Sentences with phrase «quality charter schools hold»

«We have accountability in our schools, and high - quality charter schools hold themselves to these standards,» Villaraigosa said in a statement.

Not exact matches

The first step to gaining back and building support for charter schools is to combine our first principle — holding them accountable for providing a quality education — with our second principle — ensuring that they are accessible to all families.

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.

The first step to gaining back and building support for charter schools is to hold them accountable for providing a quality education.

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.

«The AFT will continue the fight to ensure that charter schools are held accountable and their children receive the high - quality education they deserve.»

The National Alliance's charter school model law is a template for states to write laws that encourage the creation and growth of high - quality charter schools while holding underperforming schools and authorizers accountable.

• 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.

It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).

Or conversely, are states and authorizers implicitly or explicitly deciding they do not need to hold charter schools accountable for equitable access and quality programs for students with disabilities?

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has repeatedly gone on record debunking and factually proving that charters are public schools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for stSchools Association (CCSA) has repeatedly gone on record debunking and factually proving that charters are public schools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for stschools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for students.

The Department of Contracted Schools will create a collaborative culture where high quality charter and partnership schools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school diSchools will create a collaborative culture where high quality charter and partnership schools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school dischools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school district.

While we can tinker with policies and review enrollment forms, until we ensure that charter schools are prepared to offer quality programs and held accountable for failing to provide quality programs, we will most likely continue to see increasing numbers of OCR investigations and corrective action plans.

«All students should have the opportunity to attend a quality public school, and all schools, whether they are charter or traditional schools, should be held to the same high standards.

While the district says the policies are needed to hold charter schools accountable, a coalition of charter leaders say the rules unduly limit the autonomy afforded charter schools under state law and their ability to offer a high - quality education.

It will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold teachers and schools accountable for educating students.

Families That Can is a statewide organization of charter school families united to hold our elected leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

In light of the many challenges that charter schools face, Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes charter parents to hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

According to its website and news reports, EducationPost will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold teachers and schools accountable for educating students.

(4) Fourth, we can strengthen and expand high - quality school models — whether they are traditional schools, magnet schools, charter schools, or other successful models — and hold them accountable for their results and inclusiveness.

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.

«[charter schools] are not held accountable to quality continuum standards that we have in this state, and that's very important because that covers the instruction that the children receive.

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.

It's time to spread the intelligence to their Congressional counterparts, who recently held a hearing on a new proposal, HR 10, the «Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act» with testimony from charter supporterCharter Schools Act» with testimony from charter supportercharter supporters only.

After moving to Utah 15 years ago I held an administrative position with the Utah State Office of Child Care as a Quality Improvement Consultant and, for the last decade, I have served in the charter school world.

Some states have aimed to address charter school quality on the front end by holding authorizers accountable for the performance of the schools they oversee.

The call came as part of the association's efforts to ensure the charter movement in California is held accountable to its mandate for providing high quality learning options to those available in traditional public schools.

Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter school association] and look forward to working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand more quality public school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»