Sentences with phrase «quality charter operators»

... There is still reason for concern that low - quality charter operators could gain control of schools by starting secret petition drives.

Most high quality charter operators are happy to see poorly performing charters challenged or even shut down.

Critics have also raised awareness about the importance of committed high - quality charter operators.

As a third factor, the report says the effort can only succeed through an strategy of finding quality charter operators, pointing out that the state charter association has taken steps in recent years to reduce the number of «under - performing» charters and «growth for growth's sake» is not the aim.

It is a well - designed study and a sobering reminder that some localities have done far better than others in recruiting, funding, and monitoring high - quality charter operators.

If the school board fully moves away from managing schools, it would even allow for greater school choice to be fostered; the school board would take on the role of charter school authorizers, bringing in high - quality charter operators into the county and offering greater choice.

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operators.

The School Board should help encourage new, high quality charter operators to come into New Orleans to open new schools or take over charters that are foundering.

And by pairing these schools with high - quality charter operators, they inject the capacity — better staff, better curriculum, new resources — that had been missing.

Not exact matches

But I would've preferred the report to point out that school quality matters far more than school operator, and while the CSO - model is a promising approach to the district sector, it should be viewed in the context of a city's entire portfolio of schools — CSO, charter, and private.

Given the need for more high - quality schools, we should be open to finding ways for any high - quality public - school operator to be successful, whether they are stand - alone charter schools, EMOs, franchises, networks, or CMOs.

More specifically, I concur that some charter applications seem to equate length with rigor, ask for information with limited bearing on school quality, and pose major obstacles to first - time operators.

With tens of thousands of students on charter waiting lists and multiple high - quality operators poised to expand, opponents and proponents of Question 2 agree that the stakes are high.

[Some will mention Michigan's charter schools and the successes the high - quality operators have had in improving student achievement.

What's more, officials needed adequate charter funding to woo high - quality operators to the Motor City.

These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.

Our report Going Exponential offers advice for authorizers, school operators, and policymakers about growing successful charter schools, based on research about how organizations have grown quickly and with quality in other sectors.

As operators of high quality public charter schools offering independent study, we stand united in offering high quality programs that exist to offer innovative and tested methods of instruction and self - paced learning.

As operators of high quality public charter schools offering independent study, we stand united in following the state law in the operation of resources centers and school sites.

«We hope to attract some of the top - quality [charter] operators in the country,» he said, and «emphasize high - quality charter schooling.»

As operators of high quality public charter schools offering independent study, we stand united in stating clearly that we are here for one purpose: educating students.

As operators of high quality public charter schools offering independent study, we stand united believing that the actions of a few rogue charter school operators do not reflect, align, or mirror anything about our programs.

I'm told that the creation of quality schools with quality seats from quality Charter Management Operators (CMOs) was the ultimate goal.

This District Charter Collaborative Compact (DCCC) provides an opportunity to recruit and select operators equipped to meet the district's identified gaps in service and to more strategically deliver high - quality school options.

The recommendations support four strategies to promote quality in the sector: differentiating charter operators based on performance, building system capacity to cultivate and support high - performing schools and networks, facilitating replication of high performers and accelerating closure of low performers.

In one move, the bill's eight sentences of text would give the state government the ability to second guess every decision that a charter school operator may make about apportioning its resources to provide a quality education.

The goal is to attract high - quality education reform organizations here and to invite charter school operators with strong track records to open schools here.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

This bill is called the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools bill, but we believe that it only serves to empower charter school operators and not parents or stCharter Schools bill, but we believe that it only serves to empower charter school operators and not parents or stcharter school operators and not parents or students.

Since the Mississippi Charter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for theiCharter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for theicharter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for theiCharter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for their kids.

As the state's primary charter school support organization, the Tennessee Charter School Center (TCSC) is leading the movement for effective policy, excellent schools, quality operators & informed commucharter school support organization, the Tennessee Charter School Center (TCSC) is leading the movement for effective policy, excellent schools, quality operators & informed commuCharter School Center (TCSC) is leading the movement for effective policy, excellent schools, quality operators & informed communities.

Committee lawmakers also signed off on a major charter reform bill, House Bill 779, that, among its provisions, gives charter operators the power to expand enrollment by up to 30 percent without requiring the approval of the state's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter sector.

So instead of creating quality schools in every neighborhood, what CPS has done is created this two - tier system and actually is closing down, as you said, neighborhood schools under Renaissance 2010 and replacing them with charter schools and a privatized education system, firing or laying off, I should say, certified teachers, dismantling locally elected school councils, and creating a market of public education in Chicago, turning schools over to private turnaround operators.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Funding aside, critics also say that removing the cap on charter school operators still doesn't hone in on accountability for quality schools.

Several education reform groups are asking the House to add quality control measures to the charter bill that would affect all operators, both for - profit and nonprofit.

The bill lacks quality controls — one of the sticking points for its critics — and it eases regulations on charter school operators looking to open schools in the state.

Critics say it includes too few quality controls and opens the state up to more underperforming charter school operators, some of which are just out to make a quick buck.

Proponents contend that caps help limit the growth of the sector, and thus control the overall quality of charter schools (by encouraging authorizers to be more discerning in approving applications and more rigorous in closing low - performing schools).79 On the other hand, opponents argue that charter school caps stifle the growth of high - quality schools and may deter high - performing operators from even applying to operate in the state.

The IFF study for D.C., «Quality Schools: Every Child, Every School, Every Neighborhood» was released in January 2012 and recommended closing several additional D.C. public schools and transferring other public schools (and school buildings) to private charter operators.

The incubator began in 2009 to recruit potential charter school operators and help them prepare to open high - quality schools in Nashville and Memphis.

Given that charters are competition with their schools, suburban districts have little incentive to either approve charters, authorize high - quality operators, or, as in the case of the fracas two years ago between the Fulton County district in Georgia and the Fulton Science Academy (now a private school), keep them around if they show up the competition.

She serves on the board of Charter Board Partners, a national nonprofit that designs and drives high - quality governance for charter school operators around the cCharter Board Partners, a national nonprofit that designs and drives high - quality governance for charter school operators around the ccharter school operators around the country.

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

The kind of public schools that can sometimes be provided by high - quality charter school operators.

We are also members of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO number 5056) and adhere to its Quality Charter.