Sentences with phrase «spent at a charter»

If Sigt were randomly assigned, ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of (1) would capture an average causal effect of years spent at a charter or pilot school.

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SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

As Jim and Tammy pleaded with the faithful to give their all, Jim and Tammy did their best to spend their all: $ 25,000 for a face lift for Jim; $ 8,500 for an anniversary bash at a Charlotte restaurant; $ 10,000 for a shopping spree in New York; $ 100,000 for a whim - of - the - moment chartered flight to California; and on and on, all from PTL coffers.

Nestle's Public Affairs Manager, Marie Chantal Messier in response to a letter from Mike Brady of Baby Milk Action said that Nestle's CSV council charter stipulated that «if so desired, Council members may receive compensation for time spent devoted to the Council at a rate of CHF 25,000 per annum, assuming participation in a minimum of one meeting per year».

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

Charter school supporters and their critics spent eight hours shouting at one another at a volatile public hearing Thursday - and left the battle more polarized than ever.

Senate Democrats, while hobbled by a mere one - vote majority, could barely contain their glee at Cuomo's strong support for some of their most favored positions: more charter schools, a tough cap on state spending and local property taxes, and opposition to a massive new borrowing scheme — all counter to Silver's positions.

Cuomo's $ 142 billion spending plan would increase per pupil tuition assistance to charters from $ 425 per pupil to $ 575 per pupil at the start of the 2016 - 17 school year.

The final skid off the highway of smooth administration came after a week of furious negotiations, mostly behind closed doors in various corners of the Capitol, about $ 150 - plus billion in spending, the governor's proposal for subsidized tuition at state colleges, and policies regarding charter schools.

Not surprisingly, NYSUT, which is already at war with the Senate and Paterson administration over charters and education spending cuts, has signaled it might not endorse in the governor's race this year.

At a preemptive news conference with education advocates, The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says wealthy supporters of expanding charter schools have spent nearly twice that amount, and have contributed large sums to the governor's campaign.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

The task force spent nearly five hours taking testimony from pre-selected presenters who don't work in charter schools every day like I do and, in most cases, don't work in or attend any school at all.

You spent a number of years at NewSchools Venture Fund, which, among other things, helped launch some of the nation's very best charter management organizations (CMOs).

Shortly before last year's school year ended, I spent a day with Steven Wilson and several of his colleagues at Ascend Public Charter Schools in Brooklyn.

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

On June 5, 70 seventh graders from Harlem's Democracy Prep Charter School spent the day at Harvard seeing the sites, sitting in on the Ed School's diploma ceremony, and hearing Harry Potter author and commencement speaker J.K. Rowling talk about the importance of imagination.

After spending 26 years in leadership positions at four international and American schools abroad in Norway, Japan, Switzerland, and Brazil, he has just concluded twelve years as Executive Director of Sturgis Charter Public School, a nationally and internationally recognized «IB for All» high school with two campuses in Hyannis, MA.

The idea — professional development summits organized in different parts of Nigeria and taught by experienced teachers from around the world — stemmed from Enechi's own experience as a new teacher at Brooke Charter School in the Mattapan section of Boston, where new teachers prepare for their own classrooms by spending one year learning from experienced educators.

[5] Pham Thu, «A Look at DC Public Charter School Finances: Revenue and Spending Per Student,» DC Fiscal Policy Institute, August 5, 2015, http://www.dcfpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/8.5.15-Revenue-and-Spending-Per-Student-TP-Final.pdf (accessed January 14, 2016).

Charter middle school applicants who were offered a spot at one of the schools to which they applied spent about a year longer attending a charter school than applicants who were not offered Charter middle school applicants who were offered a spot at one of the schools to which they applied spent about a year longer attending a charter school than applicants who were not offered charter school than applicants who were not offered a spot.

Doing More with Less Partnership Schools provides an excellent education at a fraction of the cost of what is spent by the NYC public and charter schools.

At the schools de Blasio cited, the city recently spent $ 2 million in the union section, and $ 350,000 for the charter.

Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney favour charter schools, but at a time of probable cuts in federal education spending their growth may slow.

On average, Connecticut spends $ 4,000 less per pupil on charter school students than it does on students at district schools.

She spent last year teaching 3rd grade reading classes and Special Education at Achievement First Charter School in New Haven, CT..

She spent the past year working as an Associate Consultant for the nonprofit consulting firm AchieveMission, where she supported talent development and performance management at several national charter school networks and education focused organizations.

For example, per - pupil spending for the district and local charter schools could both increase at 5 %, but 5 % of the district's per - pupil amount is far larger than 5 % of the charter school's rate, which was frozen and then modestly raised since 2010.

While spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent children in underfunded school districts from having their day in court, the Malloy administration has aggressively expanded privately run charter schools and funded them at levels higher than schools in our poorest districts receive.

While a student at Pepperdine University, she was introduced to the charter school movement and she spent her time working at a charter elementary school.

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Then, they spend 20 days completing an intensive, hands - on residency at one of the nation's strongest urban charter schools, learning directly from BES school leaders what it takes to lead a charter school.

In general, unless otherwise exempt, the following three criteria must be met in order for non-classroom based charters to be guaranteed full funding levels: (1) at least 80 percent of total revenues must be spent on instruction or classroom support, (2) at least 50 percent of public revenues must be spent on certificated staff salaries and benefits, and (3) the pupil - teacher ratio must be equal to or lower than the pupil - teacher ratio in the largest unified school district in the county or counties in which the school operates or the school must maintain a minimum of 25:1 ratio.

Previously, Alesha spent 12 years at Charter Schools USA (CSUSA), an education management organization (EMO) where she helped enable growth from five to 70 schools serving 60,000 students in seven states.

Principals from the District's traditional public schools and public charter schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving school leadership across the city.

More than 200 teachers from 17 district schools spent Tuesday at a training run by Uncommon Schools, which has 21 charters citywide.

The Spending Blind report also underscored the CREDO findings: The education offered at three fourths of the charters was worse than that provided at nearby district schools.

September 29, 2015 - Tonight, as the Richmond City Council debates how to spend the $ 35 million in college scholarships provided by the «Richmond Promise,» at least 50 charter school supporters will demand that the funding be shared equally among all public school students, including charter students.

The N.C. Department of Public Instruction's three - person charter school office and a newly created commission meeting a dozen times a year would be the only entities responsible for ensure taxpayer money is being spent wisely and that state laws are followed at the existing and new schools.

◦ To provide parents with sufficient information on whether their child is reading at grade level and whether the child gains at least a year's worth of learning for every year spent in the charter school

Leading the spending spree was the New York - based entity that calls itself, «Families for Excellent Schools, Inc.» This is the group that bussed in parents and students from as far away as New York City and Boston to hold a rally at the Connecticut State Capitol demanding more money for the privately owned charter schools.

... Pupils at the nine schools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chains....

A new study points fingers at charter schools for malfeasance, but traditional public schools are still by far # 1 in wasteful spending.

The total cost was estimated at $ 15 million, with charter supporters spending $ 9.7 million, according to estimates from the Los Angeles Times.

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While he will spend the next month lounging at home, he will return to A + Charter Schools soon after, as a part - time consultant, to oversee a major expansion project of A + Academy high school, and will also continue to lead the monthly «Superintendent Study Group» meetings.

It's usually good news if our side can at least raise enough money to get the message out, but it's a shocker — in a pleasant way — to find the charter folks nearly doubled the spending of the union candidates.

During the weeks I spent at the school, I never saw anything much more serious than one kid yanking another's backpack, but the wave of students crashing noisily toward their homerooms bore little resemblance to the silent, single - file lines you see in many charter schools.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.