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school authorizer is a person or organization that has the responsibility to approve or give permission for a new school to operate. They make sure the school meets certain standards and is able to provide a good education for its students.
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This article was adapted from a speech given at the annual conference of the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers in Savannah, Georgia, in 2007.
Charter School Movement Continues To Grow In Mississippi September 3, 2015 by Brett Kittredge This week, the Mississippi Charter
School Authorizer Board voted to approve two new charter schools to open in Jackson next year.
CPS is the nation's third largest school district and a national leading charter authorizer, implementing all 12 essential practices established by the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers as critical to fostering high - performing charter schools.
A new AEI report, The Paperwork Pileup, makes the case that many charter
school authorizers require applicants to fill out unnecessarily extensive applications to get approval to open a school.
SUNY, a nationally recognized charter
school authorizer from NY state has recently made headlines for approving a new, innovative approach of allowing its high performing charter schools to certify their own teachers.
The Director of Authorizer Engagement & Advancement will manage one of NACSA's largest strategic programs and will serve as a field expert on a variety of projects, providing hands - on, customized support to charter
school authorizers across the country.
Public Impact worked with the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers on a series of publications specifically on «starting fresh» — the chartering and contracting options.
The Greenville News reports that «at the heart of the «chaos» is the effort by four charter schools, deemed failing by the statewide charter school district, to leave the state district for a new boss: a newly formed charter -
school authorizer at Erskine College, a private Christian college in the Upstate.»
But I re-raise the idea of private -
school authorizers here because there is a simmering feud among choice advocates about accountability.
Anecdotes Aren't Enough: An Evidence - Based Approach to Accountability for Alternative Charter Schools National Association of Charter
School Authorizers Alternative schools — whether charter or traditional — are schools whose mission is to serve special populations including adjudicated youth, dropouts, pregnant teens, and recovering addicts.
In April 2011, the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers agreed to assist DPS as the district designed a competitive and rigorous RFP (Request for Proposal) process to identify schools that it would authorize as charters beginning in fall 2011.
Early on, the role of charter
school authorizers seemed so straightforward that little focus was placed on them, while the politics of chartering and the action surrounding the schools themselves consumed most of the attention.
That question — how to make sure that charter
school authorizers hold up their end of the accountability bargain — is arising a lot lately as examples of failed charter schools proliferate.
National Association of Charter
School Authorizers president Greg Richmond pointed out that there are real, substantive disagreements over how to understand the civic mission of schooling.
To my knowledge, that is never the case, especially for high schools, because every state accountability system and every charter
school authorizer looks at high school graduation rates, too.
Peterson is currently the only mayor in the nation running a charter
school authorizer out of his office and has proven himself willing to be judged by the results.
I don't doubt that, but I also take cold comfort from his assurance that all other charter
school authorizers try to «be like Mike.»
In fact, the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers promotes «default closure» policies that automatically close schools based on low test score performance.
The National Association of Charter
School Authorizers informs members that one of their core responsibilities is making sure schools are open to all, said Alex Medler, a vice president of the group.
But a 2008 law that created the Georgia Charter Schools Commission as an independent charter -
school authorizer gave Madati some recourse by allowing him to apply for approval under that new entity, rather than the local district.
After the Metro board denied Great Hearts in May, DeLoache told Huffman he hoped its rejection might «provide an opportunity to highlight to the Governor» the need to push for a statewide charter
school authorizer during the 2013 legislative session.
Nelson Smith of the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers responds to John Oliver's charter school segment: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver's Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools.
The Role of Charter
School Authorizers discusses the responsibilities charter authorizers have to ensure that schools under their purview are meeting their legal obligations and providing excellent services to students with disabilities.
In fact, the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers also offered a response to the report, and included some suggestions into the mix for authorizers that might need to step up their approach on this topic.
A recent report from the National Alliance of Charter
School Authorizers provides a detailed look at the ways in which Ohio can act to create higher - quality education.
This brief for the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers explores how and why authorizer hopping happens and offers recommendations to stop it.
A recent nationwide report on charter school policies from the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers ranked Mississippi sixth among the 43 states with charter school laws
NACSA: Special Education Toolkit for Charter
School Authorizers Authorizers play a critical role in the lifecycle of a charter school, from reviewing and approving applications for new charters, through ongoing oversight and monitoring practices, and ultimately the decision - making processes to determine whether or not a school has earned the right to continue serving students.
The National Association of Charter
School Authorizers works to increase and improve quality educational opportunities for children by strengthening charter school authorizing.
Outstanding Charter School Teacher Award Gregg Cannady, Director of Collaboration and Concept Development, STEM School Highlands Ranch Charter
School Authorizer Leadership Award Deirdre Pilch, Superintendent of Greeley - Evans School District 6 Lifetime Achievement Award The Honorable Keith King
In the past two years, our researchers have determined, charter
school authorizers used school performance data to approve 944 new, quality charter schools and to close 416 schools that have persistently failed.
For these reasons, many charter
school authorizers seek leaders with strong organizational management skills but not necessarily prior experience in the classroom.
It will be interesting to see if Terry Ryan and the folks at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute (which was originally based in the Buckeye State and is a major charter
school authorizer there) will team up with the new group on the kind of on - the - ground efforts for which Dropout Nation has advocated (and Fordham's research czar, Mike Petrilli, acknowledged was necessary).