Sentences with phrase «who work in a charter school»

Many AFT members who work in charter schools in cities across the country have similar stories.)

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Although many think that the jury is still out, those of us who work in these public charter schools would reply with a resounding Yes!

«I will continue to work to extend mayoral control because I believe very strongly in the accountability it provides, but I also believe that the 50,000 boys and girls in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx who are now on waiting lists for a seat inside a charter school deserve the best possible education we can provide,» Flanagan said in the statement.

At a City Hall rally, de Blasio claimed he's done everything he can to accommodate charters and offered to «sit down anytime, anywhere» for «a constructive dialogue about how we can work with charter schools and with parents who are in charter schools.»

In addition, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and many in his Democratic conference are again livid with Gov. Cuomo, who they believe continues to work against them while cozying up to the Senate Republicans, particularly on the issue of charter schoolIn addition, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and many in his Democratic conference are again livid with Gov. Cuomo, who they believe continues to work against them while cozying up to the Senate Republicans, particularly on the issue of charter schoolin his Democratic conference are again livid with Gov. Cuomo, who they believe continues to work against them while cozying up to the Senate Republicans, particularly on the issue of charter schools.

Matthew Titone, who has 954 students on waiting lists in his district on Staten Island's North Shore, said charter schools in his area «do excellent work serving kids with special needs.»

Lasher, who has faced questions over his work for charter schools in the past, was bolstered this week when he was endorsed by a half dozen sitting Democratic state senators.

Forcina, a former Marine who worked at a software company prior to becoming an attorney, said his top campaign priorities are elder care, writing laws that will aid small businesses in northeast Queens, lowering taxes and supporting the creation of charter schools in his district.

The task force spent nearly five hours taking testimony from pre-selected presenters who don't work in charter schools every day like I do and, in most cases, don't work in or attend any school at all.

Some charter schools, such as KIPP DC, have been successful working in racially isolated schools in poor neighborhoods, developing specialized teaching strategies and support for students who come to school years behind.

At Valor Collegiate Academies — two charter schools on one campus in Nashville that serve grades 5 through 8 — the core philosophy is that «really strong SEL work is very advantageous to kids also doing well academically in school,» says Todd Dickson, who founded the schools with his twin brother, Daren.

«He could have gone out and bought a gazillion Porsches,» recalled Don Shalvey, who has worked closely with Mr. Hastings to develop Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit network of charter schools in central CaliSchools, a nonprofit network of charter schools in central Calischools in central California.

First, what these charter schools do, while impressive, is not so special as to be elusive to those who work in non-charter schools.

And fourth, it appears to be taking my colleague Heather Staker's advice to heart by working closely with its charter school boards and district partnerships to better align its outreach and enrollment to the students who are best suited for success in full - time virtual schools.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Alumni who graduated with the CAS in Counseling are working in public, charter, and independent schools across the country as school counselors, adjustment counselors or school social workers.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers.

cohort IV student Landon Mascareñaz, who had previously worked with the charter school as an executive director at Teach For America in New Mexico, thought the project of NACA's expansion would be a perfect fit the yearlong Ed.L.D.

Yet, in recent years, Bishop, who now works for an Arizona - based charter school network, says complying with federal rules counts as success at the department.

Some of these folks are simply bureaucrats — one - time district officials who now find themselves working in charter school authorizing shops or state policy offices.

«There's a danger of hitting a saturation point with the number of qualified and civic - minded people who can do that kind of work,» says Soifer, who runs a think tank and is on charter school boards in four states in addition to sitting on the D.C. authorizing board.

In his new book The Founders, education reporter Richard Whitmire shares the history of the top 20 percent of high - performing public charter schools, and the visionary educators who did whatever it took to create innovative schools that works for students.

As the leader of an entire district of charter schools in Lake Wales, I wanted the NAACP's education task force to hear from someone who has worked for nearly three decades in both traditional public schools and in charter schools, which are also public.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Charter schools are taxpayer - funded schools that are exempt from some of the regulations that traditional public schools must follow, including the number of sick days and personal days given to teachers who work in traditional public schools.

