Sentences with phrase «state charter laws»

Ever since the beginning of the charter movement 20 years ago, most state charter laws have included a «teacher trigger» of sorts.

Long since the first state charter law passed in 1991, a majority of adults still have little or no clue, a new poll suggests.

State charter laws vary widely across the country — and eight states have no public charter schools at all.

Fortunately, state charter law allows an appeal to the county board of education, which in both cases approved the petitions on 4 - 0 votes (with one board member absent).

Most state charter laws, for example, were products of across - the - aisle work.

It is complex work: quality authorizing requires specialized knowledge, skill, commitment, and adherence to essential professional standards in order to serve students, families, and taxpayers well and achieve the purposes of state charter laws.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

Buried deep in numerous state charter laws are promises to districts, often made during charter law negotiations, that they will be protected financially when they lose students to charters.

Intended as a companion piece to the annual state charter law rankings released earlier this year, the new health rankings provide a comprehensive picture of how charter laws are working in practice.

Racial integration is simply not mentioned as a statutory purpose in state charter laws.

Then came the New York State charter law, and Klinsky decided to establish a new school.

One in four state charter laws includes a desegregation clause, and some voucher programs, like Cleveland's, were begun to address what desegregation orders had not.

Sure, that includes vouchers and such, but there are many other possibilities, such as amending state charter laws to allow existing private schools to convert and even making room for religious charter schools.

Indeed, the authors occasionally surprise readers, particularly with their recurring interest in the subtle institutional dynamics - from state charter laws to the nitty - gritty of making these human - scale organizations actually work over time - that mean life or death for fledgling charter schools.

«Charter school students in New York City demonstrate a long - term trend of outperforming their peers in traditional public schools, thanks to a strong state charter law that allows for multiple and highly accountable authorizers.

The depth of that support from the left, however, has been slowly eroding and recent developments exposed cracks in that alliance even before the election: the NAACP resolution; the battle over the Massachusetts charter cap; the fight against the Washington State charter law, which was joined by local affiliates of NCLR, a group that nationally has been very supportive of charters.

Last year's winner was the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools for «How State Charter Laws Rank Against The New Model Public Charter School Law».

But even if we eliminated the big bad hand of the federal government in education reform laws, state charter laws abound and ALEC is ready for the State to control education reform.

They are founded on a variety of different ideas, have different locations, different student populations, differing state charter laws governing them, and school - specific cultures that can differ more than the cultures found in traditional public schools.

SA refused to sign the contract because it violates state charter law, which allows oversight only to a charter school's authorizer, which in this case is SUNY.

Quality authorizing requires specialized knowledge, skills, commitment, and adherence to essential professional standards in order to serve students and the public well, and achieve the purposes of state charter laws.»

The Coalition is a small nonprofit that promotes using state charter laws to achieve racially and socioeconomically integrated public schools.

It's an absurdly overbroad category, taking in everything from the Hmong immigrants who attend charters in Minnesota to the legions of students «at - risk» (according to a variety of definitions) who attend charters that are specifically encouraged to open by numerous state charter laws.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools ranks Arizona 11th, Colorado 5th, New Mexico 22nd, and Utah 23rd among the states in terms of how their laws stack up against the alliance's «model» state charter law.

The CSP uses a novel interpretation of the state charter law to establish a district - authorized «charter school» which is in practice a voucher program.

* 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

The choice aspect of the paper is especially interesting — the district has been resourceful in its use of the state charter law.

The root causes of this debacle are a badly drafted (so - called «strong») state charter law that enables just about anyone who wants a charter to get one, and the absence of any community - wide mechanism to ensure that there is a at least one good school for every child.

What these reveal is a state charter law that allows charter schools to operate loosely, with little if any accountability or transparency to the public.

This aligns with our mission, our state charter law, and our «North Star» centered on students.

In one sense this ruling is a shock — it is the first instance of a state charter law being wholly invalidated, and the timing of the decision seems almost cruel.

Depending on your charter portfolio, your state charter law, and your charter term length, your ESSA transition may not be fully behind you until as late as the 2022 - 23 school year.

Connecticut has had a net gain of one charter school since 1999 — tied for the lowest growth of all the 40 - odd states with charter schools (unless you count Mississippi, where there was no state charter law until this year).