Sentences with phrase «which run charter»

Among other things, SCN - and other organizations which run charter schools - has been accused of crowding out existing public schools.

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Which is why he runs not just a charter school but also a parenting program and an all - day prekindergarten and an after - school tutoring program and family - support centers.

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

The justices voted, 6 to 3, that charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately run — are not «common schools» because their governing boards are not elected but are appointed by the founders of the individual schools.

Silver and the Democratic - run Assembly now have to decide between low - income, mostly minority parents demanding charter schools as an option for their kids, and the teachers unions, their longtime allies, which are trying to rein in charters.

A spokeswoman for Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy, which runs 41 charter schools, claimed that de Blasio «has been anything but fair to charter school families from the moment he took office.»

At the end of the tax warrant — which for Albany runs an entire year per its charter — the two entities true up between what is uncollected and what's due to the county.

It drew immediate criticism from the state teachers unions, which oppose the publicly funded, privately run charter school industry and consider the proposal a «shortcut» and «backdoor to certification» that would ultimately harm students.

Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, increased under the Bloomberg administration.

By the end of May, state lawmakers reached a deal to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and usually not unionized, to 460 statewide, up from 200, while also increasing state oversight of them.

Records show board members at the growing Success Academy, which runs 22 charters in the city, have given $ 375,367 to Cuomo's re-election campaign — including $ 90,000 since de Blasio won the mayor's race last year.

He supported charter schools, which are publicly financed but privately run and typically don't employ unionized teachers.

Critics say the union's influence has blocked the effort to lift the legislative cap on the number of charters, which are privately run and publicly funded.

The powerful Assembly speaker has thus far kept his cards close, but he's traditionally been no friend to charters — which have an embarrassing tendency to outperform schools run by his teachers - union masters.

Derrell Bradford runs the group New York Campaign for Achievement Now, which advocates for the education tax credit, as well as lifting the state's cap on charter schools.

Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, flourished under Mr. Bloomberg, and there are currently 183 in New York City, serving about 70,000 children, or 6 percent of students citywide.

For his part, de Blasio has proposed a moratorium on charters, which are publicly funded but privately run, and even supports charging them rentt.

Success Charter Network, which runs several charter schools including Harlem Success Academy, originally wanted to open the new school inside P.S. 145 on West 105th Charter Network, which runs several charter schools including Harlem Success Academy, originally wanted to open the new school inside P.S. 145 on West 105th charter schools including Harlem Success Academy, originally wanted to open the new school inside P.S. 145 on West 105th Street.

The borough president's job is not clearly defined in the City Charter, which has led the seven Democrats vying for the spot to mold their own ideal of how Queens should be run.?

About 95,000 students are enrolled at 207 charter schools in the Big Apple, but de Blasio has frequently sparred with operators of the schools, which mostly run without the teachers union.

Many companies which twenty years ago ran their own ships now charter vessels from third parties.

If you want to be part of Copenhagen Fashion Week, which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute, you have to sign the charter.

For example, if you want to participate in Copenhagen Fashion Week, which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute, it's mandatory that you sign the charter.

Schools like Democracy Prep Charter School in Central Harlem, which ends at 5 p.m. and runs for 200 days, also has a summer session.

There are now 15 such «district - charter collaboration compacts» in place, many of which promise to accelerate the development of «portfolio» school systems, with a mix of district - run and charter schools.

The compact brought 21 new charter schools into Denver Public Schools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), and KIPP.

Charter advocates in the Bay Area seem to subscribe to a «survival of the fittest» ethic, which holds that because running a successful charter school requires so much capacity, if potential operators are scared off from pursuing an application without a lot of handholding, it's probably for thCharter advocates in the Bay Area seem to subscribe to a «survival of the fittest» ethic, which holds that because running a successful charter school requires so much capacity, if potential operators are scared off from pursuing an application without a lot of handholding, it's probably for thcharter school requires so much capacity, if potential operators are scared off from pursuing an application without a lot of handholding, it's probably for the best.

Through its Renaissance 2010 program, the city is methodically closing its lowest - performing schools and then reopening them as charters, contract schools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the district.

The editorial cites a new study by the California Charter Schools Association which studied the state's Academic Performance Index (API), which runs on a scale from 200 to 1000, and found that, according to the Journal,

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

Chartering, which crept on stage in 1991, subtly but importantly showed that entities besides districts could run public schools — and often run them better.

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In the capitol, the union won some accountability and transparency fights — prohibiting for - profit organizations from running charters, making charters adhere to state comptroller audits, and demanding they serve more special education and ELL students — but lost the bigger issues of saturation and the cap, which legislators agreed to raise from 200 to 460.

Today it is flourishing, which is not true of the two other New York charters launched at the same time, which have run into financial and programmatic difficulties, as so many charters have.

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.

In her school, which is a charter school run by teachers, scheduling and staffing are arranged to provide abundant time for teacher collaboration and teacher leadership.

Before charter schools, there were district - run magnet schools and other forms of public school choice, of which Shanker was an early proponent.

Since 1995, the board has approved plans for 159 charter schools, which are independently run public schools that operate free of most state regulations.

I recall an interview with a teacher at a Chicago charter school, started and run by the Christian Brothers, an ancient Catholic order, during which the teacher complained that the school's problem was that it could not teach about God.

What is not often debated is that charter schools, which are independently run but publicly funded, generally receive less public funding per student than district - run schools.

Advantage was merged into Mosaica, which runs 35 charter schools in eight states and the District of Columbia.

Charter advocates wanted to advance a social justice message by emphasizing the impressive results being achieved by the independently run, but publicly funded, schools, which they say are providing a lifeline for thousands of poor and minority students otherwise stuck in low - performing district schools.

14 Each charter school collects applications and runs an admissions lottery in years in which the school is over-subscribed.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

The maker movement has seen a large number of makerspaces in independent and charter schools, which is why it's noteworthy that 72 % of the fellows work in or with district - run public schools.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

But while the charters are publicly funded, they are privately run, which critics claim raises questions about accountability and inequality.

One prototype is the all - charter, state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans, which was created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

Charters, which are publicly funded but are typically run by private nonprofit or for - profit groups, have the support of 64 percent of adults, according to PDK / Gallup.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.