Sentences with phrase «school founders»

I to a group of new charter school founders on their way to launching new, great schools for kids who need them.

The charity, which is partly funded by the government to support free schools, announced this afternoon that the journalist and free school founder will be leaving his role as director.

Community - based organizations are providing technical assistance to aspiring school founders, helping existing schools find facilities, offering after - school programming, and more.

A more middle - ground perspective from small - school founders on the issue of content would be refreshing and productive.

Indeed, many charter school founders explicitly state that satisfying the educational needs of a target student group is central to their mission.

We help charter school founders create a budget and provide the accounting and business operations necessary to run their school.

The first chapter in the history of the our legal education system was a bizarre because law school founders feared the regular person.

In fact, other organizations are adding to the ranks of potential charter school founders.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

There was a time when Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr — the man responsible for the 2008 hostile takeover of Locke High School and a frequent critic of the teachers union and the Board — was seen by many as the barbarian at the gate.

The Third Point C.E.O. serves on the board of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter advocacy group whose board members also include former schools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva Moskowitz.

14) Georgia: A disgraced charter school founder in Atlanta «who a prosecutor said caused losses of at least $ 1.2 million by actions including stealing money he spent on strip clubs and luxury cars» has pleaded guilty.

General support for school founders includes a one - to - one meeting with an advisor for an hour, as well as resources available on the website and further advice via email and phone.

«Thinking is like cosmic knitting,» wrote Waldorf school founder Rudolph Steiner.

Augustine was an educator, entrepreneur, and serial school founder.

Success at School founder Mitesh Bhimjiyani said: «We are delighted to have Gordon on board.

Success at School founder Mitesh Bhimjiyani has also been named one of the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2017, marking his second time to have made the list.

Also in attendance at the celebration were Coalition of Essential Schools founder Ted Sizer, students and teachers from the Mission Hill School and the New Mission High School.

Charter schools» troubles: Even as the Eagle Arts Academy charter school missed making a payroll for its teachers, it continued to pay another company owned by school founder Gregory Blount for the use of the school name, logo, website and data - processing system, according to school records.

It has been my pleasure to work with some of these dedicated school founders, who took a chance with Connecticut's unwieldy application process and long odds.

NECSN CEO Kyle Rosenkrans, New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merriman and Amani Charter School founder Debra Stern joined Capital Tonight to discuss Charter School Advocacy Day in Albany.

Rebecca also continues to support the work of aspiring charter school founders through her membership on the BES Board, having received the invitation last year from her mentors Linda and Sue.

They primarily work in four areas — helping to identify and train school founders and leaders; providing start - up funds to approved schools; giving strategic advice and support during the application process and after the school's doors open; and advocating for improved policies.

It is based on lessons gleaned from the startup experiences of many independent charter schools and from countless visits to schools and interviews with school founders and school leaders.

To watch: We interviewed four successful charter school founders from DC, NY and L.A. for our short film Unchartered Territory (click to watch on Vimeo - on - Demand).

FBI Raids Office Of PA Cyber School Founder.

They were there when school founders did the final walkthrough of the campus with construction crews, when teachers reported for their first paid day of work, and when parents dropped their kids off for the first time.

The West London free school founder made the remarks in a report by the Institute of Economic Affairs, which proposed: «The government's flagship schools reform policy will fail to make a substantial difference unless the government allows for - profit companies to provide free schools.»

The highly selective Fisher Fellows program inducts 20 to 25 aspiring school founders per year and provides them with a summer training program that includes classroom instruction at Berkeley's Haas School of Business — half focused on business matters, and half on academic and school issues.

But for some of those on the ground, like girls» - school founder Ilana DeBare, if a school works, we should learn from it.

Inexplicably, even when lessons, resources, and help are available, school founders resist the notion of replication.

Dean Jerome T. Murphy gathered with GSE's Tony Wagner, Mission Hill School founder Debbie Meier, and CCE's Dan French to thank the Foundation's Executive Director of Education, Tom Vander Ark..

The opening of the school comes as the UK government emphasises the importance of teaching Chinese as a second language, and school founder Professor Hugo de Burgh believes that the language is an increasingly essential asset for those hoping to work internationally.

In our back - page essay, school founder Kristin Kearns Jordan bemoans the precious time and money her teachers must waste fulfilling the state's mindless course requirements.

Rocklin Academy Schools founder David Patterson designed the network's charter schools based on a Core Knowledge curriculum after finding big school districts to be academically complacent.

Minerva Schools founder Ben Nelson says Minerva students are using the real world as their campus, enabling a larger focus on the 4 C's (Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration and Communication).

Free schools BSEC visitors were able to attend a packed plenary stage on the opening day for a talk by journalist and free school founder Toby Young on his experience and challenges in establishing a new free school.

The same prudential behavior was on display in Edison Schools founder Chris Whittle» s noted 2005 book, Crash Course, a volume promoted as a «revolutionary» treatise on school reform.

, MOVING FORWARD FROM THE PAST: EARLY WRITINGS AND CURRENT REFLECTIONS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL FOUNDERS (pp. 222 - 233).

They were developed through a competitive proposal process run by the New York City Department of Education that was designed to ensure that school founders met specified conditions and to stimulate innovative ideas from a range of stakeholders and institutions.

School founder Elizabeth Gray said they have no objection to a sponsor in general, but the choice.

Brooke Charter School founders understood that teacher quality — not socioeconomic status or race — is the # 1 predictor of student achievement.

The 2008 AERO conference, «Moving from Ideas to Practice,» features Public alternative pioneer Deborah Meier, Albany Free School founder Mary Leue, No Homework and Recess All Day is published in German edition.