Sentences with phrase «city charter schools rent»

«He negotiated a budget deal with state lawmakers that guarantees future New York City charter schools rent - free space in under - used public school buildings or funding to offset the cost of renting a building.»

«He negotiated a budget deal with state lawmakers that guarantees future New York City charter schools rent - free space in under - used public school buildings or funding to offset the cost of renting a building.»

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The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

(Gov. Cuomo told business leaders that the state would step in to pay the rent of city charter schools denied free space under a crackdown by Mayor De Blasio, according to two sources.

The city, under the tentative plan, would be on the hook to pay up to $ 40 million to cover the rents of charter schools located in private buildings.

Lhota and de Blasio differ sharply on charter schools: de Blasio, the city's public advocate, wants to charge them rent while Lhota has called for doubling the number of charters.

The new laws prevent de Blasio from charging rent to charters as he had said he would, require the city to find space for charters in D.O.E. buildings or to fund those schools up to $ 40 million for space in private buildings, and implement other safeguards for charters after an intensive charter lobbying effort in Albany.

The new mayor enraged the charter school movement by vowing to charge schools getting rent - free space in city buildings and scrapping a $ 210 million charter building fund.

De Blasio also agreed to quickly fulfill requests for building upgrades, give charter school students MetroCards when their schools operate in the summer, and to streamline the process for charters to request rent reimbursement from the city.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has indicated plans of charging charter schools rent for sharing space with traditional public schools.

The governor had been a mild supporter of charter schools throughout his tenure as governor until he made «saving» charters from Bill de Blasio a key issue in recent months, as the mayor made promises to charge some charter networks rent and put other restrictions on the city's charters.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

New court papers filed by the plaintiffs in the state Appellate Division also seek to force the city to charge rent to all charter schools currently given free space in city public school buildings.

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

Mr. de Blasio also intends to punish well - endowed co-located charters like Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools by charging rent, which the city's Independent Budget Office says could raise $ 92 million.

His budget would allow charters that rent space in private buildings to bill the city for 30 percent of the school's costs, up from 20 percent.

Mr. de Blasio has pledged to charge rent to charter schools, and he has said he will deny, at least temporarily, future requests to use space inside public school buildings — a lifeline for many charter schools given the high costs of real estate in the city.

The state budget that Mr. Cuomo and legislative leaders announced later that month prohibited the city from charging charters rent and required it to find public school space for them or pay much of the cost for a private location.

Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature subsequently approved a law requiring the city to provide charters space in public school facilities or pay for their rent at private space.

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.

A new Quinnipiac poll released on Nov. 19 found that New York City voters are divided on the idea of more charter schools, but many believe those charters should pay rent for using public school buildings.

The legislation would also prohibit the city from charging rent to charter schools, an idea Mr. de Blasio had championed as a candidate for mayor.

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

The law also requires the city to offer new and expanded charter schools rent - free space in city buildings, or to pay for their rent in private facilities.

Thousands of infuriated parents and children, staging one of the biggest demonstrations in years, converged on City Hall Tuesday to protest Bill de Blasio's plan to make charter schools pay rent.

Most of the city's 183 charter schools get rent - free space in public - school buildings, usually sharing space.

Whether it's essentially taxing charter schools by charging them rent to use city school buildings, like DeBlasio wants; or otherwise throwing sand in the gears of charter growth by halting new co-locations, like both men want, the stakes are high for charters in this election.

The legislation would also prohibit the city from charging rent to charter schools, an idea Mr. de Blasio had championed as a candidate for mayor.

The governor had been a mild supporter of charter schools throughout his tenure as governor until he made «saving» charters from Bill de Blasio a key issue in recent months, as the mayor made promises to charge some charter networks rent and put other restrictions on the city's charters.

The proposed legislation included provisions to reverse Mr. de Blasio's decisions on school space, and it required the city to provide public classrooms to new and expanding charter schools or contribute to the cost of renting private buildings.

If the next mayor makes the charters pay rent in the city's expensive real - estate market — essentially imposing a regressive tax on them — over time the schools» budgets will suffocate and they'll start to die.

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

The real estate industry, which already receives huge tax breaks as it gentrifies communities, also stands to benefit by promoting charter schools and helping them buy up property, or rent, in inner city communities.

During the campaign, de Blasio did not mince words about charter schools, saying they diverted attention and resources from the city's traditional public schools and that the Bloomberg administration added «insult to injury» by offering them free rent in public - school buildings.

«The city says costs are increasing because rents have risen and that many eligible charter schools are continuing to expand to serve higher grades.

16) New York: New York City's tab for charter school rent is going up 63 % this year, to $ 44 million, from $ 27 million last year.

The uproar over charging rent to New York City charter schools proves that control over facilities is a powerful but easily misused governance tool.

Families for Excellent Schools also spent approximately $ 6 million in 2014 to «prevent Mayor Bill de Blasio from regulating the charter school sector and won passage of a law that forces the city to pay the rent of charters «not located on public school grounds.»

The rally came after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio nixed plans to co-locate three charter schools with traditional public schools, and more broadly, amid plans to charge rent to some charters occupying city school buildiCity Mayor Bill de Blasio nixed plans to co-locate three charter schools with traditional public schools, and more broadly, amid plans to charge rent to some charters occupying city school buildicity school buildings.

«Charter schools are asking for basic fairness when it comes to educating their public school students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Cschool students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School CSchool Center.

Some charter schools will use loan funds to help build new schools, others will look to charter school organizations to back loans that ultimately the schools will have to pay off, while still others find unused, city - owned buildings to rent for as little as $ 1 per year.