Sentences with phrase «virtual charter school including»

Naperville has no «low - performing schools» and no charter schools, though I did find this pending proposal for an 18 - district virtual charter school including Naperville, submitted by former CPS Chief of E-Learning Sharnell Jackson.

Not exact matches

Options for K - 12 online education include full - time virtual schools (often state - sponsored charter schools), part - time online courses (offered through a state or district - led initiative), and blended environments, according to «Keeping Pace.»

In my own address to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education this year, I reported that K - 12 online education options continue to expand, with students participating in site - based online labs, hybrid courses, and part - and full - time virtual options that are offered by a variety of providers including charter schools, districts, state supplemental programs, corporations, and colleges.

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

Lawmakers could explore rules that exempt e-schools from policies requiring all charters, virtual ones included, to accept every student who applies and instead allow e-schools to operate more like magnet schools with admissions procedures and priorities.

Several states — including Florida, New Mexico, and Utah — have passed recent legislation requiring that districts allow students to choose their own online learning providers, whether that means state - run online schools, virtual charters, or private providers.

Additional honors include being selected as the Florida Virtual School Superintendent of the Year, Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Superintendent of the Year, Champion District Superintendent of the Year for Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools, Florida Department of Education's District Data Leader of the Year Finalist, 2014 Leader to Learn From by Education Week, and 2015 Hispanic - Serving School District Superintendent of the Year.

For example, in New Hampshire, the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School's (VLACS) program, Aspire, plans to include experiential service learning opportunities in their communities as part of their competency - based online course offerings.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Also, see how Broome Street Academy Charter High School used technology in the arts - including virtual reality - to give their students endless possibilities to create some extraordinary projects!

In spite of a wealth of information that points to K12, Inc. running a business operation that has poor returns by failing to adequately educate students, yet continues to profit mightily from state taxpayers, some are still enthusiastic about the prospect of the virtual charter school coming to North Carolina, including Rep. Larry Pittman, a supporter of virtual charters.

His current research interests include charter schools, cyber charter schools, and K - 12 virtual education programs and policy.

For that reason, the Broward Teachers Union earlier this year denounced five new state laws that expanded school choice options for parents, including the promise of more seats in charter and virtual schools.

The Navy training introspection made me think of our own «in a box» reforms that include virtual schools, credit recovery, for - profit charters and any number of new programs that claim all will reach competency in far shorter time than in traditional programs.

His excellent piece included such basic ideas as letting parents choose from a marketplace of options, including traditional neighborhood schools, magnet schools, charter schools, private schools, and virtual schools, with education funding following the child.

These include many reforms familiar to public education advocates such as Teacher Merit Pay, Parent Trigger, Education Savings Accounts, Charter expansion, Central Charter School Authorizer, Corporate Tax Scholarships, Universal Vouchers, Collective Bargaining, Innovation Schools / Districts, Virtual Charters, Data Mining, District Report Cards / School Grades, Personalized Learning, Open Enrollment, and the conveniently bundled «Indiana Education Reform Package.»

Meanwhile, Florida's State Board of Education continues to push a reform agenda that includes the massive expansion of charter schools, virtual schools, more standardized testing and stricter «teacher evaluation» systems.

In its 2017 policy statement on charter schools, NEA singled out the dismal record of virtual or online charter schools, stating that they «can not, by their nature, provide students with a well - rounded, complete educational experience, including optimal kinesthetic, physical, social and emotional development.»

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

This publication includes some key questions that authorizers should examine when evaluating virtual charter school proposals.

Ziebarth adds that especially if Puerto Rico is considering going down the road of virtual charter schools, the island should include their six policy recommendations.

As the largest school district in Tennessee, the Shelby County School system operates a wide variety of public schools, including traditional, charter, iZone, optional, virtual andschool district in Tennessee, the Shelby County School system operates a wide variety of public schools, including traditional, charter, iZone, optional, virtual andSchool system operates a wide variety of public schools, including traditional, charter, iZone, optional, virtual and more.

require that all high schools, including alternative, charter, and virtual schools, are included in the accountability and improvement systems that states are developing under ESSA.

Earlier this month, the State Board of Education endorsed a report from a virtual schools study committee that calls for the state legislature to test up to three new virtual charter schools beginning in 2015 for four years — and K12, Inc. could be included in that test group.

Those include public schools, private schools, charter schools, homeschooling, & virtual / online schools.

In our view, «educational choice» includes: education savings accounts, scholarship tax credit programs, public charter schools, virtual charter schools, home schools, and high - performing traditional public schools.

A publicly traded company whose CEO earned $ 4 million in total compensation for 2014, K12, Inc., backs virtual charter schools across the country, including California - based CAVA (California Virtual Acvirtual charter schools across the country, including California - based CAVA (California Virtual AcVirtual Academy).