Sentences with phrase «run charters within»

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Charter schools — privately run public schools largely funded through public monies — have been contentious within politics since their creation.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

The 161 charter schools operating within the district's boundaries ranged from fragile mom - and - pop organizations to those run by franchise firms like the Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools and the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP).

In fact, it seems that, within this framework, even the system - run schools will be indistinguishable from charter schools.

She also compared schools operated by charter management organizations that ran both blended and non-blended schools within the same district, such as KIPP, Aspire, and Alliance.

The ASD functions as an authorizer for six schools in the city and operates an additional six Memphis schools as «achievement schools,» which are run as though they were a separate charter - management organization within the ASD.

The overall closure rate among large authorizers is fairly steady: For four years running, the percentage of any charter closing for any reason was within a range of 3.7 to 3.8 percent, then dipped to 2.8 percent in 2015 — 16.

Fletcher is expected to run for another term; he is expected to face at least one challenger, Alex Caputo - Pearl, a member of the Progressive Educators for Action, a caucus within UTLA whose platform includes a call to end «the growth of corporate charter schools» and «[t] he use of standardized testing to determine students» futures.»

Using consistent methodology, we run regressions of all strongly or moderately correlated neighborhood characteristics on public charter school participation, or the percent of students living within a school boundary who attend public charter schools anywhere in the city (see Table 2).

Teachers of color make up 27.6 percent of the charter school teaching population, compared with 16 percent within district schools.51 For example, Uncommon Schools — a charter school network in Boston, New Jersey, and New York — runs a competitive summer teaching fellowship that targets students of color in their junior year of college.52 Fifty - two fellowship alumni now teach in Uncommon classrooms.53

The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD model, including the viability of charter schools within a community - based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run turnaround effort, called iZone.

That is: employees at the charter schools are having a portion of their salary taxed to pay tuition to a «graduate school» run by founders of their own charter schools, operated within their own charter school facility (lease agreement unknown), where courses are often taught by their own teaching peers having only slightly more advanced education and experience.

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

Long before legislation was put into place in Connecticut allowing for public charter schools, the founders of Common Ground High School had been running a host of incredible programs in the greater New Haven area aimed at connecting young people to the resources within their own communities.

This runs counter to the whole idea that the Charter only applies within the scope of EU law.