Sentences with phrase «charter cap»

The low test scores were the impetus to lift charter caps.

Technically, the unions are correct in stating that the statewide charter cap of 460 slots has not changed.

But ask yourself: How many charter caps have been lowered in the last ten years?

MA State Senate ended up passing the Rise Act, which tied charter cap increases to an increase in local education funding for 7 years and would cost 203 - 212 million per year.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY and Families for Excellent Schools released this statement in response to Mayor de Blasio's comments opposing the lifting of charter cap:

In order to receive today's funds, Colorado provided assurances that it will collect, publish, analyze and act on basic information regarding the quality of classroom teachers, annual student improvements, college readiness, the effectiveness of state standards and assessments, progress on removing charter caps and interventions in turning around underperforming schools.

For what it's worth, I think that describes the Massachusetts charter cap lift in 2010.

Since Illinois passed its charter school law in 1996, Chicago's public school district officials have viewed charters as another path to district improvement, especially for its high schools, and even went so far as to support an increase on the city's charter cap from 15 to 30.

Steiner arrived in October of 2009 and by the end of May the following year, at three in the morning, stood with Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and his deputy John King, in the State Assembly and watched the vote that raised the state's charter cap by 260 and dismantled the «firewall» between teacher evaluations and student performance.

For the most part, though, RTTT just prodded states to promise to plan to make reforms, and even things like lifting charter caps do little good when the problems go much deeper.

«Your calls, emails and faxes, and your demonstrations outside the offices of members of the Legislature, helped make sure the millionaire's tax was extended and the current charter cap stays in place.»

Charter School Advocacy Day Focuses on Fair Funding, Eliminating Charter Cap Spectrum News, February 7, 2017

One of our television ads had Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Andrew Cuomo, David Paterson all supporting the legislation [on teacher evaluations and charter caps], to imply that if you didn't support it, you weren't a good Democrat.

Cohodes and Susan Dysnarski are the authors of «Massachusetts Charter Cap Holds Back Disadvantaged Students.»

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

(In 2000 the charter law was amended to remove the 25 - charter cap while ending the practice of local districts» chartering schools in other districts.)

The number of charters is set to grow by 100 slots this year if Cuomo's charter cap proposal is approved.

New Mexico's charter cap shields small districts from enrollment loss, and as a result, the state's charters cluster primarily in urban settings (51 percent of charter schools operate there compared to 21 percent of New Mexico's district schools) and in suburbs (which host 12.3 percent of the state's charters but only 8.2 percent of its district schools).

Lifting a legislated charter cap shouldn't be enough.

Heaven only knows what more could have been accomplished for Boston's low - income kids were it not for the state's galling charter cap.

(«State Picture on Charter Caps Still Mixed,» Aug. 12, 2009.)

Remove or modify charter caps that limit replication of high - performing charter schools within a state or locality.

For Immediate Release Democrats Respond to State Party Action on Charter Cap Ballot Question BOSTON — In response to members of the Democratic State Committee voting tonight to oppose Question 2 - a ballot...

However, the legislative charter cap at this time is 15, so Passages and the Choir Academy merge under one charter, Global Village Academy.

This makes sense in terms of the text of Massachusetts» charter cap law itself, which, as discussed in the Definition section, places an emphasis on lower - performing school districts (tending towards cities, not suburbs) and higher population districts, with Commonwealth charter schools prohibited in communities with fewer than 30,000 residents.

Since state legislators lifted a 100 - school charter cap in 2011, charters have exploded across the state, with 171 operating today.

Open Letter to Mayor de Blasio from Charter School Leaders Calls on Mayor to Fulfill Pledge to Serve All Children and Support Elimination of Charter Cap

In order to receive today's funds, Arizona provided assurances that it will collect, publish, analyze and act on basic information regarding the quality of classroom teachers, annual student improvements, college readiness, the effectiveness of state standards and assessments, progress on removing charter caps and interventions in turning around underperforming schools.

Charter policy is not only an argument for, but even an implementation of «no tenure» (regardless that some choose it anyway), as is the call for lifting charter caps.

Maybe the starkest case came from Massachusetts, where Governor Deval Patrick, after years of consistent charter school antagonism, conducted a high - profile volte - face and announced his support for lifting his state's restrictive charter cap.

The depth of that support from the left, however, has been slowly eroding and recent developments exposed cracks in that alliance even before the election: the NAACP resolution; the battle over the Massachusetts charter cap; the fight against the Washington State charter law, which was joined by local affiliates of NCLR, a group that nationally has been very supportive of charters.

Charter school supporters sent a letter today to state lawmakers, urging them to pass a a host of education reform initiatives — including lifting the charter cap — to improve the state's chances in Round II of «Race to the Top» funding, arguing the city's threat to fire thousands of teachers adds a new sense of urgency to their request.

(Recall that lifting the charter cap is big part of landing «Race to the Top» funds).

Here's yet another TV ad from the pro-charter school group Education Reform Now, which is pushing Albany to raise the charter cap in advance of the next «Race to the Top» funding application deadline on June 1.

What we're looking at now is an extremely active post-budget session, with everything on the table — from the charter cap and DREAM / EITC to the NYC rent laws and mayoral control over the NYC school system, both of which sunset early in the summer.

Following Bloomberg's announcement yesterday that he will be supporting Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson, who is a target of the AFL - CIO for (among other things) his support of lifting the charter cap, I asked Wolfson if the mayor's relationship with the Senate GOP has officially come to an end.

The 30 - member Senate Republican conference is poised to vote en masse against the bill that would keep state parks open and also has issues with a measure that would boost the charter cap from 200 to 460, GOP sources confirm.

As for whether the renewal of mayoral control will be linked to the charter cap, both Flanagan during the radio interview and his Assembly counterpart, Catherine Nolan, a Queens Democrat, in a separate interview on Wednesday, gave the same answer: That's above their «pay grade.»

Only the Senate would raise the charter cap and increase their funding.