Sentences with phrase «to approve new charter schools»

So what does this have to do with approving new charter schools?

In what is sure to be its most contested provision, the bill would also require local voters to approve any new charter schools within their community.

The state has already pulled back since Christie's first year in office from approving new charter schools in suburban communities, and even new charters anywhere.

On Monday, the state approved a new charter school in Dorchester and gave a Roxbury charter school the go - ahead to open two new schools, in Boston and New Bedford.

These complete applications are great exemplars of recently approved new charter schools from the New York State Education Department (NYSED).

Aside from raising the cap, Cuomo also favors continuing the State University's role in approving some new charter schools along with the state Board of Regents.

On Monday, the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board approved a new charter school: Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School.

Yesterday, I attended a public meeting of the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board in which the group approved a new charter school: Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School.

The Utah State Board of Education approves new charter schools, fee waivers, a career and college readiness plan, amendments to how graduation rates are calculated and takes positions on seven bills in its monthly meeting today.

Expansion of who can approve new charter schools beyond elected school boards would create a back room bargaining network that would be impossible to manage.

And these numbers will continue to grow as the state approved a new charter school, Clarksdale Collegiate, which will open for grades K - 2 next year.

«Even with this increasing demand coupled with undeniable results, Connecticut still has failed to approve any new charter schools in the last three years.

Based on similar logic, charter school authorizers — the various state, local, or independent agencies charged with approving new charter schools, monitoring their progress, renewing charters for successful schools, and closing schools that fail to meet performance requirements — may favor high - poverty charter schools.

Louisiana officials were pretty picky this month in approving new charter schools to help accommodate the fast - growing student population in New Orleans, analysts say.

It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).

Mr. Bloomberg also called for the state to give the city's schools chancellor the authority to approve new charter schools.

The schools receive state funding passed along by their home school districts, which are responsible for oversight and must approve new charter schools.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray is set to introduce legislation that would give the D.C. schools chancellor authority to approve new charter schools, a measure meant to improve academic options in long - struggling neighborhoods.

But it's unclear whether either candidate will pursue other K - 12 initiatives, such as giving the state the authority to approve new charter schools.

The CSRC voted to approve the new charter school and recommend it to the Common Council's Steering and Rules Committee, which has oversight over the CSRC.

The foundation has asked Ball State to approve another new charter school that would offer nighttime high school classes in Gary, «so young people that find it impossible to go to school during the day because of family situations, employment, children or what have you, can attend school in the evenings,» says Percy Clark, director of new school development at GEO.

For up to 1,800 kids in the Charlotte region, Thursday's vote to approve new charter schools could mean new educational opportunities in 2019.

K12 was a major supporter of the effort, donating at least $ 300,000 in 2012 to «Families for Better Public Schools,» a Georgia political action committee behind a constitutional amendment that would further the charter school industry by bypassing the legislature and state board of education to create a new, politically appointed commission that would have the authority to independently override state and local control and approve new charter schools and online virtual schools.

Charter school advocates like Wallace and Melvoin may be trying to lower the heat after the contentious campaign, but other education experts also predicted there won't be a major rush to approve new charter schools in the district.

The impact of Malloy's budget plan means that Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education can go ahead with plans to approve new charter schools this year.

The four entities currently with that power would no longer be able to approve new charter schools, under the proposal.