Sentences with phrase «providing quality charter»

The research indicates that, in spite of the controversy they generated in New York at the time, replacing large failing high schools, developing smaller schools in their place, and providing quality charter school options for families, have proved to be greatly beneficial strategies for hundreds of thousands of New York students, with implications for the nation.

Not exact matches

Taking Success's argument «to its logical conclusion,» Ms. Elia wrote, «would mean that D.O.E. would be required to provide charter schools» prekindergarten programs with public funding without any mechanism to ensure» that they were meeting quality requirements, and that «public funds are being spent in accordance with the requirements.»

«To the extent that quality seats are not available for students, and you have the opportunity to have a charter school come in and provide quality seats, I think it's incumbent upon us to embrace that.

«Parents want to let legislators know they support the governor's proposal to allow charters to provide high - quality pre-K seats,» he added, referring to Cuomo's recent proposal that much - needed city pre-K space could be found in charter 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.

Their dream, to provide quality medical care for Jewish immigrants in surroundings where their language and customs were understood, was achieved in 1926 when The Miriam received a charter from the Rhode Island state legislature.

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).

The United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), the community group that I lead in Chicago, and its network of charter schools provide Hispanic immigrant families with access to a high - quality education, thereby challenging them to fulfill their great potential while promoting American values, ideals, and our collective successes.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Stand - alone charter schools need access to the same high - quality, pooled expertise that the best school systems and EMOs provide to their schools.

The first step to gaining back and building support for charter schools is to combine our first principle — holding them accountable for providing a quality education — with our second principle — ensuring that they are accessible to all families.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

Charters are important for stimulating improvement in all public schools — and providing even more quality choices — as research has clearly shown that they do.

«Why would the NAACP agree to sue the very charter schools that were providing so many black kids with a high quality education?»

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.

They're trying to create communities of charters that truly provide innovative, high - quality educational options for students with disabilities.

The Charter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority stCharter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority stcharter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority students.

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

The first step to gaining back and building support for charter schools is to hold them accountable for providing a quality education.

Finally, the authors provide some intriguing suggestive evidence that the improvement in charter school quality is associated with the growing prevalence of charter schools that adhere to a «No Excuses» approach that focuses on strict discipline, high expectations, and increased learning time.

But this result provides suggestive evidence that charter school entry induces parents to obtain school - quality information and that the effect of choice on demand for information may not be limited to NCLB.

We believe that high quality public charter schools should provide options for parents, but should not replace or destabilize traditional public schools.

«The proposed increase in the budget through giving thousands of charter schools the funding needed to open new charter schools, and expand and replicate their successful models will go a long way toward providing those students and their families with a much - needed, high - quality public school education.

The greater flexibility afforded to charter schools offers opportunity to develop innovative approaches to providing ELs, one of the fastest growing demographic groups among students in the United States, with a quality education.

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.

2) How many charter authorizers actually do a good job of judging school quality — how representative is the highly idealized, romantic fantasy Mike has provided here of the way charter authorizers typically work back here on Earth Prime?

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

The present report incorporates seven of those 13 dimensions that are outward facing for students and families and most likely, conceptually, to play a role in their exercise of school choice: Alternatives to traditional schools, e.g., number of seats in charter schools; Assignment Process, i.e., the extent of school choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the district.

Imagine Schools Mission Statement As a national family of public charter school campuses, Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

The Texas Charter Schools Association, a non-governmental entity that provides support to the state's charter schools, has spent a lot of time helping schools identify their quality gaps so they can focus on areas that require the most urgent attCharter Schools Association, a non-governmental entity that provides support to the state's charter schools, has spent a lot of time helping schools identify their quality gaps so they can focus on areas that require the most urgent attcharter schools, has spent a lot of time helping schools identify their quality gaps so they can focus on areas that require the most urgent attention.

Corey provides resources, trainings, and onsite expertise to support NYC charter schools in developing and maintaining high quality special education programs.

As an association, TCSA staff members are working diligently to provide you leadership and value in the areas of charter school advocacy and quality member services for our great charter schools across the state of Texas.

Across the state most charter schools are living up to the promise to provide a high - quality public education to students.

Quality authorizing can serve as a quality control check for the charter schools sector and provide lawmakers with the confidence that someone is watching the store and ensuring exceQuality authorizing can serve as a quality control check for the charter schools sector and provide lawmakers with the confidence that someone is watching the store and ensuring excequality control check for the charter schools sector and provide lawmakers with the confidence that someone is watching the store and ensuring excellence.

«California's charter school movement demonstrates a commitment to providing scholars and their families high - quality educational options, flexible and innovative academic approaches and meaningful results,» said J.J. Lewis, CCS President & CEO.

The mission of Colorado Charter Facility Solutions (CCFS) is to provide and facilitate affordable facility solutions that increase the number of high quality public charter school seats for underserved Colorado stCharter Facility Solutions (CCFS) is to provide and facilitate affordable facility solutions that increase the number of high quality public charter school seats for underserved Colorado stcharter school seats for underserved Colorado students.

Harmony Science Academy - Austin is a PreK - 8th public charter school providing a high - quality education option for students in the surrounding areas.

A non - profit charter school authorizer in Minnesota called Innovative Quality Schools (see https://iqsmn.org) provides a good example of how this kind of school district could operate.

The authorizing mission of ACNW is to ensure quality academic and environmental literacy outcomes for students in Minnesota by conducting effective oversight and evaluation of its authorized schools, providing strategic support to schools, and making informed and merit - based decisions about its portfolio of charter schools.

While reminding the audience that public charter schools prove that «quality and choice can coexist,» she added that they «are not the one cure - all to the ills that beset education» and provided an example of three successful Miami - area schools she recently visited — a public charter, a private school, and a traditional public school, noting that the common factor with all three schools was the satisfaction of the parents that their chosen school was providing their child a quality education.

This is due in large part to Association programs such as the High Quality Charter (HQC) Grant Program, introduced in 2006, which has provided $ 8 million in planning and start - up grants to support the development of new charter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout CaliCharter (HQC) Grant Program, introduced in 2006, which has provided $ 8 million in planning and start - up grants to support the development of new charter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout Calicharter schools in high - need urban school districts throughout California.

«Amid a strong and growing charter school sector, the Newark school district has undergone significant changes to reverse course on a decades - long struggle to provide consistent quality education to its children,» Startup: Education Executive Director Jen Holleran writes in the foreword.

Charter schools are here to stay, to be against them in a blanket way misses opportunities to help students, provide quality school choices, and to assure that those existing schools are delivering quality and increasing equity.

Our AppleTee @ model means that we provide a high - quality preschool and pre-K at Rocketship, a pre-K to 2nd grade public charter school.

As a national family of public charter school campuses, Imagine partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.

«My foray into the charter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive dicharter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive diCharter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive diCharter School in 2006, where he is currently executive director.

Yet blaming charter schools for financial woes in the school district is unfair, and it drives a poisonous wedge between administrators, educators and the broader community, who should be working together to provide kids with access to high - quality education.

States and districts can improve the odds that charter schools will provide high - quality options to all students by: