Sentences with phrase «other charter schools in her district»

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«Next year, we want to expand to work with both charters and traditional district schools in other urban regions.»

«Further, they would have the effect of leading potential educators through an essentially fake certification process,» the suit continued, «one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools, or the public schools of other states.»

The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

We are targeting 6th - 12th graders in the Rochester City School District, but we will not exclude city residents who are enrolled in charter or other schools.

The UFT / NYSUT lawsuit, which asks the court to overturn the Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.charter schools or the public schools of other states.»

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

Powell said there are 15 charter schools in his East Harlem district — more than any other in the state.

In addition to the responses described above, we find evidence of three other constructive competitive responses: expanding or improving district schools, programs or offerings (6 locations); improving district efficiency (5 locations); and supporting semiautonomous charter - like schools (5 locations).

That difference was the result of some $ 5,500 per student in local tax dollars going to district schools that charters such as Omega did not receive — all this in addition to money for facilities and other outlays that were also denied to Ohio charters.

Before adding more charters or other new schools, the district should wait for the data to come in to justify doing so... We challenge Superintendent Tom Boasberg and our board to commit to a level playing field so neighborhood schools receive the same resources as charter and innovation schools.

Those schools include public charter schools, magnet schools, and other types of options both within districts and in nearby districts.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

While the exact way forward may vary from one district to another, there should be no further delay in creating state laws and regulations that level the playing field between charters and other public schools.

The fact that 72.6 percent of Ohio's charter schools operate in urban areas likely has something to do with the fact that the state's suburbs continue to opt out of enrolling students from other districts.

These parents knocked on the doors of other parents living in the Compton school district, inviting them to sign a petition to convert McKinley Elementary School to a charter sschool district, inviting them to sign a petition to convert McKinley Elementary School to a charter sSchool to a charter schoolschool.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

In other words, Boston charter - school students are learning at more than twice the rate of their district - school peers.

Since the first law authorizing charter schools was passed in Minnesota in 1991, 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all adopted legislation supporting public charters.

In order to maximize the number of responses to questions concerning charter and private schools, respondents were classified as charter - school parents if they currently had a child in a charter school, even if they had other children who attended other school types; as private - school parents if they currently had a child in a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sectoIn order to maximize the number of responses to questions concerning charter and private schools, respondents were classified as charter - school parents if they currently had a child in a charter school, even if they had other children who attended other school types; as private - school parents if they currently had a child in a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sectoin a charter school, even if they had other children who attended other school types; as private - school parents if they currently had a child in a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sectoin a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sectoin a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sectoin a district school but not in either the charter or private sectoin either the charter or private sector.

She started a charter school in the early 1990s, but abruptly resigned from its board — along with other board members — after the school district accused the charter of teaching religion in its classrooms.

Focusing on lottery applicants is nonetheless useful because it enables us to hold constant whatever unmeasured differences lead some students to apply for a seat in a charter school and others to remain within the district.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

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

Without appropriate planning, meeting their needs can over-stretch district budgets, especially in smaller jurisdictions (and free - standing schools such as charters), putting pressure on the education of other children, causing fiscal distress, and giving rise to political discord.

Folsom said that the magnet schools in the district manage to share space with charters without friction, but that charters forcing their way into other schools created an «us - versus - them» mentality.

Others seem to want the charter sector to permanently operate in parallel to a district sector, giving interested low - income families public alternatives to assigned government - run schools.

In other words, charter schools compete with district schools for students.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

The lawyers will argue that the charter school cap has the effect of denying students in Boston and other urban districts their right to a quality education.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serSchool districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serschool services.

Scott Milliman and I found, after correcting for this and other errors, that one of the key studies cited by the AFT as alleging racial concentration in charter schools in fact found charter schools no more segregated than district schools, with the notable exception of those charters that had converted from private schools.

In some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievemenIn some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievemenin these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievemenin a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievemenin, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievement.

Twenty years ago state legislators began to approve charter schools in order to give families public school options other than their district or neighborhood schools.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

Some nonprofit charter management organizations (CMOs) have been launched specifically to respond to this opportunity, including Education for Change, in Oakland; others, such as Mastery Charter Schools, in Philadelphia, partner with districts to extend their charter management organizations (CMOs) have been launched specifically to respond to this opportunity, including Education for Change, in Oakland; others, such as Mastery Charter Schools, in Philadelphia, partner with districts to extend their Charter Schools, in Philadelphia, partner with districts to extend their impact.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Drawn from case studies of 17 such schools in 10 California districts, the 64 - page report from the University of California, Los Angeles, also is based on hundreds of interviews with educators, charter school founders, and parents, among others.

Others note that there is a financial incentive for districts to delay making payments for as long as possible, even if they eventually have to pay the charter schools what they are owed in later installments.

These charters are accountable to the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (PCSB) for the quality and results of their pre-K programs — just as they are for grades K — 12 — but they are not subject to the kind of extensive, input - based quality requirements found in other pre-K programs.

Much has been written and studied regarding choice in education — on charter schools, vouchers, choice among district schools, and much more — but the idea, so powerful in our economy and in other enterprises, including higher education, has rarely been examined in the context of federalism and the appropriate roles of Washington and lower levels of government.

Most public schools in New Orleans are administered by the RSD, but among other public schools are those run directly by the traditional school district (the Orleans Parish School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (school district (the Orleans Parish School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (School Board, or OPSB), OPSB - authorized charter schools, and charter schools authorized by the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).

Each school district, each charter school and each board of cooperative educational services shall establish, and implement on an ongoing basis, a training program regarding the procedures set forth in article 23 - B of the Education Law for all current and new teachers, school nurses, school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, school administrators, other personnel required to hold a teaching or administrative certificate or license, and school board members.

Newly elected Los Angeles Unified school board member Kelly Gonez said that because affiliated charters are part of the district, any innovations in curriculum that they come up with can more easily be shared with other traditional schools.

The reassignment of charter schools into geographic school districts means that student counts and other measures in this data may not match a district's own accountability data.

The nearly $ 1 billion in state funding that has left the district, as more than 100,000 students have fled their traditional neighborhood schools in the past decade for charter schools and other school districts?

And turnaround schools, both in Chicago and in other urban districts like Philadelphia, are experiencing significant enrollment loss — driven largely by the rapid expansion of charter high schools — that in some ways hinders improvement.

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.

In other words, since vouchers and charter schools came to Milwaukee, the district's budget has risen by some 70 percent while its enrollment has grown by only 5 percent.