Sentences with phrase «own charter school management»

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

But for - profit charter school management companies are playing politics in Albany.

In his campaign this year, Pelto hammered the governor on policies including the Common Core State Standards initiative, a controversial teacher evaluation program, and charter school management.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

These 4,000 transfer students would have ranked Scottsdale Unified as the ninth - largest charter school management organization in Arizona that year, if indeed it were a CMO.

The school is part of Achievement First, a nonprofit charter school management system founded in 2003 by two University of North Carolina graduates (Class of 1994), Doug McCurry and Dacia Toll.

Last week, the Clayton Christensen Institute published a case study that describes how Leadership Public Schools, a charter school management organization that operates three high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, used technology to rethink how teachers delivered instruction in math intervention courses.

This week, Stanford University's CREDO released its authoritative new study of charter school management organizations.

Charter school management organizations (CMOs) have emerged as a popular means for bringing charter schooling to scale.

Since 2008, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), under Harvard's Center for Policy Education Research, has placed fellows like Bowman in state education agencies, school districts, and charter school management organizations where they are helping policymakers to decode an avalanche of educational data.

A new database of information about charter school management organizations and the schools they operate.

The Intensive Partnership grants will support the effective teaching plans of Hillsborough County (Fla.) Public Schools, Memphis (Tenn.) City Schools, Pittsburgh (Pa.) Public Schools, and The College - Ready Promise, a coalition of five public charter school management organizations in Los Angeles: Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, Green Dot Public Schools, ICEF Public Schools, and Partnerships to Uplift Communities.

Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) is one of the nation's largest providers of charter school management services in the United States and a leader in the development and design of charter schools.

Over the past 18 months, Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance Districts.

There also appears to be illegal in - kind corporate contributions from Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that runs Achievement First Bridgeport.

In addition to those groups, there's also the National Heritage Academies (NHA), a Michigan - based charter school management organization that has seven partner schools in Detroit.

«Meanwhile, deal surfaces to give Bridgeport elementary school to Jumoke's charter school management company»

Fellows will also be required to develop an Independent Learning Project (ILP) / Portfolio based on fellowship experience and directly relating to innovations in new methods of instruction, integration of educational technology and its applications, charter school management and its operations, leadership and staff development, and other project options as determined by cohort leadership.

Come get hands - on assistance from the experts at the Charter School Management Corporation (CSMC).

(Amistad and Achievement First, of course, being the charter school and charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor).

Last week, the General Assembly approved legislation that allows private, for - profit charter school management companies to keep their employees» salaries secret, even though they are paid with public funds.

Established on Joint Base Andrews in 2011 to provide outstanding educational opportunities for military and community students, Imagine Andrews Public Charter School is a member of Imagine Schools, a full - service charter school management organization that operates 72 schools in 12 states and helps nearly 80,000 parents and guardians educate their children.

: Executive Director Jumoke Academy Honors at Milner School Educational Institution; 51 - 200 employees; Education Management industry July 2012 — July 2013 (1 year 1 month) Hartford, CT Executed launch and strategic plan of historic partnership between a charter school management company and Hartford Public Schools.

Jason Bransford co-founded Gem Innovation Schools (GIS) in 2014, the first non-profit charter school management organization in the State of Idaho.

A formal investigation by the Florida State's Attorney into allegations of grade tampering at a charter school managed by Newpoint Education Partners has resulted in criminal charges handed down just this week — just as the charter school management company had hoped to nose its way into doing business in North Carolina.

Achievement First, Inc, of course, is the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching

With more than 27 years of demonstrated financial and operational management experience, Barb Femreite co-founded Gem Innovation Schools, the first charter school management organization in Idaho.

STEP TWO: Perry moves company address to a Capital Prep, a Hartford Public School and registers it as a charter school management company for purposes of the federal tax code: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/43-4669846/capital-preparatory-schools-incorporated.aspx

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

«Perry's group» being a private company that Steve Perry formed out of his home in 2012 and then moved its address to Capital Prep, a public school building while he submitted the paperwork to become a «non-profit» charter school management company under the federal IRS code.

Diane Tavenner, founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools, Silicon Valley's first charter school management organization, explains «Why Silicon Valley needs Superman» in an op - ed in the San Jose Mercury News.

The charter school management company status would allow Perry to utilize federal tax credit laws to duck certain federal tax requirements.

Achievement First, of course, being the charter school management company founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

If you've got a charter school management company and you'd like to run the chaotic, broke school district of Muskegon Heights, today is your last day to submit a bid.

The program allows schools to choose from four turnaround models: closing schools, turning schools over to a charter school management organization, shifting evaluation and curriculum, or replacing some staff.

Thus, as the economist Friedrich von Hayek (1975) put it in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, governments (and one might say the same of philanthropists, leaders of charter school management organizations, technology entrepreneurs, and others) should behave not like craftsmen but like gardeners — «not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment.»

And they start with the City of Hartford handing their Capital Prep public school over to Perry's charter school management company.

The ASD superintendent would be able to fire all teachers and staff and enter into five year contracts with private charter school management companies to handle the schools» operations, all in a bid to catapult low performing schools from the bottom five percent up into the top echelon of the state's high performing schools.

Tosha has spent more than 15 years leading and supporting non-profit teams in charter school management, college access, student recruitment, community engagement and talent acquisition.

More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

CCSA responded by reinforcing their commitment to ensuring responsible charter school management.

So «geographic clustering» (Hartford, Bridgeport, Harlem) will allow Dr. Perry's Charter School Management Company to make efficient use of «human resources.»

Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) is a non-profit charter school management organization designed to significantly increase college entrance and graduation rates for underserved students in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.

Ms. Borrego entered the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, a rigorous, yearlong training program in charter school management to successfully integrate her non-profit management and teaching experience.

Those who help Achievement First, Stefan Pryor's charter school management company, help themselves.

readers now appreciate, Connecticut's charter schools, and especially Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, actively allow, if not promote segregation.

Connecticut's own Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management firm that was founded, in part, by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

Rep. Manny Diaz, dean of Doral College, a private university run by the state's largest for - profit charter school management firm, Academica, is at it again.

The timing of this hand - out to another Achievement First Inc. employee is particularly noteworthy since it takes place at the very moment that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and Commissioner Pryor are circling the wagons in an attempt to deny any responsibility for the Jumoke Academy / FUSE Charter School Management Company debacle of the past few weeks.