Sentences with phrase «charter school broke»

by Joe Shahen Earlier this school year, Riverhead Charter School broke ground on construction for a new, $ 14.1 million facility.

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He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

>> The North Coast Section will finally land a second large school in a CIF State Bowl final — While Pittsburg, San Ramon Valley, Freedom - Oakley, Clayton Valley Charter or any other school is unlikely to take down De La Salle in the NCS Open Division, whoever gets a shot at the regional bowl will break through to join the Spartans at Sac State.

Charter schools don't mean the privatization of education by evil companies: it's an answer to doing anything to fix this broken system.

AQE and NY Communities for Change are taking advantage in this (hopefully brief) break in the budget action to target the IDC's newest member, Queens Democratic Sen. Tony Avella, accusing him of «selling out» on charter school co-locations.

Moving a small percentage of traditional public school students into charter schools leaves the majority of students in «broken» schools.

Several are also the subject of the AFL - CIO's leaflett and canvass campaign accusing lawmakers of breaking promises to union members on a host of issues — support of charter schools among them.

A little - known federal tax break to finance new charter school construction, the New Markets Tax Credit, is so lucrative that a lender who uses it can almost double his money in seven years.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

That pits him against Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter schools.

«Our school system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in Broschool system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in BroSchool in Brooklyn.

Cuomo this week called public education a «monopoly» he plans to break with support for charter schools.

NYSUT even publicly lauded Republican candidate Rob Astorino for an open letter he wrote to teachers expressing his respect for their work after Cuomo characterized public education as a monopoly that he intends to break with stricter evaluations and competition from charter schools.

«The reason why I joined this case is because for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break inSchool in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break inschool on a lunch break in 2006.

There also was concern from opponents that private and parochial school donors could use the legislation as a way to leverage tax breaks for charter school supporters.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

ALBANY — A deal that would link future increases in per - pupil charter school aid to public school funding could be breaking the logjam around the state's $ 150 - plus billion budget.

Many teachers are particularly outraged at Cuomo's support of charter schools instead of existing district schools — he even recently said he wants to break up the monopoly that is public education.

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

In the interview with the News, Cuomo said he intends to break «one of the only remaining public monopolies» with stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

At the High Tech High network of California STEM - based charter schools, academic subjects break free of traditional boundaries.

That's why she chose to take a break from her teaching job at a charter school and enroll in the Arts in Education Program (AIE) at HGSE.

Massachusetts» charter schools — places that were to break the mold and chart new directions, no less — apparently were to be designed in persuasive detail by spontaneous combustion, with hardly any support from the state.

We also don't know the public - private school break out of the respondents, or how many were sending their children to charter schools.

Over the past two decades, chartered schools got more and more stage time, breaking into nearly every state and growing to capture larger market shares in America's cities: 10, 15, 20, 30 percent in some areas.

These students attend eStem Public Charter School in Little Rock, where summer break is less than 8 weeks long.

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The survey also breaks down the data across various groups, such as traditional public schools and charter schools and principal demographics.

«We are already seeing the effects of this agenda with the break - up of traditional school systems such as the growth in Charter Schools in the US, the Free Schools in Sweden, Academies in the UK, more recently Partnership Schools in New Zealand, and of course the Australian Government's IPS agenda.

Charters also appealed to the first Bush administration's fascination with «break the mold schools,» exemplified by the New American Schools initschools,» exemplified by the New American Schools initSchools initiative.

Education World explores the strategies educators at KIPP Academy Charter School, Mother Hale Academy, and Crossroads School are using to break the cycle of failure for students living in some of New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (skip, skip, skip, skip, skip), without financial realism, some charter schools and CMOs might, in the near future, look a lot like the school districts of today.

Competition, whether it comes from vouchers, independent private schools, public charter schools, or the breaking up of oversize districts, is the tonic to which Hoxby's work most clearly points.

Charter laws broke the district's monopoly over public school operation.

Mechanisms we espouse, such as student - based funding, open enrollment systems, charter schools, and virtual education, are having some success in breaking open the current system, but they require very special circumstances at the state and local level.

While teaching fifth grade social studies at Excel Academy Charter School in Boston, it wasn't unusual for Leddy to break out into songs about taxation without representation or the 50 states of the union.

Common Elements of Effective Schools Education World explores the strategies educators at KIPP Academy Charter School, Mother Hale Academy, and Crossroads School are using to break the cycle of failure for students living in some of New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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With a staff committed to leading students to believe in their capabilities and a sound, low - cost reading program, teachers in Gilmer County Charter Schools are breaking the cycle of generational illiteracy and changing lives.

Idaho is one of the few states in the country that breaks out NAEP achievement data for students in public charter schools.

Amy Scott: In a fifth grade classroom at DC Bilingual Public Charter School in Washington, students break into small groups to study math.

This report, co-authored by The Mind Trust and Public Impact, calls on all involved in charter schools to make the sector better, broader, and bigger in order to expand its reach and meet the students» needs — which will require innovation that breaks the mold of most schools today.

While I was on blog break in August finishing Letters to a Young Education Reformer, HBO host John Oliver did a segment making fun of charter schools.