Sentences with phrase «charter advocates not»

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

Not exact matches

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

A top aide to Mayor Bloomberg says Mayor Bloomberg's Charter Revision Commission won't seek to eliminate the offices of borough president and public advocate in a voter referendum this fall.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

Charter school advocates have repeatedly insisted that their rally was planned before the reversal decisions were made and that the effort is not intended to take away from the pre-K efforts.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

A diverse coalition of charter advocates rallied at City Hall on Friday to raise the cap, including several small independent charter operators who don't usually ally themselves with larger organizations, such as Families for Excellent Schools.

Eric Lane, who served as executive director and counsel of the city's charter commission in 1989 and helped write the provisions creating the public advocate's office, said «we did not intend to give that power to the public advocate.»

«The numbers are undeniable that charter schools haven't done well in serving those students, who have a great need for school access,» explained Lasher, who is also advocating to eliminate the state income tax for public school teachers.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

Other charter leaders and advocates who attended the rally said privately that they thought that Tuesday could not have gone better for them optically, but offered only generalized press release - type language on the record, to avoid seeming like they were gloating over a rally that overshadowed the mayor's.

Many education reform advocates have not fully embraced the phrase, which is often used by critics of charter schools that promote strict, zero - tolerance discipline codes.

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

«We're a little upset because we would like to make sure that it's a real charter revision and not something you get called five minutes before the appointments are made,» said Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president who worked with the public advocate, Letitia James, to have the legislation introduced.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

De Blasio did not address the victory charter school advocates scored in the state budget announced Saturday, even as pro-charter forces heaped praise on the agreement reached between state legislators and Cuomo.

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.

[3] Indeed, charter advocates originally promoted not being attached to particular school districts as one of the strengths of the movement.

Afterward, some charter advocates expressed concern that suburban voters might view charter schools as something that they pay for through their taxes but which does not benefit their communities.

It seems that the support of nonconservative charter advocates depends, in part, on the fact that up to now the movement has been composed mostly of grassroots, community - based schools — not franchises of profit - seeking companies.

Some charter advocates can not abide the idea of working with districts.

Charter advocates often lament that many people don't realize the nation's estimated 3,400 charter schools are, in fact, public sCharter advocates often lament that many people don't realize the nation's estimated 3,400 charter schools are, in fact, public scharter schools are, in fact, public schools.

The administration hopes to grow the program to $ 375 million — a boost for sure, but not nearly as much as some charter advocates would like, and still a fraction of RTTT's initial $ 5 billion appropriation.

California charter advocates, however, point to multiple studies indicating that so - called cherry - picking does not account for the higher test scores seen among charter students.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

Finally, a common concern from early childhood advocates is that charter pre-k programs won't have a well - rounded, developmentally appropriate curriculum.

Charter operators and advocates have generally not been engaged in the Common Core assessment discussion and are largely unaware of the track down which the exercise is rapidly progressing.

«In recent weeks, he has arranged meetings with charter school advocates; in past conversations, he has sought to persuade them that he is not a zealot who will seek to drive their schools from the city.»

In a 2012 article, «Civil Rights, Charter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local commuCharter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local commucharter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local communities.

Charter advocates say, «No, no, no, we don't believe in (selective admissions),» but when you see a successful charter school, it's filled with families who are a good fit and who want to be there, and that's not possible when you have a random assortment of kids.Charter advocates say, «No, no, no, we don't believe in (selective admissions),» but when you see a successful charter school, it's filled with families who are a good fit and who want to be there, and that's not possible when you have a random assortment of kids.charter school, it's filled with families who are a good fit and who want to be there, and that's not possible when you have a random assortment of kids.»

Charter advocates have disputed the IBO's analysis (PDF), arguing that they don't take district schools» large pension costs into account.

«They said the mix is right now, but the mix can not be right, because there are still thousands of kids who are in schools that are not working,» said Andy Smarick, a charter advocate and partner at Bellwether Education Partners in the District.

The students at Washington's charter schools and the education advocates watching their progress won't have much of a chance to establish their value if the state teachers union and others who want to shut charter schools down are successful in their recently filed lawsuit.

Except, unlike other charter schools, traditional public school advocates like those supporting Nixon are not calling for its closure.

Charter school advocates have for several years sought the statewide mandate, arguing that they should be funded equitably with traditional public schools and that capital money should follow the child, not be dictated by the needs of a school.

He did things that aren't easy for a Democrat on the national stage to do: He advocated charter schools, tussled with the teacher unions, and went after the schools of education.

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It's a bit of a conundrum for policymakers, advocates, and researchers with an interest in evaluating all charters, not just the most popular ones.

NR: At the national level, the teachers» unions have not been advocates of charter schools.

«We have to be upfront about what we are and what we are not, how we are similar to district schools we compare ourselves to and how we are not — as well as agree that we can never be a replacement strategy as a result of that because we have no solution for naturally high rates of mobility [among] poor kids,» observes my charter advocate friend.

Even some charter school advocates say charter sponsors, or «authorizers,» aren't doing enough to oversee existing charters and weed out bad operators.

Merit pay, charter school expansion and more school accountability are not what the union has been advocating.

Even some advocates for charter schools — which would get a 50 percent funding increase — rejected the blueprint: «Charter schools are part of — not a substitute for — a strong public education system,» Greg Richmond, president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, said in a stacharter schools — which would get a 50 percent funding increase — rejected the blueprint: «Charter schools are part of — not a substitute for — a strong public education system,» Greg Richmond, president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, said in a staCharter schools are part of — not a substitute for — a strong public education system,» Greg Richmond, president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, said in a staCharter School Authorizers, said in a statement.

While GCI is not advocating that the ASBCS take over financially troubled charters, they have no legal authority to close charters for financial reasons, which opens the door for «sudden» closures to occur.

That's not the case with charter schools, and advocates say it's unfair that those schools are given essentially all the protections of a school district while also enjoying some benefits of private employers.

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Superintendent Garn Christensen said the district wasn't advocating a charter school as much as wanting to have the option of involvement in any plans to start a local charter school.

So when critics or advocates of the «charter movement» emerge, the broad brush betrays either a lack of understanding or deliberate red herring - ism, and in either case it stagnates us in a meaningless debate about something that does not exist.

School choice advocates told state legislators that charter school students aren't being funded fairly compared to students in traditional public schools, especially when it comes to getting money for buildings.

Records obtained by The Times do not show a single case of a California charter school closed solely for poor academic performance, and some charter advocates believe this apparent leniency has done their cause a disservice.