Sentences with phrase «quality charter early»

(2014) This study recommends that states should replicate AppleTree Institute's high - quality charter early ed program.

Not exact matches

Early evidence suggested that quality control was indeed a concern: The achievement gains made by charter students in Arizona, in particular, often lagged that of their district peers through 2012.

And AppleTree Early Learning, a pre-k-only charter school, works with preschool providers in the area to implement its evidence - based instructional model, increasing the supply of high - quality seats in the District.

We also found that early childhood quality standards can get in the way of charter school autonomy.

It was thought early on that public charter schools would serve as «laboratories of education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high - quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.

Their success stories offer lessons for both policymakers interested in expanding access to quality early learning, and for charter - school educators seeking to serve preschoolers.

As states continue to expand their pre-K programs, the charter model can offer another attractive option for parents in an emerging publicly funded early - childhood system, not only expanding choice and access but in many cases improving quality.

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His portfolio of work included state standards and assessments, school accountability, school turnaround, educator quality, college & career readiness, early childhood / early literacy, and charter schools.

• 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 - olds.

Based on these early results, other states should look to Texas's example as they seek to move the needle on quality in their own charter schools.

These videos offer images of high quality early learning in a first - grade classroom at Bronx Community Charter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwestCharter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwestcharter school serving the diverse community of the northwest Bronx.

Committee members were clearly uneasy about how these schools could ensure children, particularly in the early grades, receive a quality education without any in - person interactions with teachers, peers, counselors, and other support personnel that occur in traditional public, charter, and private schools.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

In a report drawn from a convening of school district superintendents, charter leaders, school finance experts, and other education experts in Houston earlier this year, CRPE recommends that urban districts and charter schools collaborate to solve the problems associated with declining enrollment so that all students can have access to a high - quality education.

«For the first time, every child in New York City has access to free, full - day, high quality pre-K programs across district, charter, parochial and early education centers,» Devora Kaye, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, said in a statement on Wednesday.

2009: The Foundation for the National Capital Region and the City Bridge Foundation selected AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School as an example of a high quality preschool for 25 foundation leaders from around the country to tour.

In earlier testimony to the Education Committee, Dr. Bill Jones, Principal of Manatee School for the Arts in Bradenton, Fla., said, «The main reason why we're asking for alternative and additional authorizers really goes to the question of quality of education, both for the students and the quality of the charter school system, itself.

Introduced by Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Duncan Hunter (R - CA), the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 2218) passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in a vote of 365 to 54.

In the early years of chartering, many state legislatures placed caps on growth as a way to maintain control over the quality of the schools.

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives approved the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (HR 10) with strong bipartisan support in a vote of 360 to 45 during National Charter Schools Week.

Two charter middle schools closed earlier this year in Albany, and we can debate whether or not that was the right call — but the fact remains that as another school year starts, there are fewer quality schools for families than there were last year, and it's their kids who are paying the price.

Indeed, a few weeks ago, the Commission des relations du travail, Quebec's labour tribunal, awarded a worker $ 3,000 in moral and punitive damages following an earlier 2010 decision concluding that the Charter had been violated (see Pouliot c. Quality Inn & Suites Lévis, 2010 QCCRT 592 (CanLII) and Pouliot c Quality Inn & Suites Lévis, 2011 QCCRT 214 (CanLII)-- the decisions are in French).

These videos offer images of high quality early learning in a first - grade classroom at Bronx Community Charter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwestCharter School, a public, independent New York City charter school serving the diverse community of the northwestcharter school serving the diverse community of the northwest Bronx.

These offices are involved in the very early stages of a charter school, and they often refer new charter schools to us so we can supply a quality facility to them.