Sentences with phrase «sat on charter»

My children sat on charter school wait lists for more than three years to get into quality charter schools.

Laws about who can sit on charter boards vary around the country, but D.C.'s law limits charter boards to 15 unpaid members, with two seats reserved for school parents; 51 percent of members must be D.C. residents.

They underestimate the time involved: AppleTree's Tom Keane, who sits on his charter's finance committee, says those meetings alone run three hours and are held eight times a year.

The bill, SB 793 Charter School Modifications, stipulates that the salaries of charter school teachers and those who sit on charter schools» non-profit boards of directors are subject to public disclosure.

For at least a few of the more than 7,000 names sitting on charter school waitlists, these additional seats will open the door to life - changing educational opportunities.

State Board of Education member Becky Taylor, who also sits on the Charter School Advisory Board, expressed her support for the move on Wednesday, saying the recent allegations and charges associated with Newpoint are all red flags.

The crux of his argument is that the public should have the opportunity to sit on charter school governing boards; he must not realize that that is already an option at The Compass School, a K - 8 charter that educates students from his own district.

An analysis of survey and application data revealed that the vast majority of families sitting on a charter school waitlist had only applied to that particular school, giving them no backup options.

Our community includes a lot of people who sit on charter school boards, work in the charter school industry, but I knew that even a lot of people who are pro-charter in general were anti this particular charter, and I wanted to ensure that we could build a coalition that was as wide as possible.

Forty thousand children sit on charter waiting lists, desperate to escape traditional schools like

Baker A. Mitchell Jr. — who happens to sit on the Charter School Advisory Board — owns both of those entities.

Not exact matches

He also sits on the board of the Great Oaks Foundation a lead not for profit charter school organization, sits on the boards of various other not for profit organizations and heads the grant board for a private foundation he founded.

He sits on the board of New York City's Success Academy, which operates several charter schools.

His aides went so far as to charter a plane that sat idling on the tarmac of the Albany airport, waiting to take the governor to New Hampshire to file as a candidate.

Then 1:00, 1:30 and 2:00, with the plane he chartered still sitting on the runway.

He also sits on the city Charter Commission, which is reviewing - wait for it - eliminating the office of borough president.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

Just last week he went public on charter reform as we sat here patiently waiting for promised feedback from him on our proposal.

He is also a core member of Pirbright's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee, a site union representative and sits on the national panel for the Athena SWAN Charter awards, which recognize employer commitments to gender equality.

On the edge of the Navajo Nation, in the state of Arizona, sits a remote, rural, learning community that is the first off - grid, solar and wind powered charter school in the country.

Margaret Raymond, director of CREDO at Stanford University, sits down with Paul Peterson to discuss CREDO's latest study on charter schools in New York City.

Angrist, et al examined Boston charter schools and found significant benefits for charter students on MCAS, SAT, and AP performance.

While federal support and state - level legislative changes are crucial to wide - scale excellence in the charter sector, city leaders need not sit on the sidelines.

This points to the critical role of charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direcharter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direCharter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direcharter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of directors).

They would have been built in a handful of urban communities, where 32,000 children, a majority black and Latino, were sitting on waiting lists of existing charters as they languished in underperforming district schools.

The remote, rural charter elementary school sits on the edge of the Navajo Nation.

«I'd point right to the board,» said Mark Lerner, who sits on the board of Washington Latin charter school.

She accepted CBP's second match, with a four - campus middle - and high - school charter, where she'll sit on the finance committee.

«There's a danger of hitting a saturation point with the number of qualified and civic - minded people who can do that kind of work,» says Soifer, who runs a think tank and is on charter school boards in four states in addition to sitting on the D.C. authorizing board.

On June 5, 70 seventh graders from Harlem's Democracy Prep Charter School spent the day at Harvard seeing the sites, sitting in on the Ed School's diploma ceremony, and hearing Harry Potter author and commencement speaker J.K. Rowling talk about the importance of imaginatioOn June 5, 70 seventh graders from Harlem's Democracy Prep Charter School spent the day at Harvard seeing the sites, sitting in on the Ed School's diploma ceremony, and hearing Harry Potter author and commencement speaker J.K. Rowling talk about the importance of imaginatioon the Ed School's diploma ceremony, and hearing Harry Potter author and commencement speaker J.K. Rowling talk about the importance of imagination.

Ms. Brown's husband, Dan Senor, sits on the board of StudentsFirstNY, which advocates for charter schools among other issues.

I sit on the board of the California Charter School Association (CCSA), which is one of most effective charter associations in the Charter School Association (CCSA), which is one of most effective charter associations in the charter associations in the nation.

In Idaho, public charter schools are perennially some of the state's highest performing public schools on state achievement tests in both English Language Arts and mathematics, and on the SAT.

I created a table and some basic scatterplots to show how charter high schools in New Jersey compare on SAT results to public high schools that serve students in some of New Jersey's wealthiest and poorest towns.

Given the positive rhetoric about charter schools being able to «beat the odds» one might expect their achievement profile on the SAT to be significantly higher than the achievement found in public high schools located in either «A» or «B» communities.

And for those who do not sit firmly on either side of the charter debate — such as those curious about the possibilities for pragmatic solutions that might make public education more responsive while maximizing social well - being — waiting for more and better research also makes sense.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

On Friday, March 16th, the inquisitive 4th - grade students of The Children's Guild's Monarch Academy Annapolis Public Charter School sat quietly as Author, Vince Leggett presented a history of the Chesapeake Watermen using the artwork in the cafeteria as a backdrop.

Not all of the schools have gotten great results; in Arizona, for example, a tribal charter school was recently shut down after authorities there had trouble with federal special education requirements and an audit, said Onnie Shekerjian, who sits on the Arizona State Board for charter schools.

The organization's president Joseph Bruno sits on the boards of both the Idaho Charter School Network and Bluum and has been an important partner in the efforts underway in Idaho to grow quality charter sCharter School Network and Bluum and has been an important partner in the efforts underway in Idaho to grow quality charter scharter schools.

Mitchell sits on the N.C. Charter School Advisory Board, which is tasked with reviewing charter school applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of Charter School Advisory Board, which is tasked with reviewing charter school applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of charter school applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of SB 793.

Hamalian recently sat down with CCSA to reflect on the state of public education in Los Angeles, Teach for America, education reform and the charter movement.

«You end up with the EMOs being able to make a determination of who sits on non-profit charter school boards, including corporate owners and administrators.

We were sitting around the office trying to come up with ways to draw more attention to the stories of New York and Connecticut charter schools on our blog.

He also sits on the Board of Directors for Westlake Charter School in Sacramento.

Let's see if I've got this right... Stefan Pryor was co-founder and board member of Amistad Academy, the «flagship» school of Achievement First, a charter school chain he helped found and on whose board he sat until he was made Commissioner of Education of the State of Connecticut in Sept. 2011.

The real power, however, sits in CCSA's related organization, CCSA Advocates, a not - for - profit 501 (c)(4) whose mission is to increase the political clout of charter schools on local school boards, on county boards, and in the state capital of Sacramento.

Then there are the PACs that donate to the Super Pac, as well as the individual donors outside the state, such as John and Laura Arnold of Houston, $ 1 million; Michael Bloomberg of New York City, $ 425,000; and Stacy Schusterman of Tulsa ($ 75,000), who is the chairman of Sansone Energy and who also sits on the board of The Charter Growth Fund.

Alumna Krystal Cormack, who joined TFA in 2004 and taught in the Delta, sits on the state's Charter School Authorizing Board.

Local school boards could appoint a member to sit on the board of the charter public school, and the school must report to the local school board at least once a year.