Sentences with phrase «public charter school»

One of the most successful schools in our network is Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, DC, an urban K — 8 school with a waiting list of over 2,000 families.

The Public Charter School Board projected 2009 enrollment of 28,066.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presides over this dual system, where the traditional D.C. Public Schools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter School Board.

Getting a public charter school started taught them a lot about what it means to be civically engaged, and they brought that idea into the school mission.

The city's Public Charter School Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrollment.

That's why you should read the new case study of the D.C. Public Charter School Board (PCSB).

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

10, who opened the Alma del Mar Charter School — a K — 8 expeditionary learning public charter school — in New Bedford, Mass., in August 2011, Merseth's course made all the difference when he applied for a charter.

Author Bio: John H. «Skip» McKoy is the chairman of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board.

And charter schools in D.C. have taken advantage of this friendly policy environment to innovate: Briya Public Charter School, for example, offers a two - generation approach that combines pre-k with adult education for parents.

Once the District's authorizer, the D.C. Public Charter School Board, approves a charter school to offer pre-k, the school receives per - pupil funding through the school funding formula for each 3 - and 4 - year - old it enrolls.

Trevor Baisden is a founding fifth grade ELA and history teacher at a public charter school.

Over the past year, I co-chaired a teacher and parent effort to open the first public charter school in Montgomery County, Md..

Perhaps the most poignant display of what giving up faith for money will mean for schools was highlighted in a 2008 New York Times article documenting the conversion of Holy Name, a D.C. Catholic school, into Center City Public Charter School.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

Charters ranging from the Denver School of Science and Technology network to the E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., intentionally draw a mix of families, by race and income.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

He will open Unity Prep — a grade 6 — 12, tuition - free, public charter school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Meanwhile, Beauregard plans to continue work on his dissertation examining the causal impact of attending a well - established charter school network in San Diego, Calif., on secondary and postsecondary outcomes.

After NACA started showing initial results with students and our community partners, the discussion over how to expand the reach of our best practices began,» Bobroff says of the tuition - free public charter school that uniquely blends Native American traditions with college preparatory education.

In New Orleans, the state board of education and its Recovery School District (RSD) oversee most of the schools; Congress created the appointed D.C. Public Charter School Board; and in Camden the state is in charge.

Indeed, D.C.'s charter school sector, overseen by the independent D.C. Public Charter School Board, comes across as the purest form of this new system.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

At the public charter school behind St. Columbkille's Church on Market Street in Brighton, we've been hanging out with the most advanced of several orchestras at the Conservatory Lab Charter School.

Yet, there are still millions of children with limited access to a high quality public charter school.

Liberty High School, a Houston public charter school serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending school.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

James Forman Jr. is the cofounder of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School and a professor at Georgetown Law School.

The Washington Post Sunday Magazine takes readers inside DC's Imagine Southeast Public Charter School, which offers separate classrooms for boys and girls.

The school is operated by the Leona Group, a public charter school company.

Last year I became the first president of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School Alumni Association.

These students attend eStem Public Charter School in Little Rock, where summer break is less than 8 weeks long.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

The original executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board, former president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, current senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and much more, Smith understands chartering and school governance inside and out.

This behavior contrasts sharply with the approach of the alternative, nondistrict chartering authority in D.C., the D.C. Public Charter School Board, which has chartered nearly 20 schools, none of which has been closed.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

These four characteristics distinguish us from our traditional public school and public charter school peers.

As a educator and leader at The Preuss School UCSD — a public charter school serving low - income students in San...

I was a sophomore in high school when my dad told me about an up - and - coming public charter school called Design Tech High in Burlingame, California, about 30 miles north of my hometown in Silicon Valley.

Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School By James Nehring Teachers College Press, 2002

Jenna Bush, one of the twin daughters of President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, is rumored to be in the running for a job at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, according to a report last month in The Washington Post.

But while we're seeing truly great progress in supporting the quality growth of the public charter school sector, there's still a lot of work to be done here in Newark.

He has also served on numerous education boards and commissions, including the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission and the board of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington, D.C.

For example, the D.C. Public Charter School Cooperative, with 21 members, aims to provide information to members about the complexities of special education, hire and make available specialized staff that no school would want to employ alone, and develop a Medicaid billing system to increase reimbursements for special - education services.

Starting at 3 years old, students learn the critique protocol at Two Rivers Public Charter School, a pre-K to eighth - grade Expeditionary Learning (EL) Education school in Washington, DC.

When Mayra Valle entered YES Prep North Central in the public charter school's first sixth - grade class six years ago, it was a shock to her system.

Just a few miles away, their 330 peers at Houston's KIPP Academy, a public charter school, benefit from an even newer facility, built in 2001.

One of our core beliefs at Two Rivers Public Charter School is that everyone deserves access to the reasoning behind decisions.

The public charter school board reviews and certifies graduates in the city's charter sector; DCPS should do the same.

Two Rivers Public Charter School uses the critique protocol rules — be kind, be specific, and be helpful — developed by Ron Berger, the Chief Academic Officer of EL Education.