Sentences with phrase «used by charter schools»

Uses of Capital Outlay Funds for Charter Schools How capital outlay funds can be used by charter schools.

In this article, Potter examines strategies used by charter schools that can provide a model for other schools, both public and charter, that are looking for the most effective ways to enroll and serve a diverse student body.

This report, authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact, highlights a range of practices and funding strategies used by charter schools in three areas:

Teacher unions see the law as a tool that can be used by charter schools, which don't usually have unionized teachers.

Participants will learn about the types of intellectual property used by charter schools and the ways to protect it.

This paper, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines practices used by some charter schools to engage EL families during recruitment, communicate with EL families with limited English proficiency, and meet the special needs of enrolled EL students and their families, and also highlights the funding mechanisms that support these strategies.

«We want to talk about the use of this property, and making it a community property,» and not just for use by the charter school, Kelly said.

Not only was she disturbed by the flier, which many inaccurately assumed was sent by her, Petrillo's Social Security number had been used by the charter school in an attempt to obtain a fraudulent loan.

This section provides sample forms and policies for use by charter schools operating such a program.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The Charter is intended to be used by the whole range of agencies in Suffolk, e.g. schools, children's centres, health services and voluntary agencies.

The money can be used, they say, to enact needed education reforms — ones that differ from those proposed by Cuomo, which includes state takeovers of chronically failing schools and an expansion of charter schools.

Read the New York Times expose and hear what charter school employees have to say about the methods used by those running the schools.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Many education reform advocates have not fully embraced the phrase, which is often used by critics of charter schools that promote strict, zero - tolerance discipline codes.

Questions asked included whether Cardinal Dolan supports the income tax surcharge that is part of the mayor's plan, what the 1,700 seats offered by the Archdiocese are currently used for, pending education tax credit bills, how the mayor expects to get his pre-K plan approved despite continuing disagreement with Governor Cuomo, guidelines governing church / state separation, how enough sufficiently - credentialed teachers can be in place for September and whether the pressure over his charter school actions is causing Mayor de Blasio to change his views.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

State budget and education experts told Capital that Cuomo can help charters by maneuvering more money in the state budget towards the city's schools, and then stipulating that some of that money be used for charter revenue.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Two Rivers Public Charter School uses the critique protocol rules — be kind, be specific, and be helpful — developed by Ron Berger, the Chief Academic Officer of EL Education.

By most accounts, a few charter schools began testing their youngsters more frequently, with the idea that teachers could use those interim results to inform their teaching.

We decided to reanalyze the data used by the CRP authors (the 2007 — 08 U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) and we just published our results in «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

Ironically, the Ritter team reanalysis used district boundary lines in an effort to justify the charters» segregated enrollments — even though charter schools are often not constrained by those boundaries.

The advisory system is used by nearly all the charter schools that serve middle or high school grades.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

This student growth and achievement system is now available for use by any authorizer or school in the country through the National Charter Schools Institute.

Charter schools in Michigan are failing to use their freedom from state and local regulations to forge new directions in public education, according to a report released last week by Michigan State University.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

Over the past few years, several studies of charter school performance in Boston have been conducted by a variety of researchers using different methodologies.

Superintendent Michael Bennet (2005 - 2008) spearheaded Denver Public Schools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeSchools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeschools of choice, to spur competition.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

Horace Mann charter schools are authorized by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and receive their funding through the state, but the amount they can keep and use at their discretion is usually a subject for negotiation with their sponsoring district.

DPS's new SchoolChoice enrollment system minimizes favoritism, fosters integration, and increases demand for high quality schools by using the same process to place students in most schools, including charters and district - operated schools.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

Could «former President» Obama use his platform to effect the change so many of our minority students need by embracing educational opportunity, and access to quality public, private and charter schools, over the politics - as - usual of the education establishment?

In the 24 states where online charter schools exist, some are locally operated by nonprofits using commercial platforms and content, some nonprofits contract with local partners for content and instructional services, and other nonprofits contract with national partners.

To do that, supporters of charter schools also have to refrain from citing weaker evidence, which only serves to legitimize the use of inferior studies by charter opponents.

An existing grantee that wishes to use, or allow charter schools receiving CSP funds to use, weighted lotteries under the circumstances in E-3 must seek approval from the Department to do so by amending its grant application.

Programs accredited by TEAC set their own standards within TEAC guidelines, using an accountability model similar to that used in charter schooling.

Thus we use a method that in effect compares the test - score gains of individual students in charter schools with the test - score gains made by the same students when they were in traditional public schools.

This approach, which is used by Caroline Hoxby and Jonah Rockoff in their study of charter schools in Chicago (see «Findings from the City of Big Shoulders»), is useful for determining if a particular charter school or the education program it offered is effective.

Once again the proposal was named the Betty L. Thompson Scholarship Program, but this time they eliminated the rural districts in hopes of getting the additional nine votes, the strategy used by the successful charter school coalition, according to Rep. Hoskins.

Without test results, for instance, we would not know that online and virtual charters appear to be demonstrably harmful to students, as are many Louisiana private schools attended by students using vouchers.

We use this lottery - based approach to evaluate three schools managed by the Chicago Charter School Foundation (CCSF).

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

In our study, we overcome this challenge by exploiting a feature common to most charter schools: the lottery that schools use to admit students when they have more applicants than spaces.

The instructional model, Every Child Ready, was developed in - house by AppleTree Institute, the charter school's research - focused sister organization, using funding from an Investing in Innovation (i3) grant.

It's also a cautionary tale regarding charter - school authorizing, particularly when done on a large scale, and will inevitably be used by school - choice foes in the U.S. as evidence in support of their scary predictions that chartering will lead to «witchcraft schools» and such.