Sentences with phrase «by charter schools in»

In fact, low - income elementary schools in LAUSD are only barely outperformed by charter schools in English and Math when looking at median scores:

This report, authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact, highlights a range of practices and funding strategies used by charter schools in three areas:

In a separate study conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Amanda Olberg and Michael Podgursky looked at alternative retirement plans offered by charter schools in several key states where participation in the state system was optional.

Not only was she disturbed by the flier, which many inaccurately assumed was sent by her, Petrillo's Social Security number had been used by the charter school in an attempt to obtain a fraudulent loan.

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«He is deeply honored to have been invited by CUA to address the school's graduating class and is looking forward to receiving an honorary degree from the only Catholic college in our country that is chartered by Catholic bishops,» the statement continued.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

That principle was embraced quite readily by the teachers at another school I visited in the spring of 2015: Polaris Charter Academy on Chicago's West Side.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

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In spite of those challenges, charter schools are finding ways to implement thriving nutrition programs by meeting these challenges with best practices; specifically, through universal meals and boosting school breakfast participation by making it part of the school day.

The Charter is intended to be used by the whole range of agencies in Suffolk, e.g. schools, children's centres, health services and voluntary agencies.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

New York City's Department of Education said that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz.

In an interview with NY1's Erin Billups earlier today, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called the charter schools legislation passed by his house in the wee hours of the morning a «good bill» that will enable the state to make a strong application for Round II of «Race to the Top» funding by June In an interview with NY1's Erin Billups earlier today, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called the charter schools legislation passed by his house in the wee hours of the morning a «good bill» that will enable the state to make a strong application for Round II of «Race to the Top» funding by June in the wee hours of the morning a «good bill» that will enable the state to make a strong application for Round II of «Race to the Top» funding by June 1.

The group has been funded in part by Dan Loeb, a wealthy supporter of charter schools who last year apologized after making a racially charged remark at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

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.

Another group, New Yorkers For Balanced Albany, which has been backed by charter school supporters, has also spent heavily in the race.

Charter schools in New York City receive almost $ 5,000 less per student each year than traditional schools, according to a study to be released today by researchers at the University of Arkansas.

And Senate Democrats who hope to flip the district once held by Republican former Sen. Dean Skelos are pointing to the support from groups like the PAC maintained by StudentsFirstNY after the initial charter school aid proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was doubled to $ 54 million in the final budget agreement — a figure that was backed by Senate Republicans.

The Republican - controlled Senate, meanwhile, backs extending mayoral control, but also wants to strengthen and expand charter schools in the state — a premise that is backed by the governor in a NY1 interview on Thursday.

In many cases, the groups — ranging from supporters of charter schools or proponents of public school spending — are waging battle in order to flip control of the chamber and are being spurred by issues that primarily impact New York CitIn many cases, the groups — ranging from supporters of charter schools or proponents of public school spending — are waging battle in order to flip control of the chamber and are being spurred by issues that primarily impact New York Citin order to flip control of the chamber and are being spurred by issues that primarily impact New York City.

You mean by supporting Charter Schools in NYC?

While DeFrancisco's sentiments about the pay commission are common among legislators, there are others who recognize the reality of legislative horse - trading and remember that the last salary hike, in 1998, was traded for the authorization of charter schools sought by then - governor George Pataki, a Republican.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

But charter schools will be getting an additional $ 25 million, from an allocation controlled by Republicans in the State Senate.

He criticized the «chief law enforcement officer of the state» for not standing up for Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans to close charter schools, «for the corruption in Albany» and for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to close the Moreland Commission, an anti-corruption panel that was created by Cuomo in 2013.

But Mr. de Blasio insisted today that his aims would not be distracted by the charter push from Ms. Moskowitz, who yesterday learned that Mr. de Blasio's administration had halted three of her charter schools from co-locating in other buildings.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«We're for accountability in charter schools just as in traditional public schools and assume that most candidates who aren't bought and paid for by the for - profit charter school operators will agree with us,» said WFP spokesman Dan Levitan.

Mr. Blake has emerged as one of the mayor's Democratic critics, having stood by e-hail app Uber and charter schools in the face of attacks from City Hall.

Yes, the pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY praised the budget: «New York made history by investing in... charter schools in a manner that will dramatically assist in educating public school children.»

Space for two other new Success Academy charter elementary schools — scheduled to co-locate in high school buildings in lower Manhattan and Queens — were also yanked by the mayor.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

But he pointed to concerns over protections for charter schools that had been pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in recent weeks.

The bill backed by the Assembly does not include any legislation strengthening charter schools, which Senate Republicans are seeking in the trio of measures introduced on Sunday for mayoral control.

In fact, the rulemaking would require applicants to sign an «affirmation» acknowledging that «the certification the candidate will receive... is not transferrable to any education corporation / charter school not authorized by [SUNY] or to any district school, and may not be recognized as a teacher certification under regulations of the state commissioner of education.»

Supporters of a charter - school network run by Eva Moskowitz that is in de Blasio's cross hairs are pouring big bucks into the campaign coffers of Cuomo — a friend of charter schools.

Assembly Democrats have increasingly chaffed at any efforts to expand or enhance charter schools in the state — a policy that in general is also backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

But he has sought an expansion of charter schools in the mayoral control talks, which is opposed by the Democratic - led Assembly.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

The Senate has for the last decade been an unpredictable force in state politics and the source of heavy spending by deep - pocketed benefactors and labor groups interested in seeing which party controls the chamber — underscoring the chamber's role in determining the outcome of everything from charter schools, to tax policy and the agenda of the mayor of the city of New York.

Cuomo would increase education aid in the state budget by as much as $ 1.1 billion, but much of the funding is linked to his policy proposals, which also include a strengthening of the state's charter schools.

(Gov. Cuomo told business leaders that the state would step in to pay the rent of city charter schools denied free space under a crackdown by Mayor De Blasio, according to two sources.

Senate Republicans have generally been supportive of expanding and strengthening charter schools in New York state with measures opposed by the state's teachers unions.

New York State United Teachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his campaigns.

The charter issue became an unexpected budget battle after Mayor de Blasio stripped $ 210 million in capital funding from the city's charter schools and rescinded co-location agreements with three charters operated by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.