Sentences with phrase «charter advocacy»

In a report set for release today, a nationally - recognized charter advocacy group will call for higher academic standards for incoming charters on a wide range of indicators.

On the other hand, charter advocacy also is on the rise, often resulting in successful campaigns for school board races.

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, Majority Leader Flanagan, IDC Leader Klein, Assemblyman Crespo and Others Draw Statewide Crowd to 12th Annual Charter Advocacy Day In Support of Governor Cuomo's Charter Budget Priorities

12th Annual Charter Advocacy Day Expected to Draw Largest Statewide Crowd Yet to Push Legislators for Public Charter Support

It is the only statewide charter advocacy organization in New York and Connecticut.

«It's an acquired taste,» said Nina Rees, C.E.O. of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacy group.

(See more from Derrell Bradford on the history and future of charter advocacy here.)

In fact it's simple and easy to join the Colorado Charter Advocacy Network — and your impact can be rewarding and powerful for generations of students to come.

The League created the Colorado Charter Advocacy Network (COCAN), a grassroots initiative made up of thousands of charter school supporters such as parents, teachers, administrators and board members.

And a spate of political victories for one part of the charter sector — the large networks FES represents — has shed light on a chasm within the sector that may complicate future charter advocacy, as the city's independent charters keep waiting to see their policy priorities fulfilled.

Your participation is what makes C3S unique and effective; we are the only charter advocacy organization owned and managed by its members.

The charter cap, which was the main legislative priority of the well - funded, influential charter advocacy sector over the last year, faded quickly in Albany over the last several months as Cuomo adopted the education tax credit as his main education agenda item.

«The students, their families, the educators (and indeed the entire country) need a national independent, democratically organized charter advocacy group to advocate for independently managed, financially transparent, community oriented public charter schools as articulated in our manifesto.»

Gonez's election efforts were bolstered by $ 3.3 million in charter advocacy contributions, outspending the outside support for Padilla, whose campaign was aided by more than $ 2.3 million in independent expenditures, mostly from teachers unions.

Find out why charter advocacy is is so important to the Crossman family.

The children, dressed in matching neon yellow T - shirts reading «charter schools are public schools,» raised colorful signs painted by staffers from charter advocacy groups, and danced to Top 40 songs piped in on a massive speaker system.

More than 4,000 charter school leaders, educators, advocates, and policymakers are expected to attend the annual gathering that's hosted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacy group.

At this meeting we will continue our focus on charter advocacy and what TCSA is doing as an organization, including the addition of our 501c4 Charter Schools Now under the TCSA umbrella, along with the latest information on our CEO search, the most recent news from the charter sector and TEA, and an instructional and quality service update.

While Norwood estimates that 80 percent of what his group supports aligns with the Florida Charter School Alliance — the state's dominant charter advocacy organization — he believes «it's that 20 percent» that will make or break independent charters.

The upstate charter advocacy group the Northeast Charter School Network did not respond to a request for comment.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

Albany, NY — Nearly 1,000 charter school parents from across the state will come together in Albany on February 2, 2016 for the 12th annual Charter Advocacy Day, the Northeast Charter Schools Network and the New York City Charter School Center announced today.

«It's an acquired taste,» said Nina Rees, C.E.O. of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacy group.

In the meantime, charter advocacy groups declared the Schmerelson resolution unlawful and requested changes resulting in minor rewording such as «unregulated» charter schools to «under - regulated.»

Last summer, the charter advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools, which played a key role in the push for a sweeping pro-charter bill in Albany, changed its messaging strategy significantly.

Families for Excellent Schools (F.E.S.), a charter advocacy group, rallied parents Tuesday to ask the United Federation of Teachers and elected officials to drop two lawsuits that would reverse the co-location of more than two dozen charter schools across the city.

Families for Excellent Schools, a charter advocacy group that has effectively served as a political PAC for Moskowitz's schools over the last two years.

That followed a massive and showy rally put on by Families for Excellent Schools, the charter advocacy group, where Ms. Moskowitz, often seen as the face of charter schools, did not speak.

A charter advocacy group, Families for Excellent Schools, then began a $ 3.6 million advertising campaign protesting the mayor's decision.

Robert Cane, executive director of FOCUS, a charter advocacy group in the District, said the city could come up with more creative solutions to manage a charter - dominant system.

The Diverse Charter Schools Coalition is a charter advocacy and membership group that seeks to support the creation and expansion of high - quality, racially and economically diverse public charter schools.

Beginning in 2013 we met monthly with the PMF Task Force, comprised of representatives from charter schools and charter advocacy groups.

Securing more money would open Chicago up to national charter operations that have shied away from the city because of a lack of facilities and what they say is insufficient public funding, said Phyllis Lockett, president and CEO of the charter advocacy group New Schools for Chicago.

The estimate of 19,000 students waiting for a charter school slot comes from Andrew Broy, president of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, a charter advocacy group.

The bill is supported by the California Charter School Association and Michelle Rhee's charter advocacy group, Student's First.

Interestingly, Gaffney Bennett and Associates has also been paid nearly half a million dollars by the ConnCAN, the charter advocacy group and its sister organization.

According to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - profits.

Bloomberg's long - time chief adviser is now in charge of political strategy for the charter advocacy group called Families for Excellent Schools, the entity that is paying for the pro-charter school television ads that have been running in Connecticut and the group that organized the recent pro-charter school rally at the State Capital in Hartford... the one in which charter schools students and parents were bused in from as far away as New York and Boston.

Nearly 1,000 charter school parents from across the state will come together in Albany on February 2, 2016 for the 12th annual Charter Advocacy Day, the Northeast Charter Schools Network and the New York City Charter School Center announced today.

Families for Excellent Schools, a charter advocacy group that has effectively served as a political PAC for Moskowitz's schools over the last two years.

There are two possible explanations for that, according to Anne Herr, director of school quality for FOCUS DC, a charter advocacy organization.

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, State Senate Leader Jeffrey Klein, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, and over 1,000 charter school parents, students and teachers from across the state came together in Albany today for the 12th annual Charter Advocacy Day.

Chicago Teachers Union members will vote this week on a merger with organized charter school teachers, an effort the head of the state's charter advocacy group described as a power grab that would erode the independence of the publicly financed but...

Albany, NY — New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, State Senate Leader Jeffrey Klein, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, and over 1,000 charter school parents, students and teachers from across the state came together in Albany today for the 12th annual Charter Advocacy Day, co-hosted by the New York City Charter School Center and the Northeast Charter Schools Network.