Sentences with phrase «quality charter school sector»

The city of Denver, where 39 charter schools served nearly 14 percent of the city's public school students in 2012 — 13, offers an excellent example of how successful district - charter collaboration can support the growth of a quality charter school sector.

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But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.
In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.
Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.
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.
What they want to know is how to make their state's charter sector work as well as possible — how to write a law in such a way that many high - quality schools will result.
As the charter school sector expands, it is necessary but not sufficient to study political and policy conditions, or the growth in the number of high quality charter school seats.
On most matters, charters and district schools are equally varied, but we do see greater variation within the charter sector in parents» satisfaction with school location and teacher quality.
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.
Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.
In 2012, the legislature seemingly weakened its oversight of the charter sector by eliminating a requirement that the state education agency report on charter school quality each year.
Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.
It seems clear, then, that if the charter sector hopes to contribute to transformational numbers in high - quality public schools, the current CMO approach alone can't get it there.
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.»
I am the executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board, and the story of our sector in the nation's capital is mostly one of continued success, growth, popularity, and quality improvement.
As a final matter, Smarick notes that there is a glaring lack of collaboration among high - quality schools from the charter and private school sectors (though there are some exceptions, including initiatives undertaken by Schools That Can and the Philadelphia Schools Partneschools from the charter and private school sectors (though there are some exceptions, including initiatives undertaken by Schools That Can and the Philadelphia Schools PartneSchools That Can and the Philadelphia Schools PartneSchools Partnership).
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.
Through the Fellowship Program, graduate students who are committed to improving educational outcomes for students have the opportunity to directly impact the quality of the charter school sector.
How could cities see their charter school sectors take off in quality, matching or besting the performance of their district schools, and the state?
Our results suggest that the charter sector was initially characterized by schools whose quality was highly variable and, on average, less effective than traditional public schools.
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.
So it's important for us to have a strong offensive line when it comes to talking about charter schools and defining exactly what a high quality charter school looks like [and] what we want the sector to look like over the next twenty years.
We work with leaders at all types of schools in every sector — MPS, independent charter, and private Choice — at every point along the path to high - quality.
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.
«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.
And yet he has said that he supports a moratorium — a repeal, if you will — on the approval and expansion of public charter schools, a sector that affords families zoned for long - struggling traditional schools the opportunity to have access to high - quality public education.
The district needed a way to quickly improve quality at district schools and reduce costs to better compete with the growing charter sector, she said.
These figures are consistent with the trend that has continued for over a decade: families are demanding quality schools and Arizona's charter sector is responding.
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Education Cities» mission, carried forward locally by Minnesota Comeback, is to spread school choice and facilitate the growth of charter schools, under the guise of a «sector neutral» preference for «High Quality Seats.»
As to the results, Arizona's charter sector leads the state in the percentage of quality A and B rated schools, with 55 percent of charters receiving these top grades.
«The development of statewide chartering commissions or boards where this is all they do is likely the best structure to ensure quality within the charter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authocharter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authorschool sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School AuthoCharter School AuthorSchool Authorizers.
NACSA is to be commended for leading the effort to demand quality in the charter sector and pushing states and authorizers to adopt robust principles and standards and to close failing schools.
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.
She adds that the charter sector «is working as it was intended: creating pressure on administrators to improve the quality of their schools
Research on charter school quality finds significant variations in performance across the sector.
«We know that closing low - performing charter public schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector
We know that closing low - performing charter schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.
Despite successful growth in numbers and quality, the charter sector faces future challenges public charter schools will not meet these challenges by doing more of the same.
My sense is that the efforts to identify high - performing schools, high - quality schools regardless of what sector they're in — public, charter or private — identifying the characteristics of high - performing schools regardless of sector, and trying to replicate them.
At this meeting we will continue our focus on charter advocacy and what TCSA is doing as an organization, including the addition of our 501c4 Charter Schools Now under the TCSA umbrella, along with the latest information on our CEO search, the most recent news from the charter sector and TEA, and an instructional and quality service charter advocacy and what TCSA is doing as an organization, including the addition of our 501c4 Charter Schools Now under the TCSA umbrella, along with the latest information on our CEO search, the most recent news from the charter sector and TEA, and an instructional and quality service Charter Schools Now under the TCSA umbrella, along with the latest information on our CEO search, the most recent news from the charter sector and TEA, and an instructional and quality service charter sector and TEA, and an instructional and quality service update.
Authorizers can accelerate improvement in the overall quality of the charter sector by «restarting» low - performing charter schools: that is, transitioning the charter — and responsibility for governance and school management — to a high - performing charter school or network, while maintaining the existing population of students.
Karega Rausch, the interim CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, told The Intercept that their group does not have a hard - and - fast rule, or even guiding data, on the number of authorizers a jurisdiction should have — but they have observed that the overall quality of a charter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authoCharter School Authorizers, told The Intercept that their group does not have a hard - and - fast rule, or even guiding data, on the number of authorizers a jurisdiction should have — but they have observed that the overall quality of a charter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authocharter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authorizers.
The city of Nashville has experienced a boom in population growth in recent years, and a growing sector of high quality public charter schools has followed suit.
Right now, the District has the best of both worlds: a vibrant charter sector that offers a wide range of learning models from some of the best school leaders and a strong, improving and growing DCPS that has responded to charter competition by revitalizing its commitment to quality.
Tuesday night's scene encapsulates so much about a fast - evolving relationship between the L.A. Unified staff, which reviews the quality of bids to open new charter schools; the district's school board, which has the final say; and a charter school sector with its sights set on a massive expansion.
OCI seeks to change the education policy conversation from one where labor, public, charter, and independent school sector leaders argue about which type of school is best able to serve children, to one where parents choose the best quality educational options for their child — no matter what form it comes in.
The charter school model holds great promise for developing education innovations and improving the quality of public education overall, but the current direction of the charter school sector toward a few narrow approaches cuts short this potential.
In this era of a new administration in Washington that has espoused many viewpoints fundamentally at odds with the values held by the vast majority of Californians, we look forward to working with you to ensure that California's public school system, including its vibrant charter school sector, continues to ensure that absolutely all students regardless of immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, faith, or disability may access high quality public school options.
The first choice of most parents is to send their child to a high - quality neighborhood school, but the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them while at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.
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