Sentences with phrase «started running charters»

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You're going to devote a lot of time and energy to starting a business and building it into a successful enterprise, so it's really important that you truly deeply enjoy what you do, whether it be running fishing charters, creating pottery or providing financial advice.

The small, blue boats will run continuously starting at 4 p.m. at the Charter One Pavilion.

Boston's tiny Match Charter High School started the program for its own graduates — 93 percent of whom were black or Hispanic — who were running into some of the same obstacles that Fenton faced.

Not surprisingly, one result is that a substantial number of New Leaders end up running charter schools, small schools, start - ups, or education organizations rather than traditional schools, especially in Chicago.

* Some state charter laws have provisions that make starting a rural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buildings

Chartering empowers thousands of African American families to create a vibrant new public - school sector in Harlem; it liberates a group of Minnesota teachers to start and run their own schools; and it provides a Teach for America alum the freedom to start a network of college - prep charters serving Mexican immigrants in Texas.

I recall an interview with a teacher at a Chicago charter school, started and run by the Christian Brothers, an ancient Catholic order, during which the teacher complained that the school's problem was that it could not teach about God.

PCSB has two application tracks: one for those starting a first school, and one for those who've previously run high - performing charters.

Board members would have approved the new building and the expanded enrollment, Nida adds, but many lack experience running a start - up with a multimillion - dollar budget (Friendship Charter, the city's largest, had 2012 — 13 revenues of $ 73.3 million).

«[I came here] to learn how to start and run a high - performing charter school from scratch,» James says, joking that «that means with no money.»

Many of the people starting and running charter schools — most of them earnest and well meaning — either don't really know what they're doing or lack the capacity to do it well.

Many cities, such as New York and D.C., have room for start - ups, and have had successful ones, some of them charters and some run by the school districts.

In the brief time since we reported on the EAA in autumn 2014, detailing its wobbly start and the disappointing academic results of its fifteen schools (twelve direct - run and three charter), much has transpired.

That is, chartering is a movement that began with the aspiration of starting many kinds of schools, but it may have morphed into one that is only adept at starting one type of school: a highly structured school that is run by a CMO or an EMO and whose goal is to close achievement gaps for low - income kids of color while producing exceptional test scores.

If charter, district, state, and civic leaders in Detroit can pivot quickly from their various postures over the Free Press series and start addressing the very real problems that parents face in district - run and charter schools alike, they will have a good chance at building a vibrant system of choice for their city.

As of the last campaign filing, charter supporters hadn't spent any of that money, but started running television ads this week.

Charter schools allow parents and organizations to start their own schools, run independently but tied to the public school system.

«The state Board of Education expressed skepticism Monday that a new charter school would be able to get up and running before the start of the school year, but nevertheless they unanimously approved the revised plan.»

The charter school would run a budget deficit through the five years, starting at about $ 30,000 in the 2018 - 19 school year and rising to almost $ 139,000 in the 2022 - 23 school year.

In that letter, Barbic said that he had discovered it was «much harder» to fix existing schools than to start up new ones, as he did running YES Prep, a highly successful charter school network.

Perry's proposal is to open a chain of privately run, publically funded charter schools starting with a school in Bridgeport, Connecticut and one in Harlem, New York.

Charter Sector Starts to Grow Its Own Leaders Education Week — May 8, 2012 The charter sector is developing its own training programs to meet the growing need for skilled charter school leaders who are able to run a nonprofit business while also serving as the instructional leader of a Charter Sector Starts to Grow Its Own Leaders Education Week — May 8, 2012 The charter sector is developing its own training programs to meet the growing need for skilled charter school leaders who are able to run a nonprofit business while also serving as the instructional leader of a charter sector is developing its own training programs to meet the growing need for skilled charter school leaders who are able to run a nonprofit business while also serving as the instructional leader of a charter school leaders who are able to run a nonprofit business while also serving as the instructional leader of a school.

The founder, Brenda MacDonald, is a seasoned public school administrator who has spent the last eight months visiting high - performing charter schools around the country and being taken through intensive training in how to start up, finance, and run a charter school.

The number of charter schools surpassed 6,000 at the start of the 2012 - 13 school year, as these schools — publicly financed, but privately run — steadily increased by 7 percent throughout the United States that year.

Alexander's and Isakson's announcement comes one day after the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan NCLB bill that alters the federal government's ability to start charter schools, which are publicly funded but can be privately run, adding new oversight provisions.

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Many parents and teachers have started charters because they believe in the original 1960's concept of «community control» not because they want hedge - funders running their lives.