Not exact matches
George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or
more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete
against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and
Charter Communications.
We also want to see
more companies going further than the basic RSPO standard by becoming independently verified
against the new RSPO NEXT standard or the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG)
Charter.
The Parties agree that an armed attack
against one or
more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack
against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the
Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Article 5 The Parties agree that an armed attack
against one or
more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack
against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the
Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
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.»
The Working Families Party is ramping up its rhetoric
against charter school exec Eva Moskowitz in a sharply - worded letter set to be released to
more than 100,000 members this evening.
That pits him
against Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging
more competition from
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.
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.
There's a genuine difference of opinion between the Cuomo and de Blasio administration on
charters, but the move also stands to benefit Cuomo politically: Along with his opposition to the pre-K tax hike, it cements the governor's position as a moderate bulwark
against the
more liberal de Blasio on education, appealing to voters outside the city and preemptively shutting down a potential area of attack by his Republican challenger as he runs for re-election.
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.
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.
During a comment period concerning the over-ride of County Executive Day's veto of the proposed changes to the Rockland County
Charter, Legislator Sparaco meandered off into a diversionary diatribe
against Republicans and Bloggers accusing Republicans of competing to see who hated Hasidics
more and accusing bloggers of intimidating elected officials.
This could reflect the activities that receive media coverage or districts» acting
more covertly when they are working
against charter schools.
Charter Schools Do Not Appear to Discriminate
Against Special Education Students Students with disabilities
more likely to remain in
charters than in district schools
Paul Hill, in his introduction to this volume, argues that this is due in part to the difficulty encountered in starting new schools, but also because the playing field has been tilted
more sharply
against charter schools than the enthusiasts first understood.
Concerns about
charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are
more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting
charter activists
against traditional school educators.
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.»
More still support
charter schools than oppose them, with 36 percent
against (one in four of those polled was neutral).
We should ask ourselves why we keep pitting
charter schools
against neighborhood public schools — a strategy that has created little
more than a disruptive churn.
At the same time he is asking unions to become
more inclusive by becoming «democratic,» he rails
against Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, conservatives, white - populated areas of the state, right - wing Republicans, privatization, corporate reformers,
charter schools, vouchers, etc..
The team has developed an innovative method of comparing results for
charter students
against their «virtual twins» in district schools, and translating hard - to - understand standard deviation measures into a
more easily digestible «additional days of learning.»
This goes
against NACSA's recommendations as outlined in our Principles and Standards of Quality
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Newsom said he was «vehemently
against» private for - profit
charter schools, and that
more scrutiny is needed of how of the growing
charter school sector is spending public funds.
If the vote is
against reform, allowing parents to have the choice of
charter schools will become even
more essential.
Although he fails to provide any evidence that the inappropriate use of restraint and seclusion practices are
more prevalent in
charters than traditional schools, he cites the allegations made in two lawsuits filed
against charter schools in D.C. at length, which amounts to little
more than a cheap shot.
Absent attention at the state and local level, we will have far
more OCR complaints (e.g., the ACLU filed a complaint
against charter schools in Delaware alleging discrimination by race, income and disability on December 5th) stemming from tacit acceptance of lack of access.
Nevertheless, the number of approvals has been far
more modest in the past couple of years as communities have pushed back
against new
charters opening.
Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the
charter schools even
more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate
against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.
In the film, the single mom teams up with others to turn the failing school into a
charter school and the teachers union fights
against reforms, such as greater teacher accountability and
more school choice.
More specifically, the union is demonstrating against a plan by several foundations, including his, to create more charter schools in Los Ange
More specifically, the union is demonstrating
against a plan by several foundations, including his, to create
more charter schools in Los Ange
more charter schools in Los Angeles.
CCSA fights
against these attempts to burden
charter schools with
more red tape.
«We don't have anything
against charters getting
more funding,» she said.
When the matter of inappropriate discipline was raised — this was what all speaking
against the plans for a new
charter school found most alarming — there were attempts by Achievement First reps to brush the issue aside by repeating that almost half of the suspension / expulsion data was due to In School Suspensions, which they defined as when a student was removed from the classroom for
more than two hours at a time.
For now the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico will continue mobilizing
against the
charter and voucher proposals, and Díaz said they are also going to start
more vocally championing for public schools that provide robust wraparound social services.
The question was defeated with 62 % voting
against the measure and 38 % voting in favor of lifting the cap and allowing
more charter schools in Massachusetts.
Three weeks ago at the Birth to Five Water Cooler produced by Advancement Project California, which included discussions with leading gubernatorial candidates, Newsom said he was «vehemently
against» private for - profit
charter schools, and that
more scrutiny is needed of how the growing
charter school sector is spending public funds.
Wentzell unilaterally decided that the law allowing complaints
against public schools does not apply to
charters; despite the fact that
charters receive
more than $ 100 million each year in public taxpayer dollars.
On the street, about 100 teachers rallied
against the effort by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation that would
more than double the number of
charter school students in LA Unified over the next eight years.
Teacher unions now have
more leverage and will take a broader role
against charters in the Trump era.
Gardner joined other parents and a vocal group of educators before the Wisconsin Assembly Education Committee in January to speak out
against AB1, a bill proposed by state lawmakers that would give significantly
more funding to
charter schools and green light voucher expansion.
Excellent point — and now
Charters are not required by law or policy to reduce racial isolation in fact, nearly every single
charter school in CT is
more racial isolated than the community they draw from and consistently discriminate
against Latino Students, students who aren't fluent in the English Language and students who require special education services.
When the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (which is little
more than a union - funded front group) filed a series of specious civil rights complaints
against the school systems in Newark, Chicago, and New Orleans back in 2014, I wrote that the actions seemed to herald «a cynical shift in strategy by reform opponents» to paint
charters in a racially - divisive light.
The necessary remedy is for the courts to use the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part I of The Constitutional Act, 1982), much
more aggressively
against governments and law societies because they control the resources necessary to make the justice system work adequately.
Although Justice Fish almost certainly went too far when he claimed that it is «difficult to imagine a search
more intrusive, extensive or invasive of one's privacy than the search and seizure of a personal computer,» the fact remains that such a search represents a serious infringement of an individual's right to be secure
against unreasonable search and seizure under s. 8 of the
Charter.
One may already stop here to wonder whether the EFTA Court is not making its life too easy speaking of an interpretation of EEA law «in the light» of fundamental rights in the present case; a
more thorough reasoning would have had to grapple with the scope of EEA law in the case: Only if Iceland was acting effectively within the scope of EEA law here the fundamental rights standards of EEA law apply under the EFTA Court's supervision; otherwise one could argue that the Supreme Court of Iceland's action ought to be judged
against the benchmark of domestic fundamental rights and ECHR standards (compare the rich debate on the parallel problem in EU law which focuses on Article 51 of the EU
Charter of Fundamental Rights).
With the advent of the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms the right to privacy began to be recognized
more and
more in the criminal law particularly under section 8, the protection
against unreasonable search and seizure.
Carrying
more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the
Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights
against discrimination; and language rights.
In addition to its early, precedent - setting nature, Hunter v. Southam is significant in that it applies the protection
against unreasonable search and seizure to a corporate entity (i.e. the Southam Newspaper Company), showing that
Charter protections can apply
more broadly than just to individuals.
In its decision, Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401, 2013 SCC 62, the Supreme Court weighed the collective rights of a union's freedom of expression under the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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