Sentences with phrase «to convert to a charter school»

Public schools could convert to charter school status, or new schools could be formed.

An existing public school can apply to convert to a charter school if it has been in operation for at least two years prior to the application to convert.

Both groups voted in favor of converting to a charter school.

The district's portfolio now includes two DPS schools that were converted to charter schools in partnership with CMOs (EdTech and the Detroit Association of Black Organizations) and three in partnership with EMOs (SABIS, Solid Rock, and the Leona Group).

(2) In 2010 the Legislature enacted the Parent Empowerment Act, which allows parents to turn around chronically underperforming schools if 50 percent of the parents sign a petition choosing a transformation option, such as converting to a charter school.

If an existing public school converts to a charter school, it would continue to receive the same share of local levy funding, but not be required to pay rent to the local school district, according to initiative documentation.

Schools that decided to convert to charter schools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upgrades.

Poorly performing public schools wouldn't be converted to charter schools under a school - accountability bill introduced by Senate Republicans on Tuesday.

In 2004, teachers and parents at five of seven public schools voted (by margins greater than 70 percent) to convert to charter schools so we'd have more control locally.Since that time, we have made great strides.

Last year, in a controversial and mostly untested move, seven Catholic schools in Washington converted to charter schools.

Expanded School - Based Management Model The ESBMM model is based on a teacher - led approach formulated in 2005 when Woodland Hills Academy Middle School almost converted to a Charter school.

A similar process, called Public School Choice, was implemented by LAUSD shortly afterwards through which the district would identify struggling schools and request proposals for making them better (including converting them to charter schools).

Parents who opposed converting to a charter school launched a counter-campaign to get parents to retract their signatures supporting it, and nearly 100 parents did so.

A team of passionate educators has transformed their school from one of the worst in LA to one of the best by converting to a charter school and making the changes they felt would make a difference for students.

Madison Prep officials still plan to eventually convert to a charter school, possibly in 2013, after expiration of the school district's current teachers union contract.

Students in Muskegon Heights are going through a lot of changes this year, because the entire school district was converted to a charter school system.

A 2010 state law in Mississippi makes it possible for failing schools to be converted to charter schools beginning in the 2012 - 13 school year if more than 50 percent of parents vote in favor of the conversion.

Located near Watts, Locke was converted to charter school status through a 2007 teacher petition and given over to Green Dot in...

The landmark decision by the Adelanto School District to allow Desert Trails Elementary School in the Mojave Desert to convert to a charter school didn't come without a 18 - month struggle and a lawsuit, but last night school district board members gave the go - ahead.

After years of issuing warnings and sending in outside help, the state of Louisiana in April moved to take over the P. A. Capdau school, converting it to a charter school under the control of the University of New Orleans (UNO).

After failing to meet performance targets for five consecutive years, Gompers was forced to convert to a charter school in 2005 under a provision of the No Child Left Behind Act.

According to Julia Sass Rubin, a parent and member of the grassroots group Save Our Schools New Jersey, a PAA affiliate, «If a traditional public school converts to a charter schools, it affects the education of every child in that community by drawing critical resources from the traditional public school system.

As Beth Blaufus, president of a Washington, D.C., Catholic school, told Andrew and me, her school could never switch or convert to a charter school, as its Catholic identity is central to its mission.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said last week that he plans to demand radical steps — such as firing most of a school's staff or converting it to a charter school — as the price of admission in directing $ 3.5 billion in new school improvement aid to the nation's 5,000 worst - performing schools.

Mandating that students work to pay off tuition, forging partnerships with philanthropists and foundations, converting to charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts — these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school - closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located.

Existing public schools deemed as «needs improvement» by the state or federal government could convert to charter schools as well.

Affiliated Charters Affiliated charters are existing, traditional LAUSD schools that opt to convert to charter school status.

Additionally, poor - performing public schools could convert to charter schools, if local school boards approve.

The legislation also allows school districts to convert failing public schools into charter schools and for schools that are consistently failing to be forced by the state superintendent of public instruction to be converted to charter schools.

They question the way levy dollars could be converted to a new purpose without consulting voters if a regular public school is converted to a charter school, as is allowed under the new law.

Florida's school grading system has become so complex and has frustrated so many, Governor Rick Scott signed last year a one year reprieve from the grades» consequences, which typically include the requirement that if a school receives an F for two years in a row, the school must implement a turnaround strategy or a plan to convert to a charter school.

In 2010, a state law was passed that made it possible for failing schools to be converted to charter schools.

Earlier this month, he signed legislation allowing local school governing boards to close failing schools, convert them to charter schools, or fire a failing school's principal and half the staff.

Both knew Yvonne Chan, who was principal of Vaughn Elementary School, the first LAUSD school to convert to a charter school.

Dr. Chan was already a veteran educator and administrator in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) when, in 1993, with the support of teachers and parents, Vaughn Learning Center in Pacoima became the first traditional school in the state to convert to a charter school.

Schools with failing grades for three consecutive years would have to choose from four options: replace administrators, replace at least half of the staff, convert to a charter school or close.

More schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced their intent to convert to charter schools this week.

Under the Assembly bill, failing public schools could eventually be converted to charter schools.

Based on the first two attempts of parents to require their children's failing schools be converted to charter schools, critics declared the Parent Trigger a mistake.

Post the grades online and give parents the option of transferring their kids out of failing schools or converting them to charter schools.

Orleans schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. made the rounds to the district's five remaining traditional schools this month, after he said principals had expressed interest in converting to charter schools.

Under NCLB, schools would have to either shuffle administration and teaching staff, close the school or convert it to a charter school.

In 1994, it converted to a charter school — schools that are publicly funded but independently run.

«Converting them to charter schools or contracting with an educational management organization.»

Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said Thursday that American Way Middle School must be converted to a charter school in the fall of 2019 under the state's new accountability plan.

Under the proposed legislation, public schools that consistently fail the state's school report - card system must close or convert to charter schools.