Sentences with phrase «city charter does»

Of course, the claim was more than a little far - fetched considering Bridgeport City Charter doesn't even allow the use of the title, Deputy Mayor.

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Summit does this by chartering an ocean liner and taking attendees on a camping trip to the mountains rather than booking a hotel in a major city.

Big - city leaders even overlook the fact that the successful charter schools they admire don't assess their teachers that way.

The governor is reportedly pressing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to settle the city's charter school issues — including three lawsuits — so the state doesn't have to step in.

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At a City Hall rally, de Blasio claimed he's done everything he can to accommodate charters and offered to «sit down anytime, anywhere» for «a constructive dialogue about how we can work with charter schools and with parents who are in charter schools.»

The Mayor did not sign the bills but allowed 30 days to lapse since Council passage, making the bills law under the City Charter.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

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Hawkins, who plans to hold a news conference today at city hall, said his campaign message is simple: «Marty Masterpole is not doing the job expected and spelled out in the city charter and the city budget.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

Mayor de Blasio has agreed to do more to help charter schools open or expand as part of the Albany deal that extended his authority over city schools, sources said Thursday.

«What a commission would do is review the entire city charter and make a recommendation that ultimately the voters of the city of Troy would vote on implementing.»

The city teachers union didn't seem too concerned at the prospect of charter - school candidates flooding the school boards.

A diverse coalition of charter advocates rallied at City Hall on Friday to raise the cap, including several small independent charter operators who don't usually ally themselves with larger organizations, such as Families for Excellent Schools.

Eric Lane, who served as executive director and counsel of the city's charter commission in 1989 and helped write the provisions creating the public advocate's office, said «we did not intend to give that power to the public advocate.»

Most of New York City's charter schools have disciplinary codes that do not meet either state or federal requirements, according to a report by a children's advocacy organization that is to be released today.

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«Involving the charters, one of the things that the city has continued to do is basically flout the law and make sure that charter schools have unbelievable difficulties trying to secure space,» Flanagan continued.

The suit also alleges that former Mayor Bloomberg's 11th - hour appointment in December of former Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn to chair the Board was done illegally by «circumventing» a selection process outlined in the City Charter.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

About 1,400 New York City charter school parents and advocates will lobby state legislators in Albany on Tuesday as they prepare to do battle with the de Blasio administration.

She doesn't receive a specified set of vacation days, according to the City Charter.

«This is the last issue we need to crack in New York City and to do that we need to locate the voters who are really concerned and who will vote on charters, vote on parochial schools, vote on the problems caused by the strength of the teachers» unions,» he said.

Eunic Ortiz, president of Stonewall, wrote, «Any school in NYC — public, private, charter, or otherwise — that face a serious threat will and do receive sufficient NYPD - appointed security that is funded by the city.

City officials swear allegiance to the US Constitution, the New York State Constitution, and the New York City Charter, but the bill's supporters did not talk about the explicit prohibitions on this kind of funding in the State Constitution.

Cuomo did not take credit for passing legislation that requires New York City to give free public space to charters or to pay their rent in private space.

Why, as in... Why do Republican state senators upstate and on Long Island support sending tens of millions of dollars in new funding to New York City charters... instead of reserving that money for their own schools in places like Troy, Poughkeepsie and Plattsburgh?

Ms. Moskowitz, the founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, did not dismiss rumors last year that she was also thinking about taking on Mr. de Blasio, her old rival from their City Council days.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Forty percent of charters in New York City operate in private space; all upstate charters do.

Sources wihin the charter movement told Capital they were disappointed that Fariña did not address the policies, and that they have decided city advocacy efforts will be less effective than lobbying state officials.

C.E.O.s for the city's other large charter networks, Uncommon Schools and Achievement First, did not reply to requests for comment about whether they support mayoral control.

If she wanted to do that, she said, she could have selected a company without seeking bids, which the city charter allows.

Those leaders did as they were asked on Wednesday, releasing a statement in support of mayoral control on behalf of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, a group that has had a complex relationship with City Hall over the last several months.

«For too long, administration after administration has presented the budget to the Council in a manner that makes it difficult for us to do our Charter - mandated duty of budget oversight and review,» Johnson said, decrying the «frequent usage of vague and over-inclusive units of appropriation» that make city spending hard to track, and the lack of measurable connections between budgeting and results.

With regard to some residents» fear in losing identity, Lewis said that neighborhood identities such as Eastwood didn't change as a result of government modernization in the 1960 city charter adoption.

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With high hopes, a commission was appointed in March by Mayor Bloomberg to do a thorough review of our city's constitution - the City Charcity's constitution - the City CharCity Charter.

But even well - funded charter networks «don't have ongoing revenue to use to pay rent or facilities,» said David Umansky, the C.E.O. of Civic Builders, a school facilities developer which helps construct charters in New York City.

But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space in city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

New York City's seemingly endless charter - school debate has nothing to do with rental income - or even money, except tactically.

James — who did not specifically elaborate on her claim of a mayoral power grab — contends that since the city charter is «silent on the issue,» her ability to bring such legal action is «implicit and implied.»

«Their fear, writ large, is if you have a city that says, I don't want to have any more charter schools, that a city could basically stop the creation of more charter schools by limiting the location and the funding,» he said.

On Nov. 28, the council adopted a change in the city charter that gives the council more power to step in and prevent developments from being killed when they don't pass muster with the five - person planning commission.

But after consulting with the city Law Department, the commission found that the charter, in fact, did allow them to take the maps back from the Council and hold more public hearings.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

Reale said she plans to award the company a contract for up to five years, which she said the city charter allows her to do.