{"id":812,"date":"2015-05-08T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakeramitchell.com\/?p=812"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:38:47","slug":"u-s-senate-resolution-for-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/u-s-senate-resolution-for-charter-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senate Resolution for Charter Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

RES. 171<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulating the students, parents, teachers, and administrators of charter schools across the United States for making ongoing contributions to education, and
\nsupporting the ideals and goals of the 16th annual National Charter Schools Week, to be held May 3 through May 9, 2015.\"Senate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 6, 2015<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Alexander\u00a0(for himself, Mr.\u00a0Bennet, Mr.\u00a0Booker, Mr.\u00a0Burr<\/strong>, Mr.\u00a0Carper, Mr.\u00a0Cassidy, Mr.\u00a0Coons, Mr.\u00a0Cornyn, Mr.\u00a0Cruz, Mr.\u00a0Durbin, Mrs.\u00a0Feinstein, Mr.\u00a0Graham, Mr.\u00a0Hatch, Mr.\u00a0Isakson, Mr.\u00a0Kirk, Mr.Lankford, Mr.\u00a0McCain, Mr.\u00a0McConnell, Mr.\u00a0Perdue, Mr.\u00a0Rubio, Mr.\u00a0Scott, Mr.\u00a0Tillis,<\/strong> and Mr.\u00a0Vitter) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to<\/p>\n

RESOLUTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Congratulating the students, parents, teachers, and administrators of charter schools across the United States for making ongoing contributions to education, and supporting the ideals and goals of the 16th annual National Charter Schools Week, to be held May 3 through May 9, 2015.<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> charter schools are public schools that do not charge tuition and enroll any student who wants to attend, often through a random lottery when the demand for enrollment is outmatched by the supply of available charter school seats;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> high-performing public charter schools deliver a high-quality public education and challenge all students to reach the students\u2019 potential for academic success;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> public charter schools promote innovation and excellence in public education;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> public charter schools throughout the United States provide millions of families with diverse and innovative educational options for children of the families;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> high-performing public charter schools and charter management organizations are increasing student achievement and attendance rates at institutions of higher education;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> public charter schools are authorized by a designated entity and\u2014<\/p>\n

(1) respond to the needs of communities, families, and students in the United States; and<\/p>\n

(2) promote the principles of quality, accountability, choice, high-performance, and innovation;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong>, in exchange for flexibility and autonomy, public charter schools are held accountable by the authorizers of the charter schools for improving student achievement and for sound financial and operational management;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> public charter schools are required to meet the student achievement accountability requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.<\/a>) in the same manner as traditional public schools;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> public charter schools often set higher expectations for students, beyond the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.<\/a>), to ensure that the charter schools are of high quality and truly accountable to the public;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> 43 States and the District of Columbia have enacted laws authorizing public charter schools;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong>, as of the 2014\u20132015 school year, more than 6,700 public charter schools served more than 2,900,000 children;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> in the United States\u2014<\/p>\n

(1) in 150 school districts, more than 10 percent of public school students are enrolled in public charter schools; and<\/p>\n

(2) in 12 school districts, at least 30 percent of public school students are enrolled in public charter schools;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> public charter schools improve the achievement of students enrolled in the charter schools and collaborate with traditional public schools to improve public education for all students;<\/p>\n

Whereas public charter schools\u2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) give parents the freedom to choose public schools;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(2) routinely measure parental satisfaction levels; and<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(3) must prove the ongoing success of the charter schools to parents, policymakers, and the communities served by the charter schools or risk closure;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong>, between 2010 and 2015, research studies have found that students attending public charter schools perform better academically than their peers;<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> at least 500,000 students are on waiting lists to attend public charter schools across the country before the start of the 2014\u20132015 school year; and<\/p>\n

Whereas<\/strong> the 16th annual National Charter Schools Week is scheduled to be celebrated the week of May 3 through May 9, 2015: Now, therefore, be it<\/p>\n

Resolved<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>That the Senate\u2014<\/p>\n

(1) congratulates the students, families, teachers, administrators, and staff of public charter schools across the United States for\u2014<\/p>\n

(A) making ongoing contributions to public education;<\/p>\n

(B) making impressive strides in closing the academic achievement gap in schools in the United States, particularly in schools with some of the most disadvantaged students in both rural and urban communities; and<\/p>\n

(C) improving and strengthening the public school system throughout the United States;<\/p>\n

(2) supports the ideals and goals of the 16th annual National Charter Schools Week, a week-long celebration to be held May 3 through May 9, 2015, in communities throughout the United States; and<\/p>\n

(3) encourages the people of the United States to hold appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities during National Charter Schools Week to demonstrate support for public charter schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RES. 171 Congratulating the students, parents, teachers, and administrators of charter schools across the United States for making ongoing contributions to education, and supporting the ideals and goals of the 16th annual National Charter Schools Week, to be held May 3 through May 9, 2015. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 6, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}