Sentences with phrase «used by public charter»

Funds awarded from the grant can be used by public charter schools to purchase technology, classroom furniture, and other supplies.

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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 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.»

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

We cite a 2012 study in the Economics of Education Review by David Stuit of Basis Policy Research and Thomas Smith of Vanderbilt, using data from 2004, which found that teacher turnover in charters was double that found in traditional public schools (24 % vs. 12 %) and seeks to explain why that is the case.

While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

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 straCharter 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 stracharter 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.

A new report released today by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools outlines the complex maze of laws governing special education and recommends best practices charter schools can use to strengthen the recruitment of and services provided to students with disabiCharter Schools outlines the complex maze of laws governing special education and recommends best practices charter schools can use to strengthen the recruitment of and services provided to students with disabicharter schools can use to strengthen the recruitment of and services provided to students with disabilities.

Rather than being shunned by the system, new charters have an opportunity to use underutilized space in public school buildings to get up and running.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award iCharter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award icharter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

By rejecting the second prong used to great effect by Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein — improvement from outside the system through the expansion of public charter schools — you cripple yourselBy rejecting the second prong used to great effect by Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein — improvement from outside the system through the expansion of public charter schools — you cripple yourselby Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein — improvement from outside the system through the expansion of public charter schools — you cripple yourself.

And its using these false measures of proficiency to «prove» how bad public schools are so they can be replaced by for - profit charters that will reduce the quality of kids» educations to generate profits.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

Using an individual student level dataset compiled by the National Center on School Choice I was able to identify a sample of students who were enrolled in a charter school in Indianapolis during the 2006 - 07 school year and track them back to the traditional public school they were enrolled in immediately prior to enrolling in the charter school.

Located in three leased buildings once used by a parochial school at Trinity Lutheran Church near downtown Stockton, the kindergarten through fifth grade Port City Academy is part of Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school organization based in Oakland.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

Charter schools are public schools that use government money but are run by independent governing boards.

Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public doPublic Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public dopublic dollars.

So, what happens to the republic once the traditional public schools have all been removed from the protection of the U.S. Constitution and are controlled by autocratic, for profit, often fraudulent, opaque and abusive publicly funded but private sector corporate charter schools that use bully tactics to achieve their goals?

I'm confused by the deplorable tactic that the teachers unions are using to perpetuate the myth that charter public schools are stealing money from traditional public schools.

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

Use the School Finder to search by address and find DCPS and public charter schools near you, including your DCPS in - boundary schools.

In exchange, they receive more autonomy, although all public schools, charter or traditional, use the same course content (Common Core, renamed «New Jersey Student Learning Standards) and the same tests (PARCC, which, by the way, just got an «unconditional thumbs - up» for accurately measuring student growth).

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Charter opponents used to claim, without much in the way of evidence, that these schools would harm conventional public schools by «cherry - picking» white, high - achieving students and leaving poor, struggling minority students behind.

Corporate brand, logo, name or trademark on cups used for beverage dispensing, menu boards, coolers, trash cans and other food service equipment; as well as on posters, book covers, pupil assignment books or school supplies displayed, distributed, offered or sold by HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL;

He also said he would impose a moratorium on the practice of closing low - performing public schools, which has opened up valuable real estate for use by charters.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

This is the charter school budget template used by the Denver Public Schools in its charter school application process.

That is why I am particularly interested in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI) rollout of the Summit Learning platform, the tool used by Summit Public Schools, a charter management organization with schools in California and Washington, to a cohort of traditional schools and districts.

The most important test data for all public schools is that used by states to measure student achievement, and in the case of charter schools, decide whether they may continue to operate.

PA Cyber Charter was criticized by the Auditor General for inappropriately using millions in public funding for print, TV and radio advertising (Vidonic, 2012; Wagner 2012).

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

In a news release Friday, Curry said his office made its decision after reviewing investigatory records that had alleged Bennett, the former superintendent of public instruction, had improperly used state resources, violated the state's «ghost employment» statute and changed the state's A-F grading system to benefit a charter school run by a prominent Republican donor.

These charter public school supporters will be at the meeting to discuss the charter petitions for both schools, respond to intimidation tactics used by District officials and ask SJUSD Board members for a vote.

Almost every high - performing charter network in the country, from KIPP to Achievement First, uses significantly more scheduled time to achieve impressive academic gains, and many public schools, spurred by local initiatives, innovative state policies and federal leadership, are also adopting this promising practice.

What: Parents, teachers and supporters of Perseverance Preparatory School and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District officials.

In a much more honest poll — using objective, non-leading questions — Education Next found in 2014 that the public favors universal vouchers by a 50 - 39 margin and charter schools 54 - 28.

Both Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are big supporters of charter schools, publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and of voucher / voucher - like programs, which use public funds for tuition and educational expenses at private and religious schools.

According to charter and school integration authors Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter (2014), Shanker and the early backers of the Minnesota law believed that these schools should be guided by three tenets: experimentation, or the ability to use innovative approaches to teaching and learning that could inform and influence reforms in traditional public schools; teacher voice in the design and operation of the school — something Shanker saw as a direct result of collective bargaining; and integration, in the sense that schools should be ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse.