Sentences with phrase «running a charter high»

Young people living in safe housing perform better in school and have better educational outcomes, said Fuller, a former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent who now runs a charter high school, Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, at N. 28th and W. Capitol Drive.

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Specializing in charter flights to popular vacation spots, Transat is under pressure by Air Canada's discount vacation brand Rouge, but so far holding its own in a difficult category where consumer expectations run high and travelers are never shy about expressing dissatisfaction.

As the 2012 Clayton Valley Charter High football team was in the heart of its unexpected, inspiring run to the CIF Div.

In honor of back - to - school time, Mile High Mamas ran a three - part series featuring some non-traditional schooling methods including homeschooling, unschooling and a post about charter schools.

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 U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

The high number of undecided voters, as seen in other polls, and a lackluster debate of the Democratic candidates last month left some of Murphy's old supporters who backed his 2016 U.S. Senate campaign to charter the poll in the hopes of persuading him to run.

If Diana were to run for higher office and win, the county Legislature — now firmly in Republican hands — would appoint a successor to serve until an election could be held a year later, according to the county charter.

Continuing her run of high - profile national appearances, Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz testified before Congress on Tuesday at a panel on economic opportunity for African - Americans, arguing that elements of her charter school network could be applied nationwide to help address educational disparities for black students.

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.

We also came to realize that independent charter schools faced almost insurmountable hurdles in delivering high - quality academic instruction while running these small businesses on tight margins.

Opposition to the closure was overcome because the incoming charter was run by St. Hope Corp., founded by former NBA star and Sac High alum Kevin Johnson.

Boston's tiny Match Charter High School started the program for its own graduates — 93 percent of whom were black or Hispanic — who were running into some of the same obstacles that Fenton faced.

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

In Chicago, however, we could not run similar analyses because grade configuration is too strongly correlated with charter status; we therefore can not rule out the possibility that positive results in Chicago could be partly attributable to eliminating the transition from middle school to high school.

In order to examine whether charter - school effects might be attributable to eliminating the transition between middle and high school, we restricted the Florida analysis to those students whose 8th - grade charter school did not offer 9th grade and ran our analyses again.

(Houston has no common lottery, but its best - known networks of high - performing charters — KIPP and YES - PREP — each run a single lottery for their multiple schools.)

* Some state charter laws have provisions that make starting a rural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buildings

PCSB has two application tracks: one for those starting a first school, and one for those who've previously run high - performing charters.

Across the country, charter public schools are serving a higher percentage of students from low - income backgrounds than district - run public.

The largest cluster includes six high schools — one OPSB school and five RSD charter network schools run by four different CMOs.

«[I came here] to learn how to start and run a high - performing charter school from scratch,» James says, joking that «that means with no money.»

When public schools integrate these elements — as in a pilot project run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer in Houston, early evidence suggests those schools are seeing the same gains as high - performing charters.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

«I can't even begin to say we have this all figured out,» she said while giving ProPublica a tour of Aloma High, another charter school the company runs in Orange County.

Last school year, 137 students assigned to Olympia's attendance zone instead attended Sunshine High, a charter alternative school run by a for - profit company.

School districts still get big grants, and the foundation still supports progressive initiatives like High Tech High and Ed Visions, a group of charter schools run as teacher cooperatives.

The EAA model — direct - run schools with limited reliance on chartering and a high - tech approach — is far from the catastrophe that some critics claim.

In the first half of this year, teachers formed collective bargaining units in schools run by several of the best - known and highest - profile charter management organizations.

A related study found this is better achieved in small high schools — including charter and site - run pilot schools in L.A. — compared with the more fragmented social organization of large and traditional high schools.

Then go look at Darien's High School — you won't see any bogus «academies», charter schools run by businessmen, magnets that can only cover one subject area — no, you will see well - funded schools, handsomely paid teachers, and respectfully supported families and children.

Those who have said they'd like to apply include a couple who run a Montessori preschool in Enumclaw and want to expand to grades K - 3; another couple who operate a home - school support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high school.

Over the last decade, the district has expanded the number of high school options families can choose from, with the growth of independently run schools such as charters and of selective enrollment programs, for example.

When Green Dot Public Schools took over Locke High School a year ago, the thinking was that a well - run charter might prove an instructive model for improving Los Angeles» public schools.

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

While spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent children in underfunded school districts from having their day in court, the Malloy administration has aggressively expanded privately run charter schools and funded them at levels higher than schools in our poorest districts receive.

AB851 would require the UW to award grants to public school districts, privately run charter schools and voucher schools to support dual enrollment programs taught in high schools, giving high school students the opportunity to gain credits in high school and a UW System school or technical college.

Green Dot Public Schools is a non-profit organization that runs 19 high performing, publicly funded charter schools in Los Angeles» highest need communities.

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city's schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools.

The charter sector — like the district - run sector — has good and bad actors, high - performers and low - performers.

Nathan was an early leader in the modern charter school movement, and Wilson runs a high - poverty, mostly black high school called Higher Ground Academy that is regularly listed as among the best in Minnesota.

In 2012, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, run by the high - tech industry, formed an organization to promote charters, Innovate Public Schools.

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

When the school board did not open Warren Easton High School after Katrina, its alumni foundation qualified for a charter and has run a very successful high school ever siHigh School after Katrina, its alumni foundation qualified for a charter and has run a very successful high school ever sihigh school ever since.

Passions run high when it comes to charter schools.

In addition, a recent review of the public high schools in New Haven versus the two New Haven based charter high schools, both run by Achievement First, revealed that Achievement First HAS AN EVEN WORSE RECORD than the public schools when it came to keeping high school students enrolled.

DPI officials presented sobering reports to the N.C. State Board of Education this month that detailed high withdrawal rates at North Carolina's two virtual charters, both of which are run by for - profit companies dogged by allegations of lagging student performance in other states.

Its report found charters paying exorbitant fees to management companies and that many of the highest rents were paid to landlords with ties to the management companies running the schools.

«I feel like is a family, we're all as one,» said High Tech freshman Raven Wright, who came to the district - run school from a larger nearby charter school.