Sentences with phrase «reason the charter school»

They cite the example of the Cato School of Reason Charter School in California, which, despite its libertarian name, collected millions of tax dollars by registering students who actually attended private schools in the area.

In his capacity as CEO of the Jumoke Academy it was Sharpe who once told a legislative panel that reason the charter school had virtually no special education students was because they had a special program that went into their kindergarten classes and cured the students of their special education needs.

However, one reason charter schools do better is that they are attracting many of the brightest students in their city.

Other prevalent reasons charter schools were closed include financial deficiencies (41.7 percent), mismanagement (24 percent), district - related issues and facilities problems.

Nationally, education officials said one reason charter schools are struggling is because of the large numbers of low - performing students who turn to them as alternatives to traditional schools.

Not exact matches

That is one reason why in education, for instance, vouchers are to be preferred to charter schools and other devices that invite extensive government regulation and co-optation.

Even as the availability and popularity of charter schools, vouchers, and homeschooling increases, there are enormous pockets of students who, for a variety of reasons, have only one choice for schooling.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

And one of the reasons I think they keep getting better and better is that charter schools give them competition.

The State Education Department rejected 15 charter school applications for reasons of quality control and not politics, Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch insisted.

«The reason why I joined this case is because for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break inSchool in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break inschool on a lunch break in 2006.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver threw down the gauntlet on expanding charter schools Tuesday, saying there's no reason to add more despite the clamor of parents and education reformers.

The organization cited Walrond's support for de Blasio's decision to block a powerful charter school from sharing space with a traditional Harlem public school as one of the reasons for its endorsement.

Andrew Cuomo in my opinion has demonstrated significant support certainly for charter schools and that's my reason.»

«That's the rule, clearly spelled out, for all of the schools that participated in this process, and there's no reason for one charter school to be held to a different standard.

More to the point, there were too many reasons not to back him, they felt, such as his support for charter schools, his acceptance of the Independence Party ballot line and his indecision on hydrofracking, just to name a few.

«For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years.

Charter school teachers need a union for the same reason as other teachers — to have a voice, to be able to advocate for students without fear of losing their jobs, and to be treated like the professionals they are.

A full - scale transition from a government - run monopoly to a competitive marketplace won't happen quickly, but that's no reason not to begin introducing more competition... We pursued that goal in New York City by opening more than 100 charter schools in high - poverty communities.

One of our core beliefs at Two Rivers Public Charter School is that everyone deserves access to the reasoning behind decisions.

Of course, we can not observe the reasons that students exit, and thus I can not say just how numerous are the incidences of charters (or district schools) counseling out students with disabilities.

The British comedian recorded a «takedown» of charter schools that was quickly and correctly dismissed by Reason «s Nick Gillespie as «clever, glib, and uninformed.»

Charter schools may adopt policies for reasons that we do not observe and it may be that it is these unobserved reasons that actually affect achievement.

Nonetheless, it would be a mistake to rely on EMOs alone to sustain the charter school sector over time, for three reasons.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

But, remarkably, the powers that be are blocking the city's best schools from growing for the simple reason that they are charter schools.

Last week I, along with my colleague, Innosight Institute Education research assistant Charity Eyre, authored an op - ed titled «State has virtually no reason to not give online charter schools a shot» in The Star - Ledger in New Jersey about a proposed moratorium on virtual charter schools in the state.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

Even so, there are reasons to suspect that the amount of additional competition provided by charter schools is relatively modest.

For this reason, we estimate charter school effects by comparing students who are more likely to attend a charter school because they live closer to one to those less likely to attend a charter school because it is less convenient.

One key reason for the change was to emphasize the «public» in charter schools, said Nelson Smith, the president of the Washington - based group formerly called the Charter School Leadership Ccharter schools, said Nelson Smith, the president of the Washington - based group formerly called the Charter School Leadership CCharter School Leadership Council.

The reasons for these large charter - school effects are not clear.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

Perhaps for this reason, many charter schools in North Carolina target at - risk students and presumably do not pose a competitive threat to traditional public schools.

But the reason I support charter schools is that they are a solution to the problem created by lawmakers here in Albany and other state capitals, and by the unions.

On the other hand, caps on charter and pupil numbers, combined with tough - minded authorizing, are part of the reason why schools in a few places have done especially well on achievement metrics.

And while there are a variety of reasons this gap may exist, parents and others we interviewed told us that the proportion of IEP - eligible students in DPS is growing rapidly in large part because a number of Detroit charter schools simply don't offer many special - education supports.

Perhaps the bigger reason, though, is what Alex Hernandez, a partner in the Charter School Growth Fund, called «a superclear mission.»

«I actually don't think the reasons schools work have anything to do with whether they're a charter public, a district public, a private, or a parochial school,» he says.

Where I work in Florida, where essentially charter schools don't have the option of becoming their own LEAs (as is also the case in places like Virginia, Maryland and Kansas, and in New York for special education purposes), these special education disputes are problematic for many reasons.

There's good reason to believe, based on everything we know about Boston charter schools and their concentration of «no excuses» models, that they are holding their students to very high standards.

This is the biggest reason innovation schools have not performed as well as charters, he believes.

There's little reason to think that chartering these schools works, and charter operators aren't all that eager to take them on.

We certainly never meant to force private schools (and specialized charter schools) to forfeit the curricular distinctiveness that is a major reason for choosing them in the first place.

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.

Paul Vallas, who as superintendent of the RSD since 2007 has lengthened both the school day and the school year, sees technical as well as political reasons why charters are here to stay.

Yet another reason middle - class parents are becoming more familiar with charters is the «intentionally diverse» school movement.

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

If those standards are overly prescriptive or otherwise unreasonable, that's an issue for all schools, not a reason to carve out exceptions for charters.

The reason is that authorizers use accountability plans to make high - stakes decisions — such as school corrective action, non-renewal, revocation, and closure — that directly impact the hundreds or thousands of families whose children are enrolled in charter schools.