Sentences with phrase «which local charter»

That marks a sharp change in tone from previous superintendents, which local charter school founder Earl Phalen described as flat - out hostile to charter schools.

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It begins in the morning with a half - day charter fishing trip, the «First Hand», led by a local Key West captain, where participants fish the Gulf and Atlantic for grouper and snapper, among many other species, while learning about which catch methods and techniques work best for each species.

The Hempstead school board Monday night voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

The Hempstead school board voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

That's why we put forward with six names, Local Law 12 - 2, which obviously worked because we got the other side of the aisle voting for it, too,» said Mills, who maintains the Charter Revision contains other positive changes, including a stronger Ethics Board, and full pay for County employees in the military who get called up for active duty.

That ad, which served as the basis for Wednesday's rally, accused de Blasio of blocking access to charter schools for minority students, and FES was left defending its merits after some critics — many aligned with local teachers» unions — accused it of «race - baiting.»

Killian also served on the Westchester County Charter Revision Commission from 2011 - 2014, on the Rye Town Park Commission and co-founded RyeACT (Rye Action for Children and Teens), which is a coalition that brings our community together to educate and empower local teenagers to stay off drugs.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

Students from Buffalo's Enterprise Charter School and Bennett Park Montessori PS # 32 were on hand for the announcement which featured songs about books and reading by local performers The Hill Brothers.

Under the terms of their charter, which is typically up for renewal every five years, charter schools are expected to deliver improved academic results in return for freedom from many state and local mandates.

Maybe you think charter management organizations are the way to go, but to the extent the process to create them may crowd out leaders of color and neighborhood mom - and - pops — which grow authentic and local constituencies — you understand they shouldn't be the only answer.

For example, in 2011, charter schools in Washington, D.C., paid $ 3.2 million in rent to the D.C. archdiocese, which distributed it to support local parishes in 2011 — a substantial portion ($ 900,000 a year) went toward tuition assistance for students in remaining Catholic schools.

school facilities, which remain a central issue for charter schools and local education agencies (LEAs).

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

However, pilot schools, which were started by Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to the state.

We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty to share thoughts and reactions to the election, during which Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate and — in an important local contest — a ballot question to expand the cap on charter schools was rejected by voters.

EdNext: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

Only one of Detroit's charter authorizers is local — DPS, which authorizes 13 schools; the rest are colleges and universities with headquarters outside of the city.

For instance, in Board of Education No. 1 in the City and County of Denver v. Booth, the Denver school board challenged Colorado's Charter Schools Act, which grants local school boards the authority to approve or disapprove a charter appliCharter Schools Act, which grants local school boards the authority to approve or disapprove a charter applicharter application.

It is not the state, which defers oversight to local education agencies and charter authorizers.

Ninety percent of authorizers are local school districts, many of which view charters as an administrative inconvenience, competitive nuisance, or worse.

Unlike the Charter Schools Act upheld in Booth, which provided for a mix of state and local powers, the voucher program gave the local school board, in the court's words, «no substantial discretion over the educational program embodied in the voucher program,» thus violating the state constitution.

And though charters have taken to putting a good face on things by comparing themselves to their local district schools, which is fair, the truth about quality is uncomfortable.

Unlike the majority of NYC charter schools, which are primarily filled with Black and Hispanic children opting out of their local, failing public schools, Hunter's problem is the reverse.

Respondents were asked: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

The question asked in both the EdNext and UAS surveys runs as follows: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

This is important work: The «elite» charter groups you've read about in this book can never expand fast enough to meet the need, which means new high performers have to be groomed at the local level.

At Mr. Fuller's request, the Governor proposed expanding the state's charter - school law — which now allows 10 districts to charter one school each — to allow local school boards to charter as many schools as they desire.

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Those local school councils have been stripped of much of their power, but some charter schools and private schools still put parents on their boards, which is an avenue for parent voice and engagement.

The local chapter of the AFT was even more direct, telling her that they would not support any bill that allowed charter schools to «contract out teaching services to agencies or groups which are not part of the teachers» bargaining unit» (pg.

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.

Previously, charter and district schools in Florida each received the same per - student allocation in base operating funds from the state's school - finance program, which combines both state and local money.

Litigation will continue nonetheless, because Ohio» the charter school law increases local districts» reliance on the local property tax, which increases inequalities in school funding, which leads to violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The superintendent of the local school district, which oversees the charter school, at first said he was «100 percent confident» the application was permissible under state law.

That includes Colorado and Florida, which gave charters access to local property tax levies; Texas, which gave charters state funding for facilities for the first time; and Illinois, which passed a comprehensive overhaul of its school finance system that brought greater equity to school statewide, and created a new tax credit scholarship program to boot.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Georgia's constitution is strong on «local control» (which is why the state's highest court struck down the original version of a statewide charter authorizing body, later reconstituted via a referendum amending the state constitution).

Unlike charter schools, which in California have considerable freedom from state and local laws and regulations, Villaraigosa's schools will have their hands tied on many issues.

In 2006, Philadelphia received a $ 20.5 million grant from the U.S. government to develop a merit pay program, but the local union — which had initially supported the program — abandoned it, and the district gave the money to charter schools instead.

Yesterday, the Gates Foundation announced that district and charter school leaders in nine cities have embraced a «District - Charter Collaboration Compact,» in which the district and local charter schools pledge to collaborate in necharter school leaders in nine cities have embraced a «District - Charter Collaboration Compact,» in which the district and local charter schools pledge to collaborate in neCharter Collaboration Compact,» in which the district and local charter schools pledge to collaborate in necharter schools pledge to collaborate in new ways.

The school is governed by the Cherokee Charter Academy, Inc., which consists of local community board members: Danny Dukes, Kim Cochran, Susan Imrie, Wendy Prichard, Josh Fuder and Mark Johnson.

Stein objected to a provision in the proposed legislation that would enable charter schools, which are public but not subject to the same curricular standards or oversight rules as traditional public schools, to share in the funds reimbursed to local public schools for their support of the federal school lunch program.

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.

One of the indicators of success for charter schools, which do not receive the same funding given to schools in the public school system, is in its academic performance compared to the local school system.

Someone in the schools leaked a document to the local press that had been assembled by consultants, listing which district schools would be closed and which charter schools would be placed in district schools.

Both of the Montessori schools would be so - called local charter schools, which are governed by the local school board but receive an additional $ 3,000 per student and as much as $ 500,000 in start - up costs.

Avoid expanding school privatization options, including privately - operated charter schools, vouchers and neo-vouchers, such as tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, which research shows: (1) fail to deliver on the promise of better learning opportunities and student performance; (2) siphon limited resources from local community schools; (3) open up the potential for violating students» civil rights; (4) hinder transparency and accountability; and (5) tend to lead to more schools being racially segregated.

It's unsurprising coming from the county that houses schools like Booker T. Washington Academy, a recently named School of Distinction that prides itself on its homegrown community roots, and Elm City Montessori, which remains the state's sole local charter — receiving funding and support from the New Haven Board of Education.