Sentences with phrase «where charter sectors»

At the same time, in cities where charter sectors have blossomed (e.g., New Orleans, Detroit, Newark), communities are demanding more democratic control.

Only 25 of those are in New York City, where the charter sector is growing rapidly.

In that debate, Neerav Kingsland defends the New Orleans model, where nearly all schools are charter schools, and Scott Pearson and Skip McKoy defend the D.C. model, where the charter sector coexists with a good - sized traditional school district.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

Not exact matches

However, even where a sector of service providers already exists, its offerings may not be well tailored to the charter context.

Viewed from Education Next's offices in Massachusetts, where efforts to lift the state's cap on charter growth in urban areas have failed despite the sector's excellent track record, the contrast is striking.

School reform advocates and policymakers need to decide where to invest their energies, and the charter sector's growth does appear to have played a role in the recent decline in private school enrollment.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presides over this dual system, where the traditional D.C. Public Schools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter Schoolcharter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter SchoolCharter School Board.

Most didn't have reliable data on vacancies beyond individual schools or networks, and even in cities where charter schools accounted for half of student enrollment or more, nobody was able to provide a sector - wide view of teacher or leadership needs.

In contrast, Washington, D.C., where public policies and funding offer a much more supportive climate, illustrates the potential of charter schools to bring innovation to the pre-K sector.

In states like Colorado, where charters are perceived as public schools serving local students, advocates may find they can build bipartisan support, especially in light of traditional conservative support for charter schools and the sector's continued focus on serving disadvantaged, urban students, which appeals to liberals.

The charter sector has the advantage of its programs being tuition - free but is limited to operating in specific places where charters have been approved by a state - determined authorizer.

Meanwhile, where the sectors have engaged in a particular activity, relatively few charters have been involved.

All three of the truly spectacular scores (Higley, Chandler and Phoenix Elementary combos at 95, 95 and 99th percentile respectively) came from situations where both the district and charter sectors grew rapidly.

And it offers families the benefits of an education landscape where the district and charter sectors pool their resources and expertise to advance the shared mission of providing all students access to an excellent school.

The Newark Charter School Fund, where FNF's current CEO served as vice president of finance and operations, has received over $ 4 million from FNF to grow the charter Charter School Fund, where FNF's current CEO served as vice president of finance and operations, has received over $ 4 million from FNF to grow the charter charter sector.

However, breaking through the logistical hurdle of a fractured charter sector, building strong relationships where none generally exist, and convincing the sectors that it may be in their best interest — as well as their students» — to work together is no small task in Cleveland.

In Arizona, where charter schools will not have to run the gauntlet of a hostile regulator, that sector is likely to thrive.

Before joining the Charter Center in 2007, he worked at the Walton Family Foundation where he helped develop and implement the foundation's grant making in the charter school Charter Center in 2007, he worked at the Walton Family Foundation where he helped develop and implement the foundation's grant making in the charter school charter school sector.

Ohio and Utah are known in education circles for having extraordinarily troubled charter school sectors, and the same is true in Pennsylvania, where Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a report this year and declared his state's charter school law the «worst» in the nation.

«The development of statewide chartering commissions or boards where this is all they do is likely the best structure to ensure quality within the charter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authocharter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School AuthoCharter School Authorizers.

This was not philanthropy; it was a profit - making venture.6 Investors quickly figured out that there was money to be made in the purchase, leasing, and rental of space to charter schools, and an aggressive for - profit charter sector emerged wherever it was permitted by state law; in states where for - profit charters were not allowed, nonprofit charters hired for - profit operators to run their schools.

As school choice expands in both the public sector (e.g., via charter schools) and the private sector (e.g., though vouchers and education savings accounts) it will become increasingly important to understand how families determine where their children will be educated.

Perhaps this is one area that lends itself to Albert Shanker's original conceptions of charter schools as «laboratories of innovations» where new practices get trial runs and, if successful, are incorporated into the traditional sector.

Ohio and Utah have distinctly troubled charter sectors, as does Arizona, where there are no laws against conflicts of interest and where for - profit charters do not have to open their books to the public.

Ohio and Utah have vied for the distinction of having the most troubled charter sector, along with Arizona, where there are no laws against conflicts of interest and for - profit charters do not have to open their books to the public.

But there is another place with a scandal - plagued charter sector that gets less national attention than it should: California, which has more charter schools and charter school students than any other state in the nation, and where one billionaire came up with a secret plan to «charterize» half of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

So, here's where I think a lot of us in the independent charter sector are at with regards to all this: we want to be accountable and we want effective authorization.

Virtual charter schools educate about 180,000 students in 23 states.2 That is a small sector within the charter movement, where students now number nearly three million, and a drop in the bucket...

Additionally attendees heard from a panel of several dynamic woman charter leaders from Northern and Southern California who discussed the diversity of the movement, where the sector's been, where it is now and where it is headed in the next 25 years.

Additionally, Joy has served as a summer analyst for the U.S Department of Education, where she evaluated trends in the charter school sector.

The growth of the charter sector has been especially strong in the state's urban centers, such as Newark and Camden, where about a third of public school students are enrolled in a public charter school.

But «nobody outside the charter school sector should have a veto power over where our schools locate,» Edelin said.

Her career in the charter sector began in Dayton, Ohio where she worked with a charter authorizer and charter management organization.

In contrast to some other states with big charter sectors — notably Michigan, where DeVos just helped kill a proposed state law that would have made it easier to close failing charter schools — Louisiana has been relatively aggressive in shaping the available options, repeatedly closing charters that underperform.

OCI seeks to change the education policy conversation from one where labor, public, charter, and independent school sector leaders argue about which type of school is best able to serve children, to one where parents choose the best quality educational options for their child — no matter what form it comes in.

While legislation may be brought forward at the federal level to create new student voucher programs, given that California's vibrant and growing charter school sector affords parents their fundamental right to choose where their students go to school, we believe that vouchers would be at odds with the needs of California's public school system, and we will work actively to resist them from being forced upon our state.

The city of Denver, where 39 charter schools served nearly 14 percent of the city's public school students in 2012 — 13, offers an excellent example of how successful district - charter collaboration can support the growth of a quality charter school sector.

Prior to moving into the charity sector Katy worked at KPMG for 9 years, where she qualified as a chartered accountant and then Rio Tinto for 5 years.