The latest push in that direction comes from Andy Smarick, a University of Maryland summa cum laude who has worked in the Maryland legislature and the U.S. Congress, started a charter school, did a stint in the Bush Education Department and now is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Instititute in Washington.

Three people who work in adult education programs in Orlando said that while they don't always know where students come from, they were unaware of a large influx from charter alternative schools like Sunshine.

«They said the mix is right now, but the mix can not be right, because there are still thousands of kids who are in schools that are not working,» said Andy Smarick, a charter advocate and partner at Bellwether Education Partners in the District.

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.

One of NCSECS» primary objectives is to develop a dynamic coalition of special education and charter school advocates that support equal access and high quality, effective and appropriate supports for students with learning differences in charter schools and who are committed to working together to develop practical solutions to challenges that hinder access and quality.

While working at BMW he met a technology executive, Omar Wasow, who was trying to start a charter school in Brooklyn.

Three years ago, those who worked on the charter school movement here were growing tired of troubles in the schools — known mostly for a few cases of corruption, leader infighting and standardized test scores far below state averages.

Please mention to anyone who is spouting the union party line (and your kids) that in Jeb Bush's Florida, there are more than 40,000 teachers who do not work for school districts and 14,000 of them have chosen to work in charter schools.

«There's definitely a hope that the post-hurricane experience in New Orleans will show that public charter schools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor acharter schools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor aschools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor aCharter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor aSchools, in a Christian Science Monitor article.

Education activists, teachers, lawyers, a PTA leader and a woman who used to work with charter schools in California are among the applicants to the new state commission that is expected to approve some of Washington's first charter schools...

Yet blaming charter schools for financial woes in the school district is unfair, and it drives a poisonous wedge between administrators, educators and the broader community, who should be working together to provide kids with access to high - quality education.

Rep. Rob Bryan is working on legislation behind the scenes in the General Assembly that could turn over poorly performing public schools to for - profit charter school companies who could then fire teachers and administrators at will with no accountability.

Calyn Holdaway, a Gig Harbor - area mom of three special - needs students, said she came to the conference to meet educators who might be interested in working with her to establish a charter school.

Recently I was working with a Sacramento - area charter leader who was curious about the number of schools operating in Northeastern California.

Last week we shared the stories of Jasmine Hoskins and Anna Smith, two teachers from Urban Dove Team Charter School in Brooklyn who are working all day, every day for their kids.

Poised to influence educational policy, practice and performance across the country, the Institute provides and connects charter school authorizers, governing boards, school leaders, founders and other stakeholders who are serious about ensuring all students are prepared for success in college, work and life with the programs, tools, services, counsel and support they need.

This includes 20,000 teachers, including some 1,000 teachers working in traditional public and public charter schools thanks to Teach for America, who are helping poor and minority children gain the knowledge they need for lifelong success.

But the truth is that all of us working in education, whether in district, charter, parochial or independent schools, and especially the educators who work directly with our children, agree on far more fundamental things than we disagree on.

Missing from both platforms is the voice of Black people who choose charter schools, students who are well served by them, educators who work in them, or staff working in education philanthropies that support them.

It's time we set the record straight: Charter schools are doing important work to raise the level of performance for children who need it the most and to close the achievement gap between our inner - city students and those in our more affluent communities.

We envision a charter school community, highly regarded for its innovative teaching methods that empower students to be independent, determined, and compassionate global citizens who think critically, collaborate confidently, and work passionately toward a sustainable future in the world they will inherit.

Mr. Cerf, a Democrat who clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court and worked in the Clinton White House, pushed many of Mr. Klein's most controversial education changes, expanding charter schools, closing failing schools and using test scores to evaluate and compensate teachers.

Teachers hoping to hold on to their tenure rights tend to leave for more stable work environments if they can find them, and parents who have the means tend to pull their kids from the ASD charter schools in search of alternative options, leaving even larger concentrations of low - income, at - risk youth in the ASD schools.

A Montessori parent, teacher, and school founder, she has worked in public charter schools and is committed to expanding access to free, high - quality Montessori education for the children who need it the most.

It was written by Tyler S. Thigpen, who has worked in public, private, and charter schools in Atlanta.