Sentences with phrase «what about charter»

What about charter schools?

But what about charter schools not run by the local school districts?

And what about charter schools that struggle?

And what about the charter schools, surprised you dropped that issue so fast.

Not exact matches

Second, what about the presumption of innocence for accused priests, a right trumpeted in the Dallas Charter (Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People)?

A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

The show ends with Jamie being told that his filming permit with the charter school has been revoked by LAUSD (yet he's still there with cameras, so not sure what this really means) and is told by the hipster charter school guy that LAUSD has forbidden him from even asking any West Adams students about their school food.

NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi makes the case against the Senate Charter School Bill, and talks about what he'd like to see in a charter reforCharter School Bill, and talks about what he'd like to see in a charter reforcharter reform bill.

«That's what eliminating the artificial cap on the number of charter schools is all about.»

Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

What is the EMPLOY Charter all about?

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

«We are not against charter schools so she should think about what she's doing because she's hurting the kids,» Santana said.

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

In a statement, Moskowitz, who left the meeting about a half hour before it ended, said «there is a lack of transparency in their decision - making regarding reconsidering charter school co-location... we're totally in the dark as to what they're even considering.»

«What this rally is about is the anxiety and the concern levels of the charter school parents of those charter schools that already have their permits, have their charters and unfortunately don't have the locations identified.

Forget about its slow opening segment, in which Jack Black charters a boat to mysterious Skull Island, and its predictable final segment, in which the captive Kong goes ape - you - know - what on New York's Chrysler Building.

Citizen Ed has reported on some of the hearings and has posted some videos of the presentations, noting that parents, students, and teachers have been mostly absent, and that the NAACP's special task force, which is supposed to be weighing the evidence, seems misinformed and / or confused about what charter schools are.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

Within the charter authorizing community there is robust debate about how to do what's needed while promoting continued growth and protecting charter autonomy.

It means its subscribers don't care if a school comes from the district sector or the charter sector — what they care about is if the school is doing right by kids.

For the chartering strategy to improve the whole of public education, we need to think strategically about what institutions we want authorizing schools.

Note what isn't even mentioned here: the basic question about whether charter schools «work.»

The survey also reports on what the public thinks about Common Core, charter schools, teachers unions, and more.

We started with some polling statewide and we found that, as you would expect, most people could care less about charter schools, don't know what they are, don't really care.

While we have learned a lot from the new studies, we still remain in a situation with an unresolved key question about what policies, laws, and incentives lead some charters to flourish and others not.

A major, unresolved question remains, however: What about opening and funding religious charter schools?

«In some ways, we're moving away from the black - box questions to questions about what kind of instruction goes on in charter schools,» said Paul T. Hill,...

You've been leading this field for some time now — when thinking about the past, present, and future of charter schooling, what stands out to you most?

In this week's episode of the EdNext podcast, Richard Whitmire, the author of «Ed Reform Battle in Los Angeles,» talks with Marty West about the numerous challenges facing LAUSD and what is likely to happen next on the charter school front.

When one segment of respondents was asked to choose between «support,» «oppose,» and «don't know,» a similar proportion selected» don't know» as had selected «neither support nor oppose,» again suggesting that Americans either do not understand what charter schools are or have not made up their minds about them (see «Educating the Public,» features, Summer 2009).

In this forum, Robin Lake of the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF) CEO Kevin Hall discuss what we know about the strengths and frailties of CMOs, what the future holds, and what promising alternatives might be.

Now, look back up at urban charter effects and you'll see the three year results in math are about at the floor of what the SIG study could detect, and the results in reading are much lower than what the SIG study could detect (the SIG study also tracked children for 3 years).

I was struck by what Ednovate's Oliver Sicat told me about trying to expand his charter group in Los Angeles, where resistance from the union and district has become intense.

Astoundingly, the reporter doesn't bother to share what those same Stanford researchers found about all charter schools in Detroit.

As evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.»

But if what you really care about is raising test scores, you'd be pushing no - excuses charter schools.

Robert Pondiscio wrote about what high flying charter schools that serve poor children are doing to help their graduates make it to college and succeed there.

Getting a public charter school started taught them a lot about what it means to be civically engaged, and they brought that idea into the school mission.

«We go through the charter as a class and talk about what it is that we're creating.

We welcome the chance to respond on issues of teacher voice; diversity and achievement; and what Al Shanker might say today about the state of charter schools.

Sharanya Sharma's second - grade class at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, DC, surveyed people at Reagan National Airport to find out what they knew about how airplanes fly.

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I feel the need to write this because I fear that the bad news about DCPS is drowning out what continues to be a remarkable story of charter school success in our nation's capital.

«I didn't get the sense that was what charter schools were all about - we'll pick the students who are the most motivated?

Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district in 2008.

He demurred: «The overall climate of what people think about charters and school choice varies so much from city to city.»

Similar to what district administrators had estimated, the House breakdown shows Miami - Dade might have to share as much as $ 23.2 million with its charter schools next school year, or about 12 percent of its capital dollars after debt payments.

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One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.