Sentences with phrase «teachers at charter»

Teachers at the charter school helped the group cross the street.

Teachers at charter public schools earn as much or more than teachers at traditional public schools.

Teachers at charter schools must be certified under the same qualifications as traditional public school teachers.

Teachers at charter schools often «burn out» due to the longer hours and higher levels of stress due to the higher standards they are held too.

Closer to home, Myranda Marsh, executive director of Jordan Middle School in Northridge, uses not only the CSTs but commercially produced reading and math assessments to rate the teachers at her charter campus.

His group collected 4,800 signatures from parents and teachers at charter schools, asking for more money in the new state budget to build more schools, known as facilities aid.

Cuomo's allies at the State University of New York would issue regulations allowing more uncertified teachers at charter schools — something they had sought and the Assembly had fought — that would let Flanagan and Senate Republicans claim a win.

Some teachers at charter schools, including Albany charter school instructor Jamal Hood, also rallied at the governor's mansion, asking for more money and authorization for more schools.

That proposal would significantly alter standards required for teachers at charter schools — in some cases requiring only 30 hours of classroom experience to be qualified to teach.

The Chancellor of the State University of New York is defending a SUNY board committee's decision to lower some requirements for teachers at some charter schools.

SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

One family we know... He is a climatologist, she is a history teacher at a charter school.

In Chicago, she taught special education and high school math for four years as well as was a founding math teacher at a charter network.

She was a founding kindergarten and first grade teacher at a charter school, and served as the Memphis liaison to the Tennessee Charter Schools Association.

He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, a teacher at a charter school.

I wish that more teachers at charters would stand up and voice their opposition to that trend.

After that, I was a seventh grade Math teacher at a charter school and then moved onto becoming a principal of an all - boy Catholic middle school where the focus was college preparedness.

Annie was assigned as a special education teacher at a charter school in Chicago.

Many of the really good teachers at charters just leave, too.

Jonathan Alfuth is a math teacher at a charter school in Memphis.

I have worked as a teacher at a charter school here in Cincinnati.

CONAN: She mentioned she was a teacher at a charter school.

I am a teacher at a charter school and we have 80 % free / reduced lunch.

I was a teacher at a charter school for a year.

By Chris Geary, Guest Blogger As an AP World History teacher at a charter school in the Far Northeast of Denver that holds uniquely high expectations for students, I have witnessed the fundamental necessity of expecting students to perform to the best of their ability on a daily basis.

Vanessa is currently living in Memphis TN, where she earned her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Memphis College of Art and is an elementary school art teacher at a charter school.

Not exact matches

That principle was embraced quite readily by the teachers at another school I visited in the spring of 2015: Polaris Charter Academy on Chicago's West Side.

At the Novato Charter School, teachers really understand how to engage children and how to spark their imagination.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

At 6:30 a.m. on September 22, 2015, fourteen very excited grade eight students and one slightly anxious yet enthusiastic class teacher boarded a charter bus at the Halton Waldorf SchooAt 6:30 a.m. on September 22, 2015, fourteen very excited grade eight students and one slightly anxious yet enthusiastic class teacher boarded a charter bus at the Halton Waldorf Schooat the Halton Waldorf School.

«This was the perfect field trip,» said New Song Academy kindergarten teacher Mary Yao, who has planted a small flower garden at her charter school.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

Moskowitz has cancelled school tomorrow at all 22 of her charters, and plans to bus angry parents, students and teachers to Albany to protest de Blasio's decision.

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

The proposed rulemaking specifies that teachers who receive this new certification may only use it at another SUNY - authorized charter school.

Charter school advocates pointed to their schools» impressive results - many outperform neighboring public schools - and lashed out at United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, who accused them of being «fixated» on raising the state cap.

The teachers union and their elected retainers threw every obstacle at their command in front of charters.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

But at the same time, the regulations lower the amount of time for teacher candidate field experience and lessen requires for charter school certification for ESOL and special education.

Senate Democrats in a news conference at the same time pushed back against the effort to expand charter schools, which included a fiery response from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

Cuomo, at the same time, will be pushing education policy goals that are likely to favor charter schools and anger the state's teachers unions.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

In the upcoming session, Cuomo has already hinted at a robust education agenda that includes further strengthening teacher evaluations and boosting the charter school sector.

The city's Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, voted 8 to 4 at its March 1 meeting at Brooklyn Technical HS to co-locate a new charter school in Bedford - Stuyvesant's already - cramped PS 308, infuriating the school's parents, students and teachers.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Charters, under the current rules, are allowed to have up to 15 uncertified teachers — who are at least working toward their master's.

The United Federation of Teachers is taking aim at Andrew Cuomo's proposal to extend the charter cap as it hones its strategy to combat the governor's ambitious package of education - policy changes.

The city teachers union didn't seem too concerned at the prospect of charter - school candidates flooding the school boards.