Not exact matches
«We want to turn these schools around, but just to blame teachers and close schools and
open up
charter schools I
think is unfair,» Heastie said.
«This idea that we should close schools to
open up
charter schools I don't
think is an accurate way to go,» Heastie said.
Moraine was not the only school in our new «portfolio» that
opened our eyes to some realities of the
charter world that we had not fully appreciated in our earlier
think - tank role.
But I
think charter schools
open a door that creates hugely empowering opportunities.»
I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the
charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I
think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about
opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.
As the Times Picayune editorialized, «20 years after Louisiana's first
charter school
opened, you'd
think the state's educational establishment would've accepted the independence and innovation
charters represent.
I
think this should modestly increase our belief that being loose on
charter openings and closings can lead, over time, to a healthy
charter sector.
With the
opening of Washington's first
charter school likely 15 months away, more dollars from Seattle's tech economy are flowing toward groups that want to change the way the state
thinks about public schools...
«We're committed to doing what it takes to
open a
charter school in Washington state because we
think the need exists,» KIPP spokesman Steve Mancini said.
The Board of Regents, which has a history of being extremely volatile in its approach to
chartering, might as well hang a sign on its door saying:
Thinking of
opening up a
charter school anywhere except the Big 5?
Charter schools represent innovative
thinking, the same kind of
open - mindedness that created magnet schools and other inventive solutions in public education.
Change has been to create
charters, magnets,
open choice, and I
think that's worked well.»
Just as critical, the 6,700 individual
charter schools that have
opened nationwide are serving as incubators of the most forward -
thinking leaders in public education.
Aspire's mission is to
open and operate small, high - quality
charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward -
thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.
This relative decline in North Carolina
charter school performance is
thought to be related to the poor performance of newly -
opened charter schools.
«My hope is that she has a very
open mind... and doesn't
think the Michigan approach is the right one,» said Peter Cunningham, a former Obama Education Department official who is now executive director of the Education Post, a nonprofit group that supports
charter schools.
The 74 Braimah: 3 Ways to
Think About School Choice Through the Lens of Equity and DiversityThe 74 New Study: 3 Ways to Tell If a
Charter School Will Struggle Before It Even
Opens Its Doors
So I just
think that there needs to be some filter as to who's
opening up these
charter schools.
Public schools were closed but some
charters were
open (one of those «needs of the kids ahead of the needs of the adults» things, I
think).
The mission of the Community
Charter School of Paterson is to inspire and empower its children, families and staff with opportunities to positively shape and transform their lives by becoming successful, life - long learners who possess critical
thinking, academic, advocacy and leadership skills required to
open new doors in their lives and the lives of others.
But while I
think an argument could be made for such a system (so long as it included the other caveats in my previous comment about educational standards, religious and other bias, and
open enrollment), it still wouldn't be
charter schools.
State lawmakers who oversee North Carolina's public schools
think the two low - performing virtual
charter schools should be allowed to remain
open for four more years and that elementary schools must prove they're teaching cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.
I disagree with him about the notwithstanding clause — hardly ever used outside Quebec, and I don't
think that's a problem; about property rights — an
open invitation to fight every kind of government action on the basis that one's property (i.e. right to do whatever one wants without regard to others) has been infringed (the US took over 100 years to fight that one out, and the right to govern is back under attack there); and about secession — in fact the SCC managed to give a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution (not the
Charter in particular) on that point.
These gaps allow contentious legislation —
think: Bill C - 51, the Fair Elections Act, the omnibus mandatory minimums crime bill, and the bill limiting refugee access to Canada — to be passed without
open, adequate, and meaningful consideration of their constitutional vulnerabilities (i.e. if, how, and to what extent a proposed law may violate the
Charter).