Sentences with phrase «there about charter schools»

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The show ends with Jamie being told that his filming permit with the charter school has been revoked by LAUSD (yet he's still there with cameras, so not sure what this really means) and is told by the hipster charter school guy that LAUSD has forbidden him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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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

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.

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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

There, about 73 % of charter school seniors graduated in 2008, compared with 68 % of seniors in traditional high schools.

There are now about 520 charter schools in Florida, with a combined enrollment of about 177,000 students and trending up each year, according to the state.

We had been hearing a lot about charter schools and there was a huge need here.

There's not much survey data specifically on how Black parents feel about charter schools nationally, but it's pretty clear that they resoundingly support a parent's right to choose the best school for their child.

There are about 80 charter schools in Oregon, and nine more are expected to open next fall.

«But there are definitely people thinking about the fact that the number of charters is growing, parents don't think schools are as good as they should be and kids deserve options.

Many charter schools stand out as beacons of hope, particularly in places where the traditional districts continue to flounder and there is a lack of vision from leaders about how to turn the tide.

Today there are almost 3,000 charter schools throughout the United States, enrolling about 687,000 students.

After nearly a quarter century, there are still myths about public charter schools.

«With that said, there are a number of misconceptions about what public charter schools would receive under the proposed budget.

There are more than 10,000 teachers and more than 1,500 administrators working in Michigan's 300 charter schools, which educate about 10 percent of the state's students.

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project and an advocate for charter public schools, was at the meeting and wondered why there was so much discussion about one charter public school when there were 40 - plus conventional public schools also with deficits.

Although much about school governance is learned on the job, there is a wealth of experience to be shared within the charter community.

There are currently about 200 charter schools in California today.