Sentences with phrase «calls for the charter school»

At 3:30 p.m., Families for Excellent Schools holds a rally calling for the charter school sector to grow to 200,000 students by 2020, Foley Square, Manhattan.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

Thus, the NAACP's recent call for a charter school moratorium stands as the unkindest cut of all.

In response to the NAACP's calls for a charter school moratorium, the ChartersWork campaign was launched...

NECSN CT State Director Jeremiah Grace responded to the NAACP's resolution calling for a charter school moratorium on Medium.

The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools launched the ChartersWork campaign in response to the NAACP's calls for a charter school moratorium.

Although the NAACP has called for a charter school moratorium, Fair of the Urban League believes that school choice will uplift the black community.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

AB 913, by Assemblyman Ed Chau, D - Monterey Park, sponsored by the California School Boards Association and the California Teachers Association, calls for charter schools to meet the mandates of the state's landmark open meeting laws - the Brown Act and Bagley - Keene Act - as well as the California Public Records Act.

But the agenda today, especially in Wisconsin, calls for charter schools, vouchers, and privatization.

Their findings suggest that Colorado charter schools have created specific barriers to registration that could impede some students from fully participating, and call for charter schools to increase transparency related to every aspect of the registration and enrollment process.

U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. today called for charter schools to become leaders in rethinking student discipline so that more students remain the classroom and have the opportunity to learn.

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The agreement calls for the charter school and district to back a fall bond measure that would provide funding for a 10th campus.

That's why organizations like the NAACP have called for a charter school moratorium.

Like Daniels, Pence supports school choice — he called for charter school innovation in his campaign literature — and has endorsed the state's third grade reading exam.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

The platform also calls for charter schools to retain proportionate numbers of students from a range of subgroups, including ELLs, and opposes «high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing.»

Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, used the occasion to issue a call for charter schools to enroll some 4 million students in the next five years — a million more than currently have seats.

Not exact matches

(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.»)

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

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 1.

Update X2: Bloomberg spokesman Mark Botnick also calls to point out that Bloomberg and Silver also worked closely on similarly significant issues like the charter schools issue and both times for mayoral control.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz ripped portions of the state's new budget plan for charter schools, calling the funding policy a «travesty» that leave charters «dangerously shortchanged.»

The ad calls for state lawmakers to raise the charter school cap before applying for Round II of federal cash.

Meanwhile, the Senate has called it quits for the day and is planning to return at 9 a.m. tomorrow to vote on a deal to keep the parks open and — for now, anyway — a charter school bill.

Bloomberg wrote the seven - figure check to a PAC called Families & Teachers for Villaraigosa, a big supporter of charter schools.

Some are calling her support for charter schools, a growing alternative to public education, as a conflict of interest much like Pruitt's.

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.»]

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.

Teachers unions funneled $ 2.5 million into what Cuomo called «front groups» — AQE and New York Communities for Change — to do their dirty work attacking him for supporting charter schools and opposing tax hikes.

Governor Cuomo's executive budget calls for universal full - day pre-kindergarten for all, including charter schools.

Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D - Bronx) called Perkins «disingenuous» for blocking charter - school options, noting: «He won't allow parents the choice his own parents chose for him.»

Lhota and de Blasio differ sharply on charter schools: de Blasio, the city's public advocate, wants to charge them rent while Lhota has called for doubling the number of charters.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

His firm also represents another foe of Mr. de Blasio's: the charter school boosters Families for Excellent Schools, who routinely blast out press releases slamming the mayor, praising the governor, and calling for a return to a more Bloombergian view of sSchools, who routinely blast out press releases slamming the mayor, praising the governor, and calling for a return to a more Bloombergian view of schoolsschools.

One group called «New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany,» which supports charter schools and is funded by Walmart heirs, has spent $ 800,000 bombarding the Lower Hudson Valley with ads attacking Mayer for working with various disgraced Democratic pols.

Billy Easton, with AQE, calls Brown a front person for billionaire Wall Street executives, who he says fund the charter school movement at the expense of public school.

They are calling on the governor to hold Success Academy, and by extension all charter schools, accountable by supporting a state Assembly proposal to create a code of conduct for charters and to have schools provide annual discipline reports.

Charters have been calling for increased funding for years, including to up the per - pupil levels to match traditional public schools.

Thousands of city charter school kids got a day off school to take part in a huge rally on the steps of the Capitol that called for an end to the «failing schools crisis.»

Pro-charter group Families for Excellent Schools has released a series of reports over the past several months trying to combat the claim that charters under - enroll special needs students, though the city has called the data misleading.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Mike Mulgrew calling for more accountability for charter schools is like the Pony Express demanding faster service from FedEx.

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At 11 a.m., families from New York City's charter schools call for 200,000 students in charter schools by 2020 on the #PathtoPossible Day of Action, The Well, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Cuomo this week called public education a «monopoly» he plans to break with support for charter schools.

The Senate Republicans are calling for a $ 1.655 billion increase in school aid, grants for charter schools and $ 4.6 million in aid to nonpublic schools, while the Assembly Democrats, aligned with the state teachers unions, proposed a $ 1.1 billion increase in Foundation Aid.