Sentences with phrase «successful local charters»

To the greatest extent possible, growth should be driven by replicating successful local charters and recruiting high - performing operators from other areas (see Figure 2).

Not exact matches

This policy brief, released by the organization now known as Education Cities and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, explores current experience with charter incubation and the local policies and funding needed to create and sustain healthy markets for successful incubators.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Charter schools» business models, and competition between themselves, don't allow for the sharing of successful techniques throughout the district, said Larry Carter, president of the United Teachers of New Orleans, the local union.

In 2014, two local school teachers, Sandra Zupetz and Patricia Paddock, applied for and were accepted into the Arizona Charter School Association's Fellowship, a program that incorporated research and charter development, visitations of highly performing charter schools around the country, and guidance and mentoring via successful school leaders from across the Charter School Association's Fellowship, a program that incorporated research and charter development, visitations of highly performing charter schools around the country, and guidance and mentoring via successful school leaders from across the charter development, visitations of highly performing charter schools around the country, and guidance and mentoring via successful school leaders from across the charter schools around the country, and guidance and mentoring via successful school leaders from across the Valley.

Bragato noted that after a charter school in California established a successful international baccalaureate program, the local high school instituted a similar curriculum.

Based on similar logic, charter school authorizers — the various state, local, or independent agencies charged with approving new charter schools, monitoring their progress, renewing charters for successful schools, and closing schools that fail to meet performance requirements — may favor high - poverty charter schools.

The FEA provides local education agencies (e.g., public schools), including magnet and charter schools, a set of extended services to address an educational problem, concern or practice to provide greater opportunity for every learner to receive high quality instruction and educational supports to be academically successful.

And thanks to the influence of the local teachers union — United Teachers Los Angeles — the deal, if approved, will put a three - year moratorium on the district's successful charter school program (this in a district where the graduation rate is a pathetic 56 percent).

The report presents a comprehensive survey of the abundant news accounts and prominent studies documenting the origins of the modern charter industry, its incredibly successful public relations and marketing effort, and the significant problems it leaves in its wake, including widespread financial fraud and abuse, dubious academic results, and a weakening of democratic control of local schools.

He has led successful statewide political campaigns for more charter public schools and easier passage of local school bonds.

Principal Institute extends New Leaders» successful leadership training across a district or charter network, delivering school - centered professional development targeted to address local priorities and individual growth areas.

The Nashville school selected to join the ASD will be run by LEAD Public Schools, a successful local public charter operator authorized by the ASD after a rigorous application and replication process.

Although the NGLC Regional Funds are new, what we are learning suggests that regional innovation may be most successful when it works within the strengths of the local ecosystem, harnessing the flexibility of charters and the stability and endurance of districts.

Don't miss this opportunity to gather with leaders of the national charter school movement and successful charter schools in Oregon, California, Idaho and Minnesota, as well as local «charter starters» who are ready to create new, high - quality public school choices for children and their families.

State and local lawmakers and school districts can and should focus on providing these tools so that charter school leaders can focus on obtaining the most important return on investment: successful students.

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