Sentences with phrase «see more charter»

While people with deep pockets and a desire to see more charter schools have cut meaty checks in this race, they've done so individually.

The Department of Education would like to see more charter schools and innovative programs, he said, adding that key ingredients for successful schools are high expectations for children and «an unequivocal belief that all children can learn.»

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Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

Charter schools will also see more money, though a cap limiting how many of the institutions there can be was left in place despite a push by Senate Republicans to lift it.

School aid statewide will go up by more than $ 1 billion while charter schools will also see more funds.

Cuomo had sought the addition of 100 more charter schools, but he and the pro-charter groups saw only a handful of new schools approved.

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

Governor Cuomo had sought the addition of 100 more charter schools, he and the pro charter groups saw only a handful of new schools approved.

During a comment period concerning the over-ride of County Executive Day's veto of the proposed changes to the Rockland County Charter, Legislator Sparaco meandered off into a diversionary diatribe against Republicans and Bloggers accusing Republicans of competing to see who hated Hasidics more and accusing bloggers of intimidating elected officials.

Perhaps less well known is that some scientific fields also offer chartered status; several U.K. - based professional science bodies, including The British Psychological Society and the Society of Biology, have awarded chartered status for more than 25 years (see list for examples of non-U.K. institutions that offer similar schemes).

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The [RAND] study determined that in five of the seven locales, the movement of black students to charter schools meant these students attended more segregated schools (Zimmer, et al., 2009; see also Bifulco & Ladd, 2007).

I just haven't seen the kind of drive for continuous improvement in traditional districts that I've witnessed in charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First, where the very organizational DNA is obsessed with excellence and continuous improvement, always looking for more effective approaches to teaching and learning.

Another 18 school districts enroll more than 20 percent of public school students in charter schools (see Figure 1).

The Four Corners states have seen rapid charter growth and even more - rapid growth in demand since the turn of this century.

I've seen a lot in my years in the education - reform movement and the charter school sector, and I don't think I've ever been more excited about the work than I am here in Newark.

They saw that there were success stories but that further work would need to be done to ensure that more of the good charters flourished and fewer of the bad charters remained (just as the case with traditional public schools).

Most notably, parents of charter - school students are more likely to be of minority background than are parents of either district - or private - school students (see Figure 1).

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

School districts understandably can be loath to see their pupils — and, more important, the state funding that follows them — go to charter schools.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)

Similarly, those attending a charter high school are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college (see Figure 1).

Since then, NewSchools has helped launch and grow many more CMOs, mostly in California, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Working alongside NewSchools have been national funders like the Walton Family Foundation, the Fisher Fund, the Robertson Foundation, the Dell Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Charter School Growth Fund (see «The $ 500 Million Question,» forum, Winter 2011).

Looking separately at the effect of attending a charter school for exiters reveals that the effect of attending a charter school is, in fact, considerably more negative than for students who were observed first in a traditional public school and remained in a charter school throughout the study period (see Figure 2).

But these are seen as exceptions to the rule, a view that undervalues the efforts made by thousands of charter schools to develop more collaborative models of work.

«We are already seeing the effects of this agenda with the break - up of traditional school systems such as the growth in Charter Schools in the US, the Free Schools in Sweden, Academies in the UK, more recently Partnership Schools in New Zealand, and of course the Australian Government's IPS agenda.

Charters were Shanker's way of saying that the union could see the virtue of a more market - like system if it were carefully controlled and if teachers played a central role.

For instance, numerous surveys have found that students and parents who transferred from district schools to charter schools thought the charters were safer, friendlier, and more effective, often by margins of more than 50 percent (see Figure 1).

Smith, who has taught for more than a decade in both D.C.'s public charter and traditional district schools, immediately saw the benefit for students, but says she was most captivated by the opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole.

When people are given a fuller definition, including the public nature of charters, the freedom charters have to be more innovative while being held accountable for improved student achievement, and the greater partnerships among parents, teachers, and students often found at charters, we see support grow across partisan and ideological lines.

In 2008, five charter - management organizations announced plans to dramatically expand their school portfolios, and now more than 100,000 L.A. students attend independent charters (see Figure 1).

That is to say, whereas teachers used to experience 100 % more turnover in charter schools, today charters see 17 % higher turnover.

Moving forward, I hope to see even more research that investigates the mechanisms underlying charter school effectiveness.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation, with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — over 10 percent of the state's public - school population (see Figure 2).

While the Caviness case could be a harbinger of more cases to come, we would be surprised to see federal litigation lead to a broad characterization of charters as private actors.

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I see Charlie speaking out more forcefully on the charter - school issue,» said a Rangel insider.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

«We see more and more charter school authorizers in cities with large charter market shares (like Washington, DC, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans) are starting to encourage high performing charter school operators to take over and restart low performing charter campuses.»

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

Milton Freidman's approach, vouchers, preceded charter schools and were seen as a more immediate and dangerous threat since vouchers potentially mobilized the entire private / religious school sector in the service of education reform in an entire state.

I'd be more interested in seeing at what rate the grads from this charter system graduate from college.

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.