independently operated schools that are allowed to operate with more autonomy than traditional public schools in exchange for increased accountability.

According to the Center for Education Reform, more than 5,000 charters are now operating in 39 states and the District of Columbia.

Across the nation, 604 charter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organicharter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organiCharter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

Charter schools — which are publicly funded but independently operated — are no exception, and researchers from Pennsylvania State University and University of California Los Angeles have found that in some states, these schools are more segregated than traditional public schools.

More than 800 charters operate in the state.

While most charter schools are forced to divert operating funds to cover the cost of facilities, the problem is more acute for rural charters.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

Other groups such as Educators4Excellence, Teach for America and Achievement First have more distinct niches including operating public charters and training educators to advocate for change at the state level.»

A charter school operated by a hope operator which serves students from one or more persistently low - performing schools; is located in the attendance zone of a persistently low - performing school or within a 5 - mile radius of such school, whichever is greater; and is a Title I eligible school.

Charters began in 1992 and now operate in at least 40 states and the District of Columbia, serving more than 2.5 million students — about 6 percent of all public K - 12 students.