Sentences with phrase «by charter school advocates»

Take for example the false claims being made by charter school advocates about the size of waiting lists for charter schools.

Democrats are blasting the TV ad money being spent by a independent expenditure committee backed by charter school advocates in the race for the 37th Senate district in Westchester County.

The combined spending by charter school advocates and teachers unions far exceeded the total amount spent on the gubernatorial campaign when Gov. Brown was running for re-election.

Efforts by charter school advocates to raise the cap have been defeated by state lawmakers.

The L.A. school board's decision to hand off potentially hundreds of schools had been powered largely by charter school advocates who had won over Flores and Villaraigosa.

Thus North Carolina's program includes many of the elements recommended by charter school advocates.

The American Federation of Teachers once described the parent trigger as «a mechanism used by charter school advocates to organize parents and create support for new charter schools and / or slots.»

Due to the influence of federal policies, such as Race to the Top, and relentless marketing by charter school advocates, virtually every state has a methodology for designating «low performing» schools as Priority and targeting them for radical solutions like charter school takeover.

The latest proposal, penned by charter school advocate Sen. Jerry Tillman (R - Randolph), would disrupt that funding relationship and would actually give charter schools an unfairly larger slice of the pie, said Hollamon.

Or even more to the point, here Perry explains that the controversial CREDO report on charter schools was put out by the teacher unions when in fact it was paid for by the charter school advocates including the ultra-conservative Walton Family Foundation.

Despite a successful push by charter school advocates to win a majority of seats on the Los Angeles Unified school board, it's is unlikely that there will be a major expansion of charter schools in the state's largest school district within the foreseeable future.

The final passage of SB 1480 was only possible because of the strong grassroots efforts led by charter school advocates and parents.

Finally, in North Carolina, the education department oversees entirely the creation and maintenance of charter schools, thanks to a law backed by charter school advocates.

Zimmer's campaign was backed by $ 2.4 million in independent expenditures from teachers unions and their allies, but Melvoin benefited from $ 5.8 million spent by charter school advocates.

Kelly Gonez was backed by charter school advocates, but says expanding the number of charters is not what she is interested in doing.