Sentences with phrase «run by charter schools»

A Shreveport, Louisiana parent claims a school run by Charter Schools USA refused to enroll her son due to his special education needs.

These schools are run by charter schools, but they must accept students from the neighborhood.

The announcement came during the last week of school for Jefferson students, as the district begins its transition to become the first in the state run by a charter school company.

As of result of Vallas» work, most schools in New Orleans are now run by charter school management companies.

The old district remains only to pay off debt, while a new district, the Highland Park Public School Academy System is run by a charter school management company.

But by Monday, two of the groups — including one run by charter school supporter Al Sharpton — declined to participate in the grand attack.

Currently, it is the only in - district school within Massachusetts that is run by a charter school network.

TCTA also ensured that students zoned for a campus run by a charter school, per the contract, would have priority admission for enrollment at the campus so that they would not be displaced from their neighborhood schools.

In Lawrence, we have partnered with the Lawrence Public School district to open Massachusetts» first - ever in - district high school run by a charter school network.

Typically, they are not community - based but are run by charter school management companies, backed by hedge fund groups and other powerful sectors of American society.

Not exact matches

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The justices voted, 6 to 3, that charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately run — are not «common schools» because their governing boards are not elected but are appointed by the founders of the individual schools.

The 30 - second spot, entitled «Happening» and produced by Shorr, Johnson and Magnus Strategic Media, is also a response of sorts to the ads the pro-charter movement has been running that blame the teachers unions for blocking legislation that would raise the charter school cap.

It wasn't a bad idea when Charter Schools were run by the Board of Ed.

Supporters of a charter - school network run by Eva Moskowitz that is in de Blasio's cross hairs are pouring big bucks into the campaign coffers of Cuomo — a friend of charter schools.

Two polls from Siena College and Quinnipiac University have shown Cuomo's margin of victory diminished by a generic candidate running to his left — surveys that have emboldened the activist wing of the party upset with his stances on tax cuts and charter schools.

Since failing last year to halt the expansion of Success Academy Charter Schools, run by his old political foe Eva Moskowitz, Mr. de Blasio has softened his rhetoric toward charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to Charter Schools, run by his old political foe Eva Moskowitz, Mr. de Blasio has softened his rhetoric toward charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to Schools, run by his old political foe Eva Moskowitz, Mr. de Blasio has softened his rhetoric toward charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to schools, even as his liberal allies continue to seethe.

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

visited Success Academy 1 charter school — part of a network of charter schools run by Eva Moskowitz, who was once under consideration to serve as President Donald Trump's education secretary.

A shadowy Independent Expenditure group run by a «charitable» charter school advocate organization is said to be aiding Cabrera.

Why tell us all how you're afraid Charter Schools will give your union buddies I run for their money by providing superior education?

The de Blasio administration said it would provide free space in public school buildings to a dozen new or expanding charter schools, including 10 run by Eva S. Moskowitz, one of the mayor's fiercest rivals on the issue.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or the publicly funded, but privately run, charter schools.

Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, increased under the Bloomberg administration.

Among the questions spurred by Andrew Cuomo's newfound devotion to charter schools is one with real implications for the governor's re-election: How much more can the Working Families Party take before ditching him and running someone else on its line this year?

By the end of May, state lawmakers reached a deal to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and usually not unionized, to 460 statewide, up from 200, while also increasing state oversight of them.

According to an editorial in the New York Post, three Success Academy charter schools, run by Eva Moskowitz, will have to find new locations.

De Blasio, who has come under fire for blocking previously approved sites for three charter schools run by the Success Academy, promised he would approve more co-locations.

The powerful Assembly speaker has thus far kept his cards close, but he's traditionally been no friend to charters — which have an embarrassing tendency to outperform schools run by his teachers - union masters.

Read the New York Times expose and hear what charter school employees have to say about the methods used by those running the schools.

The Success Academy Charter School, run by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, plans to open inside the building at 10 - 45 Nameoke St. for the 2016 - 2017 school year, the DOESchool, run by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, plans to open inside the building at 10 - 45 Nameoke St. for the 2016 - 2017 school year, the DOEschool year, the DOE said.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

But the teachers union, threatened by charters that outperform traditional, union - run schools, thinks it can squash the competition by depriving it of real estate.

Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, flourished under Mr. Bloomberg, and there are currently 183 in New York City, serving about 70,000 children, or 6 percent of students citywide.

The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.

De Blasio noted the current cap allows for almost two dozen new charter schools by 2019, and insisted that the city has allowed the existing privately run, publicly financed facilities to grow.

Classroom - based charters and schools run by charter - management organizations showed significantly stronger performances.

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.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

Second, every single DCPS - run school will be put on a performance contract held by a charter school authorizer.

Fifty - six percent of the charter school students covered by this report attend 23 schools operated by CGOs; 19 percent attend 12 schools that are affiliated with CMOs; and 25 percent attend 7 schools run by EMOs.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif. was remade after parents voted to turn it over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town, according to an article in Politico by Stephanie Simon.

These experiences raise questions about the political viability of a charter school movement that becomes largely composed of schools run by for - profit EMOs.

I examine a traditional public school, a district - turned - charter school run by an education management organization, and a relatively new charter school.

The compact brought 21 new charter schools into Denver Public Schools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anschools into Denver Public Schools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anSchools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anSchools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anSchools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), and KIPP.

They range from small independent schools, often emanating from visionary teachers and parents, to franchise schools run by major education management firms, such as Charter Schools USA, Nobel Learning, and Edison Sschools, often emanating from visionary teachers and parents, to franchise schools run by major education management firms, such as Charter Schools USA, Nobel Learning, and Edison Sschools run by major education management firms, such as Charter Schools USA, Nobel Learning, and Edison SSchools USA, Nobel Learning, and Edison SchoolsSchools.

New Orleans's polycentric administrative structure — with schools run by the state and the school board as well as by autonomous charter organizations — has fostered competition and performance gains.

Through its Renaissance 2010 program, the city is methodically closing its lowest - performing schools and then reopening them as charters, contract schools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the dischools and then reopening them as charters, contract schools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the dischools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the diSchools, which are highly autonomous but run by the district.

The editorial cites a new study by the California Charter Schools Association which studied the state's Academic Performance Index (API), which runs on a scale from 200 to 1000, and found that, according to the Journal,