Sentences with phrase «support around charter»

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A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

Further, she supports spending more money on charter schools, vaguely stating that parents need choices until we get this «thing» turned around.

Charters in most cities still struggle to find affordable, suitable facilities; there are still endless nagging problems around transportation and other «support services»; common enrollment systems are a boon to parental choice but can't happen without district consent.

Jacobs describes how Summit Public schools, a charter school network known for «an approach that emphasizes both project - based and self - paced learning as well as the development of cognitive skills» has been sharing its model with schools around the countroy for free with support from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Another is that amid the trench warfare that the school reform debate has settled into in recent years, with the liberal - left and unions rallying around traditional schools, and moderates and conservatives supporting charter schools, neither side has had an interest in promoting the story.

Why support charter schools if they may turn around and sue you?

The budget also called for a $ 1 billion increase in Title I in order to support school choice, a $ 250 million increase for Education Innovation and Research to build the evidence base around private school choice, and a $ 167 million increase for charter schools.

The heavily weighted criteria (for example, implementing standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest - achieving schools, supporting high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.

Similarly, how does taxpayer support of home - schoolers, who form a confederacy around the charter banner but rarely see one another, advance civic cohesion in suburban towns and rural areas?

Dead set against vouchers when he ran against Williams for mayor in 1998, Chavous had come around to supporting charter schools, reflecting Democratic orthodoxy.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

I was supporting school leaders around the country when I was with Mastery Charter Schools.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

«Along with our friends at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the cCharter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the ccharter schools around the country.

Previously, Erica was a Senior Director at Achievement First Charter School Network, where she started the Human Capital team and was responsible for supporting Achievement First's activities around Human Resources systems, talent strategy, employment policies, benefits, performance improvement, compensation, and Diversity & Inclusiveness strategy.

-- Grassroots Consultations — Grassroots Trainings (Charter 101, Story of Self, Civic Education)-- Strategic planning around parent engagement (recruitment, enrollment, advocacy)-- Opportunities to network with peers and share best practices — Legislator Outreach Support — Online Bilingual Advocacy Website / Database — Legislative one - pagers — Portable Professional Translation Equipment

The Boston Alliance is supporting the Dearborn Middle School in their actions to turn their school around without charter operators and keep it a community school.

The bill defines a «community school» as a public school that focuses on improving student learning, strengthening families, developing healthier communities, working with community partners to provide additional services to the surrounding community, and providing wrap - around support services to pupils and their families but does not include independent charter schools or charter schools that are not an instrumentality of a school district.

We take our tagline very seriously around this office: Charter schools are public schools and C3S supports all public education.

Every organization and activist in support of the Dearborn will symbolically «walk - in» to Dearborn and show their support during this difficult time as Dearborn workw to turn their school around without a charter operator and address critical infrastruction issues.

«As co-owner of Grimmway Farms, one of the largest and most respected agriculture companies in California, Barbara has been dedicated to support schools in and around Bakersfield, not only for her company's employees, but for all students in the region,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association.

This year's campaign collected 730 letters around the theme of increased support for charter school funding.

WASHINGTON — Expanding charter schools around the country is losing support among Americans, even as President Donald Trump and his administration continue to push for school choice, according to a survey released Tuesday.

In her role, she is responsible for leading the organization's support efforts around family engagement, community relationship building and partnership development for all New Visions district and charter schools.

Around 3,000 families and educators from northeast San Fernando Valley charter schools marched in support of expanding high quality schools, securing better facilities and protecting parent choice in public education at last Saturday's «Rally in the Valley.»

Enable the turning around of low - performing schools and support charter boards in times of transition, academic crisis, or strategic planning.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

Instead of parents «firing» a school or having to shop around for their children's education among wildly divergent charter «products,» PAA supports the kind of empowerment which involves parents authentically at the ground level and in district -, state -, and nationwide policy discussions about how to improve schools.

Rather than requiring parents to «trigger» a restrictive, damaging set of reforms or shop around among wildly divergent charter schools, PAA supports the kind of empowerment which involves parents authentically at the ground level and in district -, state -, and nationwide policy discussions about how to improve schools.

Some advocates are hoping that if Duggan can bring district and charter school leaders together around supporting families for the Detroit Children's Success Initiative, that could lead to other kinds of collaborations, such as efforts to recruit and train educators to teach in Detroit.

The article is centered around secretary of education John King who speaks against «arbitrary» caps on charter schools and in support of greater state accountability.

DFER also paid for multiple breakfasts — which cost around $ 5000 each — at the Democratic National Convention, [80] attempting to portray an image of support for charters in MA.

On the issue of public education he said, «We're turning around struggling schools by growing our Commissioner's Network, with funding for 17 more schools... We're continuing to broaden the range of educational opportunities by maintaining our support for magnet schools, agricultural - science schools, and other high - quality options, including funding for additional state charter schools.»

The film was shown as part of an initiative of AROS, supported through the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around the country.

Right around the time that Albert Shanker began promoting a new form of charter - supported schooling, the U.S. federal government took a substantial step toward supporting the educational rights of students with disabilities.

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