Word: charters
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When the Eisenhower Republican Club received official recognition from the Student Council, the HYRC challenged the schism at the Massachusetts Republican Committee, a state branch of the national charter that was in charge of overseeing the Republican collegiate network...
...escalating interventions. If they miss AYP two years in a row, they must offer students a chance to transfer out. After three years, they must provide tutoring services. After five years of failure, the law says the school must be restructured, which means replacing the staff, converting to a charter school, having the state or a private company take the reins or some other intervention...
...often chosen is 'other,'" which often means minor tinkering, says Kati Haycock, director of the nonprofit Education Trust. But school districts say the more radical federal options aren't always feasible or affordable. Nor is it clear that turning a school over to the state or making it a charter will raise its performance. "None of these remedies have any basis in reality or research," says Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University...
Amaro, who hails from Cooper City, Fla., is the quintessential successful high-school student athlete, telling a local paper, the Pembroke Pines Charter, that “sports and school go hand in hand...
...proposals that have drawn the most interest from neighborhood residents are suggestions that Harvard offer full scholarships to the College to neighborhood children and that the University fund a private, charter, or magnet school in the area...