Sentences with phrase «performing charter sector»

And a study by American Enterprise Institute found that of 15 state education agency authorizers, Texas» application requires the greatest number of tasks - more than double what's required by Massachusetts, which is renowned for its high - performing charter sector.

When we have a very high - performing charter sector, I think there are insights for the larger system there.

Each state is scored against eight «best practices» in state policy designed to provide a solid foundation for better accessibility, autonomy, and accountability and ensure a consistent, high - performing charter sector.

According to one study, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector among the nation's cities.

The Newark school district, long under control of the state of New Jersey, faces challenges driven in part by strong parent demand for high - performing schools and the rapid growth of a high - performing charter sector: The sector currently serves 27 percent of Newark's students and is anticipated to serve 40 percent by 2018 — 19.

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.

Seth Rau of Nevada Succeeds failed to mention that his state's nearly twenty - year history with chartering has produced the nation's lowest - performing charter sector according to CREDO.

It invested $ 12 million and helped double the size of the nation's highest - performing charter sector.

According to a rigorous Harvard evaluation, every year Jefferson students gain two and a half times as much in math and five times as much in English as the average school in New York City's relatively high - performing charter sector.

The Institute has a right to fear that its efforts to «make historic strides in improving its schools and establishing the highest performing charter sector in the nation,» to quote the book's preface, are at risk of being diminished and diluted.

Brookings and CREDO are positively correlated; the more choice and competition a city has, the higher - performing its charter sector.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

The CREDO report on New Jersey charters said Newark has one of the highest - performing charter sectors of any city that organization has studied.

Cities with smaller but higher - performing charter sectors, such as Boston or New York or even Washington, D.C., would be my first choice.

The city of Boston, Massachusetts has one of the highest performing charter sectors in the country, yet it also has one of the nation's most restrictive charter caps.

Some individual cities have also developed exceptionally high - performing charter sectors (see Sidebar: Cities With High - Performing Charter Sectors).

For these students, as well as students in the cities» poorly performing charter sectors, the foundation's policies have hurt, not helped.

Not exact matches

Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces high - performing high - poverty schools.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

Throughout his discussions of the public, charter, and private sectors, Smarick makes a convincing case that the decades old debate over which sector performs «better» is the wrong way of evaluating performance.

A number of cities are showing that the charter sector is best able to reliably create and grow high - performing schools.

In the charter sector, in particular, closure is an essential part of the model: Schools are supposed to perform or lose their contracts.

They are selfless, committed, and competent — and are likely one part, perhaps a vital part, of the reason why D.C.'s charter sector is so high - performing.

Rigorously - conducted research studies have shown that Boston is, in fact, home to the highest performing charter school sector in the country.

And although the sectors identified «exploring how charters can address the needs of the lowest - performing district schools» as a focus of the city's Gates compact work, they have not committed to enrolling proportional shares of special education students, like their counterparts in Denver.

Its tight controls on entry into the charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector growth.

It wasn't until reformers created nondistrict charter - school sectors — a space for public education outside of the traditional system — that we saw a proliferation of high - performing high - poverty schools.

This is key because those districts are generally very low - performing and, as my colleagues and I found in a recent study, the state's charter school sector isn't doing so well.

Cleveland, also home to several high - performing charters, promotes buy - in between the sectors with an attitude of «We're in this together.»

A Stanford CREDO study reports that Newark's charter sector is the second - highest - performing group in the nation and is yielding seven months of additional learning per year in both reading and math.

The recommendations support four strategies to promote quality in the sector: differentiating charter operators based on performance, building system capacity to cultivate and support high - performing schools and networks, facilitating replication of high performers and accelerating closure of low performers.

Once classified as an experiment, Gotham's charter sector is now the largest scaled, high - performing charter district in the country — filled with top, nationally - recognized organizations that support real success for the city's most vulnerable communities.

«We know that closing low - performing charter public schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.»

We know that closing low - performing charter schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.

There tends to be, however, greater variability in charter school achievement, with the charter sector having a greater share of both low - performing and high - achieving schools.

At the same time, the report identifies areas of focus as the sector has further to go in meeting the academic needs of all students, because there are still too many under performing charter schools in the state.

Some of the highest performing charter school sectors in the nation — in Washington D.C., and New Jersey and Massachusetts — have independent boards for charter school oversight.

Nashville believes that strong oversight, closing poorly performing schools, and encouraging replication of excellent ones, go together to create a robust charter sector.

In fact, one study found that scores really went up about 8 percent over those seven years and Duncan's controversial strategy of closing low - performing schools and handing the students over to charter school companies and other private sector vendors, «did little good for students.»

My sense is that the efforts to identify high - performing schools, high - quality schools regardless of what sector they're in — public, charter or private — identifying the characteristics of high - performing schools regardless of sector, and trying to replicate them.

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.

To fund the creation of an organization that aims to help catalyze a new, third sector of high performing schools in South Africa modeled on successful U.S. charters schools.

As a sector, Rhode Island has some of the highest performing charter schools in the country.

The charter sector's shortcomings, which the authors openly acknowledge, are more than outweighed by the extraordinary results of the best - performing charters and we simply need more of the good ones and less of the bad ones.

And since Harris mentioned the NAEP, let's see how Arizona's «Wild West» charter sector performs.

And, of course, given that these are comparative measures, even a charter sector that isn't doing a great job can look good against the background of a low - performing traditional school system.

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.

Proponents contend that caps help limit the growth of the sector, and thus control the overall quality of charter schools (by encouraging authorizers to be more discerning in approving applications and more rigorous in closing low - performing schools).79 On the other hand, opponents argue that charter school caps stifle the growth of high - quality schools and may deter high - performing operators from even applying to operate in the state.

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.