Sentences with phrase «whether charter supporters»

Whether charter supporters can maintain the movement's bipartisan backing while receiving support from a deeply unpopular President who promises to be «the nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice» remains an open, and dicey, question.

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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.

Topics that Lhota addressed following the debate include whether his idea of switching MTA Bridges & Tunnels to City control has any chance of state approval, his view of Mayor Bloomberg's resiliency planning, charter schools and his reaction to a WSJ story describing Ken Langone, one of Lhota's strongest supporters, as «convinced» that Lhota will lose.

Tuesday's elections did little to answer the question of whether charter school supporters have mustered the political backing to overpower the unions.