Sentences with phrase «performing charter management»

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

However, exits, improvement of existing charter schools, and expansion of higher - performing charter management organizations increased charter effectiveness relative to traditional public schools.

As a number of high - performing charter management organizations (CMOs) saw cohorts of high school graduates enter college, they discovered that many were not succeeding.

The charters that are threatening to leave LA Unified's SELPA include some of the district's largest and highest - performing charter management organizations, including Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, KIPP Public Charter Schools, Magnolia Public Schools and PUC Schools.

She was co-founder of the high performing charter management organization Aspire Public Schools, serving as Chief Operating Officer over the organization's first 8 years (as it grew from 1 to 17 schools) and then as Bay Area Superintendent (including 7 schools in Oakland).

As a high - performing charter management organization, KIPP had an interest in opening more schools in LA.

Its recent $ 60 million pledge to the College - Ready Promise coalition seeks to provide innovative teacher evaluation practices in high - performing charter management organizations in Los Angeles.

However, the creation and rise of very high performing charter management organizations that have a very distinct culture, operating philosophy, and ability to deliver results will be an important element in driving change.

Those 275,000 students exceed the 271,000 students that Bellwether Education Partners estimates are enrolled in all of the high - performing charter management organizations in the United States.

And King knew Steiner through Teacher U, a teacher training program Steiner launched as a partnership with three high - performing charter management organizations while he was at Hunter.

Over the past several years, the federal government has begun providing money directly to high - performing charter management organizations, those that can document strong results, to replicate their models or to expand existing schools to serve additional grades.

Not exact matches

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In spring 2006, Maryland state superintendent of public instruction Nancy Grasmick sought to take over 11 chronically low - performing Baltimore schools that were subject to restructuring and convert them to charters or contract their management with private companies.

In England, we have something called Teach First, which is a straight rip off of Teach For America, but I also think the fact that we will have an educational official energetically teaming high - performing schools with underperforming schools in order to create new equivalents of CMOs (Charter Management Organizations), in essence chains.

Many told us there were too many low - performing charter schools in Detroit and struggled to name any Detroit charter schools that are getting results like those achieved by national nonprofit charter management organizations.

Down the coast in Los Angeles, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, a high - performing charter - management organization founded in 2000, serves 3,400 students on eight campuses, including 120 preschoolers in a state - of - the - art early - childhood Charter Academy, a high - performing charter - management organization founded in 2000, serves 3,400 students on eight campuses, including 120 preschoolers in a state - of - the - art early - childhood charter - management organization founded in 2000, serves 3,400 students on eight campuses, including 120 preschoolers in a state - of - the - art early - childhood campus.

He demonstrated these traits as the founder of a high performing charter school in Massachusetts, as a leader in a school management organization creating strong new charter schools in several states, and most recently, in his role as New York's Education Commissioner.

J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation announces funding of Idaho's first charter management organization (CMO) to expand high performing limitless learning models throughout the state.

The Orleans Parish School District should agree to perform regulatory duties that assist schools in daily operations but also give autonomy to the charter management organization.

Charter Support Organization Charter School Creation & Development Human Capital Management for Education Turnaround Support for Low Performing Schools

Through the College - Ready Promise, Gates gave the city's five major high - performing charter - school - management organizations a combined $ 60 million in funding for the program.

Charter School Creation & Development Human Capital Management for Education Restructuring of Large Schools into Smaller Learning Communities Turnaround Support for Low Performing Schools

The largest of the high - performing charter - management organizations in Los Angeles, Green Dot Public Schools now operates 21 schools in the Los Angeles area.

Despite the school's membership in the high - performing Alliance College - Ready charter - management organization, Principal Rosalio Medrano said the history of the building is proving a detriment to enrollment.

As Chief Executive Officer of InspireNOLA, a new charter management organization in New Orleans focusing on educating the youth of the city, Jamar currently manages two of the highest performing open - admission schools in New Orleans.

Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) pushed hard for months behind closed doors to pitch a proposal to his colleagues that would have created an «achievement school district» in which some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools would be placed, teachers and staff at those schools could be fired, and the schools would be subject to the management of for - profit (or not - for - profit, too) charter school operators tasked with bringing them up into the ranks of the state's top performers.

