Sentences with phrase «with national charter»

5.4.12 Association of American Educators Launches New Website for Charter School Community in Conjunction with National Charter Schools Week

Fritz Esch is an Associate with the National Charter Schools Institute.

The center will partner with the national charter school development organization Building Excellent Schools to offer training through a year - long fellowship program for individuals seeking to become founders of high - performing public charter schools.

Peggy Yates is an Associate with the National Charter Schools Institute.

Held in conjunction with National Charter Schools Week, Advocacy Day is a great opportunity to grow the advocacy strength of the movement by connecting the charter community with legislators in Sacramento.

Not exact matches

After the Civil War, private banks with federal charters (the «National Banks») continued to issue notes into the 1930s.

The objectives of the Charter of Medina provide a suitable framework for national constitutions in countries with Muslim majorities, and the United Nations Charter and related documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are in harmony with the Charter of Medina, including consideration for public order.

He called for a new environmental solidarity to deal with ecological issues that transcend national jurisdictions and he insisted that a «right to a safe environment» be included in the Charter of Human Rights.

The Compost Council of Canada is a national non-profit, member - driven organization with a charter to advocate and advance organics residuals recycling and compost use.

I covered it in detail in my answer on Skeptics here, the exact quote of # 19 for example is: «The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel is null and void from the very beginning, whatever time has elapsed because it was done contrary to the wish of the people of Palestine and their national right to their homeland and contradicts with the principles embodied in the charter of the UN, the first of which is the right of self - determination

For the purposes of encouraging high national productivity, government, labour and the private sector must collaborate to institute a management and labour productivity crusade including the introduction of a Service Charter that ensures that productivity is matched with remuneration.

(a) Any organization which uses the word «Democratic» or «Democrat» in its name which conducts any activities in the County of New York, other than an organization sponsored, chartered or affiliated with the Democratic National Committee or the New York State Democratic Committee, shall conform to the provisions of this section.

His hourlong visit on National Teachers Day also included a brief meeting with special - needs students at P.S. 149, a public school that shares a building with the charter school.

StudentsFirstNY, a local chapter of the national reform organization, and Success Academy, the city's largest and most powerful charter school network, quickly joined suit, along with other charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First.

Additionally, national banks and federally chartered corporations may not make contributions in connection with any election, including state and local elections.

That reality prompted, as part of the Osogbo conference agenda, the idea of federalizing political parties, along geo - political lines, with local demands driving each party's national charter, though with APC as case - point.

A chartered flight reportedly left Bahrain earlier today with 18 passengers on board, 16 of whom are reported to be British nationals.

Leadership of DFER has also shifted: Shavar Jeffries, who in 2014 lost a high - profile race for mayor of Newark, N.J., with the strong backing of charter supporters, became the group's national president a year ago.

The AU Committee of Experts seeks to promote and protect the rights enshrined in the Charter particularly; collect and document information, commission inter disciplinary assessment of situations on African problems in the fields of the rights and welfare of the child, organize meetings, encourage national and local institutions concerned with the rights and welfare of the child and where necessary, give its views and make recommendations to Government.

WHEREAS Victory Inc.'s union - busting campaigns have targeted charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFcharter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFCharter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFCharter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFCharter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFcharter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFCharter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and

So why is a prominent national charter group saying it will spend money this year to try to flip the chamber to Democrats — many of whom were elected with the strong support of teachers unions, charters» frequent nemeses?

Now with more than two thousand members, the National Academy encompasses dozens of fields undreamt of at the time of Lincoln's charter.

Meanwhile, the congressionally chartered Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development is holding public hearings (the next will be held 7 December at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland) and is formulating a report on specific strategies for how to deal with the slow pace of change in academia as well as business and government.

For about one century, two bodies aspired to the position of being South Africa's national science academy — the Royal Society of South Africa (RSSAf), with a royal charter from the United Kingdom, and the Suid - Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK), with a statute of the South African Parliament.

Proficiency rates on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) among charter students are not only consistently higher than those of students in their respective district sectors, but many of these rates compare favorably to the states with the highest average levels of performance.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

I've had the chance to read the book, and yesterday Dan visited AEI to discuss it with Brookings scholar (and former IES Commissioner) Russ Whitehurst and Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Addressing these challenges is the focus of three new white papers a Public Impact team led by Lucy Steiner recently produced with the support of the National Charter School Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program.

In the 24 states where online charter schools exist, some are locally operated by nonprofits using commercial platforms and content, some nonprofits contract with local partners for content and instructional services, and other nonprofits contract with national partners.

So they moved from outright hostility to a highly conditional embrace, with the National Education Association beginning its own charter school project in 1996 (and subsequently abandoning it).

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

One of the biggest problems with the very local, district / charter - like markets is that there are huge information asymmetries — both on performance and price — between large, national providers and generally unsophisticated buyers.

WASHINGTON — President Clinton was poised late last week to unveil a long - awaited legislative package that would create a federally chartered corporation to oversee a national service program, replace the existing student - loan program with a system of direct loans made with federal capital, and call for extensive use of a loan repayment plan that would base payments on a borrower's income.

With this as background, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools just released a public - opinion survey showing that 71 percent of Kentuckians want charter sCharter Schools just released a public - opinion survey showing that 71 percent of Kentuckians want charter scharter schools.

(With almost 60 percent of public school students now enrolled in charter schools, New Orleans has become a national model for their widespread use.)

As charter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student oucharter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student oucharter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student ouCharter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outcomes.

«The demand for charters is growing,» Nelson Smith, the president of the Washington - based National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said in a Jan. 18 statement issued with the report.

Compared with last year, the U.S. Department of Education significantly increased the amount of resources it devoted to marking National Charter Schools Week.

In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West talks with Nina Rees of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

Carter rushed into print in New Orleans's daily newspaper, The Times - Picayune, with an editorial saluting the Stanford study as proof of failure, but without mentioning the parts of the report that identified charters in New Orleans as a sharp exception to the national numbers and particularly successful with low - income students.

With a 2010 New York Times Magazine cover story, «Building a Better Teacher,» 20 - something journalist Elizabeth Green leapt to national prominence — as did the heroes of her article, Deborah Ball, the dean of the University of Michigan ed school, and Doug Lemov, a founder of Uncommon Schools, a network of high performing charter schools.

With major financial backing from the National Education Association, California's largest teachers» union has launched an initiative to organize employees in hundreds of charter schools in the state.

This pattern of test - score effects — showing positive results in urban areas with many low - income students, but neutral or even negative effects elsewhere — also appears in a national study of oversubscribed charter middle schools funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgCharter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgCharter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgcharter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

Now president emeritus of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Finn has co-written the book with Bruno V. Manno, senior advisor to the Walton Family Foundation and emeritus trustee of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and Brandon Wright, who serves as the editorial director at the Fordham Institute.

The text is replete with interesting facts, such as the number of rural charters in the nation (785), the percentage of charter schools that belong to national networks (40 percent), and a comparison of annual teacher turnover (18.4 percent in charters, 15.7 percent in district schools).

Lauren Morando Rhim is cofounder and executive director of the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, which is currently incubating the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative to build charter schools» capacity to serve students with disabilities in Newark and Charter Schools, which is currently incubating the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative to build charter schools» capacity to serve students with disabilities in Newark and charter schools» capacity to serve students with disabilities in Newark and Camden.

they point out that in some states, authorizers operate virtually unchecked, with dire consequences for students, and that the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools approves the quality controls of only two states (Hawaii and Louisiana) and the District of Columbia.