Sentences with phrase «with authorizers»

We have worked with authorizers of all sizes and in all geographies to improve authorizer practices across the U.S.

Special Education Budget Issues Overview of Special Education Funding in California; Innovative Funding Arrangements with Authorizers / SELPAs; Special Education Budgeting

We want to work with authorizers and policy - makers on reaching a better understanding of what real educational accountability needs to look like in this century.

With authorizers and other partners, we have built the gold standard for charter school authorizing.

I have been wrestling with authorizers that want to play a role in improving struggling charter schools.

And, as it should be, we in the charter world are still quite free to work with our authorizers to come up with something better.

And we even consider going back to the original charter concept — allowing schools to negotiate their own unique performance expectations with their authorizers, rather than being held accountable to the One Best System's standards.

Ms. Boast contributed to the National Association of Charter School Authorizer's Core Performance Framework and Guidance and has worked directly with authorizers in over 14 states on performance monitoring and accountability.

We have worked with authorizers of all sizes and in all geographies.

Too often, said Merriman, low - performing charters fight legal battles with their authorizers to stay open — a betrayal of the trade - off that charters agreed to: freedom in exchange for accountability.

Weak laws are the biggest culprit, followed by operators who are chummy with authorizers, followed by inertia.

Ohio statute empowers the Ohio Department of Education to address quality concerns with authorizers.

I also believe that private schools participating in public scholarship or tax - credit programs should have performance contracts with authorizers.

Each charter school entered into a binding agreement with an authorizer that spelled out the school's mission, student achievement targets, and other indicators of school success.

If a school's application is approved, it develops a performance contract with the authorizer.

In exchange, each of our schools will have a contract with an authorizer, which can close the school should it persistently fail to meet its performance goals.

If approved, a school would negotiate a school - specific performance contract with the authorizer.

Charter schools are open - enrollment tuition - free, public schools that operate based on a contract with their authorizer.

The ESSA Accountability Rules reinforce lawmakers» intentions that any state - mandated school improvement activity should not interfere with an authorizer's ability to oversee its schools — a core part of the charter model's autonomy - for - accountability agreement.

Petitioners considering such a model are advised take the necessary precautions and to work closely with their authorizer to ensure compliance with state and federal laws.

Each charter school is required to develop a contract and an accountability plan with their authorizer.

Charter schools have a «charter» or «contract» with an authorizer that outlines the purposes of the school and the academic and non-academic outcomes for the students and school.

Looking to explore LEA status or negotiate with your authorizer alternative special education arrangements for the 2019 - 2020 school year?

A charter school may also terminate operations by mutual agreement with the authorizer.»

This letter can also serve as a valuable bargaining tool with your authorizer.

Many charter schools, including some that were not planning to seek LEA status for special education, have experienced improvements in their relationships and special education arrangements with their authorizer as a result of submitting a letter notifying their authorizer and SELPA of their intent to explore alternative SELPA options.

Not exact matches

In rare cases, where charter schools violate laws or face serious problems with academics or safety, charter authorizers may move to close schools.

But he urged the lawmakers to «honor the commitment made to these agencies by the authorizers and appropriators, and provide them with the increased level of funding for fiscal year 2007.»

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

D.C., provides an instructive example: a strong charter authorizer and school district operate with mutual awareness and a set of shared agreements (for example, around information, enrollment, etc.).

Sobered and a bit battered, Fordham continues as an authorizer of Ohio charter schools — six of them today, with a seventh in the offing — and a vigorous participant in the state's larger education - policy debates.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

She also wondered whether authorizer capacity might be playing a significant role (i.e., good policies probably can't compensate for an authorizing body with a small staff and little expertise).

Alpha authorizers can also develop innovative ways to make it easier for groups with a demonstrable track record of success to replicate and scale their operations by bypassing some of the selection procedures untested applicants must go through.

Alpha authorizers can enhance the value of the systems and processes they create by sharing them with school leaders and other authorizers.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

The NACSA report on state policies associated with charter school accountability attempts to describe how laws, regulations, and authorizer practices interact to influence charter quality.

Chicago has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful charter school authorizers, but Mayor Richard M. Daley's high - profile push to expand on that foundation is fraught with challenges, a report from the Washington - based Progressive Policy Institute contends.

Alpha authorizers can show the way by having the courage to tackle the politics associated with closing underperforming schools and knowing how to document the facts in order to prevail in the court of law and public opinion.

• Manage the actions of the dozen charter authorizers, the Detroit Public Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something better.

We need to begin experimenting, in earnest, with democratically controlled authorizers.

That democratically controlled authorizer would then have a performance contract with each of the city's public schools, including those operated by the district.

The district could voluntarily begin the shift to an authorizer, developing a new relationship with its schools and reworking its administrative structure to meet the new conditions.

While the law gives ODE the power to prevent any ineffective authorizer from approving new schools, it may only close authorizers with which it has contracts (13 out of nearly 70 authorizers statewide).

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.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

Each should begin with a solid charter base (at least 5 percent market share), a policy environment that will enable growth (fair funding, nondistrict authorizers, and no legislated caps), and a favorable political environment (friendly elected officials and editorial boards, a positive experience with charters to date, and unorganized opposition).

It is not charter school authorizers, who are only responsible for ensuring that the schools they sponsor comply with the state's charter - school law.

Similarly, Osborne's swift critique of policies allowing multiple charter authorizers to operate in one area doesn't engage with the legitimate concern that a single - authorizer environment can constrain school supply, homogenize offerings, and concentrate too much power in one government body.

Authorizers, not SEA staff, would hold those schools accountable, and they would do it in a nuanced way — by crafting school - specific performance contracts with each.