Sentences with phrase «struggle over charter»

Here's how the plan unveiled last year by philanthropist Eli Broad to rapidly expand the number of charter schools in Los Angeles is shaping the struggle over charters.

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The approved 2015 - 16 state budget includes a program for struggling or «failing» schools to be taken over by a state monitor, with the schools potentially re-opening as charter schools.

Collaboration with parents is vital to improving struggling schools, promoting educational equity, addressing the over emphasis on high - stakes testing, and increasing charter school accountability.»

But they were barred from the contest, triggering an outpouring of angry accusations and casting the children as victims of an increasingly hostile struggle over the city's growing charter school movement.

A struggling Nashville, Tenn., middle school will become the state's first public school to be turned into a charter school, with a yet - to - be-named company possibly taking it over a grade at a time.

The political skirmishes in Florida, including court fights over vouchers and charter schools, and ongoing struggles over a parade of different merit pay plans for teachers, give credence to the standard portrayal.

The charter sector, on the other hand, has replaced nearly all of its struggling schools with much better schools, having closed or replaced over 21 schools since 2012.

While some are creating separate school districts for the lowest - achieving schools, others are using charter management organizations and providing parents with greater choice, and still others are appointing state receivers to take over struggling districts.

Ben Chavis, who took over American Indian Public Charter in 2001, when it was struggling academically and in danger of losing its charter, said there was no mystery to his schools» sCharter in 2001, when it was struggling academically and in danger of losing its charter, said there was no mystery to his schools» scharter, said there was no mystery to his schools» success.

The Newark schools were taken over by the state in 1995 and been struggling with financial instability, losing about $ 30 million a year to charter schools with per - pupil subsidies.

Rep. Rob Bryan is working behind the scenes on legislation pushed by national right - wing forces that could turn over struggling public schools to for - profit charter school operators who would have the freedom to fire all the teachers.

And now, the 24th Street parent organizers have convinced the district to partner with a local charter operator to take over the struggling school; Tuesday parents get to vote on that.

Charter school advocates worried that the change would halt the momentum of Public School Choice, a program where district schools and charter organizations compete to take over new and struggling caCharter school advocates worried that the change would halt the momentum of Public School Choice, a program where district schools and charter organizations compete to take over new and struggling cacharter organizations compete to take over new and struggling campuses.

In California, Fuller said virtual charters like those run by K12 Inc. began with a «virtuous» premise — offering additional paths to graduation for students who, for various reasons, struggle in brick - and - mortar schools — but public perception of the programs soured due to bickering over public funds and performance.

She described the city's school system to me recently this way: In the ideological struggle over choice and charter schools «we're actually in the middle.

Walter L. Cohen High School is slated to be gradually taken over by NOLA College Prep over the next two years, one of nine struggling Recovery School District campuses around the city to be placed under control of a new charter operator, officials said this week.

The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday in the piece Possible charter partner revealed for HISD's struggling schools that one of the options on the table is turning over the ten schools to Energized For STEM Academy Inc..

Tennessee's legislature had just passed a law allowing the state's education agency to take the reins of the state's worst - performing schools and either run them directly or hand them over to a charter operator, a move that stood to drain potentially millions of state - aid dollars from the already financially struggling district.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

The Board of Education approved a resolution in August to turn over 12 long - struggling campuses and 18 new ones to bidders from inside or outside the district, including some charter operators.

Readers will gain an appreciation of what a long and arduous struggle is entailed in raising a Charter challenge, involving decisions by three levels of court, over a period of many years, culminating in Vriend in a ringing affirmation of the existence of gay and lesbian rights under s. 15 — the equality rights provision.