Sentences with phrase «oversight of charter schools»

Certainly, responsible oversight of charter schools is essential, and that includes the ability to close bad schools.

Consequently, greater oversight of charter school expenditures is needed.

Gov. Tom Wolf prompted increased oversight of charter schools last year, when he created the Department of Education Division of Charter Schools to improve the quality and accountability of those institutions.

In the end, only 5 new charters were approved, and though the 29 rejected applications can be appealed to a new state commission, the night was a victory for advocates of better oversight of the charter school industry.

«Weak oversight of charter schools puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted and further erodes local control of public education, the resolution reads.

And as education advocate and school finance expert Wendy Lecker observed in an article last summer, Malloy's education policies have led to, A void in oversight of charter schools

It is the authorizer's role to ensure that charter schools uphold their end of the agreement by providing appropriate oversight of each charter school.

About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.

This change doesn't mean that financial oversight of charter schools is always sufficient, or that some authorizers don't try to meddle in financial decisions that should be left to the school.

When the goal of making a profit competes with the goals of teaching and learning, there is a critical need for oversight of charter schools» finances and facilities.The problems range from related parties receiving excessive lease payments to «family affair» charter schools with several relatives on the payroll.

And in Ohio, you simply can't discuss the weak results without asking what role authorizers are playing — as noted in the rest of her comment: «We need to have a greater degree of oversight of charter schools.

Five New York City parents are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to withdraw funding and increase oversight of charter schools as a response to what they say is systemic mistreatment of children, particularly their own, by the Success Academy charter school network.

The Michigan legislature, during a special session last month, passed a new charter law designed to address the judge's concern that the state board of education did not have adequate oversight of charter schools under the previous measure.

In California, as in most states, oversight of charter schools primarily rests with local «authorizers» - typically a school district, a university, or a community group.

It also commissioned a widely criticized report that concluded that oversight of charter schools costs the district money, something the district's own data disproved.

A quality authorizer engages in responsible oversight of charter schools by ensuring that schools have both the autonomy to which they are entitled and the public accountability for which they are responsible.

I strongly support more rigorous oversight of all Charter Schools.

«I know that DPI is an agency that has staff people to do work... but what staff does the State Board have in order to carry out this work because we're now charging it with oversight of the charter school program,» said Stein.

Zimmer's proposal to tighten oversight of charter schools, for example — a reform that's badly needed — came with a poison - pill provision establishing a moratorium on all new charters until the district developed a new monitoring system.

«School boards are extremely concerned that removing oversight of charter school grade expansion will precipitate this type of saturation in a number of areas that currently have charter schools and put other areas at risk as more charter schools come down the pipeline,» she said.

As I read Senator Sheehan's April 17 opinion piece about increasing oversight of charter schools, I saw many opportunities to myth - bust charter school misconceptions.

DeVos» very public support for voucher schemes which siphon away all - too - limited public education funds and fail to provide protection from discrimination and segregation, and her opposition to appropriate oversight of charter schools, run contrary to the department's mission to «promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.»

Additionally, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (another AROS member) released recommendations for effective oversight of charter schools, which you can read here.

GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the public's investment in education while providing transparency regarding how tax dollars are being spent.

Michigan, DeVos» home state, has become notorious for its weak oversight of charter schools.

Lawmakers, experts and advocates clashed over the hearing's topic - whether to step up oversight of charter schools» finances - and also snapped at each other over the state's loss of federal Race to the Top money, the achievement gap and political contributions.

He said Espaillat has been a «leading voice» for banning standardized tests and has backed more auditing and oversight of charter schools.

As they did in preliminary votes last week, Democrats offered a series of hostile amendments Sunday that would have established a system of single - payer health care system, increase oversight of charter schools and add $ 1 million for a memorial to the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack.

In this report we describe three fundamental flaws with California's oversight of charter schools:

The Broad Foundation money would go to two places, according to officials: $ 290,000 for professional training of staff in the administration's planned Regional Achievement Centers, the hub of its efforts for improving the state's lowest - performing schools; and $ 140,000 to bolster the state's oversight of charter schools.

Many times the League has asked for better management, transparency and oversight of charter schools.

[LA School Board member Steve Zimmer] also thinks it's time for the board to review the approval and oversight of charter schools, with more than 230 of the campuses housing 110,000 students within the 700 - square - mile district.

An official at the U.S. Department of Education said she «believed Ohio has improved its oversight of charter schools,» The Post said.

The 2009 charter law amendments were based on a defined and known need that authorizers should and could improve their oversight of charter schools.

In this report we identify two fundamental flaws with New York's oversight of charter schools:

Also in 2010 in Philadelphia (which educates 50 percent of all Pennsylvania charter - school students), the Office of the Controller performed a «fraud vulnerability assessment» of the city's oversight of charter schools and reported that the Charter School Office... made the city's more than $ 290 million paid to charter schools «extremely vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.»

In this report we identify two fundamental flaws with Pennsylvania's oversight of charter schools:

Our research uncovered three fundamental flaws with the state's oversight of charter schools:

Torlakson, a former high school biology teacher, pushed for additional investment in public schools and increased oversight of charter schools.

The most disturbing revelation of the FUSE / Jumoke charter school scandal is that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor and the State Board of Education have consistently neglected to provide any oversight of charter schools.