Sentences with phrase «charter advocates point»

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

As evidence, charter advocates point to the surprising progress of a number of restrictive bills through the Legislature this session, coupled with the conspicuous loss to term limits this year of two of their primary champions - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Sen. Gloria Romero.

While other states also have weighed lifting caps, charter advocates point to left - leaning Massachusetts as a somewhat unlikely model for the movement.

Not exact matches

The fact that Bloomberg avoiding being critical of the Assembly Democrats on the charter school cap issue even as the pro-charter advocates have placed the blame squarely on that chamber and its cozy relationship with the teachers union, further proves the point.

Charter school advocates pointed to their schools» impressive results - many outperform neighboring public schools - and lashed out at United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, who accused them of being «fixated» on raising the state cap.

Charter advocates have pointed out that the groups still won some battles without having to sacrifice anything legislatively, such as new quotas for how many special - needs students charters must enroll, or new oversight measures.

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.

As scholar Bruce Fuller points out, charter school proponents need «a devil's advocate, a loyal opposition,» a role played by the RAND Corporation and by academics like Fuller himself.

Some charter school advocates will surely point to the new study as yet more evidence that public school districts should be replaced by a more decentralized approach to education, with a greater emphasis on charter schools.

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.

Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public school advocate pointed out the harsh reality in her blog yesterday, Connecticut Governor Malloy Increases Funding for Charters, Cuts Funding for Public Schools;

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

Charter school supporters and advocates frequently point to the broad choices that families have when seeking a school in New Orleans, where most of the 82 public schools are charters and most accept applications from across the city.

Each day of NCSW, schools, educators, advocates and thought leaders produced a combo of thousands of stories, data points and reflections about the role charters have played in transforming how public education works.

Several years ago, Wendy Lecker also pointed to what appeared to be «double standards» in evaluating charter and other public schools in her column at The Stamford Advocate.

Or even more to the point, here Perry explains that the controversial CREDO report on charter schools was put out by the teacher unions when in fact it was paid for by the charter school advocates including the ultra-conservative Walton Family Foundation.

Case in point: in the June 2016 school board elections in Riverside County, CCSA Advocates supported Barbara Hale, a former teacher who became a principal at Sycamore Academy, a TK - 8 charter school in Wildomar.

At one point during the meeting a district advocate said, «Charter schools are different from public schools,» and then she immediately self - corrected to say, «Well, charter schools are public schools, but they're different from district schools.Charter schools are different from public schools,» and then she immediately self - corrected to say, «Well, charter schools are public schools, but they're different from district schools.charter schools are public schools, but they're different from district schools.»

The rationale of pro-TWU advocates, backed up by Supreme Court jurisprudence directly on point, is that it's not permissible for a professional licensing body to refuse to recognize TWU students on the basis of TWU's religiously - inspired (and by all account bona fide) community charter.