Sentences with phrase «between charter advocates»

Last March and April, during the height of a battle over charter school space between charter advocates and the de Blasio administration, F.E.S. spent $ 3.5 million, the filings show.

He defeated Bennett Kayser in what the L.A. Times» Howard Blume called «a high - cost, bitter proxy campaign between charter advocates and the teachers union, a face - off with implications well beyond Los Angeles.»

Tusk said he did offer some suggestions on how to deal with Moskowitz, but he he said he was uninvolved in the battle that was then brewing between charter advocates, led by Moskowitz, and the de Blasio administration.

Charter enrollment and suspension practices have been a long - standing issue between charter advocates and opponents, particularly the U.F.T.

Not exact matches

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

The race for Skelos» former state Senate seat in Nassau County has turned into a proxy war between charter - school advocates, who support Republican Chris McGrath, and teachers unions, which back Democrat Todd Kaminsky.

De Blasio did not address the victory charter school advocates scored in the state budget announced Saturday, even as pro-charter forces heaped praise on the agreement reached between state legislators and Cuomo.

Moskowitz criticized the mayor and his ill - fated decision to reverse co-locations for three of Moskowitz's schools earlier this year, which led to an all - out battle between New York's influential, well - financed charter school advocates and the administration.

• Advocating changes in state law that allow rapid transformation of districts and schools and partnerships between willing districts and charter providers.

Once again the uneasy relationship between the city administration and charter school advocates was on display last week as dueling positions were taken with regards to how to interpret the latest round of state test results.

These important differences between charter schools and traditional public schools are not generally understood or appreciated by even the most knowledgeable people, which is why charter advocates put so much energy and resources in marketing their operations as «public» schools.

Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher program along with billions of dollars in cuts to public education.

But they're waking up now, and the fight between advocates for teacher evaluations and charter schools is moving from the theoretical think tank world to the realm of actual policymaking.

Bradford looks between the polarized camps of reform advocates and charter critics to see the vast swath of centrist parents who don't know a thing about charter schools or school choice — yet.

The great debate between advocates of charter and neighborhood schools will continue.

What's more, saying that 19,000 students are on waiting lists to get into charter schools ignores another figure: there are between 3,000 and 5,000 available seats in charter schools right now, according to charter advocates.»

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The advisory committee overseeing the boundary overhaul has recommended that the District address the lack of coordination between the two sectors, but — facing resistance from charter advocates — stopped short of making specific recommendations.

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Such is the tense, and oft - times hostile, relationship these days between state school officials and charter proponents such as Hawkes, a state Senate appointee to the CSAB who's one of many charter advocates lashing out at the state board this week.

This event brings together national, regional, and local experts in charter public schools and provides opportunities for networking, learning, and engagement between charter school leaders, teachers, board, members, advocates, and community stakeholders.

Most of these teachers are not unionized, which remains a source of major tension between charter and traditional public school advocates.

In other states, the movement is often splintered between those who advocate for private school scholarships and those who support charter schools — and, for that matter, those who take advantage of other educational options.

The LA Times» day - after story described the race as «a proxy war between wealthy charter school advocates and public employee unions» and the outcome as «a dramatic political shift.»

We have already covered the opinion handed down by Advocate General Cruz Villalón (see here), who suggested that the Court should allow Article 27 of the Charter in combination with the Directive to be applicable and to exclude thus the application of the national norm that was contrary to EU law despite the setting of proceedings between private parties.

This Opinion of Advocate General Bot, given in response to a preliminary reference raised by the Spanish Tribunal Constitucional, gives interesting insights on the relation between national and EU fundamental rights standards, and gives an important interpretation on the ambiguous wording of Article 53 of the Charter on Fundamental Rights.

The Advocate General concludes thus that Article 27 of the Charter can be relied upon in principle in legal proceedings between private parties, or at least not excluded based on Article 51 (1) of the Charter (para 41).

Consequently, based on these reasons for the Advocate General Article 27 of the Charter as concretised through Article 3 (1) of Directive 2002/14 could be enforced in legal proceedings between private parties, with the possible result of the national norm being no longer applied (para 80).

Starting with the general effects of the Charter between private parties, the Advocate General emphasized that Article 51 (1) of the Charter which speaks of application of the Charter to the Union and the Member States does not e contrario exclude effects on private parties by not mentioning them (para 29); not only do declarations of fundamental rights typically not address private parties, but Article 51 (1) also primarily addresses the completely different problem of the reach of the binding effect of the Charter for organs of the Union and the Member States rather than its effects in the relations between private parties (paras 30 - 31).

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