Sentences with phrase «charter advocates against»

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

Not exact matches

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.

NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins is an attack dog against charter schools because he's the teachers union's poodle, charter - school advocates charge.

At the time, Loeser was helping charter school advocates wage an ultimately successful political battle against de Blasio.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

That notion was celebrated by Richard Sellers, a supporter of the group called SUCCESS, which advocated against charter change.

Meanwhile his allies on the left, including City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Public Advocate Letitia James, filed a suit against the city for allowing the 14 charter co-locations.

Teachers» unions and public - school advocates have railed against Cuomo, arguing that he's prioritizing privately run charters over traditional public schools.

The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.

Some advocates said there is no room to allow for a big jump in charter schools seeking space in traditional public school buildings, and argued against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to expand charters.

Charter school advocates who haven't been pleased by Perkins claim that they have «opened the doors to an insidious form of segregation» and is holding hearings (the first is on April 22) are also down with the idea of backing a primary challenger against him.

Charter school advocates accuse district leaders of discriminating against them and their students; district officials...

In what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history (with $ 3 million spent overall), the union squared off against charter supporters, including the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - actiocharter supporters, including the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - actioCharter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - action wing.

And certainly charter advocates that have already filed lawsuits alleging discrimination against charter schools (in Washington, D.C. and New York state) should use the tactic, too.

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.

Where is NYC's public advocate, Letitia James, who sued the city over school buses that had no air conditioning and went after the Success Academy Charter School network for alleged bias against students with disabilities?

But my greater concern is with the complaints against charter schools raised by civil rights advocates.

I would challenge the NAACP and those persons with beliefs such as Randi Weingarten to look at how insinuating that charter school leaders and advocates are racist goes against what the movement stands for and has done.

Literally across the country school choice advocates have stood up against the NAACP in defense of charter schools these past couple of weeks leading up to the vote.

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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.

Read this great letter from a charter school parent recently published in the New Orleans Advocate regarding the lawsuit currently underway in Louisiana against charter...

Charter school advocates not only spoke up in favor of school petitions, but against some of the bond money being spent that should be shared with charter sCharter school advocates not only spoke up in favor of school petitions, but against some of the bond money being spent that should be shared with charter scharter schools.

«It seemed like the reporting was all about charter schools versus traditional schools,» agrees Allison Holdorff, a Westside parent and advocate who ran against Melvoin in the primary and now works for him as a senior staffer.

Charter advocates quickly responded that the AFT is biased against charters because the vast majority of them are not covered by union contracts.

But various education advocates have warned against expanding the charters because they have shown poor student achievement across the state and the nation.

Read this great letter from a charter school parent recently published in the New Orleans Advocate regarding the lawsuit currently underway in Louisiana against charter school students.

From the perspective of these folks, most - notably the education historian - turned - sophist Diane Ravitch, the Newtown massacre serves as their chance to mount their usual criticisms of the school reform movement and advocate against public charter schools, as well as go beyond that.

Charter school policy discussions often devolve into political battles that pit advocates armed with competing research studies against one another in arguments over academic impact.

One can only assume that Polis doesn't like the fact that Ravitch (and many other pro-education advocates) have revealed the fact that charter schools traditionally «increase» their standardized test scores by «creaming» off the best students, discriminating against non-English speaking students and refusing to take their fair share of students who need special education services.

In California, charter school advocates successfully backed Tim Grayson in his race for an assembly seat against Mae Torlakson, the wife of the Golden State's traditionalist - oriented superintendent, and got Scott Weiner elected to a state senate seat.

According to The Advocate, the court ruled in a 3 - 2 decision against the public funding for the Type 2 charter schools.

Teacher unions and other education advocates who favor the bill have been stressing that the Protect Our Schools Act serves as a preemptive measure against school privatization, particularly since Drumpf and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, both advocates of charters and vouchers, now guide federal policy.

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.

The organization advocates for increased transparency and monitoring of charter schools and takes an active role in filing complaints against charters that fail to follow the few regulations required of charter schools in Arizona.

The result rejuvenated public education advocates and provides a route of resistance against the charter lobby that once seemed too powerful to resist, which is particularly relevant in the Trump - DeVos era.

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