Sentences with phrase «today on charter»

Researchers are conducting valuable studies today on charter schools and private school - choice programs that demonstrate some students are more likely to finish high school, enter college, and finish college.

UPDATE: October 11, 2017 ARF's transport team arrived in Westhampton today on a chartered cargo flight from Puerto Rico.

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Reporting on Jason Kenney's announcement today that the federal government might challenge Quebec's so - called charter of values in court, the Canadian Press noted that the employment minister, who is also responsible for multiculturalism, was «uncharacteristically terse.»

«In the report on the charter today, time and time again, promises were depicted as facts.

As I mentioned, today I have a completely different take on charter schools - what they are, the different types of charter schools, how they can be helpful or not, and how they might fit into the lives of homeschooling families.

Clearly, for those on the left today, the charter's legacy is a highly contested one.

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

For example, the mayor said today that he will support Sen. Craig Johnson, a Nassau County Democrat, simply because he decided to buck his fellow downstate Dems and vote «yes» on the charter school bill — a move Bloomberg deemed «courageous.»

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

«She didn't allow him an in - country right of appeal against his asylum refusal; at massive expense to tax payers she hired a private charter plane to remove Mr Muazu to Nigeria today - no other returnee was on the plane; for the out of hours injunction she instructed Queen's counsel to make submissions.

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, shown last year, said in a statement on Wednesday, «In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»

The Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

A chartered flight reportedly left Bahrain earlier today with 18 passengers on board, 16 of whom are reported to be British nationals.

The newspaper industry looked to be on a collision course with parliament today after it dramatically announced it would reject the royal charter agreed by party leaders.

The prime minister had a task today — to get Labour to fall into George Osborne's very obvious trap on the so - called fiscal charter.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The government took advantage of press attention on the reshuffle today to force through emergency surveillance legislation which could introduce the snoopers» charter by the backdoor.

(New York, NY)-- A new audit released today of the South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures and the Arts by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer found unauthorized expenditures that include travel, $ 16,000 spent on MetroCards that could not be accounted for and thousands in overpayments to the principal.

Albany, NY — Dozens of New York City parents joined Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Robert Rodriguez in Albany today and called on state legislators to give public charter schools equal treatment in the state budget.

But today, charter schools enroll about 30 percent of Newark's students citywide, making Newark one of the nation's several «high - choice» cities: places where charter schools are in the mainstream, not on the margin.

«Especially for achievement gap kids, I don't know of any charter schools like a KIPP [Knowledge is Power Program] or a Roxbury Prep that are running on today's ordinary schedule.»

To compare these active parental choices to the forced segregation of our nation's past (the authors of the report actually call some charter schools «apartheid» schools) trivializes the true oppression that was imposed on the grandparents and great - grandparents of many of the students seeking charter options today.

Today, almost half of the city's public school enrollment is in charters, even more kids are on charter waitlists, and PCSB has the authority to continue growing its portfolio.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter schooling in rural America — and the very real challenges facing it.

Under cream - colored tents in Radcliffe Yard today, the cloudy and wet weather did little to dampen the nearly 40 supporters who showed up — some in a chartered bus all the way from Michigan — to celebrate and cheer Teasley on as she earns her doctorate from the Urban Superintendents Program tomorrow.

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.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

We welcome the chance to respond on issues of teacher voice; diversity and achievement; and what Al Shanker might say today about the state of charter schools.

National Survey also reveals increased support for virtual schooling, support for charter schools rises sharply in minority communities CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

The causes of today's political malaise are too complex to be laid only on the schools, whether charter - or district - run, though there is reason to question the quality of civics and history teaching.

Professor Thomas Hehir testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor hearing on expanding access to quality charter schools.

What makes charters so important today is not so much their current success, on average, but their long - term potential to innovate.

Our guests will discuss the most challenging aspects of securing and financing a facility for today's charter schools, examples of best practices that are helping solve this problem, and the impact of the facilities challenge on charter schools» academic performance.

This book will help you learn from charter school experiences, better understand charter school performance, reflect on the non-achievement impacts of charter schools, and provide you information on what the charter school universe looks like today.

Research and present information to your class on other important issues in education today, such as school violence, busing, vouchers, charter schools, technology, standardized testing and affirmative action.

Alanna won one of them, and today is a poised, soft - spoken 10th grader at a charter school called Match, housed in an old auto - parts store on Commonwealth Avenue.

Of the 45 co-location proposals that the Department of Education decided on today, including 19 charter schools and 26 district schools, just nine were reversed.

Washington, D.C. - The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools today released the following statement regarding Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's segment on charter public sCharter Schools today released the following statement regarding Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's segment on charter public scharter public schools:

This report, co-authored by The Mind Trust and Public Impact, calls on all involved in charter schools to make the sector better, broader, and bigger in order to expand its reach and meet the students» needs — which will require innovation that breaks the mold of most schools today.

Although Al was never able — on this issue as on many other reforms that he knew were needed — to get the AFT's state and local affiliates to embrace his visionary thinking, his restlessness with the status quo, his boundless creativity, and his statesman - stature in the education field cause him legitimately to be viewed today as one of the parents of charter schooling in the U.S.

Today, reformers still pin their hopes on other strategies that count on the power of decentralized decisionmaking, such as school choice, charter schools, and vouchers.

The chief of staff for the League of Education Voters filed a measure today that would ask voters this November to allow up to 40 charter schools in Washington - if supporters can accumulate 241,153 signatures by July 6 to get it on the ballot...

The Northeast Charter Schools Network today issued the following statement in response to Mayor de Blasio's comments on charter school funding during his budget hearing tesCharter Schools Network today issued the following statement in response to Mayor de Blasio's comments on charter school funding during his budget hearing tescharter school funding during his budget hearing testimony.

NECSN CEO Kyle Rosenkrans today sent the following letter to charter school opponents who have ramped up their attacks on the charter school movement in New York.

Diane Ravitch's blog today is about the Scantron charter school test passage PURE exposed on PURE Thoughts.

The nine people who could make that happen are on the state Charter School Commission, which meets for the first time today in Olympia.

The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) released a report today, «Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection,» which examines 2013 - 2014 data on enrollment and placements of children with disabilities in the nation's charter sCharter Schools (NCSECS) released a report today, «Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection,» which examines 2013 - 2014 data on enrollment and placements of children with disabilities in the nation's charter sCharter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection,» which examines 2013 - 2014 data on enrollment and placements of children with disabilities in the nation's charter scharter schools.

Today, the Illinois State Senate passed a $ 100 million tax credit scholarship program, and charter funding equity on a bipartisan basis of 38 - 13 votes after the House approved the measure yesterday.