...Annotated Reference List: The Case for Charter Schools Deena Harrison Grand Canyon University: UNV 501 1/8/2014 Villavicencio, A. (2013). "It's Our Best Choice Right Now": Exploring How Charter School Parents Choose. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21(81), 1-19. In this journal article, Research Associate at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, Dr. Adriana Villavicencio, discusses the reasons why parents choose charter schools instead of the public school options available to them within the districts where they live. The author states that most people believe that charter schools are being chosen more because “quality drives consumer choice” (Villavicencio 2013). After interviewing parents who enrolled students in two different charter schools, Villavicencio discovers that parents do not necessarily make choices about school selection based upon school performance or quality, but on a variety of different influences such as socioeconomic status, school location, and education level of the parent. Blazer, C., & Miami-Dade County Public Schools, R. (2010). Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools. Information Capsule. Volume 1007. Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In this research article, author Christie Blazer, Senior Research Analyst at the Office of Accountability and System wide Performance in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, examines the differences in public and charter schools and compares performance...
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...Citizen Citizen’s Charters- A Handbook A Publication of the Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances New Delhi, India Contents Sl.No. 1 The Citizen’s Charters : Indian Experience Basic Concept, Origin and Principles The International Scene The Indian Scene Comprehensive Website on Citizen’s Charter Exemplary Implementation of the Citizen’s Charter Evaluation of Citizen’s Charter Compendium on Citizen’s Charters in Government of India Regional Seminars Capacity-Building workshops Department-Specific Workshops Information and Facilitation Counters(IFCs) Problems faced in Implementing the Charters goicharters.nic.in/cchandbook.htm 1/45 Page No. 1 10/21/13 Citizen Lessons Learnt Future Vision: Development of Charter Mark II Formulation of Citizen’s Charter Rationale of a Citizen’s Charter Components of a Citizen’s Charter Formulation of Citizen’s Charters: A Road Map Citizen’s Charters-Model Guidelines Citizen’s Charters-General Structure Guidelines Dos and Don’t for Implementing the Charters What Makes a Good Charters Things to Remember A Model Format for Citizen’s Charter 9 III Duties and Responsibilities of Nodal Officers Duties and Responsibilities of Nodal Officers of Citizen’s charter in Central/State Governments/Ministries/ Departments/Public Sector Undertakings/Organisations for Formulation and Implementation of Citizen’s Charters 14 Evaluation...
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...Charter Agreement This charter agreement made this date, ______________________, made between ___________________, Owner and ________________, Charterer. Owner charters the vessel named ___________, with registration number, ___________, subject to the following terms and agreements: CONDITION ON DELIVERY The vessel is ___ years old and is valued at $ ____________ (_________________________________________&___/100 dollars), of length overall of __ feet, beam of __ feet, mean draft of ___ feet, with accommodations for __ people. The vessel is equipped with all safety equipment required by the United States Coast Guard for such vessel; the vessel was overhauled and inspected by _______________ on ______, and at that time was found or made to be found seaworthy, and otherwise in good condition. Acceptance or use of the vessel by the charterer will be deemed to be an acknowledgment that the vessel is seaworthy, in good condition, and fit for charterer’s purposes. Charterer has the option to have the vessel surveyed by a qualified marine surveyor prior to acceptance. If a surveyor finds the vessel not seaworthy, the charterer shall be reimbursed by the owner for all of the expenses incurred in connection with this agreement, including those of the survey. Charterer acknowledges that the vessel is of size, design, and capacity suitable for charterer’s use. TERM AND RENT The length of this agreement shall be ______ at a rate of $ ________ (_____________&___/100...
