Sentences with phrase «original charter school law»

Mr. Hart also helped write the state's original charter school law.

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The ways in which most think tanks and researchers rank charter school laws are flawed, and charter school ranking systems should be designed to evaluate how well schools measure up to the original mission of the movement, suggests a report by two researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Members of that original group included the late Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Sy Fliefel, director of alternative education for NYC's Community School District 4, Ted Kolderie, Center for Policy Design and Education Evolving, Elaine Salinas, current President & CPO MIGIZI Communications, Joe Nathan, Director Center for School Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of PaSchool District 4, Ted Kolderie, Center for Policy Design and Education Evolving, Elaine Salinas, current President & CPO MIGIZI Communications, Joe Nathan, Director Center for School Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of PaSchool Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of Paschool law and the memoir Zero Chance of Passage.

Reichgott Junge candidly shared with guests personal details of her challenging journey as an original champion of chartered schools, the tumultuous legislative passage of the nation's first charter law in Minnesota twenty years ago, and chartering's subsequent explosion onto the national stage.

The original New Jersey charter public school law mandated per pupil funding for each charter public school student equal to 90 percent of the amount allocated for a child in a traditional district school in the same school district.

It is clear that in just three years, the state law is meeting the original goals and creating an environment for a strong and healthy charter school sector in Mississippi.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

That's clearly a change from when Schwarzenegger was in office, who gained a reputation for steadily vetoing legislation that was opposed by the association.It is a different feel, too, from the friendly administration of Gray Davis and certainly from the days of Pete Wilson, who signed the original Charter School Act into law.

The bill Litzow and a bipartisan raft of lawmakers sponsored would essentially restore most of the state's original law, but with one key difference: instead of receiving general fund dollars, charter schools would be funded out of a separate account made up of state lottery proceeds.

So this year at Civil Beat, we're going to try and take on a school project in the original spirit of the charter school law.