Sentences with phrase «school authorizers such»

Charter support organizations and charter school authorizers such as local boards of education, are also members.

Not exact matches

The reason is that authorizers use accountability plans to make high - stakes decisions — such as school corrective action, non-renewal, revocation, and closure — that directly impact the hundreds or thousands of families whose children are enrolled in charter schools.

The sweet spot requires stipulating the importance of meaningful authorizer oversight for public charter schools that collect public funds and that such oversight should respect charter autonomy and the ability of educators and innovators to launch promising schools.

These include many reforms familiar to public education advocates such as Teacher Merit Pay, Parent Trigger, Education Savings Accounts, Charter expansion, Central Charter School Authorizer, Corporate Tax Scholarships, Universal Vouchers, Collective Bargaining, Innovation Schools / Districts, Virtual Charters, Data Mining, District Report Cards / School Grades, Personalized Learning, Open Enrollment, and the conveniently bundled «Indiana Education Reform Package.»

Figures such as those indicate two things: 1) authorizers should choose to work more collaboratively with the groups attempting to open these desperately needed schools and 2) the cap should be lifted with new charters going to as diverse a group of schools as the students who will ultimately attend them.

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.

Such authorizers would be completely unaccountable to any school board or any community's voters.

«While it would be incorrect to assume that a high - profile instance such as this is reflective of the broader charter school movement, this case does bring to light legitimate concerns about authorizer accountability and the urgent need for greater public transparency in financial agreements between charter schools and authorizers,» the charter association told the San Diego Union - Tribune when Van Zant pleaded guilty in February.

Authorizers are entities — such as school districts, state commissions or nonprofits — that grant charter schools the right to exist.

Promoters of charter school expansion are calling for an increase in independent authorizers, such as nonprofits and universities.

Authorizers also have the direct ability to hold charter schools accountable for their use of federal funds and compliance with all federal obligations, particularly through actions such as revocation or non-renewal.

Many schools are forced to divert financial resources away from important educational programs in order to address challenges such as overregulation by authorizers and facilities inequities, among other things.

Such charter authorizers are not elected officials accountable to parents and the community and do not have the same stake in the vitality and improvement of local public schools.

As a result, that has created the need for an alternative authorizer such as the State Charter Schools Commission.

Policymakers should intervene to ensue that children are well served, and authorizers should not enable such low - quality schools to continue operating unchecked.»

A proliferation of authorizers can also create a system where schools can evade closure by engaging detrimental behaviors such as authorizer hopping (where low - performing schools switch authorizers to avoid contract termination).

Other policies, such as implementing strong performance management systems, strong standards for charter school renewal, regular evaluations of schools, and high operating standards and transparency for authorizers, can also help to support an environment of strong accountability.

Here, states provide signatures of support from groups such as the state's teachers and principals — including the state's teachers» union or association — and businesses, charter school authorizers, and community leaders.