Sentences with phrase «outside charter company»

Again and again residents told us of their shock at the news that the school their families had attended for generations was being handed over to an outside charter company without meaningful consultation.Many hadn't even heard the news.

While some of these schools were maintained as traditional schools managed by the district, outside charter companies like the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and the Institute for Academic Excellence entered the RSD to start directing individual schools.

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An outside investor or company could create a hostile takeover if the charter is written improperly.

If employees of charter schools or any outside management companies that run them serve on the schools» boards of directors, they must avoid any «real or apparent conflict of interest» if the school receives money from the Department of Education's charter school program, under new guidelines released late last month.

Silver has plenty of company among alumni from the Ed School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new twist.

Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside traditional public districts, and many are run by for - profit companies.

The bill would allow the education commissioner to get rid of the existing staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to another entity, such as a charter school management company, who would then run the schools while being exempt from state laws requiring competitive bidding and limiting the use of outside consultants.

Of the 11 charters approved for 2016, six are operated by for - profit EMOs originating outside the state, including CSUSA, Accelerated Learning Solutions (another Florida - based company), and two new charters operated by National Heritage Academies, a Michigan - based for - profit EMO that already operates 11 charters in the state.

Cunningham said Athlos» lease arrangement is one example of the loopholes used by charter management companies, allowing private interests to operate public schools outside the intentions of state law.

The appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in litigation filed over the N.C. State Board of Education's 2012 decision to disregard an application for a virtual charter school run by the company because it was submitted outside the time period allotted by the board.

Charters are self - governing public schools, sometimes run by private companies, which operate outside the authority of local school boards, and have greater flexibility than traditional public schools in areas of policy, hiring and teaching techniques.

The company challenged the constitutionality of the legislation, primarily on the grounds that it is ultra vires federal jurisdiction (outside of powers granted to the federal parliament under the constitution) and that it violated s. 2 (b) of the Charter and could not be saved by s. 1.