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...March 18, 2016 Celerity Lanier Charter School 4705 Lanier Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70816 To whom it may concern: I am writing to express my interest as a part time bookkeeper/personal assistant. It will be at my initiative and extra attention, that no request or query made to me is unfulfilled. I feel that my education and work experience will be a great aspect to your office. I have completed my associate’s degree in Accounting, Office System Technology (receptionist work) and a certificate in General Studies. I hold at least three years of experience in a secretary/clerical position, two years as a medical records receptionist, and five years in a daycare setting, which shows I am capable to work with children as well as parents. I also have assisted prior administrators in working in an administrative setting and from home. I am skilled in operating fax machines and copiers. In addition, I am trained to work with computer and any tailor-made applications and any MS Office program. I have maintained and recorded hundreds of records both in hard copies and soft copies. Besides these qualities, I can handle any types of multi-line phone system; assist in the daily operation of school, and multi-task. The enclosed resume will explain my educational and employment history in great detail. I am confident of assisting your team in the daily operation of your office. I can be reached via cellphone 985-713-7715. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely...
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...Charter Financial Bank + NutriStar Project and Production Management Tutorial Group 8 Replacement-Paper for the FIRST test Case I - Charter Financial Bank Charter Financial Bank recently got the Idea to develop a Website to promote bank services, to provide access to customer account information, and to allow individuals to apply online for loans and credit cards. In order to develop this Websites Ray Chopper, Vice-President of Information Technology at the bank, was assigned for this task and asks for help. For easier demonstration I renamed the Activities as follows: Benchmarking | Activity A | Project Plan and Project definition Doc. | Activity B | Website Design | Activity C | Developing the Website's Database | Activity D | Developing and Coding the actual Web pages | Activity E | Developing and Coding the Website's forms | Activity F | Test and Debugging | Activity G | Task 1: What is the cost of completing this project if no overtime is used? Ho long will it take to complete the project? Costs of Completing this Project | Normal | | Activity | Time (Days) | Costs ($) | A | 10 | 15000 | B | 5 | 3750 | C | 15 | 45000 | D | 10 | 9000 | E | 10 | 15000 | F | 7 | 8400 | G | 3 | 4500 | Total | | 100650 | Table 1 The total costs of completing this project if no overtime is used are $100650 (Table 1) The critical path of the project consists of the path A – B – C – (D or E) – G and has duration of 43 Days...
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...Charter Financial Bank + NutriStar Project and Production Management Tutorial Group 8 Replacement-Paper for the FIRST test Case I - Charter Financial Bank Charter Financial Bank recently got the Idea to develop a Website to promote bank services, to provide access to customer account information, and to allow individuals to apply online for loans and credit cards. In order to develop this Websites Ray Chopper, Vice-President of Information Technology at the bank, was assigned for this task and asks for help. For easier demonstration I renamed the Activities as follows: Benchmarking | Activity A | Project Plan and Project definition Doc. | Activity B | Website Design | Activity C | Developing the Website's Database | Activity D | Developing and Coding the actual Web pages | Activity E | Developing and Coding the Website's forms | Activity F | Test and Debugging | Activity G | Task 1: What is the cost of completing this project if no overtime is used? Ho long will it take to complete the project? Costs of Completing this Project | Normal | | Activity | Time (Days) | Costs ($) | A | 10 | 15000 | B | 5 | 3750 | C | 15 | 45000 | D | 10 | 9000 | E | 10 | 15000 | F | 7 | 8400 | G | 3 | 4500 | Total | | 100650 | Table 1 The total costs of completing this project if no overtime is used are $100650 (Table 1) The critical path of the project consists of the path A – B – C – (D or E) – G and has duration of 43 Days (Figure...
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... As a teacher, my dream business is a privately owned charter school. In south Florida were I currently live, charter schools a growing and very profitable. In Miami-Dade County Charter has become a trend. The District has approved over twenty schools in the last three years. I believe this trend is just getting started and has not peaked yet. This business is one of the Entrepreneurial trends stated by Kathleen Allen. “The leading trends at the time are women-and minority-owned businesses, social responsibility, the Internet and new media, and globalization” (Allen, pg. 19). This Charter school will specialize in Law Enforcement and have a unique advantage over other schools. The Miami-Dade Charter School trusts that the supporting of change relies on the formation of a learning community were everyone has something to learn and substance to teach. The mission of the school is to develop in all kids the love of learning, and aptitude to cherish family members, friends, and the ability to engage in critical thinking, and to demonstrate widespread mastery of the academic building blocks necessary for a successful future. Who are your customers? The proposed school would serve high school students (9th – 12th) grade. At the beginning of next month, a more formal negotiation process will began, and officials from the Miami-Dade Police Charter will began to explore the feasibility of opening the ...
