Sentences with phrase «rapid charter school expansion»

As much as Villaraigosa — and the school superintendent with whom he is allied — have appeared committed to rapid charter school expansion, when the L. A. school board took decisive action in February, charters were forced to settle for much less than they expected.

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Each city has experienced rapid expansion of the charter school sector in recent years.

Today, a mere nuisance has burgeoned into the foremost hurdle to the rapid expansion of high - quality charter schools.

L.A. Unified has been losing students at a rapid clip since 2008, when five charter - management organizations — Green Dot, Aspire, Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, and Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools (ICEF)-- announced major expansion plans.

A new study by Mathematica examines how the KIPP charter network fared during a period of rapid growth, when enrollment in KIPP schools roughly doubled to 68,000 students after the network received a $ 50 million expansion grant from the U.S. Department of Education in 2010.

And turnaround schools, both in Chicago and in other urban districts like Philadelphia, are experiencing significant enrollment loss — driven largely by the rapid expansion of charter high schools — that in some ways hinders improvement.

Researchers examined the decade between 2002 and 2012 because it was a period of rapid expansion of public charter schools and closures of traditional district schools.

We have had enough of school closures, and the rapid expansion of selective charter schools... High - stakes testing takes the joy out of learning.

If I read the phrase «a national model for school reform» one more time in the context of rapid charter expansion, I may scream.

The plan for rapid expansion in LA Unified is now in the hands of a Broad offshoot, Great Public Schools Now, which intends to raise $ 400 million to invest in new charters and high - performing public schools that serve low - income stSchools Now, which intends to raise $ 400 million to invest in new charters and high - performing public schools that serve low - income stschools that serve low - income students.

Both groups have been strong proponents of the rapid and in many cases unaccountable expansion of charter schools and have both have been silent about Mitchell's web of conflicts of interest and his refusal to release his financial information about how he spends public dollars.

Proximity to the new president laid a foundation for much of the Obama administration's education policies, including Race to the Top, high - stakes teacher evaluations and rapid expansion of charter schools.

One of the most interesting yet challenging developments in recent years for many charter authorizers across the country has been the rapid rise and expansion of virtual or online charter schools.

This week also brought a startling story about another key part of the Right's education agenda, the rapid and still too unaccountable expansion of charter schools, which in many cases have developed into profit centers for shady operators instead of the «laboratories of education innovation» that we were promised.

Given the rapid and continuing expansion of the charter school industry and the tremendous investment of public dollars, New York must act now to reform its oversight system.

Klein and Duncan's conclusion that public schools must be failing because they don't perform the miracles they allegedly performed in the past has helped justify a rapid expansion of charter schools.

One of the Boston Consulting Group's «claims to fame» is the recent plan to privatize Philadelphia's public school system, a plan that was adopted by a right - wing governor and has led to the closure of public schools across that city and the rapid expansion of privately - owned, but publicly - funded charter schools.

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.

The rapid national expansion of Green Dot Public Schools and the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) highlights the great potential for such organizations to provide more high - quality public schools by replicating successful charter sSchools and the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) highlights the great potential for such organizations to provide more high - quality public schools by replicating successful charter sschools by replicating successful charter schoolsschools.

Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them and at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.

In fact, we have seen how the rapid expansion of the charter sector has undermined neighborhood schools, drawing resources from them and at the same time expecting them to serve our most at - risk students.

At the same time, her support for rapid expansion of charter schools exacerbates budget crises in these same communities.

The Tribune, WBBM - AM radio and Crain's jumped on the bandwagon, though none of these reports emphasized our concern that UNO might be using its charter school students and promises of more rapid expansion as collateral for its bond debt.

The foundation's education program pursues this endgame through three major program areas: support for vouchers, both publicly and privately funded; support for charter school start - ups to encourage and enable the rapid growth of the sector; and public policy advocacy, to ensure that the road is clear for expansion with minimal regulatory interference.

Vermont / Wilshire was an area subject to both overcrowding relief and charter expansion at the same time, which resulted in rapid depopulation of the older schools.

That's Mike Thomas of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) arguing that Florida should allow more rapid expansion of the charter sector not despite, but because of the «spectacular» negative impact this expansion is having on traditional public schools and the children who remain in them.

If, according to the CREDO report, 17 out of 100 charter schools improve student outcomes, but 37 actually worsen outcomes, then the rapid expansion of the sector is creating more poorly performing schools than high - quality schools;