Sentences with phrase «when charter law»

It also shows which party (blue for Democrats and red for Republicans) controlled the governorship, the senate, and the house in each of those states when their charter laws were passed.

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When a corporate charter is alleged to contain a restriction on the fundamental electoral rights of stockholders under default provisions of law ---- such as the right of a majority of the shares to elect new directors or enact a charter amendment — it has been said that the restriction must be «clear and unambiguous» to be enforceable.

Abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canada's abortion law violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees «life, liberty and security of the person.»

In turn, when moral principles are incorporated into such laws as the UN charter and international war - crimes legislation, greater ethical clarity and specificity result.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislatulaw department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the LegislatuLaw indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislatulaw, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

The provisions of this Charter are addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and to the Member States only when they are implementing Union law.

«Our position is the same as it was when the legislation was passed: We believe the legislation's intent did not allow for SUNY to adopt regulations that are inconsistent with current laws governing charter schools, including laws related to teacher certification requirements.»

When the law expires, charter schools would automatically receive a $ 1,500 increase per student, paid for by the local government.

School districts held an exclusive franchise on public education services until 1991, when Minnesota passed the first law permitting public charter schools.

But the laws governing school facilities were written a century or more before charters existed, when there was only one kind of «public school» in this country.

It became the law in California in 2000 when voters passed Proposition 39, which requires that the Golden State's public - school facilities «be shared fairly among all public school pupils, including those in charter schools.»

After six years of intense effort, when Bersin proposed under the No Child Left Behind law that charter school organizers be asked to make proposals for some of the worst - performing schools, a school board member called him a «Gauleiter,» which she «(inaccurately) said were «Jews who worked for the Nazis [to shepherd] their own people into the trains» to the concentration camps.»

In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

Buried deep in numerous state charter laws are promises to districts, often made during charter law negotiations, that they will be protected financially when they lose students to charters.

In fact, of the 40 states passing a law, 24 passed it when a Republican was governor and 16 when a Democrat was governor, and about two - thirds of the states passing a charter law did so when there was no single party controlling both the legislature and the governor's office.

When Kentucky legislators sat down to draft their new charter school law, for example, what questions did they need to answer?

When Minnesota passed the first charter law in 1990, the innovation seemed precious, quaint, delicate, and certain to break.

The next opportunity to walk the walk came in 1998 when the group helped write the state's charter school law, passed in December, making New York the 34th state to have one.

Success, however, is following state law, which mandates that charters accept students when seats become available through the beginning of 3rd grade.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has rated Ohio 26th, Hawaii 34th, and Maryland 40th among the states when it comes to the clarity and strength of their charteCharter Schools has rated Ohio 26th, Hawaii 34th, and Maryland 40th among the states when it comes to the clarity and strength of their chartercharter laws.

For example, a charter law may restrict the number of students who attend charters or the number of new schools allowed or require a state reimburse districts for the money it loses when a student leaves the district.

When it came to state data systems, charter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Qcharter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher QCharter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.charter public schools.»

After working for more than two decades to close the charter - school funding gap, charter advocates celebrated two victories in 2017 when Colorado and Florida both passed laws — the first in the country — mandating equitable access to certain local tax revenues for charter schools.

Back in 1991 when Minnesota passed the first charter law — and in 2000 when we wrote about this new education phenomenon — issues such as these were beyond the visible horizon.

That's much of the genius behind charter schools, which, when state laws get it right, allow school leaders true autonomy and allow teachers to choose schools that align with their personal philosophies.

The school lotteries, which are required under the state's charter law when a school is over capacity, provide a way to answer the common complaint that the charter school applicants are «different» from their peers in the traditional public schools.

Texas charters achieved a major victory on March 15th when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upheld a June 2017 Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) decision dismissing a concerted activity claim by a former employee of Universal Academy on the grounds that the NLRB does not have jurisdiction over Texas public charter schools under -LSB-...]

In 2015, lawmakers said that for the purposes of the law, charter schools should be considered government entities when the lawmakers say so — and only then.

In 2014, major progress was made when a law was passed that guaranteed space or funding for charter schools in New York City that were new or expanding.

Furthermore, stringent oversight of charters at the school level is a dubious claim when the current law allows governing boards for charters as well as, when applicable, parent corporate boards that oversee multiple charters, to be composed of the following related - party combinations:

California law states that charter conversions can happen when a majority of tenured teachers submit a petition.

Amani has continually been under attack by Mt Vernon, not only through the repeated frivolous use of court proceedings, but also by refusing to comply with state law when it comes to charter school funding.

Clinton also signed into law the «Charter Schools Expansion Act of 1998,» authored by CSDC's President and CEO, former Congressman Frank Riggs, when Riggs was chairman of the House of Representatives» Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.

Hard data is much more effective than anecdotal data when it comes to convincing law makers to provide charter schools with equitable access to facilities.

Under the McKinney - Vento Act, the federal law guiding charter schools on the educational rights of students in temporary housing, a STAT - 202 form must be completed when a student is identified as homeless.

An eleventh, Mississippi, which recently let its charter schools law expire, is expected to adopt a new law when its Legislature convenes in 2010.

«In the past, federal charter laws were really focused on growing new models, and that was very appropriate when the charter movement was getting launched.

When Mississippi's charter school law was written, it was designed to emulate the best practices from around the country.

In none of these U-T pieces did the author correctly inform readers that charter schools must use lotteries mandated by both federal and state law when the number of applicants for their school exceeds the seats available.

While I do not mean to deflect responsibility away from the charter for any breaches of charter school law, what can you expect when there's no oversight?

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

This illustrates that when parents take action using the the parent trigger law, especially with respect to transforming to a charter model, the schools preform better and students thrive.

When you look at schools in other states that don't have high accountability, that don't have the right laws in place, some of the individual charter schools have practices that are unfair, inappropriate or unjust, those things need to be dealt with.

It was 20 years ago when Louisiana's Charter School Law was originally enacted.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts (as the law currently allows), or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

On education policy, do voters want the General Assembly to have an active year like 2011 — like the 2011 session, when lawmakers passed the state's voucher program, a teacher evaluation mandate and new charter school rules into law?

In fact, the Mayor's refusal to share space comes at taxpayer expense; according to a 2014 law, the city must offer rental assistance when they deny facilities space to charters..

In August, Smrekar told StateImpact that when Indiana passed its charter school law in 2001, it was seen as a way to prevent further takeover of failing schools: