Sentences with phrase «against charter schools for»

He's against charter schools for political reasons, but his political agenda isn't helping kids in my neighborhood learn how to read or improve their math skills.

The same Miranda who is against charter schools for low income children?

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Sen. Bill Perkins, whose outspokenness has so angered some fellow Democrats and charter school advocates that they're shopping for a primary challenger to run against him, will formally kick off his campaign this Sunday.

Also a parent group announced a lawsuit Sunday against the city for its plan to put a charter school in the Brandeis Educational Complex on the Upper West Side.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of the Success Academy charter school network and a former city councilwoman, would not rule out a challenge against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio when he runs for re-election in two years.

«I will not vote for him if he is against charter schools,» said Amy Mcbean, a 50 - something Harlem resident whose granddaughter Anyiha, attends one.

Mulgrew launched his attack against education reformers while discussing his support for the creation of 200 experimental public schools to rival charter schools.

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

Still on the table: Education funding — a battle that is again pitting traditional public schools against charters — worker's compensation reforms that the business community and its Senate GOP allies have been pushing, and the governor's ongoing desire for local government consolidation.

And now, the for - profit charter school crowd is spending over a million on false attacks against teachers and public schools.

Basil Smikle Jr. has a lot of ideas about how to address Harlem's most vexing problems, from crime to housing to underemployment, but his biggest asset as he runs for state Senate against Bill Perkins may be that he supports charter schools.

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

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

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.

As of late August, tax credit backers had put $ 321,261 into the race, which, according to Newsday, Ramos believes is «retaliati [on] against him for successful efforts to block charter schools in Islip.»

ALBANY — The Democratic - controlled state Senate last night passed legislation to more than double the number of charter schools — infuriating teachers - union officials who immediately declared war against the lawmakers who voted for the bill.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

With de Blasio and the UFT - financed Working Families Party as allies, the union is hijacking the very language of movement politics, annexing left journalism to defend its narrowest interests and even recruiting progressives to join its war against charter schools that work for kids.

The issue also caused friction between de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo, who fashioned himself a champion of charter schools to pit himself against the mayor as the two were locked in a battle of funding for universal pre-kindergarten.

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.

Eva Moskowitz, the charter schools titan and bête noire of the de Blasio administration, recently announced she would not run for mayor — an acknowledgment, perhaps, of how difficult internecine warfare against Mr. de Blasio could be.

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Some advocates said there is no room to allow for a big jump in charter schools seeking space in traditional public school buildings, and argued against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to expand charters.

They cheered his full - throated backing of charter schools, even as Silver's Assembly was fighting against allowing charters to expand in New York as a prerequisite for applying for as much as $ 700 million in federal funding.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

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.

Throughout the rally, Smikle's hovered at the edge of the crowd, smiling and shaking hands; a political consultant and adjunct Columbia professor, he is now a candidate for the State Senate, running against incumbent Democrat Bill Perkins, who has become the prime target of Harlem's charter - school backers.

«I assure you that any commentary that you offer for or against any proposed charter school will be taken into consideration.»

Matthew Stewart, a stay - at - home Dad in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, is leading a battle against the «boutique» charter schools that are being planned for his community.

These include: «protection» clauses against declining enrollment; hold - harmless provisions for districts competing with charter schools; subsidies to small districts; and minimum categorical allocations.

CER judges each law against 10 criteria, each scored on a 1 — 5 scale, with a total possible score of 50 for laws most favorable to charter schools.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappoCharter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappocharter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

With all this evidence apparently stacked against charter schools, it seems downright responsible of the AFT to call for a moratorium on further charter school expansion «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness and viability is presented.»

It's not only the stuff of the American presidential election, but of the pitched battle for and against the spread of charter schools on ballots across the United States.

Dead set against vouchers when he ran against Williams for mayor in 1998, Chavous had come around to supporting charter schools, reflecting Democratic orthodoxy.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

The State Board of Education approved 504 additional seats in state charter schools for next year Wednesday after hearing impassioned pleas both for and against the proposal.

Wyoming, for instance, expressly prohibits charter schools from discriminating against students with special needs in enrollment decisions.

In 1993, Shanker turned against the charter school idea when he realized that for - profit organizations saw it as a business opportunity and were advancing an agenda of school privatization.

This would constitute a big change in Delaware's charter sector, which has, to this point, operated as quasi-free-market with schools competing against each other for students.

Thursday, the fledgling public charter schools system faced the justices for a second time to defend against another aggressive maneuver...

In addition, the Massachusetts Teachers Association led a much - publicized campaign against a proposal to expand the number of charters in the state, and the California Teachers Association created a website, «Kids Not Profits,» radio ads and a social media campaign calling for tighter restrictions on charter schools.

One key argument has been raised against the movement for school choice: that schools of choice, whether created through charter alternatives or through voucher programs, will undermine the common culture.

They compete against one another not only in the «marketplace» for student enrollment, but also in the political arena, where chartering authorities decide which proposed schools will receive charters.

In addition to running against the basic logic behind charter school reform, allowing low - performers to keep operating is bad for students.

Sepulveda calls herself the «number one spokesperson for charter schools» and will vehemently defend them against naysayers — even if those naysayers are in her own family.

Where is NYC's public advocate, Letitia James, who sued the city over school buses that had no air conditioning and went after the Success Academy Charter School network for alleged bias against students with disabilschool buses that had no air conditioning and went after the Success Academy Charter School network for alleged bias against students with disabilSchool network for alleged bias against students with disabilities?