Sentences with phrase «by wealthy charter school»

But issues surrounding charter schools have become particularly contentious at the ballot box in recent years as candidates supported by wealthy charter school advocates have increasingly squared off against those backed by teachers» unions in local and state elections.

Families for Excellent Schools, a group financed by wealthy charter school supporters, seized on the speech, in which the mayor pledged to create 100,000 well - paying jobs over the next decade, to attack him for his opposition to charter schools.

Right now Republicans are in danger of being shut out of that general election thanks to Cox and state legislator Travis Allen splitting the GOP vote, even as Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom steadily leads the field and fellow Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa surfs a wave of TV ads paid for by wealthy charter school supporters.

Not exact matches

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.

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

Liberal advocates remain restless over Cuomo's support for tax policies they believe leans too heavily toward the wealthy and corporate interests and are taken aback by his vocal support for charter schools.

Two independent expenditure committees funded in part by wealthy supporters of charter schools are wrapping their spending sprees on Senate Republican candidates with large ad purhcases in two state Senate races upstate.

Where Mr. de Blasio has opposed charter schools, Mr. Jeffries has firmly defended them; in April, he addressed a fund - raising gala for the Success Academy organization, a fast - growing charter network heavily backed by wealthy critics of the mayor.

Independent expenditure committees backed by wealthy donors who support education reforms and charter schools sought to be major players in a range of Democratic primary campaigns.

Another top rival of AQE is the charter school sector, backed by wealthy private donors who have been regular contributors to the governor and to legislators friendly to charter schools in the state Senate.

The mayor agreed with host Ebro Darden that «a lot» of charter schools are funded by big business: «Oh yeah, a lot of them are funded by very wealthy Wall Street folks and others.»

But that attempt failed, and it was orchestrated not by parents but by an outside organization: Parent Revolution, founded by charter school operator Steve Barr and funded by wealthy foundations.

The percentage of students with special needs served by charter high schools is also more representative of the public high schools serving the wealthiest towns.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP stCharter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP stcharter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Shining Rock is a member of a growing U.S. network of charters pushed by the Challenge Foundation, a group funded by a wealthy, Oregon businessman who's been a national advocate for school choice and other right - wing causes.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education polSchool System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education polschool expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

The charter expansion plan, known as the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, seeks to raise nearly a half billion dollars by tapping wealthy charter school supporters like the Walton Family Foundation, which has led UTLA to dub it the «Broad - Walmart plan.»