Sentences with phrase «charter advocates often»

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.»

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

Not exact matches

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

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.

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

Cerf, an appointee of a pro-charter governor, is often labeled as a charter school advocate.

Another important factor on the side of charter school advocates is the greatly diminished power of the teachers union, which had often been an obstacle in earlier reform efforts.

The first modern «voucher» bill also passed in 1990, in neighboring Wisconsin — creating a fork in the road that «choice» and «charter» advocates also often travel.

Charter - school advocates say the shift in resources is warranted because charters often excel where traditional schools have failed, posting stellar test scores even in impoverished neighborhoods with little history of academic success.

It is also the case that Newark is hardly a slouch when it comes to charter expansion — a point often forgotten by charter advocates, who have been nearly as tough on Superintendent Anderson as the defenders of the status quo.

To be sure, these accountability measures, which are as much the product of Bush - NCLB as Obama - RTTT, left much to be desired and C3S often argued, at times to the displeasure of other charter advocates, that the accountability to which we were being held was overly narrow and poorly aligned with the needs of a 21st century democracy drowning in real - world problems.

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.

While CCSA Advocates often supports school bond measures, it chose to oppose this particular measure because the measure did not including funding for charter schools.

While charter school advocates say the practice often reflects no more than smart budgeting, some educators and others question whether the schools receive the proper oversight to ensure that religious groups are not benefiting from taxpayer dollars intended for public school students — or that faith - based instruction is not entering those classrooms.

That news was maddening for charter school advocates, who often struggle to find suitable and affordable D.C. real estate.

And, «programs for the urban poor... stoke resentment and reinforce stereotypes among middle class taxpayers while enriching out - of - town owners and Wall Street investors of the for - profit housing industry, charter schools and development agencies while at the same time creating and sustaining a local class of often anti-union not - for - profit advocates.»

Some (including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the nation's most vulnerable children.

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

Likewise, Democrats for Education Reform, a national group of education advocates that support a range of education options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns about DeVos.

Though she was often outnumbered, she sought to restrict the number charter schools approved by the board and advocated for more stringent oversight.

Charter board officials and advocates have long argued that location can't be a factor in school approvals because real estate is so hard to find that schools often don't have much choice.

That more than 80 percent of those closures are for reasons other than academic performance raises concerns — among charter advocates and opponents alike — that authorizers are not holding poorly performing charters accountable for student learning; however, Consoletti argues that financial and operational problems often appear before academic data can be gathered.

While some suggest that these demographics indicate charter schools are contributing to the resegregation of public education, charter school advocates counter that charter enrollment resembles the demographic breakdown of traditional public schools in their surrounding districts and neighborhoods, and note that communities often intentionally establish charter schools to reach large numbers of underserved students (NAPCS, 2012).

As a school - choice advocate, she is well - positioned to put her stamp on the expansion of charter schools and other effective - but often controversial - education reforms.

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.

Charter - school advocates cite Mastery as a golden model of «no excuses» education within a local charter sector that often suffers from mixed test scores and financial corrCharter - school advocates cite Mastery as a golden model of «no excuses» education within a local charter sector that often suffers from mixed test scores and financial corrcharter sector that often suffers from mixed test scores and financial corruption.

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The question is key given that charter - school proponents are often data - driven education reformers who advocate using test - score data to rank traditional public schools and the teachers who work there.

RC: School choice advocates often say that more money is able to «get down to the classroom level» in charter schools, because we do away with large district bureaucracies.

As charter schools exacerbate resegregation trends, their advocates often resort to justifications that, to many ears, echo those heard during the «separate but equal» era — that integration is not necessary to meet the academic needs of children.

In other states, the movement is often splintered between those who advocate for private school scholarships and those who support charter schools — and, for that matter, those who take advantage of other educational options.

Officials in DPI's charter office, meanwhile, said they did not assemble the numbers, but added that advocates often present DPI numbers in a different context than they would choose.