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charter school
[ chahr-ter skool ]
noun
- an autonomous public school created by a contract between a sponsor, as a local school district or corporation, and an organizer, as a group of teachers or a community group, often with a curriculum or focus that is not traditional.
Word History and Origins
Origin of charter school1
Example Sentences
AB 104 would require the state superintendent to allocate funding for school districts, charter schools and county offices of education to address learning loss, and would require those entities to develop plans outlining how the money will be used.
The requirement would not, however, be extended to private schools, and the rules would be looser for charter schools.
About 10 percent of public school students in California attend charter schools — both brick-and-mortar and online.
Race to the Top encouraged states to authorize charter school legislation and to increase the number of privately managed charters, and to pass legislation that tied teachers’ evaluations to the test scores of their students.
He also intends to teach lessons to students at Dayton Early College Academy, a K-12 charter school with 1,300 students, 75 percent of them from low-income families.
Nothing,” Klein notes, “was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.
South Brunswick Charter School opened its doors this summer at a temporary site.
The first—and it turns out, only—stop was Douglass Academy, a new charter school in downtown Wilmington.
In 2013, the state legislature passed a sweeping charter school bill pushed by Mitchell that loosened oversight and regulation.
The union in New York City—the United Federation of Teachers—actually runs its own public charter school in Brooklyn.
Josefina is a Spanish teacher at a charter school, and they have a 2-yearold daughter.
When I became president, there was just one independent public charter school in all America.
When I became President, there was just one independent public charter school in all America.
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