Sentences with phrase «replaced by a charter»

Thompson and de Blasio would both slow the closing of underperforming schools, which are often replaced by charter institutions.

The idea was to concentrate growth in targeted cities until districts either responded to competition or were entirely replaced by charters.

Vouchers have been replaced by charters as the vehicle for promoting free - market reforms.

Many local schools that are open - enrollment are being replaced by charter or magnet schools.

So, whenever a public school is replaced by a charter school, the democratic rights of the community are replaced as well.

In «Still left behind,» the CEOs of Chicago's largest corporations claimed that all — ALL — Chicago public schools were «failures» and had to be replaced by charters and other privatization schemes.

One of the long - standing questions in the education reform movement has been why failing schools can't be revived rather than replaced by charters, to minimize disruptions for kids.

Based on this measure of achievement, some failing schools are shut down, and, in some cases, replaced by charter schools.

They are replaced by charter schools, unaccountable to the community and governed by appointed boards.

Not exact matches

Billionaire Dan Loeb is stepping down as chairman of Success Academy, NYC's largest charter - school operator — and will be replaced by an equally monied but less controversial chief, venture capitalist Steven Galbraith.

Billionaire Dan Loeb is stepping down as chairman of Success Academy, the city's largest charter - school operator — and will be replaced by an equally monied but less controversial chief, The...

The comptroller's position, paid $ 101,709 of a total office budget of $ 486,556, was created by the 2006 charter to replace the county treasurer and auditor.

Where we differ is that you think all districts should completely replaced by outside charter authorizers.

An analysis performed by Public Impact looked at how replacing low - performing charter schools while replicating high - performing ones could and should work.

Democratic honchos qualify their support for charter schools by asserting that they «should not replace or destabilize traditional public schools» — not a good sign since it is impossible for charters to enroll more students without contraction elsewhere.

Some charter school advocates will surely point to the new study as yet more evidence that public school districts should be replaced by a more decentralized approach to education, with a greater emphasis on charter schools.

Falsehood 3 Anderson's «One Newark» plan is a conspiracy to «privatize» public schools by replacing the traditional system with charters.

In New Orleans, where 7,000 teachers lost their jobs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and traditional schools were replaced by public charter schools, the share of teachers who were black fell from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 2012.

And its using these false measures of proficiency to «prove» how bad public schools are so they can be replaced by for - profit charters that will reduce the quality of kids» educations to generate profits.

But she also alienated many parents with her reorganization plan, known as One Newark, which replaced the city's tradition of neighborhood schools with a universal enrollment system that assigned students by lottery to traditional as well as charter schools.

Bond projects include classroom technology, safety and security upgrades, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) upgrades, new / renovated facilities for College, Career and Technical Education, temporary classrooms replaced by permanent classrooms, air conditioning, ADA improvements to athletic facilities, turf fields, and other capital improvements at traditional and charter schools throughout the district.

As per an article published last week in The Columbus Dispatch, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) apparently rejected a proposal made by the state's pro-charter school Ohio Coalition for Quality Education and the state's largest online charter school, all of whom wanted to add (or replace) this state's VAM with another, unnamed «Similar Students» measure (which could be the Student Growth Percentiles model discussed prior on this blog, for example, here, here, and here) used in California.

Billionaire Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently declared that charter schools, like Rocketship, should fully replace public schools by 2040.

In the last three years, as the director of Parent Revolution, Austin helped the state pass the nation's first parent trigger law, which offers parents options to improve consistently failing schools by shutting them down altogether, replacing the principal or staff, or conversion to a charter school.

The public / charter difference is that even as students leave, they are replaced throughout the school year by new entrants, who are welcomed by their principals and teachers.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

In Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Newark and elsewhere, officials, often backed by outside billionaires, have waged identical campaigns of destruction: disinvesting in community schools while funding and promoting privately run charter schools, declaring underfunded community schools «failures,» closing them and replacing them with more charters.

She fought to improve the performance of disadvantaged students by allocating more resources and attention to lower - performing schools, and by replacing the worst with new ones, often charter schools.

He indicated a strategy of slowly growing charter school market share over the next 20 - 30 years until essentially all public education would have been replaced by privately held corporations.

The endorsed slate of candidates were big supporters of Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to change the Bridgeport charter to do away with the democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the mayor.

Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

Though Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, offered up $ 1.1 billion in new school aid, he attached strings that could kill the deal for allies of the teachers» unions in the Assembly: a much more rigorous teacher evaluation system to replace the current one, new hurdles for teachers on the path to tenure, and an expansion by 100 of the limit on the number of charter schools statewide.

Parents are seeking to replace McKinley Elementary with a charter school run by the Celerity Educational Group.

But a failing school has yet to see its teaching / administrative staff replaced or its entire structure overhauled by a charter organization, as the Parent Trigger law allows.

I believe Mr. Duncan may be part of a national effort to privatize the public schools insofar as possible by replacing them with non-public-school charters (check Detroit) and to kill the teachers» unions.

Once the schools close they can be replaced by «no - excuses» charter schools which enforce a kind of rigid discipline which for many feels more like preparation for being an obedient worker drone than the training needed to be innovative leader.

Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the city's public - school system by promoting privately managed charter schools to replace regular public schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.

Just as Bernie Sanders believes that the middle class in our country is in jeopardy from the oligarchs, likewise oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Bill Walton, Michael Bloomberg, to name a few of the corporate education oligarch reformers, are threatening to change and destroy public education in the nation by replacing public schools with charter schools.

A related issue: privatizing education by expanding charter schools and moving to replace teaching with «virtual learning»

The defeat of Mayor Finch's charter revision proposal that would have done away with an elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by himself will have significant repercussions within Bridgeport and across the State of Connecticut.

This idea has been embraced by the Obama and Malloy administrations, pushing «turnaounds» in which the administration and most or all of the staff of a school with low test scores is replaced — often by a charter school management company.

Superintendent Christina Kishimoto — whose employment in this capacity with the Hartford Public Schools is over at the end of this school year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter school.

Backers of these reforms are particularly enamored of a new type of charter school represented by the Rocketship chain of schools — a low - budget operation that relies on young and inexperienced teachers rather than more veteran and expensive faculty, that reduces the curriculum to a near - exclusive focus on reading and math, and that replaces teachers with online learning and digital applications for a significant portion of the day.

Sierra - Krumrie replaces former principal, Mark Hage who accepted a position as principal at Hollywood Academy of Arts and Science, an «A» school managed by Charter Schools USA in Hollywood, FL..

When the data is analyzed, the Vallas Turnaround Model is not a tribute to improving public education, but a lesson in privatization by replacing failing public schools with failing charter schools and creating a two - tiered education system where certain students get access to higher performing institutions, while leaving all the other students behind.

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

As a result, schools have been turned into testing factories and thousands of low - scoring public schools that serve the poorest students have been closed and replaced by corporate charter schools that, on average, perform no better than the underfunded schools they replace.