Sentences with phrase «provided by charter schools»

Transportation can be provided by charter schools if the applicants were really serving low - income families or families without transportation.

Seattle parents need the freedom to exit provided by charter schools.

Regardless, Democrats have grown less positive about the quality of education provided by charter schools than they were five years ago, even as Republicans continue to stand by the sector.

Even so, there are reasons to suspect that the amount of additional competition provided by charter schools is relatively modest.

The CSC holds regular meetings to conduct business based on reports provided by the Charter School Division.

Finally, whatever intervention this Board takes, it must do so with actual evidence of the issues, concerns, and needs of Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American educators and students rather than with the clever marketing and weak evidence provided by the charter school industry.

Not exact matches

They are calling on the governor to hold Success Academy, and by extension all charter schools, accountable by supporting a state Assembly proposal to create a code of conduct for charters and to have schools provide annual discipline reports.

Why tell us all how you're afraid Charter Schools will give your union buddies I run for their money by providing superior education?

The de Blasio administration said it would provide free space in public school buildings to a dozen new or expanding charter schools, including 10 run by Eva S. Moskowitz, one of the mayor's fiercest rivals on the issue.

Stipulates that charters in NYC that are approved by their charter entity to start instruction or expand grade levels in the 2014 - 2015 school year or thereafter and request co-location in a public school building to be provided access to such facilities (S.6356 - D / A.8556 - D, Part BB)

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Upper West Success Academy, part of the Success Charter Network group of schools founded by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, says it will provide high - quality public education options in an overcrowded district.

We also offered the schools outside evaluations by a Massachusetts - based team of charter experts that provided school leaders and Fordham with thorough analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of individual schools and assisted in developing plans for bettering their performance.

I suspect that the kindergarten gap is driven primarily by the fact that school districts often provide speech and language services to students in need of them prior to entry into kindergarten, and the parents of such students are reluctant to switch to a charter school, thereby interrupting the continuation of these services.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

When the District of Columbia School Reform Act was passed by Congress in 1996, it included language providing that charter schools should have access to surplus public - school builSchool Reform Act was passed by Congress in 1996, it included language providing that charter schools should have access to surplus public - school builschool buildings.

«The tests will empower parents by providing them with information critical to the success of reforms such as charter schools and school choice,» William J. Bennett and Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote in an opinion piece published in TheWashington Post on Sept. 15.

Already, some cities are finding political advantage in creating «hybrid» or «partnership» schools that have the full autonomy of a charter school but operate on contract with districts within district - provided buildings, generally created by state legislation.

Though Proposition 39 compels districts to provide facilities for students within their boundaries who attend charter schools, districts can make the policy inconvenient for charter operators by offering short - term leases and multiple, separate spaces for a single school.

The state provides families with school choice through a statewide system of open enrollment and a charter school law rated as moderately strong by the Center for Education Reform.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

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Nor are the negative effects of attending a charter school substantially offset by positive effects of charter schools on traditional public schools, a finding that may reflect the fact that North Carolina charter schools provide only a limited amount of competition.

This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made by these charter school students are indeed due to the quality of the schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter school students and students in traditional public schools.

By capping the number of charter schools statewide, limiting the annual growth in the number of schools per district, and providing for input from the local district before approval of charter applications, North Carolina has exercised more control over the establishment of charter schools than some states.

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Founders of a public academy will tread the same terrain — without an existing network of support such as that provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program, the NewSchools Venture Fund, or the Charter School Growth Fund.

In her school, which is a charter school run by teachers, scheduling and staffing are arranged to provide abundant time for teacher collaboration and teacher leadership.

Many hope that by replicating high - performing schools CMOs will provide more consistent results than stand - alone charter schools have achieved, but there is no rigorous evidence yet to support that claim nationally.

By providing access to private and parochial schools as well as charter and other public schools, vouchers begin to level the playing field for families from lower income backgrounds.

By 2010, NSNO had incubated 10 citywide, open - admission charter schools, the basic integer of local reform, and provided key personnel and services for dozens more.

Much the same might already be happening to charter schools, especially those run by CMOs that can, like districts, decide what services to provide and skim off the money before it ever gets to schools.

Over the past decade, a growing number of urban school districts have responded to the presence of charter schools by providing some of their own schools the same flexibilities that charters enjoy.

This summary provides highlights from the first - year report of the National Study of Charter Schools, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education as authorized by the 1994 Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

But these children will also need great schools led by amazing educators, and urban charter schools are among the most cost - effective way to provide these children the schools that they deserve.

The film burnished the claim by charter advocates that they were involved in «the civil rights issue of our time,» because they were leading the battle to provide more choice to poor and disadvantaged children trapped in low - performing public schools.

Charter advocates wanted to advance a social justice message by emphasizing the impressive results being achieved by the independently run, but publicly funded, schools, which they say are providing a lifeline for thousands of poor and minority students otherwise stuck in low - performing district schools.

Among other things, many charter schools fit more instructional hours into a year by running longer school days and providing instruction on weekends and during the summer (Wilson 2008; Hoxby, Murarka, and Kang 2009; Matthews 2009).

At the same time, charter schools are controversial because after a transition period in which the state provides subsidies, they are typically funded by students» home (or «sending») districts.

This report, by Lauren Morando Rhim and Julie Kowal, describes how educating students with disabilities in virtual charter schools entails not only molding state charter school laws to fit a specialized type of charter school, but also adapting federal and state special education guidelines aimed at providing special education in traditional brick and mortar settings.

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[10] In general, these LEA amounts may be reduced by state educational agencies to account for funds reserved for state administration, program improvement, and academic achievement awards; to adjust for recent shifts in LEA boundaries; and to provide grants to charter schools treated as separate LEAs under state law (such charter schools are not considered in the calculation of grants by USED).