Sentences with phrase «there about charter»

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Instructions or presentations of the family, clan, or city are explained and justified by tales — «charter myths» in Malinowski's term — or knowledge about religious ritual, authoritative and absolutely serious ritual, and about the gods involved, is expressed and passed on in the form of such tales; then there are the hopes and fears connected with the course of nature, the seasons, and the activities of food supply; there is the desperate experience of disease.

The show ends with Jamie being told that his filming permit with the charter school has been revoked by LAUSD (yet he's still there with cameras, so not sure what this really means) and is told by the hipster charter school guy that LAUSD has forbidden him from even asking any West Adams students about their school food.

There are nearly 1,000 Waldorf schools and 2,000 Waldorf early childhood programs located throughout the world, including about 170 Waldorf schools and 250 Waldorf early childhood in the US, plus additional initiatives, early childhood programs, and charter schools that incorporate aspects of Waldorf Education.

There was nothing new about the People's Charter, published in 1838, except, crucially, its title.

While DeFrancisco's sentiments about the pay commission are common among legislators, there are others who recognize the reality of legislative horse - trading and remember that the last salary hike, in 1998, was traded for the authorization of charter schools sought by then - governor George Pataki, a Republican.

Asked yesterday about the Success Academy network's extremely high test scores this year, de Blasio replied: «Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep, and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

There have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schThere have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schthere have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schools.

«Do I think there will be discussions about charter schools and a robust debate?

Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

But many would say the mayor made his own distaste for charters perfectly clear during the campaign, when he remarked about the head of the Success Academy chain: «There's no way in hell Eva Moskowitz should get free rent, OK?»

«This becomes too much of a political football often in Albany, where the discussion is, unless there's additional changes in favor of charters, people talk about perhaps not extending mayoral control of education,» he said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show.

In a statement, Moskowitz, who left the meeting about a half hour before it ended, said «there is a lack of transparency in their decision - making regarding reconsidering charter school co-location... we're totally in the dark as to what they're even considering.»

Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, flourished under Mr. Bloomberg, and there are currently 183 in New York City, serving about 70,000 children, or 6 percent of students citywide.

«The governor's record is the governor's record, and there are things about it that were very helpful and there were things about it that were not, including the tax cap and the work in terms of charters,» she said Friday.

There have been tiny baby steps, but if you're talking about a European charter and code, you want to do a lot better.

We talk with Paul about Canada's vision, the role that the Promise Academy Charter school is playing, and the evidence about whether the Zone is working to transform Harlem and the children who live there.

In the United States, there are about 44 Waldorf - inspired public schools, most of them K - 8 charter schools located in the West.

Unfortunately, the analyses in this paper are not capable of identifying whether the differences in classifications are due to the type of student who attends each sector, or if there is something about charter schooling itself that reduces the probability that a student is newly classified as having a disability.

Emily Pilloton, Founder of Studio H, a design / build class at REALM Charter School and Girls Garage both in Berkeley, California, describes how she «knew there were things about architecture and design that could have a deep impact in the classroom.»

Within the charter authorizing community there is robust debate about how to do what's needed while promoting continued growth and protecting charter autonomy.

«As a charter school, we were accountable for results, but there was confusion about whether we were getting there,» says McCurry.

In fact, of the 40 states passing a law, 24 passed it when a Republican was governor and 16 when a Democrat was governor, and about two - thirds of the states passing a charter law did so when there was no single party controlling both the legislature and the governor's office.

There are currently 178 charter schools, serving about 10 percent of all students.

However, there is greater variation among charter parents in how frequently they report communicating about teacher quality than among parents in either private or district schools.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools estimates there are 6,002 charter schools in the U.S., about 6 percent of all sCharter Schools estimates there are 6,002 charter schools in the U.S., about 6 percent of all scharter schools in the U.S., about 6 percent of all schools.

One charter leader put in stark terms how closing a district school and replacing it with a charter school can feel like a personal affront to a community if there hasn't been enough transparency about school performance:

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

There's a battle now in Illinois about local and state oversight of charters.

There's good reason to believe, based on everything we know about Boston charter schools and their concentration of «no excuses» models, that they are holding their students to very high standards.

Since most students start in charter schools in early grades (kindergarten and 1st grade alone account for about 50 percent of new students), there are comparable groups for students who enter in kindergarten through grade 5.

And there's plenty of substance for the president to brag about: Forty - six states and the District of Columbia signed on to rigorous common standards; dozens of states got serious about teacher evaluations; key jurisdictions removed caps on charter - school expansion.

There didn't appear to be anything extraordinary about this December morning gathering of about 40 middle - school parents in the multipurpose room at BASIS San Antonio North charter school.

Robert Pondiscio wrote about what high flying charter schools that serve poor children are doing to help their graduates make it to college and succeed there.

That said, I've long believed that charter schools have a subtle advantage because they are schools of choice; by definition, there's something different about the families who choose them for their children and those who don't.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Wall Street is one of the biggest backers of charter schools these days, because they're investing in — they make — there's something called the new markets tax credit, where they get — and Juan González wrote about this — they're able to make a tremendous return on their investment in charters, because of write - offs on federal taxes by investing in charters.

With a new charter - backed majority on the board, there's lots of speculation about whether the district will accelerate the growth of charters in the years to come.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

Among charter school students applying to lotteried middle schools, there is a baseline advantage of about 0.2 standard deviations.

There's an ongoing discussion about how to best monitor the quality of pre-k programs, particularly those operated by charter schools, which I'll get into in a later post.

There are about 276,000 children in charter schools, compared to about 2.5 million children in traditional public schools.

There are so many misunderstandings about charter schools even though they've been in Florida for 20 years.

And I know Dorothy, who is from Ohio, wanted to ask a question about charters, where there are a lot of charters that have been unaccountable and not transparent.

It's perhaps a minor complaint but there's little or nothing until the very end of the piece about the difficulties that organizers have encountered in New York City when it comes to unionized charters (and no mention at all of the a well - publicized situation in which teachers at KIPP AMP voted to join the union then changed their minds).

Our opposition is never going to believe that charter schooling is an effective reform, but I think there are a lot of people in the middle who either don't know what a charter school is or are misguided about what it is and how it functions.

[The second piece] is communications; making sure that everyone out there knows what a charter school is and being a voice for the sector at the federal level... If we're not defining who we are and what we're about, our opposition will — and they already have, to a great extent.

However, there is currently little guidance or information sharing about military base charter schools.»

There is concern about time and energy required for overseeing a charter school and the possibility a legal challenge will be filed to delay or derail the law.

The root causes of this debacle are a badly drafted (so - called «strong») state charter law that enables just about anyone who wants a charter to get one, and the absence of any community - wide mechanism to ensure that there is a at least one good school for every child.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.