Sentences with phrase «charter leaders who»

They complained about young charter leaders who disrespect what they're trying to do.

There are charter leaders who flout the rules on enrollment and financial management and there are school district leaders who engage in truly egregious financial and HR practices.

Moskowitz has proved a polarizing figure not only within City Hall and the city's district schools, but also among some charter leaders who privately resent her total political dominance over the city's charter sector.

Recently I was working with a Sacramento - area charter leader who was curious about the number of schools operating in Northeastern California.

She quoted a charter leader who told her, «It's a hard truth that somebody's a winner and somebody's a loser.»

AAC's chief executive officer is Tony Helton, a charter leader who sat on the state's Charter School Advisory Board until October, shortly after some questioned the ethics of AAC's move to take over a troubled Charlotte - area charter in 2017.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

The group has been funded in part by Dan Loeb, a wealthy supporter of charter schools who last year apologized after making a racially charged remark at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

In the same post, Loeb praised IDC Leader Jeff Klein and others who he said «stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack (sp.) kids.»

The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

Left leaning activists aren't dropping the controversy surrounding Dan Loeb, a businessman and supporter of charter schools who criticized Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in racially charged remarks.

In fact, there is only one charter school leader who has opted out of the program after a major battle with the de Blasio administration: Success Academy's founder, Eva S. Moskowitz.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

Bubba's endorsement came a day before US Education Secretary Arne Duncan — a huge charter booster — is scheduled to visit a Brooklyn charter school that happens to be in the district of Senate leader John Sampson, who passed the cap - raiser earlier this month.

Moskowitz, the de facto leader of the local charter movement who attacked de Blasio's position on charter schools during the primary, made attendance at the march mandatory for her parents and students, but she remained relatively inconspicuous throughout the morning.

Other charter leaders and advocates who attended the rally said privately that they thought that Tuesday could not have gone better for them optically, but offered only generalized press release - type language on the record, to avoid seeming like they were gloating over a rally that overshadowed the mayor's.

Any legislation to roll back the new regulations would face a significant hurdle in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans who support charter schools — as does Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, of the Bronx, and Gov. Cuomo.

While Duncan made it clear he's not familiar with the specifics of the end - of - legislative - session battle in Albany, his broad position that charter schools should be a part of a political compromise aligns with that of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who is battling the mayor on the renewal.

These parents were joined by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, State Senators Martin J. Golden, Ruben Diaz Sr. and Kevin Parker, and Assembly Member Crespo, who called on their colleagues to support charters» critical work educating high - need students.

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Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

Leaders of many charter organizations, before they had any chance to view the details of the report, quickly responded that they were honored to serve minority families who chose the charter schools after a search for attractive schooling options.

And maybe you get that the fastest way to reach scale that has lasting political impact is actually to partner with private schools, who served the charter school base and educated generations of minority leaders, including our last president, long before the word «charter» was anything more than a kind of bus.

As a leader who co-founded a high - performing charter school network and charter support organization, and who now leads Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and district leaders committed to educational excellence, I'm an ardent charter supporter — and I'm arguing for taking a look in the mirror.

As a new Administration takes shape in Washington, with an education leader who has long been an advocate of parental choice, the charter school movement needs to redouble its efforts to turn happy parents into active warriors for charter schools and school choice.

I'm an on - the - ground special ed advocate and attorney who's lived around the country and now finds myself in South Florida — hardly a mecca of visionary charter school leaders, unless of course you count the school generously funded by the rapper, Pitbull.

Everything else should be left to groups of parents, teachers, community leaders, or contractors who hold charters to run individual schools.

Whose interests are being looked after here — those of troublemakers or serious learners, of government bureaucrats or effective school leaders, of parents seeking safe learning environments for their children — or, just maybe, of those who want to besmirch and ultimately diminish D.C.'s burgeoning charter sector?

Local leaders also told us that they believe the governor is the only official who has the needed credibility and authority to weigh in on negligent charter authorizers.

What makes these programs particularly interesting is that their founders were leaders from the charter school sector who created their own teacher certification and master's degree programs after concluding that the teachers who graduate from most traditional teacher education programs lack the skills needed to teach successfully.

Nevertheless, most recent book - length treatments of chartering have focused on individual charter schools and the leaders who founded them.

«That was the spark of an idea,» said Cobb, who worked with Fund President Kevin Hall to create a separate charter fund for up - and - coming minority charter leaders.

«With support from the Walton Family Foundation, the CAEL will help us reach even more educators in charge of districts, charter management organizations, state departments of education, and other systems — leaders who will, in turn, have a tangible impact on the lives of literally millions of learners,» Ryan said.

Who will charter leaders blame then, when children's achievement remains disappointingly low and grossly unequal?

Therefore, education - minded civic leaders who want to engage directly with schools may find that joining a charter board is a terrific option.

Educating instructional leaders who will have the capacity, skills, and knowledge to create and sustain K - 12 charter, district, and pilot schools that foster the learning and well - being of all children.

As the leader of an entire district of charter schools in Lake Wales, I wanted the NAACP's education task force to hear from someone who has worked for nearly three decades in both traditional public schools and in charter schools, which are also public.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.

That's why I joined a group of school leaders, educators and civic leaders to sign onto a ballot initiative aimed at providing fair access to public charter schools to the thousands of Massachusetts's families who want and deserve them.

As part of its week - long celebrations, the National Alliance will shine a spotlight on charter change makers: the educators, families, leaders, and community members who make charter schools possible and in doing so, make so much more possible for students.

«Charter schools are the result of communities coming together to create new opportunities for their children from the leaders who open charter schools and the students who attend them, to the families that choose to join the school community and the policymakers who advocate on their behalf,» said Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National AlCharter schools are the result of communities coming together to create new opportunities for their children from the leaders who open charter schools and the students who attend them, to the families that choose to join the school community and the policymakers who advocate on their behalf,» said Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alcharter schools and the students who attend them, to the families that choose to join the school community and the policymakers who advocate on their behalf,» said Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance.

For example, a business leader who was close to the mayor pushed for the Cleveland Plan to support excellent charter schools.

And finally, can we commit ourselves to a more inclusive and flexible approach to charter authorizing in order to diversify the schools we create and the pool of prospective leaders who run them?

Talbot is also a member of the National Charter Collaborative, an organization that «supports single - site charter - school leaders of color who invest in the hopes and dreams of students through the cultural fabric of their communities.Charter Collaborative, an organization that «supports single - site charter - school leaders of color who invest in the hopes and dreams of students through the cultural fabric of their communities.charter - school leaders of color who invest in the hopes and dreams of students through the cultural fabric of their communities.»

And there are plenty of well - intentioned civic leaders, philanthropists, and education reformers who view charters as a sideshow, one that deflects energy and resources away from the majority of needy children who remain in district - operated schools.

Though many may view charter schools primarily through the lens of performance, it seems that many of the families who choose them value community — the ability to see themselves in their schools and leaders — substantially more than we originally believed.

The Portfolio Network meeting is an annual gathering of innovative district, charter school, community, and civic leaders from across the country who are figuring out how to run and oversee autonomous schools of choice in ways that ensure all families have good options and the system operates fairly.

Rausch noted that certain localities, such as Indianapolis, have had many charter - school leaders of color, but the movement, particularly on the coasts, is mainly the province of white school leaders and organizational heads who tend to hold homogeneous views on test scores, school structure, and «what works.»