Sentences with phrase «than a dozen charter»

More than a dozen charter operators initially submitted letters of intent to participate in this reform initiative.

Dehesa has approved more than a dozen charters and charter resource centers to operate throughout San Diego County, raising questions about its small staff's ability to provide proper oversight of the schools.

A group of more than a dozen charter alumni have chosen to give back in a powerful way: by inviting current charter high school students to become advocates for the charter movement.

More than a dozen charter schools face renewal in the next two years, and some won't make it.

Not exact matches

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

«Following the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, your administration tasked PSEG with chartering a better course for Long Island's energy future,» Croci wrote in a letter to Cuomo that was signed by more than two dozen elected, business and labor leaders, including the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.»

Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

Three people died and more than a dozen others were injured when a charter bus from a company with a bad history blew through a red light and smashed into the tail of an MTA bus in a Queens intersection this morning, according to officials and video.

More than a dozen elected officials are signing on to a letter pledging support for charter schools ahead of a major rally in New York City.

De Blasio has been criticized by both charter supporters and opponents in recent weeks, after he allowed more than a dozen co-locations approved under Michael Bloomberg to proceed, but blocked co-locations for three of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools.

Now with more than two thousand members, the National Academy encompasses dozens of fields undreamt of at the time of Lincoln's charter.

The city closed dozens of schools, and more than 70 new schools — many of them charter schools — opened.

Superintendent Arlene Ackerman began aggressively reshaping the Philadelphia School District, turning to charter operators to «restart» more than a dozen struggling schools and pouring resources into another 18 District - managed «Promise Academies.»

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

While charter schools still serve less than 5 percent of the public school population, in a dozen population centers charters now enroll more than 20 percent of public school students.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.

Charter enrollments reach 30 percent in a dozen districts and 20 percent in more than forty.

In dozens of U.S. cities, more than one in five students now attend charter schools.

Dozens of cities educate more than one in five of their public school students in charter schools.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

More than two - dozen groups initially submitted letters of interest to the department to start charter schools, but many were subsequently withdrawn, including one by Rev. Kenneth Moales Jr., who is now chairman of the city school board in Bridgeport.

While the city is nearly certain to reach the limit of the number of charter schools it can approve this year, the State University of New York can still approve more than a dozen new charter schools.

On November 13, dozens of charter schools joined together and more than 1,500 parents rallied and shut down the streets in front of the LAUSD board room.

California will see an explosion in the growth of charter schools this school year, as more than a dozen plan to open their doors in the Northern Region in the coming days and weeks.

CSDC fully deployed the original $ 5 million in less than three years on behalf of over three dozen charter schools.

The event was sponsored by a coalition of more than three dozen education reform and charter school organizations.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

Part of the Mastery network, which operates more than a dozen schools in Philadelphia, the Camden charter is part of a two - pronged effort that has Mastery planning another three elementary schools serving 2,000 more students under the state's Urban Hope Act.

CCSA has created more than two dozen Fact Sheets on a variety of key charter school topics that are a great tool for schools to use in outreach to parents, elected representatives and the greater community.

«Kristin is a nationally respected leader in charter school authorizing and oversaw the opening of more than a dozen new charter schools during her tenure at the Mayor's Office,» Harris said.

This fall, San Diego Unified is following the lead of High Tech High and the Preuss charter schools by boldly converting three of its larger public schools into more than a dozen «charter - like» academies.

More than two dozen charters scored below district averages.

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

«Charter schools in New Jersey, specifically in Newark, have some of the largest learning gains we have seen to date,» wrote Margaret Raymond, director of CREDO, which has conducted charter school research in more than a dozen Charter schools in New Jersey, specifically in Newark, have some of the largest learning gains we have seen to date,» wrote Margaret Raymond, director of CREDO, which has conducted charter school research in more than a dozen charter school research in more than a dozen states.

After Lewis finished explaining that under the new system, the charter boards will run the schools and the Orleans Parish School Board will set standards for them, he opened the meeting up for questions — including several from a group of more than a dozen parents and children wearing shirts with the «Our Voice / Nuestra Voz» logo.

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.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's insistence on increasing funding for charter schools has more than a dozen Democratic legislators questioning whether they can support the next state budget if it means their neighborhood public schools are flat - funded or cut.

However, this problem has disappeared: at present, more than a dozen participating charters have switched to a single online common application form.

After years of patient work toward approval of a charter compact, a strong push in fall 2015 rallied more than 100 parents who turned out at school board meetings, where more than a dozen parents testified.

Beginning in 2012, 10 low - performing district schools and three charter schools were closed or consolidated with other schools, while more than a dozen schools were renewed in the early years of reform.

Kate Mehr, executive director of KIPP charter school, said this year's cut is costing her more than one dozen staff members, including several social studies, science and foreign language teachers, and support staff who help students academically.

More than one dozen charter schools are suing the district for failing to follow the state - mandated funding formula that could provide more money.

But in California, where one in 40 students is educated in charter schools — including more than a dozen campuses in the San Fernando Valley — supporters said they've seen only success.

Board members and administrators from more than a dozen state - funded charter schools are profiting from their affiliations by doing business with schools they oversee.

«Their analysis of the 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students reveals that charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the nation.»