Sentences with phrase «rather than charters»

The finding that more than twice the number of districts use magnets rather than charters to promote diversity and integration is interesting.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

Robert Kraft is clearly unable to do anything halfway, so the team purchased two planes to retro - fit them so an entire team of football players can fly first class to games rather than chartering flights for eight away games each year.

Unfortunately, due to financial and logistical considerations, the placement option offered by the District for students with more significant needs is often back at a traditional school site rather than the charter school.

Not exact matches

«If Russia considers this a hostile act rather than an error, we could see a crisis that invokes the charter of NATO, given Turkey's status in the multilateral organization.»

Summit does this by chartering an ocean liner and taking attendees on a camping trip to the mountains rather than booking a hotel in a major city.

Yet it is in his attitudes and acts, rather than in specific words, that we find the charter of human equality in God's equal concern for all.

When the people decide to amend the nation's charter, they do so because they believe the changes will make their Constitution an even more perfect instrument of the right, rather than because they think it will better serve them and their interests.

It seems the association would rather silence opposition than listen to new ideas, demonstrating that it's not charter schools blocking public school growth, but the Syracuse Teachers Association itself.

Pursuant to the City Charter, the nomination of candidates in the election will be by independent nominating petition, rather than through a party primary.

The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $ 200,000 in taxpayer money chartering flights as a senator, helps Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public.

Rather than looking at supporting the troops on the frontline, which the prime minister has consistently argued can not be improved, the charter aims to guarantee the rights of service personnel, their families and veterans.

Rather than needle the mayor by demanding reports or his attendance at hearings, as Republicans did in previous years, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, attached a different condition to mayoral control: actions favoring charter schools.

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

Rather than risk a Commons defeat (there is almost certainly a majority in the House in favour of statutory press regulation), the Conservative front bench opted for a Royal Charter.

Ms. Moskowitz, likening the influential educational network she founded, Success Academy Charter Schools, to revolutionary companies like Apple and Google, said she would rather be an education advocate than a mayoral candidate.

«However, after reviewing the Executive Budget, it is clear that it is the Mayor's budget,» said Ferreras - Copeland in her opening statement, «rather than a budget that reflects the collaborative budget process envisioned by the Charter to ensure that the shared priorities of both the Administration and the Council are included.»

With fewer cash - strapped news outlets willing to underwrite the cost, reporters were forced to fly commercial on Obama's visits to Prague and Cape Canaveral — and some White House support staff had to be left home rather than hitching a ride on the press charter.

The new rules apply only to charters authorized by SUNY, rather than by the Board of Regents.

Republicans defended the increase in charter school funding as part of an agreement included in a separate education bill (HB 7055) that will let school districts keep their local property taxes for maintenance and construction rather than share it with charter schools.

Charter candidates, in this latest version, would have to pass only a single certification exam, chosen by their employer, rather than the full roster of New York State's existing licensing tests.

«The charter encourages researchers to take into account the biological age of a person rather than their chronological age,» he says, adding that imposing upper age limits on clinical trials is unjustifiable.

Choices for families who don't want to have to take sides in the charter wars: Some school districts have tried to see charter school operators as potential partners rather than competitors.

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

What if cities (rather than school districts) were to create corporations, authorize them to do financing, and assign them the task of managing the public - school facilities portfolio so that both district and charter schools could be housed?

As a result, most charter schools lease their facilities rather than purchase or build their own (see Figure 3).

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.

The study, «Leveraging Local Innovation: The Case of Michigan's Charter Schools,» found that the schools have mostly seized on innovative practices already in use for years in regular public schools, rather than coming up with new ideas of their own.

Why not make charter operators partners rather than competitors?

In truth, the reaction has been more pushback — trying to deny students access to charters rather than undertaking internal reform.

The court said that charter schools are not «common» schools under the state's Constitution because they are controlled by a charter board rather than by local voters.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

The bill's intent was to force «virtual» charter schools to spend a high proportion of their budgets on certified staff rather than on technology, stifling their capacity to innovate.

Yet the major charter firms moved prudently, each bidding on just one or two schools, and favoring the spanking - new campuses rather than attempting to turn around chronically ailing schools.

Rather than competing with charters, some districts have sought to cripple them with legislation.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

Tennessee adds another flavor, trying to serve entire communities rather than creating a loose array of ASD charters — so they provide neighborhood preference even in their charter schools.

This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made by these charter school students are indeed due to the quality of the schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter school students and students in traditional public schools.

Not surprisingly, one result is that a substantial number of New Leaders end up running charter schools, small schools, start - ups, or education organizations rather than traditional schools, especially in Chicago.

He first argues that all of the seven Cs principles are essential — that working with them is «more like multiplication than addition» — and makes the case for embracing the true charter model rather than a «charter - lite» approach of limited autonomy and accountability.

CREDO found that non-profit schools made much larger test gains than for - profit ones, prompting AFT president Randi Weingarten to thunder «this CREDO study confirms that for - profit charter and virtual schools serve the interests of corporations» rather than kids.

In the case of charter schools, for which overall support is more mixed, it appears that the important divisions in public opinion are within rather than between the nation's major political parties.

They also struggled with local community politics because state charter laws required them to contract with nonprofit governing boards rather than run schools directly.

Many schools that reach NCLB's restructuring phase, rather than implementing one of the law's stated interventions (close and reopen as a charter school, replace staff, turn the school over to the state, or contract with an outside entity), choose the «other» option, under which they have considerable flexibility to design an improvement strategy of their own (see «Easy Way Out,» forum, Winter 2007).

In fact, they cite with contempt the fact that in some instances «teachers, students, and parents successfully lobby to keep their charter school open» when authorizers attempt to shut them down, often for political rather than academic reasons.

Remarkably, rather than trusting successful school operators» track records and informed opinion that start - ups are the way to go, Secretary Duncan urged them to get into the turnaround business during a speech at the 2009 National Charter Schools Conference.

For instance, is there any evidence that parents are being misled, that charter schools are actually diminishing rather than improving their children's achievement?

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.