Sentences with phrase «there other charter school»

Are there other charter school options in the area?

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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.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

«I think the mayoral control and the charter school issue — it seemed those things were going together — and then there were a lot of other issue that I and others have.

Powell said there are 15 charter schools in his East Harlem district — more than any other in the state.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

There was no spike in Google searches for «charter schools» (the bottom line in the graph) after the show aired, even though KIPP and most of the other schools featured were charters.

While the exact way forward may vary from one district to another, there should be no further delay in creating state laws and regulations that level the playing field between charters and other public schools.

There are those who seek greater uniformity among state charter - school policies — urging that all charters should be for five years and that default closure provisions should be spelled out, among other guidelines.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

While proposing a number of possible strategies, Smith says «there should be no further delay in creating state laws and regulations that level the playing field between charters and other public schools.

When we talk to school providers there, they say they can still get charters authorized but the politics of district finance, combined with the saturation effect of having so many charter operators fighting over the same buildings, kids, and talent, are forcing them to look to other communities.

And while there are a variety of reasons this gap may exist, parents and others we interviewed told us that the proportion of IEP - eligible students in DPS is growing rapidly in large part because a number of Detroit charter schools simply don't offer many special - education supports.

It should include more (and better) specialized charters created in systematic ways: schools that focus on STEM, career and technical education, high - ability learners, special education, socioeconomic integration, and other realms within the K — 12 universe that cry out for better options than what's there today.

In some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievement.

Before charter schools, there were district - run magnet schools and other forms of public school choice, of which Shanker was an early proponent.

Sure, that includes vouchers and such, but there are many other possibilities, such as amending state charter laws to allow existing private schools to convert and even making room for religious charter schools.

Charters can offer a lottery preference to their pre-K students but must give higher priority to children with siblings enrolled in other grades of the school — whether or not they attended pre-K there.

Others note that there is a financial incentive for districts to delay making payments for as long as possible, even if they eventually have to pay the charter schools what they are owed in later installments.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

Again and again, analyses of «high expectations, high support» schools — in Florida, Denver, New Orleans, New York, even Newark, despite other charter - school disappointments there — have come to similar conclusions.

There, one finds «Democrats for Education Reform» on one side calling for more charter schools, merit pay, and results - based accountability for educators, and encounters teachers» unions on the other side, defending the status quo.

The op - ed by the president of the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers» union, needs to be put in context, as there was so much wrong in what she wrote [July 30, «Charter Schools Funded At Expense Of Others»].

Some focus on the arts, others emphasize cultural heritage (there are multiple Hmong charter schools in the Twin Cities alone); some are vocational, others rigorously academic.

There's reason, alas, to suspect that the center isn't holding, even among those who have favored charter schools, and certainly among those who have differing views on a host of other items that have been prominent on the reform agenda.

If there is not a clear connection between an educational business» academic and financial success, then what other factors are causing financial distress at our publicly - funded charter schools?

There has been some movement on this front, with Rocketship and other schools that use a blended learning model or are fully online, but I think the charter space should really take advantage of some of the innovations in the technology field.

Opponents of charter schools say they have a mixed track record in other states and that there are no guarantees that the ones that open here would be successful.

The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.

While New York could make a significant improvement simply by expanding the current facilities policy, there are many other facility - related solutions that could, and should, be implemented to help charter schools overcome one of their biggest hurdles.

It has talked with the Federal Way School District, and is looking at other districts, too, including Seattle, although the school board there has expressed strong opposition to charter scSchool District, and is looking at other districts, too, including Seattle, although the school board there has expressed strong opposition to charter scschool board there has expressed strong opposition to charter schools.

He says there are other factors that weren't accounted for - such as charter schools.

We have found that there are opportunities for charter and district schools to work together to improve shared spaces and complement each other's academic programming.

Some form of charter schools have been approved in 40 other states since 1992 and there are numerous successes.

However, if your child doesn't get into Imagine Andrews, there are other Imagine charter schools in the area.

«My friends at other schools that are not specifically charters, they feel like there is no room for growth.

... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to create high - performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.

Harlem Success Academy is «protested more than any other charter school in this city — and there are some bad charter schools.

If these schools were funded and staffed appropriately, there would be no need for charter, voucher, privatization or other «educational experiments.»

When it comes to academics, the report found virtual charters lagging there too, with both schools receiving an overall performance grade, gleaned from testing, of «D.» Some subjects were worse than others.

There are many other and better ways of analyzing this question about charter and public schools.

On the other hand, there are many pros to sending your child to a charter school.

But there is another place with a scandal - plagued charter sector that gets less national attention than it should: California, which has more charter schools and charter school students than any other state in the nation, and where one billionaire came up with a secret plan to «charterize» half of the Los Angeles Unified School Disschool students than any other state in the nation, and where one billionaire came up with a secret plan to «charterize» half of the Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

There were six schools on the list, including BASIS and two other charter schools.

Then, we call in the Charter Schools created by a company founded by none other than Stefan Pryor, State Commissioner of Education, (no kick - backs there!)

On the other hand, the continued argument becomes whether or not there is a relationship between poor student achievement and the hiring practices of charter schools, which employ inexperienced and / or uncertified educators.

The plan has resulted in upheaval for students and their families across the city with some schools closed, others turned over to private charter managers, and the introduction of a school choice system that has left many families with children at different schools and limited transportation options for getting their children there.

In other words, this strategy of district - wide school improvement will only work if there are better options available for families, either through expansion of pre-existing high - performing public schools, either charter or traditional, or through the establishment of new high - performing schools.