Sentences with phrase «charter advocates»

But even that provision has met with mixed reaction, as charter advocates say it's unfair to tie charter growth to an uncertain, annual appropriation.

The survey results highlighted a new campaign by charter advocates to replace failing charter schools with higher performers - an effort to provide better schools to one million students over the next five years.

Indeed, this is the stance that was taken by many charter advocates in the days following the report's release.

In the view of charter advocates, though, the new law simply brings more balance to school funding.

Many charter advocates — 20 years ago — did promise to do more with less.

The association and unions say the constraints that charter advocates point to as weaknesses in the law have actually been its strengths.

He reminded me that charter advocates claimed that their schools would «do more with less» and found it odd that we would now come back to demand more equitable funding.

This most certainly does not square with the vision of creative and inspired teaching promoted by many early charter advocates.

* About 5 percent attend charter schools, according to 2013 - 14 data, the latest available, though charter advocates say it is now 6 percent.

I often hear politicians and charter advocates praising charter schools for what they can give public schools in the way of new ideas.

This is worth celebrating — and charter advocates across the country have planned many festivities and events.

But charter advocates note that many standalone charters serve extremely high needs populations and thus may take longer to demonstrate strong performance on state tests.

There's an important lesson here: Just calling a school a «charter school» doesn't mean that it comes with the benefits charter advocates hope for.

The market - oriented charter advocates expected that students drawn to charters would spur radical reform by district leaders and unions experiencing the losses.

No longer can charter advocates make the false claim that their approach to education is representing the collective desires of families of color in urban school districts.

But the sad part isn't the frustrated aspirations of the governor or of charter advocates.

As one of the architects of Detroit's charter school system, she is partly responsible for what even charter advocates acknowledge is the biggest school reform disaster in the country.

A backdrop for this year's election was a plan put forward a year and a half ago by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and other charter advocates calling for an investment of a nearly half a billion dollars to more than double the number of charter schools in the district over the next eight years.

It appears as if there are more charters than California needs, but there are certainly not as many charter advocates want.

When the NAACP, one of our country's foremost civil right organizations, voted on a resolution to place a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates was swift and often times mean - spirited.

Charter enrollment and suspension practices have been a long - standing issue between charter advocates and opponents, particularly the U.F.T.

But it may still have the effect of further insulating the de Blasio administration from the wealthy, influential charter advocates who have successfully antagonized the mayor over the last 18 months.

In October, Diaz Jr. took a page from Cuomo's playbook, positioning himself as an ardent charter school advocate, addressing a rally on the steps of City Hall as charter advocates continued their assault on de Blasio's education policies.

If there is a recurring theme that surfaces when exploring the health and growth of the «mom - and - pops» — as many charter advocates call them — it's this: starting a school, any school, is hard work, but doing it alone comes with particularly thorny challenges.

Christian Buerger, a postdoctoral fellow who worked with Harris on the study, said charter advocates often believe «that traditional school districts spend too much, have too much red tape.»

Now, with Success facing an unprecedented amount of scrutiny — from negative press coverage to federal investigations — the city's most influential charter advocates are reviving the argument that the city routinely denies charters public space.

However, if charter advocates carefully target specific systems with an exacting strategy, the current policy environment will allow them to create examples of a new, high - performing system of public education in urban America.

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In a Times op - ed, Tulane Professor Douglas Harris echoed these critiques, claiming that «even charter advocates acknowledge» that Detroit's charter school system — which DeVos supposedly «devised -LSB-...] to run like the Wild West» — is «the biggest school reform disaster in the country.»

In fact, the Connecticut Attorney General has declared recently in a pending federal suit (where charter advocates are attempting to lift any cap on charter expansion) that Connecticut's district public school system is the vehicle that the legislature has chosen to fulfill the State's constitutional obligation to provide each child with an adequate education.

In trying to promote public school choice, Michigan charter advocates created a many - headed monster by allowing a number of different statewide charter authorizers.

Last week, Zimmerman urged his fellow local charter advocates not to support DeVos, or risk doing permanent damage to their cause.

While charter advocates could easily be heard in statehouses demanding charter school expansion throughout the Obama era, their silence on the rest of the Republican agenda was a compromise that clearly favored Republicans» long - range plans.

De Blasio's opposition to the cap expansion puts him at odds, again, with the deep - pocketed charter advocates, who have said they would consider opposing the continuation of mayoral control over city schools, which needs to be renewed in June, as leverage in the fight.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at the rally sent education groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

There has been some concern among charter advocates that Governor Andrew Cuomo has focused his efforts on passing the education tax credit, and has made lifting the cap, an issue that almost exclusively impacts New York City alone, less of a priority this session.

Charter advocates clashed with de Blasio almost immediately after he took office after he tried — and ultimately failed — to reverse the co-locations of three of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools.

Also in 2017, charter advocates celebrated the successful election of two charter - friendly board members to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), leading to a reform - friendly board majority.

This month in our California Charter Advocate eNewsletter, which members received on May 16, we feature exactly the type of stories that all of us need to be sharing.

The battle against caps must be fought state by state by under - resourced, overextended charter advocates against entrenched opponents.

The ruling seems to fly in the face of national momentum to form such state chartering bodies, which many charter advocates argue can both lift roadblocks to opening more of the independent public schools and bring stronger oversight to ensure high quality.

one prominent charter advocate recently asked me, framing the matter bluntly.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.

A network of donors will step up if necessary to keep Washington state's nine charter schools open through the school year, a leading charter advocate said Tuesday, even if public dollars stop flowing in the wake of a state Supreme Court decision voiding Washington's charter school law.

Charter advocates counter that districts» financial woes began long before charters came on the scene, and students who seek alternatives shouldn't have to suffer just because districts and unions face budget and organizational crises.

The overall reluctance of New York's education reform leaders to take a public stand on DeVos reveals a third rail that local charter advocates — and their counterparts in other charter - heavy cities, like New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles — are now forced to maneuver.