Sentences with phrase «backer of charter schools»

The teachers unions have also pointed to wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign.

Wall Street is one of the biggest backers of charter schools these days, because they're investing in — they make — there's something called the new markets tax credit, where they get — and Juan González wrote about this — they're able to make a tremendous return on their investment in charters, because of write - offs on federal taxes by investing in charters.

The county also attracted attention last month when several GOP backers of the charter school legislation mocked grammar and spelling mistakes found in emails sent students sent to lawmakers about the legislation.

The county also attracted attention last month when several GOP backers of the charter school legislation

Other backers of charter schools include Democrat President Barack Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan.

Finn and other backers of charter schools contended, however, that the findings should be considered as «baseline data,» and could reflect the predominance of children in these schools who turned to charters after having had severe problems at their neighborhood schools.

Sackler, who is a director of Purdue Pharma, and his wife are major backers of the charter school movement.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

Loeb is a prominent backer of charter schools and the education reform movement, which the governor has embraced, much to the chagrin of public teachers unions and their allies in public education advocacy organizations.

The governor's adversaries in the unions think that the motivation is pretty simple, and highly cynical: That Cuomo, by talking tough, is trying to ingratiate himself with the hedge - fund backers of charter schools, like Ken Langone, who have also been generous donors to Cuomo's campaigns.

Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs.

Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed support for charter schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter schools as a principal means of reforming public education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»

Bloomberg has been a long - time backer of charter schools including contributing to an unsuccessful ballot initiative in Massachusetts to lift a cap on charter schools there.

He accused Clinton — who has received support from wealthy backers of charter schools — of having ties to «corporate education reform» that work against teachers.

«I always cite Florida as, really, the furthest along in terms of providing the widest range of choices and the greatest access to those choices of any state in the country, and from a political standpoint, having real bipartisan support for these choices,» she said in an interview last year with Ed Pozzuoli, a South Florida attorney who's a big backer of charter schools.

Vallas, a longtime backer of charter schools, also singled out the financial drain caused by the lone charter school in District 187 but didn't offer strategies in the report to address what he said «inequitably amounts to a heavy subsidy at the expense of the rest of the district.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Friday issued a terse statement in response to the since - deleted Facebook post from Daniel Loeb, a wealthy political donor and backer of charter schools.

The wealthy backer of charter schools has been subsidizing the Senate IDC's campaign committee, which has been financing Marisol Alcantara's Senate campaign.

Backers of charter schools, which are mostly nonunion, spent even more money to put forward an opposing group of candidates.

After his speech, Clinton told The Huffington Post that he had been a backer of charter schools when their use first expanded in the 1990s.

It might make her skeptical of the notion that the richest people in the United States (the backers of charter schools) are suddenly taken with the educational plight of poor children for purely altruistic reasons.