Sentences with phrase «brings out some of the charter»

Keck is especially «on - point» with his observations, proven in part because his piece brings out some of the charter school trolls, who are always good for a laugh.

Not exact matches

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Address needs that need to be done that truthfully were brought out by the Charter Revision Commission, but eliminate some of the issues that I think in the end were contentious, not only with people in county government, but in the public's eye.»

Running a charter school authority out of the mayor's office, Harris and others attest, brings prestige to the whole enterprise.

The chaos resulting from quick takeovers of low - performing schools and attempting to transform them into successful charter schools has brought angry parents out in droves across Tennessee.

And in Willits, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new charter, which would begin classes next year, bringing more educational options to an area that has seen dramatic drop out rates.

Charter school operators must also figure out how to bring more community members onto their governing boards and advisory councils; the lack of diversity on those boards is one of the main reasons why some blacks still view charters with skepticism.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

Dalen points out that although charter schools in Kansas City have attracted thousands of students away from traditional public schools, they also have brought 1,000 students back to public education from private institutions.

On Tuesday, a judge tossed out a suit brought by the United Federation of Teachers to block the opening of 13 charter schools in September, including seven charters run by former city councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

While IPS superintendent Eugene White says the district's enrollment decline was one of the lowest in years, this is largely because of outreach efforts to bring back students who had dropped out or left for charter schools.

In the spring of 2016, NGLC in Oakland rolled out its next round of funding with six schools — three district - run and three charter - run — receiving multi-year grants to bring their designs to life.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why this solution may not be feasible, but it sure would provide a disincentive to charters to NOT cull the cream of the crop from public schools then push the more challenging cases out of their schools and into neighborhood public schools, at least not midway through the academic year when the negative consequences of such outcomes are compounded because of the disruption this transience evidently brings to the student and her new schoolmates.

The CTA's fight over Race to the Top brings out traditional political tensions between unions and charter schools — but also introduces philanthropists as a new force of power in the politics of education, said University of California, Berkeley, education professor Bruce Fuller.

This reasoning is set out in paragraphs 90 to 106 and is a highly recommendable read with the CJEU concluding that «the protection conferred by Article 47 of the Charter does not require that an individual should have an unconditional entitlement to bring an action for annulment of European Union legislative acts directly before the Courts of the European Union» nor «that fundamental right [or] the second subparagraph of Article 19 (1) TEU require that an individual should be entitled to bring actions against such acts, as their primary subject matter, before the national courts or tribunals» (paras 105 - 106).

The equality rights branch of the program should focus on challenges brought under sections 15 and 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (which sets out equality rights) and under section 35 (4) of the Constitution Act, 1982 (which recognizes Indigenous rights).