Sentences with phrase «campaigning against charter»
As Governor Cuomo has turned his attention to how the state would deal with Ebola, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins appeared in Buffalo Friday campaigning against charter schools, Common Core and Fracking.
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Sen. Bill Perkins, whose outspokenness has so angered some fellow Democrats and charter school advocates that they're shopping for a primary challenger to run against him, will formally kick off his campaign this Sunday.
Democratic Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky in a radio interview Friday criticized an education reform group's campaign against him, suggesting an investigation wouldn't be surprise because of charter school money being approved in advance of an ad blitz.
As Azi Paybarah points out, Bloomberg is also expected to support his 2009 campaign consultant and charter school supporter, Basil Smikle, who is mounting a primary challenge against an anti-charter Democrat, Sen. Bill Perkins.
Privately, they conceded that passing the measure was an attempt to derail a threatened big - ticket political campaign against them by Mayor Bloomberg and other prominent charter - school supporters that could cost them their razor - thin majority in the November elections.
Grassroots organizations like ACORN, which have supported charter schools — even started their own — have led vigorous campaigns against Edison Schools» involvement in troubled public systems like those of Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco.
On the campaign trail, Ellison spoke against public charter schools and private school vouchers, casting them both as a Bush administration plan to weaken public schools.
In addition, the Massachusetts Teachers Association led a much - publicized campaign against a proposal to expand the number of charters in the state, and the California Teachers Association created a website, «Kids Not Profits,» radio ads and a social media campaign calling for tighter restrictions on charter schools.
In fact, NYSUT, which Iannuzzi has headed since 2005, has waged a scorched - earth campaign against New York charters for years, dipping into a billion - dollar war chest to do so.
A union - led coalition of local and national groups has launched a campaign against Ohio's charter school program, hoping to stir up enough controversy to make charter schools an election issue.
A group of pro-charter teachers filed a formal complaint this week with the state's Public Employment Relations Board contending that the teachers union had engaged in unfair labor practices by failing to support them and waging a «nonstop hate campaign» against the charter advocates.
-- Charter School Parent / Public School Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school choice.
Our sister union the NZEI has been campaigning much like us against charter schools and against national standard tests.
Clinton, who once supported charter schools, has come out against them in her 2016 presidential campaign and has won support from teachers» unions opposed to education reform efforts.
In short, Moskowitz concludes, the publically funded «big lie» campaign against New York charters is contradicted «the big truth: charter schools work.»
In 2015, a campaign - finance complaint was filed against South Jordan Republican Sen. Lincoln Fillmore over a $ 1,000 donation from American Preparatory Schools, the private company that manages Utah's network of American Preparatory Academy charter schools.
Ressler is also a founder and former board chair of Alliance charter schools, which continues to wage an illegal anti-union campaign against its own educators (read about a judge's recent ruling against Alliance on page 5).
Hundreds of protesters hit the streets in Denver to send a message to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos... Voucher proponents on the Hill are pushing a federal tax credit voucher program... two new community schools announced in Philadelphia, and activists in Florida campaign against for - profit charter corporations.
For the first time, the political arm of the California Charter Schools Association campaigned heavily against a proposed school construction bond in a district that hadn't agreed to share the proceeds with charter sCharter Schools Association campaigned heavily against a proposed school construction bond in a district that hadn't agreed to share the proceeds with charter scharter schools.
Then, this month, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, a pro-charter group, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools launched a campaign called ChartersWork to push back against the moratorium.
«This was not a campaign that in any way was run against the union or in favor of charters.»
That would be smart: three years ago the New Jersey Charter School Association filed a formal complaint (later dismissed) that alleged «as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.Charter School Association filed a formal complaint (later dismissed) that alleged «as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»
as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»
Contending that a Rutgers professor and public schools advocate has used her position, title and state university resources to wage a personally driven campaign against them, a group representing the state's charter schools has filed an ethics complaint against the Save Our Schools NJ co-founder.
This was critical not only in turning a substantial constituency against charters, but also in showing that the Yes campaign's narrative of voting yes to support inner - cities is backward because inner - city voters overwhelmingly opposed question 2.
According to Richard Soto, general counsel for the California Charter Schools, that would violate state law (see LA Times: Charter school backers campaign against proposed L.A. moratorium).