Sentences with phrase «people running charter»

It became clear in 2014 that the state wasn't good at checking on the people running charter schools.

Not exact matches

Seven of the 15 people de Blasio handpicked for his Charter Revision Commission have given him a total of $ 10,250 since his 2001 run for NYC Council, filings show.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or the publicly funded, but privately run, charter schools.

Seven of the 15 people Hizzoner handpicked for his Charter Revision Commission have given him a total of $ 10,250 since his 2001 run for City Council, filings show.

The people running those schools weren't required to write charter applications, and I suspect few of them could have done it well.

«There's a danger of hitting a saturation point with the number of qualified and civic - minded people who can do that kind of work,» says Soifer, who runs a think tank and is on charter school boards in four states in addition to sitting on the D.C. authorizing board.

If you see education reform as a social justice or civil rights crusade, you will care mightily about whether every charter is educating its share of kids with disabilities and whether enough «people of color» are running these schools.

Many of the people starting and running charter schools — most of them earnest and well meaning — either don't really know what they're doing or lack the capacity to do it well.

Together we conducted a major teacher survey, and I personally visited 28 charter campuses in Arizona run by 20 different operators and conducted in - person and phone interviews with more than 200 policymakers, district school officials, and charter school teachers, operators, students, and parents between November 1997 and May 2001.

Charter schools, small, independent schools run with public money, were voted into law by the state Legislature in April, and the law says that people may begin to apply for charters Thursday.

A. It's a public school that operates under a contract, or charter, between the people who are to run the school and the public agency or official authorized to issue the charter.

When the idea of charter schools came along — public schools that would 1) run themselves independently of the bureaucracies that were / are a huge part of the problem, 2) would get to hire their own staff members ensuring «fit» with the school, AND 3) would be held accountable for results in educating students — many amazing people stood up and said they would create and run great public schools where they were needed the most.

That person turns out to be a private third party operator who runs a privately run charter.

The confusion of people even fairly familiar with the unique situation of New Orleans public schools further illustrates the complex system of dozens of independently run charter schools and the handful of traditional schools — and who has control of them.

But what we can't shy away from and put a cap on are the ones that are seeing continued success — and a lot of charter schools that are seeing success are those being run by people of color.

Black folk have never been in a position to accept the status quo, and most black people applaud black people in our communities who teach, open charter schools or lead district - run schools.

Young people living in safe housing perform better in school and have better educational outcomes, said Fuller, a former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent who now runs a charter high school, Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, at N. 28th and W. Capitol Drive.

The charters and the people who run them are corrupt and this «reform» movement needs to change.

«I think it's interesting... that the people on the board who have run [charter] schools successfully, that changed the trajectory of kids» lives in low - income communities --[they] are saying this [charter application] is not at the level that our kids deserve,» said Quigley, who identifies as one of the people he describes.

In fact, the only person in the story likely to be doing very well is Mr. Packard himself who used to pull in a salary of $ 5 million to run the K12 Inc. family of for profit virtual charter schools (with an educational record so dubious that the NCAA refuses to accept credits from the schools) and whose Pansophic Learning is now the largest for profit operator of charter schools in Ohio.

The GCI study provides sensible suggestions for taxpayer accountability for charter schools where three in four are currently engaged in questionable financial transactions with the same people who own / run the charter.

Long before legislation was put into place in Connecticut allowing for public charter schools, the founders of Common Ground High School had been running a host of incredible programs in the greater New Haven area aimed at connecting young people to the resources within their own communities.

So they did more teaching or became involved running a charter school or a reform group, then kept moving up the ladder as sympathetic political leaders, including Democrats (most in this network also seem to be Democrats), took over cities or states and looked for people to overhaul school systems.

«I think it's a win for people who sometimes are victims of circumstance and find themselves at the hands of the big chartered banks who immediately run off to Bay Street and hire very expensive lawyers at basically the expense of ordinary people.