Sentences with phrase «run by a charter operator»

In other words, if Trenton Public Schools were run by a charter operator it would have been closed long ago.

Not exact matches

Charter schools are run by private operators who are less accountable to the public and who sometimes operate schools for profit.

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

Together we conducted a major teacher survey, and I personally visited 28 charter campuses in Arizona run by 20 different operators and conducted in - person and phone interviews with more than 200 policymakers, district school officials, and charter school teachers, operators, students, and parents between November 1997 and May 2001.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

Here's a more immediate benefit: Under a resolution sponsored by Yolie Flores Aguilar, vice president of the L.A. Unified school board, charter operators, along with unions and community groups, could submit proposals to run any of more than 50 new campuses that will open over the next three to four years.

This was not philanthropy; it was a profit - making venture.6 Investors quickly figured out that there was money to be made in the purchase, leasing, and rental of space to charter schools, and an aggressive for - profit charter sector emerged wherever it was permitted by state law; in states where for - profit charters were not allowed, nonprofit charters hired for - profit operators to run their schools.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

... Pupils at the nine schools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chains....

Some charters are run by for - profit companies and have little oversight, resulting in scandal after scandal that has resulted in charges against some charter operators.

With 90 percent of New Orleans students now attending schools run by charters, New Orleanians have grown accustomed to hearing enthusiastic spiels from new school operators over the past 10 years.

Each was run by a separate charter operator — one authorized by the state board and the other recently returned to the locally elected board.

As the year unfolds hopeful charter operators will apply to run schools, others may learn they have to shut down, and some may be taken over or absorbed by larger charter networks.

Both are now run by ReNEW Schools, one of the most rapidly growing charter operators in the city.

Charters must be run by non-profit operators (this is always a little deceptive, because in many states, a for - profit management company can set up a non-profit front group, which then turns over management of the school to the for - profit company) and must be nonsectarian.

In the meantime, the poor performance at Ducey's charter schools run by private operators continue to make headlines.

The Nashville school selected to join the ASD will be run by LEAD Public Schools, a successful local public charter operator authorized by the ASD after a rigorous application and replication process.

Michigan's charter school sector is also unique in that 71 percent of its charters are run by an Education Management Organization (EMO), which is a for - profit operator of public schools.

Baker and Miron provide a useful introduction to some of the ways in which charter operators, for example, generate profit by running schools.

FCPCS is governed by a diverse board of Florida charter school operators who understand firsthand the day - to - day challenges of running a charter school.