Sentences with phrase «school conversion»

Of course, the parent trigger can be used for more than just charter school conversions.

Four out of five charter schools that sought autonomy from districts, state regulations or collective bargaining agreements were public school conversions.

Since launching in 2009, the organization has been encouraging parents to take over struggling schools by replacing staff or facilitating charter school conversions.

As one of the earliest charter school conversions in the state, Fenton Avenue Charter School offers a number of lessons.

Construction has finally begun on the Sophie Finn School conversion project in Kingston, way late and over budget.

Small High Schools on a Larger Scale: The Impact of School Conversions in Chicago (Kahne, Sporte, de la Toree & Easton, 2011)

The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Los Angeles Unified School District in a lawsuit brought by the UTLA challenging the District's 2007 approval of Green Dot Public School's Locke High School conversion.

Current law requires the signatures of parents or teachers when submitting a charter school petition, either for a new charter school or the conversion of an existing school, as a way of demonstrating support for the school

There are some interesting models developing to encourage primary school conversions, including forming primary academy clusters with shared management and forging symbiotic relationships with neighbouring secondary academies.

Pilot school conversions must be authorized by a two - thirds vote of the BTU membership employed at the school in question and authorized by the BTU Pilot School Steering Committee.

Pank Patel, regional schools commissioner (RSC) for the West Midlands, approved two secondary school conversion applications for schools in Redditch, Worcestershire.

The state Department of Education announced Friday that it had given preliminary approval to the Excellence Charter School in Camden, an extension of the Mastery charter network out of Philadelphia, and the Link Community Charter School in Newark, the state's second private school conversion.

In Tennessee, Rep. John DeBerry, D - Memphis, put up a bill that would have strengthened an existing law enabling parents or teachers to force a charter school conversion through a provision folded into his state's 2002 charter school code.

Rep. Mandela Barnes, D - Milwaukee, warned about not vetting the charter school conversion sanction carefully.

Statement of Education Voters: Comment on proposed School Code language As adopted by the Senate on December 10th, 2015 We are troubled that during this protracted budget stalemate the Senate has chosen to pass a bill that contains what is essentially a state takeover and charter school conversion model that is only for Philadelphia, and -LSB-...]

The Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote on Senate Bill 6, a bill that purports to help the lowest performing schools in the Commonwealth, but is really little more than a state takeover and charter school conversion bill all rolled into one.

We worked with parents and stakeholders to create the new school conversion process, one that is designed to elevate the voice of parents in helping operators shape a model that will best serve a school community.

If you are searching for a strong Educational Consultancy leader who will provide exceptional insight into building and maintaining school conversions into highly competitive scholastic and learning centers that foster student interest, focused on extraordinary student support initiatives, and cutting - edge student development initiatives, please contact me to arrange an interview.

High School Conversions: Essential Restructuring: Examines the issues and opportunities that arise when large high schools convert to small, autonomous schools.

Fenton Avenue Charter School was one of the earliest charter school conversions in the state.

Parents and organizers who led the parent - trigger campaign at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. await a decision from their school board about the validity of their petition for a charter school conversion in January 2013.

If the history of charter school conversions and district school turnarounds is any guide, the answer is: very low.

Charter school conversions, which typically require majority teacher support, are perhaps the closest analogue to the film's version of the trigger.

Only 25 percent of the population actually opposed charter - school conversion, while fully 46 percent take no position one way or the other (Q. 7).

Prioritize strategies that incorporate charter school conversion, replication, or expansion in applications for Section 1003 (b) sub-grants.

Jonathan oversees Alliance's portfolio of blended learning schools, which includes blended learning pilots, full - school conversions, and a Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grantee school.

Parent - trigger campaigns have spurred changes at six schools in southern California, only one of which involved a full charter school conversion.

Critics argue the law is a corporate - backed privatization tool under the guise of parent empowerment; they are particularly concerned about using parent trigger to force charter school conversions, which could strip away from some schools the leadership of elected school boards.

Humphries disclosed the school conversion proposal in a recent interview with the Wisconsin State Journal.

It turned out that the community successfully fought off the charter school conversion.

But last month, the General Assembly passed a bill banning education - reform - focused solutions for turning around low - performing schools, including charter school conversions, vouchers, and a «recovery» school district.

ConnCAN's recently resigned director, Alex Johnson, praised «the brilliance of the parent trigger concept [of the California law] as a tool for activating parents in support of charter school conversions.»

Mississippi's parent trigger law, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, is even more restrictive, allowing only charter school conversion.

Last week they were denied 9 charter school conversions, they used their Cosmos Foundation out of Texas with tool former Memphis corrupt mayor Willie Herenton.

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Ons Dorp is a school conversion project in Amsterdam, the Netherlands that transformed the old building into several apartments.