Sentences with phrase «charter initiative campaigns»
After four hard - fought charter initiative campaigns, legislative foot - dragging, and implacable opposition from the state's public school establishment — not just the teachers» unions — Washington voters have approved public charter schools.
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During his fifth annual «State of the City» address at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, de Blasio unveiled a 10 - point «DemocracyNYC» plan that includes the creation of a Charter Review Commission that will reform the city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2022.
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.
In his campaign this year, Pelto hammered the governor on policies including the Common Core State Standards initiative, a controversial teacher evaluation program, and charter school management.
Derrell Bradford, executive director of the New York Campaign for Achievement Now, asserted that the failure of the Massachusetts initiative indicated a need for a «suburban strategy» for the charter school movement.
«Voters have clearly shown they want another chance to consider this issue, and we believe the majority will join us in voting YES in November — to finally allow public charter schools here in Washington,» state Rep. Eric Pettigrew, D - Seattle, a charter supporter, said in a news release from the initiative campaign.
Jonathan Sackler created ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that led the record breaking $ 6 million lobbying campaign to pass Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative in 2012.
«Our community needs to be more informed about these schools» scores, and CMOs [charter management organizations] need to be held accountable for their unacceptable performance,» said Mary Moran, executive director of Our Voice Nuestra Voz, in a press release announcing the launch of the campaign # 30NolaEdWatch, an initiative to hold these schools accountable.
In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.