Sentences with phrase «part about charter»

I agree with most of what this article says, but not the part about charter schools.

«I have serious concerns about the charter proposal, especially the parts about charter admission requirements that fail to give our own students preference,» Saddleback Valley president Suzie Swartz said before she and her fellow board members unanimously voted no.

Not exact matches

The next day, realizing that our readers would be interested in reading about the legendary habanero sauces, we dropped our scuba gear and fishing rods and chartered a plane to fly us to the tiny town of Melinda in the foothills of the Maya Mountains in the southern part of Belize.

In honor of back - to - school time, Mile High Mamas ran a three - part series featuring some non-traditional schooling methods including homeschooling, unschooling and a post about charter schools.

The first part of the text talks about nazi war crimes as defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal.

A large part of the explanation — about 80 % of the difference — can be explained by the fact that charters are just less likely to classify students as disabled and more likely to declassify them.

President Obama talks with Matt Lauer about teachers unions, charter schools, Race to the Top, and other topics as part of this week's Education Nation coverage on NBC.

For his part, Mike Fehrenbach didn't see the charter undertaking as a challenge to the brothers» mission, which he believed was «about offering people an opportunity for a future worth living.»

He also developed financial sustainability guidance for the National Center for Teacher Residencies» partner programs, and oversaw the collection and coding of about 2,000 applications as part of a large - scale research project for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

To CStephenBaldwin: Since you know so much and you are part of the for - profit charter con, have your read about charter school fraud and the hedge fund managers?

Push - back, skeptics and accusations of she and her running mate being two - party «spoilers» notwithstanding, Ebony Murphy, who's running under the Democracy Party, seems up to the task of helping enact change in Connecticut and is part of a growing number of educators who refuse to remain silent about the achievement gap, corporate entities» disdain for teachers and the charter school problem.

Editor Note: This is part two of a three part series about charter schools in Escondido.

Stewart says the wider charter school movement is failing to get its message out, in large part because it's forgetting about the first commandment of politics: IT»S ALL ABOUT YOUR about the first commandment of politics: IT»S ALL ABOUT YOUR ABOUT YOUR BASE.

«As soon as I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schools.

Lynn said his group is increasingly hearing about problems at charter schools, where staff may not realize that part of operating a public school means respecting the distance it needs to keep from religious causes.

I don't have the exact quote, since I'm working here as well as listening, but Headlee gave an impassioned speech about how this sort of program (pioneered by Harmony Education Services) is not part of the goal of having charter schools.

This week also brought a startling story about another key part of the Right's education agenda, the rapid and still too unaccountable expansion of charter schools, which in many cases have developed into profit centers for shady operators instead of the «laboratories of education innovation» that we were promised.

Part of the difficulty in characterizing what experts know about charter schools is that it depends on the question we are asking.

Critics say Michigan's laissez - faire attitude about charter - school regulation has led to marginal and, in some cases, terrible schools in the state's poorest communities as part of a system dominated by for - profit operators.

However, we are deeply concerned about proposed cuts to other important education programs, as charter schools are part of — not a substitute for — a strong public education system.

Through our work with a group of school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs)-- all part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Leading for Effective Teaching project (LET)-- we have learned a lot about what it looks like to provide these three essentials for principals on a systemwide basis.

A key part of our work at CCSA is to be the eyes and ears of charter schools in Sacramento and to help our school members get their voices heard about key laws and programs that affect them.

«Parents are looking for a place where students feel welcome, they feel like a part of the family, they feel a part of a community, they are able to develop closer relationships with teachers, and they want them to know who they are,» says Evelyn Castro, Principal of Ednovate College Prep charter school when speaking about one of the most important things parents want in a school and how sometimes a smaller charter public school can provide that.

The argument I've heard public feedback about and which is part of the ruling, is that because Charter School boards of directors are appointed rather than elected, Charter Schools don't fit the definition of common schools, and are therefore somehow lacking in accountability.

Charter Schools - CalEdFacts Part of California Department of Education's information and media guide about education in the State of California.

Although he has denied any involvement in the coup attempt, Gulen's critics claim he's leading a movement to undermine the current Turkish government, a movement they say is funded in part by a network of about 150 charter schools.

About CCSA Families CCSA Families (formerly Families That Can) is part of the California Charter Schools Association, a nonprofit organization that helps empower charter school leaders, teachers, and parents to make their voices heard in the state capitol and in their local commuCharter Schools Association, a nonprofit organization that helps empower charter school leaders, teachers, and parents to make their voices heard in the state capitol and in their local commucharter school leaders, teachers, and parents to make their voices heard in the state capitol and in their local communities.

Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School (LAMB PCS) participates in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and as part of the renewal process the school is required to inform the community about its participation in this program.

PAA opposed the House charter expansion bill (see our position paper here) in part because of our concerns about the lack of equity, quality, parental rights, and accountability in many charter schools.

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire's self - paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full - time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part - timers from brick - and - mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte.

Part III addresses concerns that charter school leaders won't respond to growing knowledge about the harm caused by harsh discipline policies or to evidence of the effectiveness of non-punitive alternatives.

Goldberg is now part of TEAch, Transparency, Equity and Accountability for Charters, a nonprofit that she said is not anti-charter but is a group educating families about charter schools.

The discipline debate is part of a larger discussion about the rise of charter schools in Washington and across the country.

«This is part of what drives me crazy about debates around charter schools and «choice» in the United States»

Hawkes, a founder of two Guilford County charter schools run by the for - profit National Heritage Academies, chastised his colleagues following their recommendation of just 11 charter schools out of 71 that applied to open in 2014 because, in part, he received heat from Sen. Jerry Tillman (R - Randolph) about the low number of approvals.

The report is part of a multiyear study examining the performance of charter schools in New York City by Caroline M. Hoxby, a Stanford economist who has written extensively about her research on charter schools and vouchers.

The film was shown as part of an initiative of AROS, supported through the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around the country.

About 200 parents, students and teachers rallied Wednesday morning outside Castelar Street Elementary School in Chinatown as part of a «walk - in» calling for lower class sizes at LA Unified, increased staffing and more accountability for Prop. 39, the law that gives charter schools the right to use empty class space at district schools through a process called «co-location.»

This fundamental question has been lost in a heated debate about a draft proposal spearheaded by the Broad Foundation, the most controversial part of which includes a plan to accelerate charter school growth in LAUSD.

Part of this can also be attributed to the ability to access foreign material more easily and the courts» willingness, particularly Claire L'Heureux - Dubé in Charter cases, to learn about what is happening elsewhere.

Still, the Charter right at stake here exists, in part, to ensure detainees have reasonable access to legal advice in order to rectify the disadvantage they have in preserving the right to silence, and so that they can learn about their legal rights relating to their detention.