Sentences with phrase «thing about charter schools»

The nice thing about Charter Schools; one could advertise teachers with a 3.5 average or better who were never arrested as a selling point.

Bradford looks between the polarized camps of reform advocates and charter critics to see the vast swath of centrist parents who don't know a thing about charter schools or school choice — yet.

The best thing about charter schools is they give parents, teachers and students a choice.

The one clear thing about charter schools is that they are all very different,...

And the nice thing about charter schooling is that no one has to attend a Success Academy school.

One of the great things about charter schools is that public school teachers can take on a much greater role in the ownership, vision, operation, and leadership of a charter school than they can in a traditional public school.

The great thing about charter school is it enables kids to go to college and achieve, and helped the entire community be uplifted.

The special thing about the charter school, he said, is that parents would participate in their child's education.

A few years later, I found myself teaching in a charter school, although I was hesitant at first to accept the job because I'd heard only bad things about charter schools from every educator I knew.

The conversation has now turned into one where one can not speak ill of MNPS and one can not speak good things about charter schools.

Not exact matches

«The last thing we want to do is open up a charter school that can not succeed, that we had worries about at the beginning,» she said at a Crain's forum in Midtown.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

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.»

And though charters have taken to putting a good face on things by comparing themselves to their local district schools, which is fair, the truth about quality is uncomfortable.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseschools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseSchools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

It is one thing to share the authors» concerns about equity and current threats to social cohesion (which I do) and quite another to think they have made the case either that charter schools are threats to those values or that schools controlled by elected school boards effectively promote them.

Despite the good news, Whitmire argues that «what worked to make things better won't work to make things truly great» and that «District leaders need to be more aggressive about transforming underperforming schools, and charter schools need to get better at serving all students.»

The important thing to know about Pearson: He has relentlessly cleaned up the mess left by the old school board, which approved too many lousy charters.

Per you point about getting the «same» amount of money, first AF schools are not unionized and AF got a bill passed last year that allows charter schools to have up to 30 % of its teacher staff not certified — those two things raise the costs in district public schools.

So that was just one school district and I read later about another school district doing the same thing, also complaining about how much money it was «losing» by having the kids enroll in charter schools versus staying in the traditional public schools (TPS).

for school year 2017 - 2018 has received little backlash, which could mean one of three things: either the district has done an effective job communicating and engaging the public, or charter schools have taken top billing — again, or everyone is just silly happy about the proposed salary increases.

The $ 902 million budget for school year 2017 - 2018 has received little backlash, which could mean one of three things: either the district has done an effective job communicating and engaging the public, or charter schools have taken top billing — again, or everyone is just silly happy about the proposed salary increases.

«Plus, a lot of kids from New Orleans, they would have known teachers and heard about charter schools and how contentious things are.»

Perhaps the most striking thing about charters is how, with smaller budgets than public districts — they get no capital funds — several have created schools with 15 or 16 in a class.

«I think the exciting thing about growing up in a charter school is that I experienced so much diversity.

Last week, we told you about Steve Barr's interest in starting pilot schools, which are small schools with under 500 kids that operate within the district but can also obtain waivers from labor agreements — the closest thing to an autonomous charter.

But there's something about that approach that feels too much like a hair shirt and, in the larger scheme of things, works against the equitable treatment that we all want for charter schools.

«Parents are looking for a place where students feel welcome, they feel like a part of the family, they feel a part of a community, they are able to develop closer relationships with teachers, and they want them to know who they are,» says Evelyn Castro, Principal of Ednovate College Prep charter school when speaking about one of the most important things parents want in a school and how sometimes a smaller charter public school can provide that.

Delta Charter Elementary School is doing some amazing things in agriculture: parterning with local farmers, teaching students about gardening, Students get to see real farming in action!

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.

There are charters that score about average on standardized metrics, but blow the doors off of traditional type schools in things like engagement, problem solving, deeper learning, setting goals, developing plans to meet goals, and persistence in meeting goals.

The same thing is happening in Stamford, which receives about $ 3.5 million in state funding for its two charter schools, while the local district receives about $ 200,000 in state grants for those students.

Well, I think Newark needs good schools, period... This idea of «we have to build charters at the expense of public school» is a ridiculous notion... That's an argument that people are having about real estate, about space, about money and finances, when on the ground, the thing that improves education is what happens in the classroom — is teacher development, staff development, and extended days and, you know, curriculum...

Many of the questions raised came from State Treasurer Janet Cowell, who wondered, among other things, about the future bond ratings for school districts that lose students to charters.

While Malloy shied away from talking about education, his corporate - funded education reform supporters were much more vocal, holding a press conference yesterday calling for, among other things, more charter schools.

It's one of the things we have learned about how successful charters have really developed their very strong school cultures.

I think the interesting thing about the numbers, however, is that the new LAUSD school's enrollment has remained relatively unchanged in the face of charter expansion.

Whether like Jennifer Alexander who lobbies for charter schools, you see thousands of Connecticut public school students «trapped in failing schools» or, like me, you see the possibilities for curriculum design and professional development in those schools, what we have before us and before the Connecticut legislators in the future is a key moral question about what is the right thing for citizens in a democracy and their elected representatives to do.

Upon further review though, I found that their data seems very valid (anecdotally) and that their data has many negative things to say about charter schools as well.

Read more about all of the charter schools doing great things on behalf of students.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

The inspiration for «Just Breathe» first came about a little over a year ago when I overheard my then 5 - year - old son talking with his friend about how emotions affect different regions of the brain, and how to calm down by taking deep breaths — all things they were beginning to learn in Kindergarten at their new school, Citizens of the World Charter School, in Mar Vistschool, Citizens of the World Charter School, in Mar VistSchool, in Mar Vista, CA.