Sentences with phrase «charter change effort»

The close count was challenged in court by supporters of the long - running charter change effort.

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New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

De Blasio said Tuesday that it was unlikely the review effort would recommend re-merging the two agencies back into one, a process that would likely require a change to the city's charter.

Elected and parent leaders urged Albany not to back down from efforts to achieve bold, structural change to expand access to high - quality schools — district or charter.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Reform efforts such as school choice, charter schools, reconstituting schools, and reducing class size all rest on the belief that changes in structure or governance will result in higher student achievement.

And we can't assume that all parents are going to want the same changes — which might be why parents in traditional public schools are less satisfied with engagement efforts than those in charter and private ones.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

In addition to seeking a change in the way the state uses data to measure student, teacher, and school performance, Mr. Schwarzenegger asked lawmakers to repeal California's charter school cap, expand public school choice, step up turnaround efforts for struggling schools, and enact alternative - pay plans for educators.

Our Charters Changing Lives campaign is a way to share the stories that are often overlooked: to recognize the efforts of our students, teachers, leaders and community members who dedicate their lives to ensuring student success.

«The district is working on a list of policies that could relate to charter schools that is non-exhaustive,» said Emilio Pack, founder and CEO of Stem Preparatory Schools, who has helped lead efforts since April to work with district officials to change the charter language.

The endorsed slate of candidates were big supporters of Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to change the Bridgeport charter to do away with the democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the mayor.

In pitching the charter effort in general and ExCEED in particular — the distinction wasn't always clear, in part because that's also the name of the OPSB office that runs the schools — Lewis and principals told parents that nothing would change if the schools chartered.

I'm delighted that the Abell Foundation is recommending that Maryland recruit successful charter schools and grant them greater autonomy and control («New effort underway to change Maryland charter schools law,» Jan. 20).

New efforts to change Maryland's charter school law, buoyed by a recent report from the Abell Foundation, appear to be a solution in search of a problem.

This ten - month, cohort - based program engaged educators from ten school districts and charter networks in exploring user - centered design, learning science, innovative learning environments, and best practices in R&D in an effort to accelerate change within existing school systems.

Backing up their lobbying effort is a broader strategy to change the rules and change the players as a way of ensuring they can build their charter schools and further privatize America's public education system.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

In a year - end wrap - up in Salon, Jeff Bryant pulls together a list of the year's charter scandals that, if evidence mattered to self - proclaimed education reformers, would change the minds of those who continue to fight every effort to rein in charter expansion and to provide even a small measure of oversight.

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In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

Judge Lopez is now opposing the Mayor's effort to change the city charter and take control of the school system.

In the time I have been on the Board, I can recall no effort to change, or even a discussion of changing the Charter School Funding Formula.

«We are pleased that the December 7, 2010 court order has served as a catalyst for change and are glad to see the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) making efforts to meet the terms of Prop. 39 by increasing the number of offers to provide district facilities to charter schools, particularly after years of not complying with the legal requirements of Proposition 39.

Minister of Justice Jody Wilson - Raybould announced the proposed changes Tuesday as part of an effort to modernize the country's criminal laws to bring them more in line with the Charter.