Sentences with phrase «against more charter schools»

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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.

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.

This could reflect the activities that receive media coverage or districts» acting more covertly when they are working against charter schools.

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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.»

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.

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 AngeMore specifically, the union is demonstrating against a plan by several foundations, including his, to create more charter schools in Los Angemore charter schools in Los Angeles.

CCSA fights against these attempts to burden charter schools with more red tape.

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 aschool 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 aSchool 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.

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.