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.

◦ the financial and administrative management of the school, including a reasonable demonstration of the professional experience or competence of those individuals or organizations applying to operate the charter school or those hired or retained to perform such professional services

According to s. 1002.332, F.S., a high - performing charter school system is a municipality, other public entity, private non-profit corporation with tax - exempt status under s. 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a private for - profit education management corporation that meets each of the following criteria:

Rocketship Education, a charter management organization recognized nationally for its high - performing blended schools in California, will open its first D.C. school in the fall of 2016.

The revised Assembly school accountability bill was released Tuesday and outlines a series of sanctions for persistently low - performing public schools, including converting them into charter schools or allowing the school board to hire an education management agency that would have the power to fire principals.

The previous Differentiated Accountability (DA) statute called for four Intervene turnaround models for the lowest performing schools: district managed turnaround, closure, operation through a private management company, or conversion to a charter school.

Leaders talked lawsuits, school closures and even outright defiance of the takeover plan, which could allow for - profit charter management companies to seize control of several low - performing, public schools in the coming years.

Wagner served as the chief operating officer of the Bright Star Schools charter management organization that operates five high - performing schools in Los Angeles.

The state Assembly could vote as early as next week on the latest version of a school accountability bill that outlines a series of sanctions for persistently low - performing public schools, including converting them into charter schools or allowing the school board to hire an education management agency that would have the power to fire principals.

A co-founder of Partnerships To Uplift Communities, a charter school management organization, he currently serves as president and CEO of Partners for Developing Futures, a social investment fund dedicated to investing in leaders of color to start and grow high performing charter schools.

>> Job posted by Achievement First — March 28 Office Coordinator, Bridgeport, CT; Hartford, CT; and New Haven, CT Office Coordinator, Team: Operations Location: Bridgeport, CT; Hartford, CT; and New Haven, CT About Achievement First: Achievement First is a charter school management organization started in July 2003 by the leaders of Amistad Academy, a high performing charter school...

If this blithe repurposing of the false talking points of a low - performing for - profit charter management organization in which she had personally invested is typical of how she will behave in office, I'm disheartened.

>> Job posted by On - Ramps — March 26, 2012, New Haven, CT, US Associate Director of External Relations at Achievement First Achievement First is a charter school management organization started in July 2003 by the leaders of AmistadAcademy, a high performing charter school in New Haven, CT..

Authorizers can accelerate improvement in the overall quality of the charter sector by «restarting» low - performing charter schools: that is, transitioning the charter — and responsibility for governance and school management — to a high - performing charter school or network, while maintaining the existing population of students.

Prior to launching ReThink Community, Derwin co-founded and served as the CEO of Gestalt Community Schools (GCS), a charter management organization that develops high - performing, community - based charter schools in Memphis, Tennessee.

Today, Alliance operates as a Charter Management Organization with a network of 25 high - performing high school and middle school academies in Los Angeles» most under - served communities.

Prior to founding Maslow, Derwin co-founded and served as the CEO of Gestalt Community Schools, a charter management organization that manages the growth of high - performing, community - based charter schools in Memphis, Tennessee.

Stacia joined Flamboyan Foundation in 2016, transitioning from a management position at a high - performing charter school in Washington, DC.

«We need to take a good look at some these out - of - state charter management organizations, who are not necessarily performing as well as they should or as accountable as they should be,» he said.

An In the Public Interest group found that an analyst for the District of Columbia «could not provide a single instance in which its strategy of transferring a low - performing school to a charter management organization had resulted in academic gains for the students.»

EMOs perform similar functions to those of CMOs, but they generally charge a management fee for their services.65 EMOs too have been instrumental in charter sector growth.

Increase the number of proven, high - performing public charter schools by recruiting charter management organizations and leaders from across the country who have demonstrated a proven record of success educating children and teens in economically challenged urban neighborhoods.

Yet when asked at a hearing on the proposal, IFF's research director could not provide a single instance in which its strategy of transferring a low - performing school to a charter management organization had resulted in academic gains for the students.

The performance of charter management organizations should be examined before and after they are allowed to take over a low - performing traditional public school.