Sentences with phrase «private school conversion»

The state Department of Education announced Friday that it had given preliminary approval to the Excellence Charter School in Camden, an extension of the Mastery charter network out of Philadelphia, and the Link Community Charter School in Newark, the state's second private school conversion.

Not exact matches

However the schools say their conversion has been delayed by 18 months while negotiations drag on over # 500,000 of extra cash which Newham Council believes the schools should pay towards private finance initiative (PFI) repayments.

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.

-- Parent advocate Karran Harper Royal The changes happening to schools in New Orleans — the conversion from public to private — has sadly become a prototype for schools across the country.

The version approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week included flat funding for public schools, expanded private voucher schools attendance, continued teacher licensing, conversion of some Milwaukee schools to charter or private voucher schools, reduced transportation spending, huge slashing on the University of Wisconsin's funding, and elimination of 60 guard tower positions in the state's prisons.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, if these schools had been non-charter public schools, they would have been targeted for punishments such as firing the entire staff, notifying parents that they could choose to go to another school, closing the school, state takeover, conversion to charter schools, or taking away public governance in favor of private management.

These systems outline firm, test - based numerical targets and emphasize clear punishments when the goals aren't met, such as school closings, conversion to charter schools or private management.

Traditional public, conversion charter, career tech center, open - enrollment charter, virtual and private schools - all these represent school choice in action, and all are serving the needs of students, teachers and communities.