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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.

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The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.

The United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), the community group that I lead in Chicago, and its network of charter schools provide Hispanic immigrant families with access to a high - quality education, thereby challenging them to fulfill their great potential while promoting American values, ideals, and our collective successes.

We also came to realize that independent charter schools faced almost insurmountable hurdles in delivering high - quality academic instruction while running these small businesses on tight margins.

It argues that while members of the reform community continue to advance district and charter efforts, they should also support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families.

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.

While there are many potential paths forward to reinvigorate the growth of quality charter schools in the Bay Area, doing so will require new ideas and new strategic investments.

It showed that among the 16 states studied, there was wide variation in charter quality, and that while lots of charters were doing well, lots were doing worse than local district schools.

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.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

No one should be surprised that NACSA's criteria have no relationship to their own metric for school quality — test score growth — given how well Arizona charter schools appear to be doing even while NACSA gives the state a very low score for charter quality.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

In Massachusetts, 34,000 children remain stranded on waitlists for charter schools while the state legislature continues to ignore the demonstrated wishes of their constituents, forcing the question of access to high quality schools to a ballot question this fall.

A new article appearing in Education Next shows that while policymakers have solid evidence that city charters are delivering a high - quality education, many are reluctant to support the schools» expansion for political reasons.

Public Impact researchers working with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on a new study found that replacing low - performing charter schools while replicating high - performing ones could dramatically improve quality within just a few years.

While the President's FY 2012 Budget requests funding to improve D.C. public schools and expand high - quality public charter schools, the Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

While school closures aren't exactly reasons to celebrate, Texas's higher closure rate does indicate that the state is serious about ensuring quality in charter schools.

While reminding the audience that public charter schools prove that «quality and choice can coexist,» she added that they «are not the one cure - all to the ills that beset education» and provided an example of three successful Miami - area schools she recently visited — a public charter, a private school, and a traditional public school, noting that the common factor with all three schools was the satisfaction of the parents that their chosen school was providing their child a quality education.

While some say capping the number of charter schools controls the quality of education, others say the caps are arbitrary and limit opportunity.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Indiscriminately targeting all charter schools, even the many great public charter schools that are offering students a bridge to college, while ignoring underperforming district schools, undermines the quality and integrity of our entire education system...

The Department of Contracted School Services promotes innovative educational opportunities by recruiting and retaining high quality charter and partnership schools, while providing assistance and accountability which supports schools» ability to effectively meet students» needs.

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.

OPA has answered the call to serve an unmet student need while these boards are sending a message that parent choice and high quality charter schools are not valued in North San Diego County.

These challenges, while not unique to public charter schools, are clear indicators that real barriers exist to assure the equitable participation in and completion of a quality education for students with disabilities in charter schools.

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).

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.

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While Connecticut's minority legislators are absolutely right to be demanding that the state support successful educational models that provide all children with a quality education, Connecticut's charter schools are simply not one of those models.

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.

We will continue to respect and support parents who choose public charter schools for their children, while also continuing to support a regulatory environment that provides robust safeguards and standards to ensure a high - quality education for children in these settings.

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

While the Alliance for School Choice focuses on those three reforms in particular, advocates also believe that states should eliminate barriers preventing the growth of high - quality charter schools, virtual schools, online learning options, and home schooling.

While in New Orleans, Perry was the CEO of the Capital One - University of New Orleans network of four charter schools, and the Associate Director for Educational Initiatives for the Loyola Institute for Quality and Equity in Education.

During yesterday's press conference, Rev. Kenneth Moales Jr. highlighted how children should have access to a quality education regardless of zip code and how, «for decades, low - performing and failing public schools have remained open while receiving money, and charter schools are consistently flat - funded.»

«While we congratulate Uncommon Schools for their progress in raising student achievement and their steadfast commitment to ensuring that every child — regardless of family income or background — deserves a world - class education, the real winners are the students who are served by these and other high - quality charter management organizations,» said Rebecca Wolf DiBiase, managing director of programs for The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.

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.

While serving as the Regional Liaison to the 56 active charter schools in the Inland Empire, Holguin facilitates the training of teams of educators who are committed to launching high quality charter schools.

While the impact of these statistics has yet to be fully documented, the fact remains that Connecticut's charter schools are simply not in a position to claim that the quality of their education programs are substantially better than the education in the public schools.

While the Northeast Charter Schools Network is disappointed in the state's consistently low rankings, it looks forward to working with the state's stakeholders and lawmakers to ensure the state's law promotes a quality movement and responds to parent demand.

While we would expect that an irresponsible initiative of this kind will struggle to find any meaningful support in this state, CCSA will remain diligent to provide whatever protection is necessary to make sure that California charter schools keep on stride for creating even more high quality public school options for children and families in the future.

While Connecticut's public schools continue to suffer from inadequate state funding and Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration strive to undermine, dismiss and destroy the CCJEF school funding lawsuit that would finally ensure that Connecticut meets its State Constitutional obligation to provide all students with a quality education, Malloy's corporate education reform initiative has fueled an unprecedented growth of charter schools in Connecticut.

To address both of these problems — providing a non-LEA option while ensuring that low - quality or under - resourced authorizers do not proliferate — NACSA recommends that states create independent chartering boards (ICBs): statewide, independent entities tasked with the sole purpose of authorizing charter schools.

The panel, dubbed the NAACP Task Force on Quality Education, echoed Johnson's view — that while many argue that charter schools drain needed resources from traditional public schools, and some remain «discriminatory» based on students» behavior or relative academic strength, some are highly successful, especially in states that exercise legally mandated oversight.

While the AFC Growth Fund focuses primarily on those avenues to a higher quality education, advocates also believe that states should eliminate all barriers preventing the growth of high - quality private and charter schools, virtual schools, online learning options, and home schooling.