Sentences with phrase «charter industry»

LEGISLATING VIA BLACKMAIL: Flanagan, Cuomo and the IDC all take charter industry money and seek to close and defund public schools to make their donors happy.

Lawmakers continue to rely on parents to regulate the voucher / charter industry while evidence points to the fact that parents possess imperfect information about the private and charter school market at the outset.

This week, news broke that California's Attorney General is investigating the entire virtual charter industry.

On another front, charter industry proponents find they face stiffer opposition than anticipated in Massachusetts where a ballot initiative in November, called Question 2, calls for lifting the cap on the number of charters allowed in the state.

The report presents a comprehensive survey of the abundant news accounts and prominent studies documenting the origins of the modern charter industry, its incredibly successful public relations and marketing effort, and the significant problems it leaves in its wake, including widespread financial fraud and abuse, dubious academic results, and a weakening of democratic control of local schools.

Bowing to the influence of the powerful charter industry PR machine, the editorial boards of the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal issued scathing critiques of the NAACP, saying the organization «should do its homework,» that it's «misguided,» and that it's guilty of «leaving black children behind,» respectively.

Massachusetts charter industry hits some headwinds; Cincinnati Educational Justice Coalition fighting tax abatements; Racial Justice NOW!

At the same time, a report tallied more than $ 200 million in charter industry fraud, waste and mismanagement in just 15 states.

Rhonda Dillingham, executive director of the N.C. Association of Public Charter Schools, one of the state's leading advocates for the growing charter industry, declined to address the specifics of the McIntosh case, but agreed that charters operate under the same requirements as traditional public schools in meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

Mikumba 1 is a spacious 23 meter Indonesian Phinisi built for the surf charter industry.

The foundation of Costa Rican tourism is based upon the deep sea fishing charter industry and its continued success has given the country an excellent reputation when it comes to sporting fishing trips.

Queensland Yacht Charters is a multi-award winning company well established for over 25 years in the Whitsunday Charter industry.

The 2016 Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA) Excellence Awards took place at London Guildhall on Wednesday 19th October, an audience of 400 + saw the presentation of six Awards reflecting the best of the air charter industry.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

But the charter industry believes it now has an opening to cultivate support, through personal lobbying and campaign donations, with individual Assembly members — something that was difficult with Silver in charge.

The Senate is funded by the charter industry — Flanagan took $ 90K and the IDC got $ 670K.

Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, often celebrated for his unvarnished liberalism, is another champion of the charter industry; some of its biggest funders live in his state.

Senate Republicans, who have received millions of dollars in campaign donations from the charter industry, pushed for the elimination of the charter cap and for unfreezing charter school tuition, which would have resulted in an enormous windfall for charter schools.

Mulgrew said he was «perplexed» that so many upstate Republican senators — many who receive contributions from the charter industry — took so much interest in creating «more free space in New York City public schools» for charter chains.

Charter champions are also among the contributors who have poured nearly $ 13 million more in contributions into outfits with names like «New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany» and «New Yorkers for Putting Students First» that function as lobbying forces for the charter industry.

Cuomo didn't offer reasons in his budget address why state residents should accept more charter schools or how a greater than 20 percent increase in their number could benefit anyone beyond the governor's own billionaire campaign backers with ties to the charter industry.

Proclaiming May 6 - 12 National Charter Schools Week, President Trump kicked off a huge public relations campaign by the charter industry to ballyhoo the supposed success of these schools, although that -LSB-...]

We have a sector called the charter industry, which people invest in.

Average Daily Membership [4](ADM) statistics drive the distribution of state funding to the charter industry, the primary source of revenue for charter schools.

Red flags are a clear and present danger to the charter industry and the taxpayer dollars that fund public education.

They owe it to the state's students, parents, taxpayers and the good players in the charter industry.

The webinar was facilitated by Gamaliel's Cynthia Jarrold and featured Kyle Serrette of the NEA, who gave a presentation on the growth of the charter industry and key problems with the exponential proliferation of charters in the last decade.

Over 150 parents, teachers and community members showed up at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers offices on Tuesday night to see a free screening of Backpack Full of Cash, the documentary about the growth of the charter industry in the U.S. Pittsburgh has a growing charter sector, with about 11 % of students attending charter schools.

DeVos and her family heavily lobbied the Michigan legislature to shield the charter industry from greater oversight.

In December, the coalition sent letters to 22 wealthy individuals — including Siart — who are some of the most active in funding pro-charter candidates and the charter industry in California, asking the recipients to sign a Statement of Support to invest in a strategy for traditional neighborhood schools, ensuring that all children have access to a truly high - quality education.

CCSS and SBAC - these are nothing more than the wrecking balls that will cause our schools to «fail» so the charter industry can take over.

The charter industry likes multiple chances to get started, but there are many reasons to keep the oversight and regulation of charters local and systematic.

Other CSAB members with ties to the charter industry in North Carolina include Alan Hawkes, who serves on the board of two NHA charters in Guilford County, Eric Sanchez, who founded a charter in Hendersonville, Joe Maimone who leads a Rutherford County charter associated with state - based charter chain Team - CFA, and Tammi Sutton who works for the KIPP charter school chain.

According to research from the charter industry, the national closure rate for charters in 2011 was 15 percent.

He cut his teeth in the charter industry in Florida with a charter school chain that eventually went belly up.

I ask Quigley if having so many members of a regulatory board for charter schools with strong ties to the charter industry — and one with ties to a for - profit — might not create conflicts of interest.

Like many of his colleagues on the CSAB, Quigley is in thick with the charter industry, having led a charter school in Durham and now currently serves as managing director for Pave Schools, a charter school chain in New York City and Raleigh, NC.

The problem is the charter industry has decided its mission is more about «scaling» large charter chains rather than focusing on «one - offs» like the charter you're talking about.

Thus, what we see in the charter industry today, the report explains, «was assembled one piece at a time, and with the help of compliant legislators and governors in state after state, a parallel world of rules and exemptions governing charter schools.»

But the damage to the image of the charter industry resulting from this campaign will no doubt linger for years.

So supporters of those kinds of charters are going to have to figure out how to differentiate their schools from the rest of the charter industry.

But as school year 2016 - 17 rolls out, the charter industry finds it faces formidable new challenges from many unexpected corners, including prominent civil rights groups, grassroots organizers, and an increasingly skeptical Democratic party.

A post in one of the charter industry's numerous media outlets declared, «The NAACP was founded by white people, and it still isn't looking out for black families.»

This new period of contention and public questioning offers the charter industry an opportunity to reconsider and retool, not it's PR apparatus, but its very mission and its tolerance for much needed regulation.

The charter industry, the Governor and the PR Secretary of Education with support from Betsy DeVos, took advantage of the island's long and difficult recovery from hurricanes Irma and Maria to peddle the glories of privatization.

and elsewhere about DFER and those behind the charter industry.