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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Also at 1:30 p.m., Success Academy Charter Schools CEO Eva Moskowitz and Bronx Charter School for the Arts Principal Richard González rally to demand that de Blasio provide public space for them to open six public charter middle schools next year, City Hall steps, ManCharter Schools CEO Eva Moskowitz and Bronx Charter School for the Arts Principal Richard González rally to demand that de Blasio provide public space for them to open six public charter middle schools next year, City Hall steps, ManCharter School for the Arts Principal Richard González rally to demand that de Blasio provide public space for them to open six public charter middle schools next year, City Hall steps, Mancharter middle schools next year, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

HGSE will partner with Cambridge Public Schools, Boston Renaissance Charter School, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teachers.

«The Shape of the U» showed that in the 2007 - 08 school year, controlling for demographics of students served, approximately 21 % of California charter schools were performing in the bottom tenth of all public schools in the state, with another 21 % in the top tenth, and strikingly few «in the middle.»

Tennenbaum, which was recently renamed to honor a big donation by the founder of a Los Angeles hedge fund, is part of Alliance College Ready Public Schools, a charter management organization with 14 high schools and 6 middle schools throughout Los Angeles.

Prior to founding, www.discoverydayacademy.com, I taught elementary and middle school in both public and charter school settings.

The school is not a charter school; it is just a normal, public middle school for students in fifth and sixth grades who live in South Lawrence.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

In the traditional public school sector in both Florida and Chicago, high schools are almost always separate from middle schools, which is not the case for charter schools.

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

San Antonio parent Kerri Smith sent a two - page letter to every Texas official overseeing charters, explaining, «Had my children not been given the opportunity to attend a BASIS school, I truly fear that they would have continued to go through traditional public school in the middle of the pack, not reaching their full potential and not being fully prepared to go off to college one day.»

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

The school is not a charter school; it is just a normal, public middle school for students in fifth and sixth...

A public middle school and high school in Whitfield County, Georgia show how to recreate the learning strategies of a renowned charter school in a traditional setting.

Of the many arguments for charter schools, one is crucial: that charters should be deliberately, thoughtfully, boldly different from existing mainline public middle and high schools.

14, taught English and served as department chair at a charter school, then became an assistant principal at a public middle school, both in Washington, D.C..

Over the next few years, Histrionix will help design and build NCI's Ripley House public charter middle school into a game - based learning academy.

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We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

For middle - and high - school levels, the research team found that achievement gains in charter schools and traditional public schools were about the same, with two exceptions.

Success Academy Charter Schools is the largest public charter school network in New York City, with 41 elementary, middle and high schools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and theCharter Schools is the largest public charter school network in New York City, with 41 elementary, middle and high schools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and thecharter school network in New York City, with 41 elementary, middle and high schools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

KIPP is a non-profit network of 209 college - preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.

All public elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high schools, and high schools, other than charter schools, in existence on September 1, 2002 shall be deemed registered by the Board of Regents pursuant to this subdivision as of such date.

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Charter middle and high schools produce test - score achievement gains that are, on average, similar to those of traditional public schools.

KIPP, the Knowledge is Power Program, is a non-profit network of 209 college - preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.

For the 2002 - 2003 through the 2005 - 2006 school year test administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade level.

To qualify as a fair match - up, the charter and district schools had to be the nearest neighboring public schools of the same type (elementary or middle) and be located less than three miles apart as the crow flies.

Charter Schools USA will take over three schools from the Indianapolis Public Schools next year — Manual, Thomas Carr Howe High School, and Emma Donnan Middle School.

We will compete against neighboring charter and public middle schools in the following boys» and girls» sports: Soccer, Basketball, Flag Football, Track and Field, as well as Girls Cheerleading.

Broad analyses of charter performance have tended to show that they slightly outperform traditional public schools, especially at the middle and high school level, although critics say that could be because their students tend to come from more academically motivated families.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

Thanks to the work of a coalition of hard - working, flexible partners, two Green Dot public charter schools in Los Angeles, Ralph Bunche High School and Jefferson Middle School, now own previously - leased facilities that will serve in excess of 1,000 students.

She previously taught English at the middle and high school level in independent, traditional public, and charter school settings.

Of more than 3,000 public schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate ofpublic schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate ofPublic Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate of 98 %.

Jacob's most recent work was serving as a middle and high school building administrator with Green Dot Public Schools, a non-profit public charter management organization out of CalifPublic Schools, a non-profit public charter management organization out of Califpublic charter management organization out of California.

KIPP Austin is a public charter school network of 10 award - winning elementary, middle, and high schools.

Charter School Demand and Effectiveness: Understanding Boston A new report by researchers from the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on thCharter School Demand and Effectiveness: Understanding Boston A new report by researchers from the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on thcharter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on the MCAS.

South Carolina Calvert Academy, a virtual public elementary and middle school was founded in 2008 by charter planning committee chair, Randy Wilgis.

Tennenbaum, which was recently renamed to honor a big donation by the founder of a Los Angeles hedge fund, is part of Alliance College Ready Public Schools, a charter management organization with 14 high schools and six middle schools throughout Los Angeles.

SDUSD had their first charter board meeting of this school year with three charter issues; a Special Education MOU, a material revision for a grade expansion for O'Farrell Community School and a public hearing for San Diego Global Visions (SDGVA) to add a middle school.

Charter schools — public schools that have been exempted from selected state and local regulations — are changing the competitive landscape of American elementary, middle and high schools...

The Board will vote on a Measure G1 spending plan that includes funds for three additional middle schools: Lodestar: Lighthouse Community Charter Public School, Amethods Oakland Charter Academy, and Alliance Academy.

It operated by Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, an independent non-profit charter management organization that has grown to 18 high performance small public high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 andPublic Schools, an independent non-profit charter management organization that has grown to 18 high performance small public high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 andpublic high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2010.

The inability to meet the mandates extends to public and charter schools in every quadrant of the city, and the shortfalls were particularly acute in middle schools.

The Banneker Blake Academy for Arts and Sciences, an all boys public charter middle school within the Baltimore City Public School System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM curripublic charter middle school within the Baltimore City Public School System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM curriPublic School System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM curriculum.

Her work, along with other alumni that attended KIPP's program has impressed officials at the nonprofit network of college - preparatory, public charter schools that educates elementary, middle and high school students.

Bob Lesser is the founder and Executive Director of Mott Hall Charter School, an innovative public middle school serving low - income families in the South Bronx.