Sentences with phrase «school authorizer at»
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.»
https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/ Not exact matches
At the same time it told SUNY authorizers that grades K — 8 would be closed at the end of this school yeaAt the same time it told SUNY authorizers that grades K — 8 would be closed at the end of this school yeaat the end of this school year.
They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).
At the same time, alpha authorizers need to conduct sound due diligence and avoid being mesmerized by applicants who have political, financial, or star power, but lack the competencies necessary to open and operate a high - quality school.
At the start of 2012, CMU served as authorizer to 56 of the schools, which educate about 30,000 students (see Figure 1).
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.
School districts also have the smallest staffs when compared to other authorizers (proving my point, I'd argue, that districts weren't designed and will never have the right mindset to authorize at the highest levels).
At the local level, few schools or authorizers are willing to do anything that might threaten their ability to attract and retain families.
We at Fordham have lived through a long, slow, painful — but ultimately successful — effort to repair Ohio's charter law, which was full of loopholes and lax provisions bearing on schools and authorizers alike.
This is the genius of effective charter school authorizers that look at a school's big picture as well as its scores.
At the same time, the report says, almost half of authorizers, especially smaller ones, practice «limited oversight» of their schools.
So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»
In the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, Joey Gustafson took a close look at the work of charter school authorizers and at efforts to improve their effectiveness.
«Money is an issue,» agreed Karega Rausch, vice president of research and evaluation at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).
David Greenberg has been at the Audubon Center of the North Woods since 2012 and brings to his role broad and deep experience in charter schools as a teacher, school leader, and authorizer.
At the end of March, the Tacoma Public Schools (TPS) board of directors voted 4 - 1 denoting intent to apply as a charter school authorizer in Washington state.
And indeed these vehicles are going in all different directions all at the same time, hopefully under the watchful eye of a charter authorizer or school district, but not always.
At the end of May, the Tacoma School Board voted to delay its application to become a charter - school authoSchool Board voted to delay its application to become a charter - school authoschool authorizer.
Authorizers should bring in outside experts to evaluate the strength of special education programs at charter schools.
Shannon Bauer is the Manager of Talent Development Programs at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices in the School Authorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices inAuthorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices in the school authorizers engage with best practices inauthorizers engage with best practices in the field.
Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Goenner served as Executive Director at The Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University, the nation's largest university authorizer of charter public sSchools at Central Michigan University, the nation's largest university authorizer of charter public schoolsschools.
This week, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) presented the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) with the «Award for Excellence in Advancing Knowledge» for the Portrait of the Movement report at their Annual Leadership Conference.
Caprice Young, founder of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) and CEO of Magnolia Public Schools: «If I did a Lexus Nexus Google search of every abuse at every school district in the state of California, the list would be about 40 times that long... What I would say in response to (the ACLU report) is that charters are required to have their entire enrollment procedure approved by whoever their authorizer happens to be.
For large authorizers, who oversee 10 or more charter schools, the closure rate was even higher, at 14.7 percent.
CSDC board member and former Executive Director at the Center for Charter Schools James Goenner shepherded the development and growth of CMU into the largest university authorizer of charter schools in the country, for which it was recently saluted as the «gold standard» by The Center for Education Schools James Goenner shepherded the development and growth of CMU into the largest university authorizer of charter schools in the country, for which it was recently saluted as the «gold standard» by The Center for Education schools in the country, for which it was recently saluted as the «gold standard» by The Center for Education Reform.
Lenders should know how state laws and authorizer practices hold charter schools accountable; look at every pertinent public record including intervention and probation notices; and ask their own tough questions about trends in academic performance and evidence of fiscal stewardship.
After approval by a local authorizer, the petition must be submitted to the Charter Schools Division at the Georgia Department of Education.
Authorizers, known as sponsors in the Buckeye State, are the gatekeepers of quality at a charter school's inception.
And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.
«Authorizer Spotlight: How Philadelphia Put Annual Reports into Practice» provides an in - depth look at the process the Charter School Office of the School District of Philadelphia went through to implement annual reporting...
In the nation's 25 years of experience in charter schools, the record shows that independent authorizers — especially state public universities — have what it takes to excel at authorizing.
According to an oversight report from the school's authorizers at the State University of New York, UFT Charter struggled due to high turnover, financial mismanagement, and a lack of resources such as textbooks and other classroom equipment.
At the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), we believe that all children should have access to public schools that prepare them for success in life.
I also took a look at my own work as an authorizer and as a charter - school founder.
This class is best suited for those that are at the very beginning of the charter school journey and want to better understand the charter landscape, process and timeline, authorizer expectations, and how to build a strong team.
It is one of five case studies at the heart of NACSA's groundbreaking Quality Practice Project, which explores the authorizer practices associated with high - quality charter school portfolios.
In a similar situation, some authorizers might dictate prescriptive mandates infringing on a school's autonomy, or not help schools navigate the complex and at times contentious relationships with district staff who hold unfavorable opinions of charter schools.
M. Karega Rausch, the vice president for research and evaluation at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, said he thinks there has been an increase in the number of charter schools that are «intentionally trying to pursue diversity.»
DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).
William Haft, vice president of authorizer development at NACSA, says the organization sets the bar high when it comes to vetting charter schools.
The program will help ease the transition for schools between application approval and the start - up phase; help ready schools for their first renewal process; help ease the anxiety some new charter school employees experience, even at established charter schools; as well as provide support for charter school authorizers and help them identify various high - quality authorizing best practices.
At the end of the term, the authorizer decides whether or not to renew the contract — a decision typically made on the basis of school performance.
Manager, Special Education 213-349-1486 [email protected] Vivian is a part of the Special Education Statewide Advocacy Team and supports work that includes technical assistance to schools, special education advocacy at the local and state levels, special education data collection, and engagement with SELPAs and charter school authorizers in ensuring quality options for charter schools.
The 2009 amendments were resisted by MDE since they were intended and seen as shifting authority control over the the sponsor / authorizer and charter schools away from MDE — all as originally intended in the law as known to all of us who worked on the concept at the Citizens» League and participated in drafting the law that was passed in 1991.
«We're not confident that sweeps contracts allow [charters schools and regulators] to fully fulfill their public functions,» said Alex Medler, who leads policy and advocacy work at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, a trade group for charter regulators.
The authorizer plays a vital role in charter school financial oversight, as it is the only entity charged with looking at the entire picture of the charter school — it's financial, organizational, and academic operations — and verifying that the school is meeting all of its federal obligations.
Amy Ruck Kagan is the Vice President for Authorizer Engagement and Advancement at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
«Should existing charter authorizers and operators who have a portfolio of schools that consistently perform at horribly low levels... deserve to automatically expand their number of schools without any accountability or responsibility?»
At the end of the term, the authorizer may renew the school's contract.
Rich Richards is chief of staff at the South Carolina Public Charter School District, where he works with the superintendent to set and execute the district's strategic agenda and co-manages the New Schools SC Fellowship, the first authorizer - led talent incubator of its kind.