Sentences with phrase «significant number of charter»

Today, a significant number of charter school teachers come from TFA.

But, we also have to acknowledge that a significant number of charter schools are not fulfilling their central mission: preparing students for success in college, careers, and life.

Only 1 in 3 states offer a significant number of charter - school opportunities.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

Thirty - one of Florida's 67 local school districts requested such exemptions, but the state board granted only three: to Orange, Polk, and Sarasota, districts that had already created a significant number of charter schools (20, 24, and 9, respectively).

In at least 35 urban school districts with significant numbers of charter schools, efforts are under way to jointly improve instruction, align policies, address inequities, or garner efficiencies.

The very mention of unions in cities with a significant number of charters would put most en garde.

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After the shooting down of the Russian warplane, Moscow halted chartered flights to Turkey, which had a significant impact given the high number of Russian tourists visiting Turkey.

Cuomo has made a significant number of public comments (and past actions) that indicate he will look to bolster charter schools and implement tougher evaluations for public school teachers.

Success Academy has called for a significant increase in the number of charter seats.

Charters are poised to change the annual lottery process to set aside a significant number of seats for children of their employees, including employees of charter management organizations.

However, under a law passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Cuomo last spring, charters are poised to change the annual lottery process to set aside a significant number of seats for children of their employees, including employees of charter management organizations.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

Arizona school districts where a significant number of children left for charter schools responded with leadership changes and other attempts to draw students back to the district.

In a number of cities, charters educate a significant proportion of public school students (see Figure 1).

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

For example, a state with a relatively new charter sector may want to focus on supporting the creation and growth of high - quality charters, whereas one with a more mature charter sector may want to focus on increasing the involvement of an existing private sector that is significant in size and geographic reach but has not historically served large numbers of disadvantaged students.

This report reminds us that it is not only charter schools that may have found ways to avoid serving significant numbers of special education students.

There will likely be a significant increase in the number of charter schools that open in New Orleans in the next school year, as 117 of the 125 schools were labeled as «low performing» by the state and thus could be taken over and converted to charters.

While the number of observations is too small to yield statistically significant evidence that charters are helping the district schools, they offer no help for the claim that they are having a negative impact.

For example, the Boston Foundation played a significant role in shaping Massachusetts» recent education reform legislation, which will double the number of charter schools and equip superintendents with a broad new authority to intervene decisively in underperforming schools.

According to a 2015 report on district - charter collaboration from the Fordham Institute, DPS has «engaged charters more deeply than any of the other cities we studied, due in no small part to a decade of district leadership with a strong belief in the value of a portfolio strategy, a significant number of third - party stakeholders who have encouraged engagement, and an education landscape that gives the district a stake in charter success.»

For example, the Boston Foundation played a significant role in shaping Massachusetts» recent education reform legislation, which will double the number of charter schools and equip superintendents...

His main concern is that it «turn [s] over a significant number of schools to charter operators who historically have never served similar populations.»

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

This achievement is particularly significant given the huge number of children whose families move them to charters because they were unsuccessful in public schools.

The enrollment figures are also significant, as charter school students now represent 7 % of the total number of students attending public schools in California.

These same spheres of influence have also had a significant role in legislative initiatives directed at the «reform» of public education, resulting in a number of innovative structural changes, the charter and contract school movements being prominent examples.

And even though that number accounts for only 2 percent of the state's total student population, according to 2012 - 13 school year data, the online virtual charter sector in Ohio is experiencing significant growth: a 60 percent increase in enrollment over the last four years.

The president's Education Department and Secretary Arne Duncan incentivized states to lift any restrictions on the number of charter schools in the system and provided significant grant money to expand their numbers.

The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools seeks to recognize those charter networks that show the most outstanding academic outcomes while serving significant numbers of traditionally disadvantaged stCharter Schools seeks to recognize those charter networks that show the most outstanding academic outcomes while serving significant numbers of traditionally disadvantaged stcharter networks that show the most outstanding academic outcomes while serving significant numbers of traditionally disadvantaged students.

Over the next five years, Boston Schools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available spaces in high - performing district, charter, and Catholic schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children by 2025.

In both cases the charter school management company with no experience working with non-English speaking children was given schools with significant numbers of non-English speaking students.

Despite challenges on the delivery of services, CCSA has achieved significant reforms so that charter schools can eliminate obstacles and concerns, and increase the number of special education services regionally and across the state.

These charter schools even allow a significant number of uncertified teachers and staff to «educate» the children they claim to serve.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

Now, however, the district's own data provides evidence that a significant number of students who transferred to charter schools were not on track to graduate with their peers.

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.

Of the five states (Arizona, Florida, Ohio, California and Texas) that opened the greatest number of charter schools in the first 10 years of chartering, four posted negative student achievement results while the fifth (California) showed no significant difference between charter and traditional public school performancOf the five states (Arizona, Florida, Ohio, California and Texas) that opened the greatest number of charter schools in the first 10 years of chartering, four posted negative student achievement results while the fifth (California) showed no significant difference between charter and traditional public school performancof charter schools in the first 10 years of chartering, four posted negative student achievement results while the fifth (California) showed no significant difference between charter and traditional public school performancof chartering, four posted negative student achievement results while the fifth (California) showed no significant difference between charter and traditional public school performance.

The winner of the $ 250,000 prize, which is given to the best - performing CMO serving significant numbers of low - income students and students of color, will be announced June 27 at the National Charter Schools Conference in Nashville, Tenn..

Mayen has over 10 years experience in both corporate / commercial and maritime law and has worked on a number of significant deals including two long term FSRU charters to EGAS (Egypt) and PGPL (Pakistan) respectively, BW / Pavillion Energy joint venture, advising on various long term LNG charters, shipbuilding contract negotiations and the MWCS (Marine Well Containment System) project, established as an emergency response in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon incident.