Sentences with phrase «several other charter schools»

On Tuesday, Waterbury's Brass City Charter School community came together to urge lawmakers to reject a harmful proposal to cut $ 11 million in funding to charter schools, a cut that could prevent Brass City and several other charter schools from adding more grades.

Lusher Charter School and several other charter schools in the city are continuing to negotiate with the Orleans Parish School Board over their governing agreement for the coming year, officials said Tuesday.

The couple had been to several other charter schools and hadn't seen the same level of joy coursing through the halls elsewhere.

Not exact matches

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

Several of the compacts address facilities directly, and buildings will be provided at no or low cost for at least some charter schools in Denver; Hartford, Connecticut; Los Angeles; New Orleans; and other sites.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The charter school provision of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 gave these parents, the two of us, and several other colleagues our opportunity.

Several other high - performing charter networks, including Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, and Success Academy, are also discovering the need for a new approach to teaching reading.

Several states have freed charter developers from most regulations that otherwise apply to public schools, but in others, charter laws are more restrictive.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecharter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in ConneCharter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

Several observers have noted that KIPP and other high - achieving charter schools appear to simulate the religious rituals of Catholic schools but replace religious rhetoric with talk of secular success and achievement.

Several other states also put strict limits on the number of new charter schools.

Additionally, several of the large charter school networks, including Uncommon Schools, KIPP, Achievement First and Success have opened their doors and shared many aspects of their successful programs with district and other charter leaders.

In March 2015, he joined several other state legislators in publicly calling for more state regulation of charter schools, although none of the three bills he was backing have come to a full vote by the legislature.

He showed signs that he was not completely against charter schools, allowing several dozen other co-locations to stand.

As the debate about the value of charters is heating up to new levels since the news that billionaire school reform leader Eli Broad and several other powerful players are planning a massive expansion of charter schools in LA Unified, these numbers are likely to be spun in both directions by the opposing sides of the charter debate.

Several new charter schools will be opening their doors, and many others are in the process of petitioning to their local entities.

Immediately following the release of the Governor's budget, on January 15, several CCSA Board members traveled to Sacramento to meet with legislators and other policymakers, to discuss the budget proposal as well as to advocate for issues that will have lasting effects for charter schools such as the Parcel Tax, Local Control Funding Formula proposal (formerly named Weighted Student Formula) and closing the funding gap for charter schools.

In its previous iterations, SB 337 would have established several other policies for public charter schools that have spurred significant debate, including the absence of a requirement for criminal background checks of employees and the elimination of the current under - enforced requirement that charter schools «reasonably reflect the racial and ethnic composition» in the area in which the school is located.

In part, that's probably due to the several fine charter schools dedicated to at - risk students and their copycat board - run schools; it also likely stems from the fact that many other schools offer programs that are well - suited to disadvantaged students.

The 63 grants benefit schools serving a total of over 34,000 students and include 9 charter management organizations responsible for 42 schools, 14 individual charter schools and 10 other schools, including several serving children with special needs.

Today, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meCharter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meSchools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance mecharter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance meschools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance measures.

StudentsFirstNY, an advocacy group that promotes charter schools and other education reforms, on whose board several of those donors sit, strongly endorsed the governor's campaign to make test scores matter more in evaluations, saying the existing system bore «zero resemblance» to how students themselves were performing across the state.

These have been going on for several years among the AF schools, and at a couple of other charters as well.

A lack of oversight and confusion among several departments with little experience in understanding how affiliated charter school should operate, including school operations, school management services and budget services, lead the district to purchase textbooks, classroom furniture and other supplies for years on behalf of the autonomous schools.

Today, CCSA called for the non-renewal of five California charter schools that fell below CCSA's minimum renewal criteria and are chronically underperforming on several other academic performance measures.

But White called attention to several other charter chiefs in the room, including the leaders of Choice Foundation, KIPP New Orleans, New Orleans College Prep and International High, as well as interim Superintendent Stan Smith of the Orleans Parish school system.

His conversations with parents led the artistic director and founder of Utah's Odyssey Dance Theatre to team up with several other artists to launch one of Utah's eight new charter schools — Pioneer High School for the Performing Arts.

She has previously written about problems with charter schools in California and several other states.

There are many principals that effectively act as CEOs of their charter schools — the principals of Moton, Sophie B. Wright, Coghill, Harney, and several other standalone charter schools all come to mind.

Several more independent charter school leaders soon will find themselves facing a question that several others, including Sophie B. Wright Charter School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish SchoolSeveral more independent charter school leaders soon will find themselves facing a question that several others, including Sophie B. Wright Charter School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish Schoolcharter school leaders soon will find themselves facing a question that several others, including Sophie B. Wright Charter School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish School school leaders soon will find themselves facing a question that several others, including Sophie B. Wright Charter School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish Schoolseveral others, including Sophie B. Wright Charter School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish SchoolCharter School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish School School's principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish School School Board?

Several years ago, Wendy Lecker also pointed to what appeared to be «double standards» in evaluating charter and other public schools in her column at The Stamford Advocate.

«I have several charters in my district that are quite successful... But many others are simply mediocre or underperforming neighborhood schools.

Several other agenda items were postponed, including one from Mónica Ratliff that called for more transparency in the operations of charter schools.

Several parents at a Dorchester charter school are calling for the ouster of the executive director and the chairman of the school's trustees, following a firestorm over the layoffs of the principal and five other employees.

For now, Choice is Yours is one of several «choices» provided to Minneapolis students; the others are charter schools, magnet schools and inter-district magnet schools.

In addition, the plan would allow several other entities to oversee independent charter schools.

One of the so - called train bills combines a popular plan dubbed, «public school choice» with several other measures aimed at charter schools.

The IFF study for D.C., «Quality Schools: Every Child, Every School, Every Neighborhood» was released in January 2012 and recommended closing several additional D.C. public schools and transferring other public schools (and school buildings) to private charter opeSchools: Every Child, Every School, Every Neighborhood» was released in January 2012 and recommended closing several additional D.C. public schools and transferring other public schools (and school buildings) to private charter operSchool, Every Neighborhood» was released in January 2012 and recommended closing several additional D.C. public schools and transferring other public schools (and school buildings) to private charter opeschools and transferring other public schools (and school buildings) to private charter opeschools (and school buildings) to private charter operschool buildings) to private charter operators.

Yet of those 18, several appear to be recommended along with significant reservations, as advisory board members highlighted a number of concerns they have ranging from the prospective schools» ability to provide sufficient educational services, to one charter management company's poor track record in other states.

It was one of several changes to the platform pertaining to standardized tests and charter schools that have created a flurry of recent discussion: sharp criticism by some and cheers of support by others.

Last week the State Board of Education (SBE) and State Charter School Board (SCSB) considered several new rules and changes to other existing rules.

Chartering and Choice profiled several schools across the state that are successfully closing the prevalent achievement and opportunity gap between African American students and those of other races.

The report identifies several managers and their spouses who are tied to the charter network, several of whom presumably champion school choice and other conservative education policies on the Trump administration's policy agenda (Hedge Clippers, 2015).