Sentences with phrase «virtual charter schools operated»

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And we're going through another round today, with initiatives such as «Reimagining Learning,» led by Stacey Childress and her team at the NewSchools Venture Fund; the Emerson Collective's XQ SuperSchool project; Marc Zuckerberg's efforts to «personalize learning»; and any number of technology - centric undertakings like Summit Public Schools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual sSchools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual sschools, and K12 - operated virtual schoolsschools.

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.

For White Hat Management, the politically connected Ohio for - profit operating both traditional and virtual charter schools, the success rate under NCLB was a mere 2 percent, while for schools run by K12 Inc., it was 25 percent.

And what does it mean for Cincinnati, say, to be responsible for educating a child who is enrolled in the Ohio Virtual Academy or in a charter school operated by a New York firm and supervised by a Toledo - based authorizer?

Just take a look at the track records of some of the virtual charter school operators who are invading our state, or at some of the for - profit «Education Management Organizations» (EMOs) that wish to operate many of our state's charter schools.

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That's probably why the two virtual charter companies operating in North Carolina convinced the State Board of Education to approve a policy allowing the schools to avoid recording daily attendance or reporting it to the state.

Many charter schools operate as virtual schools or «independent study» home school programs, meaning their students would be exempt from the state's immunization laws.

Now, more than 50 years later, the state has more than 650 charter schools, a statewide Florida Virtual School, university lab schools and online education options operating in every school disSchool, university lab schools and online education options operating in every school disschool district.

When looking just at district - operated alternative schools, they make up 23 percent of low - graduation - rate high schools, and when separating virtual schools out from charter schools, the percentage of low - graduation - rate schools that are charter schools falls to 22 percent.

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.

However, the conversion to charter schools has proven profitable to many U.S. firms such as ALEC member National Heritage Academies, a for - profit charter school management organization operating in eight states, and K - 12, Inc., which promotes «virtual» charter schools as well as «virtual» voucher schools.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

Common standards make it much easier for teacher - preparation providers, charter schools, and digital providers like the Khan Academy or Florida Virtual School to operate in multiple states and compete on quality without having to accommodate the quirks that characterize 50 sets of standards.