Sentences with phrase «opportunities like charters»

Unfortunately, there weren't opportunities like charters or any school of choice when I was growing up.

Not exact matches

While learning programs like Core Knowledge and Expeditionary Learning / Outward Bound have seen real opportunities in the charter sector, others have shied away.

This has given new opportunities to those who never liked the charter movement in the first place.

Another charter leader noted that what has worked in their context is to show parents and students concrete examples of what this «tomorrow» could look like: give families the opportunity to see good schools in action.

There are different flavors of private - school - choice advocacy, just like there are different flavors of charter - school advocacy, but they are broadly unified by this goal: more choices, more opportunities.

Many schools have found drawing up a «Charter of Entitlement» a useful tool to set out the learning outside classroom opportunities they would like to offer and to ensure that the plans are followed through.

Chris Gabrieli, who directs a Boston nonprofit focused on bringing charter school - like flexibilities to district schools, says the charter bill ideally should be an opportunity to think even more broadly about strategies to help those students.

Ravitch says that charter schools undercut the opportunities for public schools, making public school students feel like «second - class citizens.»

I would like to take this opportunity to express my excitement for being named the founding principal of Renaissance Charter School at Goldenrod.

Dear Parents and Families: I would like to take this opportunity to express my excitement for being named the founding principal of Renaissance Charter School...

Like Willits Charter School, the new district charter school will offer classes in ecological literacy and will provide opportunities in community and service learning, as well as project - based learning, including the integration of art, music, and the dramatic and performing arts, into a core - focused educational pCharter School, the new district charter school will offer classes in ecological literacy and will provide opportunities in community and service learning, as well as project - based learning, including the integration of art, music, and the dramatic and performing arts, into a core - focused educational pcharter school will offer classes in ecological literacy and will provide opportunities in community and service learning, as well as project - based learning, including the integration of art, music, and the dramatic and performing arts, into a core - focused educational program.

It's problems like these that lead parents and students to look to charters for better educational opportunities in the first place.

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.

By intention, teachers have the opportunity to collectively design and run the schools with charter - like autonomy while remaining district employees and members of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA).

Researchers like Myron Orfield, director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota, have charged that charter schools have assisted in the re-segregation of schools.

In an effort to start a new school that provides the type of education being advocated by education reformers like Tony Wagner, Sir Ken Robinson, and Daniel Pink, I am preparing a charter application for Da Vinci High School which will provide an opportunity for students to discover their passions and pursue them.

Milestones like National Charter Schools Week and the 20th anniversary provide a natural opportunity for all of us in the movement to celebrate that fact, to invite others to join with us, and to reflect on where we've been and where the next 20 years will take us.

Several charter leaders from around the region are already planning to attend the upcoming Inland Empire Charter Leaders Meetings, so it should be a great opportunity to network with those facing concerns much like yocharter leaders from around the region are already planning to attend the upcoming Inland Empire Charter Leaders Meetings, so it should be a great opportunity to network with those facing concerns much like yoCharter Leaders Meetings, so it should be a great opportunity to network with those facing concerns much like your own.

Manatee Charter School would like to announce to the community it's intent to apply to the 21st Century Community Learning Center program grant to provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

But when the news was released that charter schools in Georgia made AYP at a 70 % rate, there were many in state who relished the opportunity to say this confirmed all the naysayers like Cathy Williams that say we don't need or want more charter schools unless they are under the management and control of the local school board.

I don't know about whether there is anything unlawful going on and harmful is a subjective concept at times like these but the Hartford Courant story does provide us with an opportunity to take a moment to review what we do know about the charter school and education reform effort.

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

These visits are meaningful and serve as an opportunity to talk about the what committing to enroll at Next Charter School looks and feels like.

Then he encountered a unique opportunity: KIPP was expanding its reach within Atlanta and wanted Ed for their Fisher Fellowship, a program that, much like the BES Fellowship, trains and supports leaders who ultimately open public charter schools.

In states like Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and New Jersey, parental choice options like charter schools, opportunity scholarships, and stronger traditional district schools are no longer a dream, but a reality for families that need them most.

«Public charter schools nationally have an opportunity to demonstrate what «coopetition» looks like at its best, and many of these charter school organizations are building on their successes to ensure that many more students have access to a quality public school education.»

We understand that charter schools — like other public schools — are not perfect, but we know firsthand that many charter schools are giving our children opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise.

And like Pryor, Goldfarb was a big fan of charter schools despite their unwillingness to provide equal educational opportunities to students who require special educational services, those who aren't proficient in the English Language or those who fail to adhere to the abusive and degrading harsh disciplinary policies that are the staple of charter school operations.

Stories like these underscore the incredible opportunities made possible by California's charter schools.

Like the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about more than 55 years ago, the billionaires, the charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies want us to believe that providing children with the skills and knowledge to succeed and prosper in the 21st Century is nothing more than an opportunity to «wage war» and make money, all at the same time.

This law, like the charter school law, is about opportunity for people who have limited educational opportunities today.

Like any other public school, charter schools provide learning opportunities for students of all abilities, and achieve strong results with their full student populations, among them special needs, gifted, and English Language Learners.