Sentences with phrase «charter backers»

As long as the network continues to post eye - popping test scores, Success will be impossible for donors to ignore, even for charter backers who oppose Trump's politics.

The mayor outraged charter backers in 2014 when the DOE initially blocked several of Eva Moskowitz's planned Success Academy charter schools from obtaining city space.

Joel Medley, Virtual Academy's head of school, was unavailable for comment Tuesday because of testing, although virtual charter backers say that the format, while it may not be for every student, is a boon for bullied students and others who've struggled in traditional school formats.

From 2007 to 2013, Alonso, 60, managed to navigate opposing political forces in Baltimore, forging a respectful relationship with the teachers union while also winning praise from advocates, such as charter backers, who frequently do battle with unions.

Shavar Jeffries, the president of Democrats for Education Reform, sits on Success's board, but has urged charter backers not to join the Trump administration.

The suit — organized by the since disbanded charter backer Families for Excellent Schools — accused the DOE of routinely ignoring bullying gripes.

Charter backers counter that if the schools paid rent, the tab could be hundreds of millions of dollars over a decade.

Charter Backers Get SchooledCommonwealth, 11/13/16) «I would push that back on unions,» said [Paul] Reville, now a [Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Education Policy and Administration] at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

With the coalition of charter backers declaring it worse than no bill at all, and with some provisions that seem more likely to trip up charter growth than facilitate it, the Senate bill looks like a difficult starting point for an ultimate political agreement on charters.

The small number of new approvals continues a pattern for Gov. Chris Christie and state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf, who started as big charter backers but scaled back their support in the last two years in the face of rising backlash in some communities.

Andre Agassi, tennis great turned charter backer, has secured a third Rocketship school in Nashville Tennessee, adding to schools he financed in San Jose (Spark Academy) and Milwaukee.

Melvoin and Fitzpatrick - Gonez can claim support, however, from prominent Democratic charter backers.

Two years ago, charter backers failed to oust county board incumbent Anna Song, despite spending around $ 200,000 on county schools» elections.

The conservative Mississippi Center for Public Policy, which advocates for free markets, limited government and «strong traditional families,» was among the earliest charter backers in the state.

But charter backers didn't stop the NAACP from ratifying its moratorium; they didn't shame them into submission.

Legislative staff told lawmakers they do not know where charter backers are deriving that number, suggesting instead that charters receive in the area of 85 to 90 percent of the funds usually granted to traditional public schools.

Rep. John Bradford III, R - Mecklenburg, said the bill addresses the «huge inequity» between traditional public school funding and public charter school funding, although a widely - circulated claim by charter backers that they only receive 75 percent of the funding traditional public schools receive was met with skepticism from many on hand.

But state officials and charter backers say high turnover is to be expected right now, particularly given many parents are expected to take on a demanding role as a «liaison» between their children and the virtual program, which serves students in kindergarten through high school.

Those overtures offended many in largely Democratic New York City — including some charter backers who deemed anything but blanket condemnation of the new administration as inadequate.

The charter backers will support pro-charter Senate Democrats in some general election races against Republicans this year, Brisbane said.

But Families for Excellent Schools, a charter backer, said they are enrolling an increasing number of kids with disabilities and English - language deficits who are outpacing public - school students.

Some charter backers see an opportunity in New York's waning national influence to focus on the problems at home, and to build a bigger, fairer, less divided sector, with sustainable political ground game that can help charters notch incremental wins rather than just the dramatic victories they've come to expect.

Some charter backers have gone so far as to cheer Moskowitz for absorbing the slings and arrows directed at the charter movement.