Sentences with phrase «for charter supporters»

For charter supporters, then, there is only one choice: fight back and win.

The restructuring provisions in No Child Left Behind (NCLB) are a Rorschach test for charter supporters.

All in all, the results are encouraging for charter supporters.

For charter supporters, there's been plenty of ammunition for defense and explanation.

Not exact matches

A privately - chartered train with 750 Gladbach supporters on board was stopped by police in Hesse after the 19 - year - old woman called for help.

Another group, New Yorkers For Balanced Albany, which has been backed by charter school supporters, has also spent heavily in the race.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

A central irony of the debate is that the charter groups, which despise de Blasio, are strong supporters of mayoral control, while de Blasio's usual allies in the UFT have been notably absent from the mayor's push for a multi-year extension.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Bloomberg wrote the seven - figure check to a PAC called Families & Teachers for Villaraigosa, a big supporter of charter schools.

Eric is a strong supporter of the NYPD, charter schools and champions the pro-growth policies that lead to job creation for middle and working class families.

Charter school supporters slammed Sen. Bill Perkins for canceling a promised follow - up hearing.

The proposed charter school has hundreds of local supporters and backing from SUNY New Paltz and the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement.

Charter - school supporters slammed Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins yesterday for canceling a promised follow - up hearing — after they had been shut out of an initial session packed with charter opponents lastCharter - school supporters slammed Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins yesterday for canceling a promised follow - up hearing — after they had been shut out of an initial session packed with charter opponents lastcharter opponents last month.

Mulgrew met yesterday with state Attorney General and charter supporter Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to announce his candidacy for governor next week.

McInerney is also a supporter of the charter schools movement and has donated $ 575,000 to New Yorkers for Independent Action, an education reform group pushing for a state tax credit for individuals who donate to charter or religious schools.

He gave $ 264,441 to the Senate GOP and wrote a pair of million - dollar checks to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, an independent expenditure committee created by charter school supporters that helps the conference.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state SenaFor A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state Senafor the state Senate.

Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that supporters charter schools, will call on the state to lift the cap on the alternative public schools.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew makes the case for stronger charter school oversight now that U.S. Secretary Betsy DeVos — a strong charter supporter — has been confirmed.

Bloomberg has been a Hoyt supporter for some time now, largely due to the assemblyman's championing of charter schools — a big pet issue for the mayor.

Asked how unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014 elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.

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.

Generally, charter supporters are upset with the mayor for being against the expansion of charter schools.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Mayor de Blasio pitches his rezoning plans in East New York, via Chang W. Lee for the New York Times; charter school supporters rally in Brooklyn,...

For years, billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has been one of the Success Academy charter school network's most crucial supporters.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

«What we saw for much of the Obama era was the centrist Democrats — the venture - capital, charter - school supporter wing — really move to prominence,»

Loeb's full post disparaged Stewart - Cousins for her lack of support for charter schools, and praised state Sen. Jeff Klein, who leads a rival faction of renegade Democrats and has been an outspoken supporter of charter schools.

«What we saw for much of the Obama era was the centrist Democrats — the venture - capital, charter - school supporter wing — really move to prominence,» Hess, of the American Enterprise Institute, told me.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

Sen. Bill Perkins, who has been under attack by charter school supporters for his criticism of — and efforts to curb — the movement, has picked up the support of the New York Charter Parents Assoccharter school supporters for his criticism of — and efforts to curb — the movement, has picked up the support of the New York Charter Parents AssocCharter Parents Association.

Loeb, a staunch charter school supporter, contributed $ 1 million to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a group that is backed by StudentsFirstNY.

The latest push is coming from New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a group backed by supporters of charter schools, is spending $ 263,976 on digital, radio and TV ads in the suburban district.

On Saturday, LaborPress caught up with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.

De Blasio has been criticized by both charter supporters and opponents in recent weeks, after he allowed more than a dozen co-locations approved under Michael Bloomberg to proceed, but blocked co-locations for three of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools.

At a preemptive news conference with education advocates, The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says wealthy supporters of expanding charter schools have spent nearly twice that amount, and have contributed large sums to the governor's campaign.

De Blasio and Cuomo, both Democrats, are currently at odds over the best way to fund pre-K, while the mayor last week earned the ire of charter supporters by vetoing three «co-location» agreements, forcing those charter programs to search for new homes this fall.

Right now Republicans are in danger of being shut out of that general election thanks to Cox and state legislator Travis Allen splitting the GOP vote, even as Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom steadily leads the field and fellow Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa surfs a wave of TV ads paid for by wealthy charter school supporters.

Charter school supporters led by Families for Excellent Schools will rally and lobby in Albany on Wednesday.

Families for Excellent Schools, a group financed by wealthy charter school supporters, seized on the speech, in which the mayor pledged to create 100,000 well - paying jobs over the next decade, to attack him for his opposition to charter schools.

In late September, the Partnership for New York City, an influential business coalition, organized a meeting between Mr. de Blasio and compromise - minded charter supporters.

Leadership of DFER has also shifted: Shavar Jeffries, who in 2014 lost a high - profile race for mayor of Newark, N.J., with the strong backing of charter supporters, became the group's national president a year ago.

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

As a leader who co-founded a high - performing charter school network and charter support organization, and who now leads Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and district leaders committed to educational excellence, I'm an ardent charter supporter — and I'm arguing for taking a look in the mirror.

Charter supporters threw a Hail Mary pass in the form of a ballot initiative; the reason they had to take such extreme measures was because the teachers have had the legislature in a head lock for a decade.

School choice supporters are split over the program's strict accountability provisions, however, which some say represent over-regulation by the state but which others claim are on par with the expectations for traditional public and charter schools.

Supporters don't need to rely on the Global Report Card to make the case for charter schools because they have four gold - standard RCTs on their side.

Although they find modest advantages for charters in terms of parental satisfaction, school - based social capital, and civic instruction, they emphasize that these differences — some of which diminished over time — fall well short of the promises made by the charter movement's most ardent supporters.