Sentences with phrase «with charter school leaders»

School board member Nick Melvoin has been working closely with the charter school leaders whose petitions are recommended for denial and who are looking for reforms to the district - required language.

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In this role, Malcolm works closely with charter school leaders, community organizations, and local elected officials to maximize the positive impact of charter schools in the region.

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He is in good company with charter school leaders like Lagra Newman, of Nashville's Purpose Preparatory Academy, a school of mostly black, brown and poor students where nearly every student is reading at or above grade level.

In this role, Adán works closely with charter school leaders, community organizations, and local elected officials to maximize the positive impact of charter schools in the region.

In 2012, the district collaborated with charter school leaders to develop a common performance framework by which all schools are evaluated, in order to manage the city's portfolio of charter, contract, and district schools.

Not exact matches

Editor Chip Romer will report FROM THE FIELD on a roundtable discussion with five school leaders about their multi-year process of welcoming Hispanic students into Woodland Star Charter School in Sonomschool leaders about their multi-year process of welcoming Hispanic students into Woodland Star Charter School in SonomSchool in Sonoma, CA.

Meanwhile, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos told the NY Post he's prepared to fight on behalf of charter schools during the ongoing budget negotiations with Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and IDC Leader Jeff Klein.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

The mayor's words of support come as Johnson is being targeted, along with Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, by the AFL - CIO for his «yes» vote on charter schools, as well as a host of other issues with which the union is displeased.

The bitter stand - off over mayoral control of city schools continued over the weekend with state Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan slamming NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for his resistance to charter schools and de Blasio arguing charters shouldn't be part of negotiations.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

But with half of the session's last scheduled day behind them, the state's top men still have not reached a resolution and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he was still refusing to give on a push by Cuomo and Senate leaders to help charter schools.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders continue to talk with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about a «grand plan» to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorize sales taxes around the state and, possibly, increase the number of charter schools.

Cuomo also met privately with leaders of charter schools that serve African - American students.

Legislative leaders struggling to reach a compromise to extend mayoral control of NYC schools have floated the idea of reviving «zombie» charters to let all involved save face, two sources with knowledge of the negotiations said.

With the political winds seemingly at its back, New York City's charter school movement staged a splashy rally in Albany with an enthusiastic mix of thousands of students, a raft of state leaders and a pinch - hitting pop sWith the political winds seemingly at its back, New York City's charter school movement staged a splashy rally in Albany with an enthusiastic mix of thousands of students, a raft of state leaders and a pinch - hitting pop swith an enthusiastic mix of thousands of students, a raft of state leaders and a pinch - hitting pop star.

The week concluded for New York politics with a racially charged jolt: A prominent and prolific campaign donor and benefactor of charter schools in since - deleted Facebook suggested the state's black Senate minority leader had been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.

In fact, there is only one charter school leader who has opted out of the program after a major battle with the de Blasio administration: Success Academy's founder, Eva S. Moskowitz.

In a letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo dated June 20, and not previously reported, the Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan, wrote that the intent of the provision «was to provide SUNY with statutory authority to exempt charter schools from rules and regulations that were hampering innovative teaching and learning.»

But Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Ontario / Seneca) noted that every conversation about mayoral control throughout the year was linked with either charter schools or sales - tax extenders.

Two of the city's most prominent charter school leaders criticized the de Blasio administration on Saturday, after a meeting with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña and about 100 city charter officials on Saturday morning.

Cuomo also met privately with leaders of charter schools that serve African American students.

Saturday's meeting with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña provided the impetus to shift course as prominent charter leaders criticized her for offering no details about co-location, rent proposals, and other key issues.

Those leaders did as they were asked on Wednesday, releasing a statement in support of mayoral control on behalf of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, a group that has had a complex relationship with City Hall over the last several months.

While Duncan made it clear he's not familiar with the specifics of the end - of - legislative - session battle in Albany, his broad position that charter schools should be a part of a political compromise aligns with that of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who is battling the mayor on the renewal.

The controversial charter school leader, whose Success Academy schools spread to about two dozen locations across the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space with three additional public schools this fall, officials said.

She is meeting with the New York City Charter School Center and leaders from many charter schools and networks in a closed press meeting on SaCharter School Center and leaders from many charter schools and networks in a closed press meeting on Sacharter schools and networks in a closed press meeting on Saturday.

«I think I've made it pretty clear that we think charter schools should be an integral part of any discussion on mayoral control,» Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) said after meeting with Cuomo and other legislative leaders.

Perhaps emboldened by his modest alliances with some charter leaders and schools, and the overwhelmingly positive reception to his universal pre-K program in general, de Blasio seems comfortable directly confronting Success over the pre-K fight.

Albany, NY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver shares the microphones with Alan Chartock this week to discuss the ramifications of charter schools in New York, as well as the need for the state to be a leader in stem cell research.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Earlier in the day, Senate Independent Democratic Leader Jeff Klein, following a closed door meeting with Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders, said he hoped for a «grand bargain» that would include the mayoral control extension, the sales tax continuation and some provisions to help charter schools.

Michelle Arellano, the chapter leader at Manhattan's PS 138, a District 75 school that is co-located with a Harlem Success Academy charter school, said it's clear to her that charter schools are not accepting the same high - needs students enrolled in her school and that her school does not have the resources it needs.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has said he will not support renewing mayoral control unless the number of charter schools are increased, an approach Cuomo has endorsed, while Assembly Leader Carl Heastie's conference packaged the renewal with several tax proposals.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

Ms. Moskowitz's political prominence carried a cost: Other charter school leaders have expressed reservations about her seemingly endless appetite for combat with City Hall.

We also offered the schools outside evaluations by a Massachusetts - based team of charter experts that provided school leaders and Fordham with thorough analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of individual schools and assisted in developing plans for bettering their performance.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

But over time, what we thought of as quality authorizing has morphed into a sort of technocratic risk management for the sector — a process whose own bias, one could argue, accelerated not the growth of charter schools but the replication of one kind of charter school with one specific sort of leader.

And maybe you get that the fastest way to reach scale that has lasting political impact is actually to partner with private schools, who served the charter school base and educated generations of minority leaders, including our last president, long before the word «charter» was anything more than a kind of bus.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

Disability and charter leaders now meet regularly with researchers and legal experts to understand facts and work on solutions together to ensure that charter schools effectively serve all students with special needs.

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Overall, most charter leaders we spoke to felt that start - up funding is reasonably easy to secure, especially for school networks with a strong track record of success.

With that report in hand, Mayor McKee and a group of like - minded municipal leaders went about attempting to change Rhode Island's charter - school law.

His comprehensive plan didn't mention charter schools as part of the solution, although it was written by a former charter school leader and the stage was filled with charter school students at the press unveiling.

Through dozens of short chapters he tells the story of the meteoric growth of the Rocketship network of charter schools, known as a leader in «blended learning,» along with the trials and tribulations of other charter chains.

It is not morally acceptable to wait for either the charter school market to improve or for the current district leaders to come up with a plan.