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...they were “A” schools located within a two miles radios of LECS thus they were competitors for LECS to watch out for in the domain of academic excellence and all other domains. Also it will be worthwhile for LECS to take note of “B” and even “C” ranked schools in this category for they could also pose potential threats to LECS in the future. For the Charter Schools, Nap Ford Community, Hope and Passport targeted students with special needs thus constituting another strategic group of competitors with different strategies but also focus on education which was the overall focus of LECS thus constituting a group of indirect competitors just like the religiously affiliated schools. However the direct competitor of LECS in this category of schools was Rio Grande since it was the most similar to LECS in its general education base charter. This school though had demonstrated some inconsistency in its ranking in the past by the state of Florida, had since 2006 reportedly been ranked “A” or “B” in its ranking thus indicating itself as a competitor for LECS to watch on carefully and keenly. Lastly looking at exhibit 1, Lake Eola Charter School has a strong position to compete with other school because the parent and donors are generally satisfied with the schools performance thus presenting the school with a good customer and financial base to rely on. This indicates that for every business venture there are current and potential competitors to guard off against who may be direct or...
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...Jennifer Brooks PHI105v1.5 April 15, 2012 Prof. White Charter Schools Charter schools take too much funding from the government to educate our children. The feeling that I have for Charters schools is that funding should come within the schools. Parents should send their children to a good school and it should be of their choice. It would be great to see much of the Charter schools funding come within the school. I believe a plan in place from their parents would be a great choice other than the government. Some money for our children's education should be within the school. I feel that with many Charter schools in the United States, the schools should have a plan in place. Since 1992 when the first Charter school opened its doors in St. Paul, Minnesota, more than 4,500 Charter schools have launched throughout the United States. (ehow.com) Charter schools funding should come from another source other than the government. (ehow.com)How would the schools get there funding? As most parents we need to pull together for the school and have a plan so that the parents of the enrolled children give to the school. What other sources are there for money for these schools. Children who are enrolled should be allowed to have fundraisers which could allow parts of the funding for the school. Do we really need the Charter schools to get funding from the government? Parents of these children in Charter schools should pull together to find a way to fund our children for their...
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...Professionals program at Georgetown University last week. They are Explaining Charter School Effectiveness by Angrist, Pathak and Walters and Matching, Sorting and Wages by Lise, Meghir and Robin. The first one uses a reduced-form approach to study the treatment effect of charter school attendance while the second one develops a structural search-matching model to study optimal labor market policies. As will be discussed below, these two papers ask very different questions; and thus utilize very different empirical approaches, both well-suited for the purposes of each paper. In the Explaining Charter School Effectiveness paper, the authors ask the following questions: Do charter schools generate achievement gains? What are the causes of charter school treatment effect heterogeneity? They conduct a semi-parametric investigation of heterogeneous potential outcomes, and estimation of LATE gives mixed results for urban and non-urban charter schools. This charter school treatment effect heterogeneity is referred by the authors as “urban charter advantage”: urban charter schools boost student achievement while charter schools in other setting do not. Then they seek to isolate sources of charter effect heterogeneity through both student-level and school- ! Liu 2 level explanatory variables. On the student-level, student demographics explain some of the urban charter advantage because urban charters are most effective for non-whites and low-baseline achievers; in other words...
