Sentences with phrase «promising new charter schools»

Other cities are finding ways to get promising new charter schools to locate in the neighborhoods that need them most.

Not exact matches

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, the city teachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were approved.

New York charter school advocates are emboldened by promises from state Senate leadership and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding for charter schools this year.

New York charter school advocates are emboldened by promises from Senate leadership and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding for charter schools across the state.

Besides his ethics promise Cuomo insists he will only increase state education spending by $ 327 million if the Legislature does not accept his sweeping education reforms, which include a new teacher evaluation system and an increase of the charter school cap.

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

Innovative schools in urban areas show that all children can achieve at high levels given the chance, building on the promise of the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said while visiting the Amistad Academy charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2004.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

In particular, EdSurge with the Charter School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.&School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.&School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.&school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.»

Another new promising avenue for popular participation is Parent Trigger, whereby parents can petition to turn a regular public school into a charter school.»

It is performance, not just promises, that is causing leaders like New York City's Joel Klein to make charter schools a vanguard for broader system reform.

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Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter schooling in rural America — and the very real challenges facing it.

The charter school movement has benefited from the spectacular results achieved by the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academies, Success Academy, BASIS Schools, KIPP Schools, Uncommon Schools, and others in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and other prominent cities.

While the immediate impetus for the charter school plan was money, these new schools promised hope to a devastated city school system.

Diverse investments in innovative approaches to scale, such as back office and data management services, leadership training, and technology platforms for promising stand - alone charter schools, might have vastly increased the quality and number of new schools throughout the country.

We read with great interest the article by Caroline Hoxby and Sonali Murarka, which reports promising results from their randomized - control study of New York City charter school students («New York City Charter Schools,» research, Summercharter school students («New York City Charter Schools,» research, SummerCharter Schools,» research, Summer 2008).

Public discussion of charter schools recently escalated with the election of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to limit charter school access to school - district facilities in New York City.

As the charter authorizer, our job is to keep our strong focus on quality — closing low - performing schools, helping promising schools improve, encouraging our best schools to expand, and applying rigorous oversight to approve only the most - promising new applicants.

An emerging crop of programs tailored to preparing charter school principals shows promise when compared with traditional leadership - training programs, but those programs «miss or treat too lightly» certain issues that many leaders of such schools struggle with most, says a new report.

The promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more charter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to attract better teachers.

Test results for Washington's new charter schools show promise.

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Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Nowschool that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Nocharter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Noschools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Nocharter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - 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The Obama administration, as part of a strategy to promote school reform, has promised to double funding for new charter schools with high academic standards, which many believe are key to improving the nation's K - 12 system through competition with traditional public schools.

The Governor Malloy and state lawmakers put together a budget that fulfills most of the promises made in last year's education reform law by increasing per - pupil funding and allocating more money for new charter schools.

For that reason, the Broward Teachers Union earlier this year denounced five new state laws that expanded school choice options for parents, including the promise of more seats in charter and virtual schools.

That created an environment for the Tennessee Charter School Incubator and the Charter School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and NashSchool Incubator and the Charter School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and NashSchool Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nashschool leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nashville.

Among the schools seeking new charter petitions are two from LA's Promise that are recommended for denial: LA's Promise Charter High School and LA's Promise Charter Middle charter petitions are two from LA's Promise that are recommended for denial: LA's Promise Charter High School and LA's Promise Charter Middle Charter High School and LA's Promise Charter Middle Charter Middle School.

The Hechinger Report Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets Ambitious goals were not uncommon in New Orleans charter schools, but rarely achieved.

Though the state has too little data yet to fully judge the impact on student achievement, early academic results are promising, and the newest charter schools are predominantly run by organizations with a record of success.

Charters promised high student achievement and college - and - life - preparedness, but were new, largely untested, and, to some, «a nuisance;» a departure from the status quo that «didn't quite fit the rules of how our relationship with public schools operated,» explains Rebecca.

In an attempt to make good on its promise to work more collaboratively with the local charter sector, the city Department of Education announced the first batch of schools participating in a new «charter district partnership program» on Thursday.

New York Daily News — Today's embarrassing reversal by Chancellor Carmen Fariña reveals the key misstep made by Fariña and Mayor de Blasio as they drew up their promised assault on charter schools.

As Superintendent, Dr. King spearheaded new and innovative efforts to improve Los Angeles» public education system, including the District's first - ever Promising Practices Forum, which brought L.A. Unified charter school and district educators together to share best practices.

While California's public schools transition to a new accountability system, CCSA and its members remain committed to ensuring charter schools deliver on their promise to students and their families.

Several new charter schools approved to open in APS show great promise for success.

CCSA released a new report on Oakland middle and high schools which shows that Oakland charter schools are renewing the promise of a high - quality public education and changing what is possible for students of all demographic backgrounds to achieve in their lives.

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Steve Zimmerman, founder of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing New York City's independent charters and the conference's other co-sponsor, says he started his group in response to what he saw as too much focus on standardized testing — a trend he believes stifles innovation, collaboration, and charters» original promise.

Christie in May said New Jersey's charter schools are doing «God's work» and promised to provide regulatory relief to the state's 88 charter schools, which serve about 3 percent of the state's public school students.

Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter («Smarter Charters,») write about the potential of charters schools that collaborate and share new ideas with non-charters, listing promising eCharters,») write about the potential of charters schools that collaborate and share new ideas with non-charters, listing promising echarters schools that collaborate and share new ideas with non-charters, listing promising echarters, listing promising examples.

When the two of us applied to teach at Central Park School for Children, we each saw in the school's mission the original promise of charter schools in North Carolina: a collaborative community school with the flexibility to meet student and community needs in new and excitingSchool for Children, we each saw in the school's mission the original promise of charter schools in North Carolina: a collaborative community school with the flexibility to meet student and community needs in new and excitingschool's mission the original promise of charter schools in North Carolina: a collaborative community school with the flexibility to meet student and community needs in new and excitingschool with the flexibility to meet student and community needs in new and exciting ways.

This is a precarious moment for the public school choice movement in New Jersey because Gov. Phil Murphy has promised NJEA leaders that he will call for a «pause» in charter school approvals, despite the need and hunger for better options for children relegated to long - struggling schools.

NEW YORK — Charter schools have great potential, but they aren't living up to their promise, former President Bill Clinton said late Tuesday night at a gathering of about 100 international philanthropists and businesspeople.

DPS has received national recognition during this time for several initiatives, including exceptional leadership development programs for teachers, school leaders, and principal supervisors; school choice; collaboration among district - run and charter schools; and promising new schools.

Efforts to foster collaboration between district and charter schools — traditional rivals for scarce educational resources — are showing some promise, but challenges remain in forging effective partnerships, according to a new study released today by Mathematica Policy Research.

Charter schools often promise to bring greater equity to education, but a new brief starts with the assumption that they fall short in delivery — and provides recommendations to fix the alleged injustice.

HCZ Promise Academy students do perform better than students of their backgrounds attending a New York City public school but the charter school at the top of the list is a KIPP school [18] which calls into comparison two different models of education and their abilities to create achievement for historically marginalized groups.

Achievement First, a charter management organization formally established in 2003 to expand the exemplary practices of Amistad Academy, a small, New Haven charter school founded in 1999 (Achievement First Home Page: Our Mission and Vision) has delivered on such promises.