Sentences with phrase «first charter school chain»

Major donors associated with ConnCAN, the Achievement First charter school chain and other corporate education reform entities have donated in excess of $ 250,000 to Malloy's Democratic State Central Committee in just the last four years.

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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 Frfirst 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 FrFirst 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.

In England, we have something called Teach First, which is a straight rip off of Teach For America, but I also think the fact that we will have an educational official energetically teaming high - performing schools with underperforming schools in order to create new equivalents of CMOs (Charter Management Organizations), in essence chains.

As charter schools get going here, best - known charter chains may stay away The first charter schools in Washington probably will be kitchen - table charters, started by a teacher or principal or two.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the charter school chain, recently appeared on PBS News Hour to defend the practice of suspending students as young as kindergarten and first grade.

Let's see if I've got this right... Stefan Pryor was co-founder and board member of Amistad Academy, the «flagship» school of Achievement First, a charter school chain he helped found and on whose board he sat until he was made Commissioner of Education of the State of Connecticut in Sept. 2011.

However the charter school industry's «no - excuses» approach, primarily aimed at children of color, is the hallmark of the charter school industry across the nation, including at Achievement First, Inc., the large Connecticut - based charter school chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

In Connecticut, a leading example of a push - out strategy was the one utilized by the Achievement First Inc. charter school chain.

Last year, when Achievement First was fighting to open charter schools in Rhode Island, RI - CAN (the Ocean State's ConnCAN affiliate) ramped up a major public relations effort to soften opposition to the out - of - state charter school chain.

Simon explains that, «Well - established and successful chains of charter schools, such as KIPP, Green Dot or Achievement First, receive hefty support from philanthropic foundations and private donors.

The law also allows for the first time networks or chains of charter schools, the initial step in creating privatized school systems.

New Profit, Inc. also funds Achievement First, Inc., a charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the Achievement Network and Turnaround for Children, two more pro-charter school lobby and public relations organizations.

The charter school chain that has received the most money under Malloy is Achievement First, Inc., the company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

In essence, it is a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First... Relay's «curriculum» mostly consists of taking the non-certified faculty of the charter schools, giving them computer - delivered modules on classroom management (and distributing copies of Teach Like a Champion), and placing them under the auspices of the «no excuses» brand of charter school operation and teachers who already have experience wSchools, KIPP, and Achievement First... Relay's «curriculum» mostly consists of taking the non-certified faculty of the charter schools, giving them computer - delivered modules on classroom management (and distributing copies of Teach Like a Champion), and placing them under the auspices of the «no excuses» brand of charter school operation and teachers who already have experience wschools, giving them computer - delivered modules on classroom management (and distributing copies of Teach Like a Champion), and placing them under the auspices of the «no excuses» brand of charter school operation and teachers who already have experience with it.

It is a charter - style network of independent teacher preparation programs created by the leaders of three prominent charter school chains (Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First), primarily as a means to bypass traditional teacher education.

Achievement First Inc. is the charter school chain co-founded by Malloy's first term commissioner of education, Stefan PFirst Inc. is the charter school chain co-founded by Malloy's first term commissioner of education, Stefan Pfirst term commissioner of education, Stefan Pryor.

Boas and Ferguson are board members for Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Relay School of Education is closely associated with the charter school industry and has particularly close ties to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode ISchool of Education is closely associated with the charter school industry and has particularly close ties to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Ischool industry and has particularly close ties to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Ischool chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

Achievement First Inc.'s expansion plan to become one of the largest charter school chains in the country actually goes back to before Achievement First Inc. co-founder and board member Stefan Pryor left Achievement First, Inc. to become Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

Achievement First is a «no - excuses» charter chain with schools in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

The Vice Chair of Relay Graduate School's Board of Directors is none - other - than Dacia Toll, the CEO of Achievement First, Inc., the charter school chain that has pulled in millions of dollars in Connecticut taxpayer funds as a result of Malloy's polSchool's Board of Directors is none - other - than Dacia Toll, the CEO of Achievement First, Inc., the charter school chain that has pulled in millions of dollars in Connecticut taxpayer funds as a result of Malloy's polschool chain that has pulled in millions of dollars in Connecticut taxpayer funds as a result of Malloy's policies.

When Stefan Pryor, the co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. became Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Pryor hired Barth to play the key role in the SDE's «turnaround office» where he has spent his time getting Alliance Districts to turn over their schools to charter companies, most notably, to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain.

Sackler, whose company makes OxyContin, was a pivotal player in the creation of Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school chain with schools in New York Connecticut and Rhode Island.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publiccharter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - 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have been among the most vocal proponents of diverting scarce public taxpayer funds to Achievement First, Inc, the large charter school management company, to former charter school operator Dr.» Michael Sharpe and his disgraced FUSE charter school chain and Steve Perry, the controversial anti-teacher former Hartford school administrator and self - described «most trusted educator in America,» who, thanks to Governor Malloy is opening his own privately owned but publicly funded «boutique» charter school company.

Relay was founded by representatives of three charter school chains, Achievement First, KIPP and Uncommon Schools — chains with a troubling record of suspensions, harsh discipline and attrition.

Of course, Achievement First Inc. is the charter school chain founded by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of education.

Until recently the SFER Board also included acclaimed education reform financier Jonathan Sackler (Whose activities include funding the Achievement First Inc. charter school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform charter school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform (school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform (School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER.)

Grade 5 teachers are particularly weak, but the data indicates that Achievement First's teachers should be evaluated as ineffective and the charter school chain should remove and replace all teachers other than those teaching in grade 3.

Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, earned national notoriety when news broke about the shocking number of kindergarten and first graders suspended at their schFirst, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, earned national notoriety when news broke about the shocking number of kindergarten and first graders suspended at their schfirst graders suspended at their schools.

Initially Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, tried to «persuade» the City of Hartford to turn Clark Elementary School over to Achievement First, Inc. the charter school chain that Pryor co-foSchool over to Achievement First, Inc. the charter school chain that Pryor co-foschool chain that Pryor co-founded.

The bill requires greater transparency for Connecticut's charter schools, something that Dacia Toll, the CEO of Achievement First, Inc., a large charter school chain with schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island opposed, having told the Education Committee that it would be a «burden» for charter schools to have to be more transparent.

Charter School chain is using a completely different approach as it seeks to pull off a deal in New Haven that would shift existing funds away from New Haven's public schools and into the coffers of the Achievement First operation.

One of the most prominent of these programs is the Relay Graduate School of Education — a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First — that trains its aspiring teachers through «teacher - in - residence» programs, mostly at urban charter schools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other chaSchool of Education — a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First — that trains its aspiring teachers through «teacher - in - residence» programs, mostly at urban charter schools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other chaschool chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First — that trains its aspiring teachers through «teacher - in - residence» programs, mostly at urban charter schools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other chSchools, KIPP, and Achievement First — that trains its aspiring teachers through «teacher - in - residence» programs, mostly at urban charter schools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other chschools with low - income populations, at their own schools and other chschools and other charters.

And what a surprise that the co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (Stefan Pryor) and the former principal of an Achievement First, Inc. school (Morgan Barth) are bringing together schools from around the state so that they can «learn» about best practices from two privatized, «no excuses» schools that have been taken over by the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school chain.