Sentences with phrase «want quality charter»

«I want quality charter schools.

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«Parents want to let legislators know they support the governor's proposal to allow charters to provide high - quality pre-K seats,» he added, referring to Cuomo's recent proposal that much - needed city pre-K space could be found in charter schools.

In fact, many of the charter sector's quality headaches stem from school boards that abdicate their responsibilities as charter school authorizers, a role they probably never wanted to play in the first place.

What they want to know is how to make their state's charter sector work as well as possible — how to write a law in such a way that many high - quality schools will result.

For example, a state with a relatively new charter sector may want to focus on supporting the creation and growth of high - quality charters, whereas one with a more mature charter sector may want to focus on increasing the involvement of an existing private sector that is significant in size and geographic reach but has not historically served large numbers of disadvantaged students.

In a Washington Post op - ed and Education Next article, the board's executive director and chair explain that they don't want high - quality charters to become the system or even to predominate.

So it's important for us to have a strong offensive line when it comes to talking about charter schools and defining exactly what a high quality charter school looks like [and] what we want the sector to look like over the next twenty years.

The Texas blend — legislative commitment to higher quality, better oversight, and supportive partners that help charter schools diagnose and solve problems — is a promising one for states that want to see more of their students succeed in K - 12 classrooms and beyond.

There is no national standard for a «high quality» charter school, but U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants one because recent studies have raised concerns that dozens of charter schools fall short of academic standards and are financially troubled.

Understanding how unrestricted students are to free quality education, I now appreciate the variation of learning opportunities that charter schools have afforded families who want better opportunities for their children.

And she points to the fact that there are 10,000 families on charter waiting lists in Newark as evidence that parents want more quality schools.

About: The Save Our Schools coalition is made up of students, parents, teachers, and concerned citizens who want children in Jackson to have access to high quality public charter schools.

Connecticut officials are asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families who want more high - quality school options such as charter and magnet schools.

As per an article published last week in The Columbus Dispatch, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) apparently rejected a proposal made by the state's pro-charter school Ohio Coalition for Quality Education and the state's largest online charter school, all of whom wanted to add (or replace) this state's VAM with another, unnamed «Similar Students» measure (which could be the Student Growth Percentiles model discussed prior on this blog, for example, here, here, and here) used in California.

«We want charter schools to be successful and to deliver on the promise of a quality education for every child that make the choice to attend our schools,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the CCSA.

It is clear, from polling data to waiting lists for charter school in large cities, that despite the rhetoric and debates, parents want more high - quality education options for their children.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

I didn't want to go to a charter school because I thought they were creaming off top students and I do believe that children have the right to go to high - performing schools with high - quality instruction right in their own neighborhood.

These are the choices families have made — whether our children attend a magnet, traditional, charter or selective enrollment school — everyone wants a safe, quality environment for their child.

Unfortunately, Orange County has significantly lagged California in the growth of charter schools and we want to be a catalyst towards increasing the number and quality of charter schools,» said Andrew Horowitz, a member of IOC.

«We want to thank the supporters of the charter movement, including students, parents and teachers, for recognizing the important role of charter schools in public education, and for supporting efforts to expand quality education opportunities to more students.

If you want to join the next generation of successful charter awardees, contact TCSA Director of Quality Services Laura Kelly or call 512-584-8272.

I know that the Foundation's gift will open up similar pathways for students in Georgia who want access to high quality charter schools.»

We want these 11 dimensions to challenge every charter school authorizer and every education leader that cares about the quality of their schools.

«Families with children want to know that there will be quality education options like public charter schools made available to them,» said Tony Roberts, President & CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Assoccharter schools made available to them,» said Tony Roberts, President & CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools AssocCharter Schools Association.

«I want to thank Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, bill sponsors Rep. Scott Hilton and Sen. Fran Millar and the Georgia General Assembly for ensuring that more Georgia students will have access to a high quality and transformative public education because the public charter schools they attend will receive a funding increase.

As we always hear that charter schools thrive because they have high quality teachers that they give flexibility too in return for accountability, I want to, in this post, describe the teaching I saw there.

It's important to the single mother who wants her children to have a high - quality education but had no great options until a local charter school opened.

«Emanuel wants to bring it back to give the best - led, best - performing schools freedom to innovate around curriculum and instruction and allocate resources for school specific needs... On charter schools, Emanuel said it's not charters versus public schools, but quality versus non-quality.»

Please also see PAA's position paper, «The Empowerment Parents Want: The LSC Model of School Reform» and Parents Across America on HR 2218: The Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act.

High - quality charter schools can spur innovation and provide communities more flexibility to create the kind of learning environment they want for their children,» said State Superintendent Jack O'Connell, who has a long record of supporting charter schools.

In those moments Quigley also articulated what he sees as an evolving divide on this board — a rift between those who want to uphold a high bar when it comes to the quality of a charter school applicant's pitch versus those who are more willing to take a gamble in the hope that things will simply «work out.»

Cobey, who admitted to never having been inside of a charter school, explained that he and the State Board of Education want to ensure that North Carolina has quality public charter schools.

«We need higher quality (charter school) applications if we want to have higher quality schools.»

Freddie, If you're going to attack MY for wanting charter schools, then at least link to a piece where he says that, rather than one in which he just says «you need to either increase the number of high - quality schools or else increase the capacity of existing high - quality schools.»

We will need all hands on deck if we want to offer high - quality preschool to all the kids that need it — and charters can help.

Parents who choose to send their students to charter schools are like any other parents - they want their children to have a quality education in a safe and nurturing environment.

Other states are seeing the potential of the high quality charters that call California their home, and want to be part of that.