Sentences with phrase «rejecting charter applications»

She did not say whether the board would be predisposed to accepting or rejecting charter applications.

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

The state Education Department's decision to reject all 15 applications for new charter schools has astonished lawmakers — even some who are allies of charter foes.

Building on a New York Post report from August, the coalition noted 45 applications for new charter school co-locations were rejected by the city.

Using new powers granted under a trailblazing state law that took effect last July, the Pennsylvania Department of Education has rejected all five of its first batch of applications for new «cyber» charter schools.

The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools board voted 7 - 2 Tuesday night to reject an application by Great Hearts Academies, a nonprofit that operates prep - school - like charter schools, for five new establishments.

For new charter schools, the organization applies first to the local school board; if the board rejects the application, the organization may appeal to the state superintendent of public instruction.

Legislators thankfully recognized this, and after listening to thoughtful testimony from charter leaders and the Connecticut Association of Non-Profits, ultimately rejected a blanket application of FOIA to CMOs.

Authorizers can approve or reject charter school applications.

On Wednesday night, the Philadlphia School Reform Commission (which controls the city's schools in lieu of an elected school committee) voted to reject 34 of 39 applications to open new charter schools in the city.

Allen writes that «with 91 percent of Harrisburg's traditional public schools failing (10 schools out of 11), a budget that's a complete mess and only one charter school operating and approved during the last decade, it's troubling to keep reading the same story — «Harrisburg School Board rejects charter school applications.

The Advocate Innovation, service to poor among concerns as School Board sorts through charter applications: 2 charters accepted, 5 rejected

The measure would ban the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from overriding local boards that reject charter school applications in A districts.

In the end, only 5 new charters were approved, and though the 29 rejected applications can be appealed to a new state commission, the night was a victory for advocates of better oversight of the charter school industry.

Already last year, North Carolina rejected 60 of 71 applications for new charter schools.

It also rejected a separate application for a new charter school in Bridgeton.

After next month's hearing, the board will have a couple of weeks to approve or reject the academy's charter school application.

The state's Charter School Advisory Board unanimously recommended to the State Board of Education that it reject PACE Academy's application for a renewal of its 10 - year cCharter School Advisory Board unanimously recommended to the State Board of Education that it reject PACE Academy's application for a renewal of its 10 - year chartercharter.

This year, the state charter authorizer board approved no new applications, most notably Ohio's I Can Schools, whose middling results in student achievement in Ohio and Indiana culminated in the state's Charter School Authorizer Board's decision to reject its application to establish three K - 8 schools in Missicharter authorizer board approved no new applications, most notably Ohio's I Can Schools, whose middling results in student achievement in Ohio and Indiana culminated in the state's Charter School Authorizer Board's decision to reject its application to establish three K - 8 schools in MissiCharter School Authorizer Board's decision to reject its application to establish three K - 8 schools in Mississippi.

There have been legal opinions presented that justify rejecting charter school applications based on the financial needs of the district.

During debate at today's meeting of the Education Committee, Commissioner Patricia Levesque noted that a recent presentation by the Florida Department of Education noted that two - thirds of all charter school applications presented to Florida school boards are rejected.

The Texas school board of education rejects the Athlos Academy charter application for the second year in a row.

This bill would eliminate the Illinois State Charter Commission, which was created to overtuen decisions of local elected schools that have rejected applications of charter sCharter Commission, which was created to overtuen decisions of local elected schools that have rejected applications of charter scharter schools.

A year ago, almost to the day, a group of Bridgeport citizens, including Maria Pereira, attended the State Board of Education meeting to request Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees REJECT applications by two more charter school companies to open privately run, but publicly funded facilities in Bridgeport.

The difference is that magnet schools remain under the authority of the school district governance structure, whereas charter schools are independently operated public schools.40 Finally, local school boards may view charters as competition and may unduly reject applications.

The Polk County School Board had rejected the application, saying the school would replicate the Winthrop Charter Academy in neighboring Hillsborough County.

In another case, Lancaster, PA rejected an application for a Gulen - linked charter due to application mistakes such as «carelessness and numerous cut and paste segments from other charter school applications which had no relevance to the application,» as well as a «total lack of knowledge» in curriculum planning.

Still, it may only be a matter of time before another voter — like Rose Henry, who made the Charter application that the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected that week — challenges the legislation's new, stricter voter - identification requirements in court.