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...Understanding Charter Schools: Authors: Thomas, Evan Winger, Pat Source: Newsweek; 6/21/2010, Vol. 155 Issue 25, p46-46, 1p Abstract This article discusses charter schools in the U.S. A study from Stanford University found that 37% of charter schools underperformed public schools, while just 17% delivered superior performance. A key reason is that foundering charter schools are often not shut down in a timely manner. In cities where this is not the case, charter schools tend to do well. For the past two decades, charter schools have been touted as a way of improving public schools—a no bureaucratic, innovative alternative designed to test new ideas that all schools could benefit from. Charter schools are generally (though not always) nonunion schools, freer to hire and fire teachers. The experimentation they’ve fostered has produced some of the best schools in the country. So it came as a bit of a shock to the community of educational reformers last year when a study by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) found that 37 percent of charter schools produce academic results that are worse than public schools, while only 17 percent perform significantly better. Earlier studies sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers’ union, had produced similar results, but they were suspect, since unions stood to lose from the charter-school movement. CREDO, on the other hand...
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...Jane Doee ENG 106 May 26, 2009 Charter Schools Why charter schools? Public, Private, Magnet, and Charter schools all have one thing in common, that is a place where students can learn, jobs for educators, and a location with a purpose where parents feel safe to let their children go to learn and interact with others in the community. Charter schools have a unique way of teaching students. Charter schools are not only created to teach the basic reading, writing, and math, but, to bring originality and flexibility to advance student’s achievements. Charter schools are not nation wide as of yet because the population in the community does not know how beneficial they can be towards the community. Charter schools are privately run and publicly financed departments run by parents, educators, and companies. The state and federal tax dollars are based on enrollment, just like public schools are. There is no tuition to attend a charter school, and it is freely available to any student who wishes to enroll. Charter schools are legally obligated to state and federal academic standards. Charter schools can make a difference in the community by having an arranged schedule for students, parents, and educators to follow. Parents, who work during school hours and have no one to pick up their children from school, can have their children attend evening, or weekend classes to make up for lost time in school. Students who are struggling with their academics...
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...The Charter versus Public Debate BCOM275 Introduction The article Charter Schools vs. Public Schools: Which One is Under Performing takes a closer look at the realities of the charter versus public school debate. In some cities, such as Manhattan, the District of Columbia and parts of Los Angeles, charter schools are a necessary option for parents that cannot afford private schools but want a better education for their children than what the public school system can provide, according to the big screen documentary “Waiting for Superman” written and directed by Davis Guggenheim. This particular article focuses on charter schools as a whole and looks at the entire country. In the article, arguments are shown for both the charter school side and public school side of the argument. Unfortunately, very little factual data is given to support the opinions given. Demographic information, test data and other various factors used to measure performance are mentioned yet not supported, leaving the reader to wonder what is really true. Analysis of Article The author used three various sources, US News and World Report, Stanford, and one non-profit organization, Change.org. The sources used by the author do make the article seem very reliable. Both sides of the argument are represented in an unbiased way, but not many statistical facts are used to support the arguments. The article would seem more credible if actual statistics were used. Since there were no statistics...
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...Grading 'Waiting for Superman' Dana Goldstein | September 23, 2010 Here's what you see in Waiting for Superman, the new documentary that celebrates the charter school movement while blaming teachers unions for much of what ails American education: working- and middle-class parents desperate to get their charming, healthy, well-behaved children into successful public charter schools. Here's what you don't see: the four out of five charters that are no better, on average, than traditional neighborhood public schools (and are sometimes much worse); charter school teachers, like those at the Green Dot schools in Los Angeles, who are unionized and like it that way; and noncharter neighborhood public schools, like PS 83 in East Harlem and the George Hall Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama, that are nationally recognized for successfully educating poor children. You don't see teen moms, households without an adult English speaker or headed by a drug addict, or any of the millions of children who never have a chance to enter a charter school lottery (or get help with their homework or a nice breakfast) because adults simply aren't engaged in their education. These children, of course, are often the ones who are most difficult to educate, and the ones neighborhood public schools can't turn away. You also don't learn that in the Finnish education system, much cited in the film as the best in the world, teachers are—gasp!—unionized and granted tenure, and families benefit from a...
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