Sentences with phrase «charter school activists»

Meanwhile, charter school activists are up in arms over the thought that their options are going to be limited.

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Zimmer's idea was first presented at last month's board meeting, and generated heavy criticism from parents and charter school activists.

What could have been a rather drab 8 am breakfast quickly turned into a lively panel discussion when the guest, Success Academy founder and charter school activist Eva Moskowitz, took the stage.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

Not exact matches

«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

At 1:30 p.m., Queens Rep. Joe Crowley hosts a press conference with students and activists to demand congressional action on gun safety, Renaissance Charter School, 35 - 59 81st St., Queens.

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.

At 11:15 a.m., public school parents, Democrats and activists rally outside IDC Leader Jeff Klein's district office to protest the Senate to support charter schools, Soundview Academy, 885 Bolton Ave., the Bronx.

Two polls from Siena College and Quinnipiac University have shown Cuomo's margin of victory diminished by a generic candidate running to his left — surveys that have emboldened the activist wing of the party upset with his stances on tax cuts and charter schools.

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

The activist wing of the WFP had raised concerns over Cuomo's fiscal policies, including his support for tax cuts aimed at businesses and property owners, as well as his embrace of charter schools.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter schools, and even admitting he sabotaged teacher evaluations.

Public Advocate Letitia James joins dozens of healthcare activists protesting in front of a Harlem charter school before the expected visit of House Speaker Paul Ryan on May 9, 2017 in New York City.

But the governor has also passed a cap on property tax increases as well as a suite of business tax cuts, along with embracing charter schools — all policies that have led to activists within the WFP to challenge him.

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

At a news conference in Oceanside with education activists, Kaminsky accused Senate Republicans of orchestrating a «secret deal» to fund the ads in exchange for the charter school hike.

More than 50 parents and education activists back a lawsuit filed by Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to overturn all charter school «co-locations» in city - owned buildings approved by de Blasio last month.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

In addition to his direct donations, hedge funder Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools, hosted a July Cuomo fundraiser in the Hamptons that was protested by liberal activists.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

None more so than the Viva Project, which stands for Vision, Idea, Voice, Action, and was started by a Chicago - based community organizer and policy activist involved in promoting the spread of charter schools in the state.

If charter schools actually did all of the above — instead of merely being periodically accused of it — activists would be roaring to close them down even more than they currently are.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

While the plan has resulted in replacing failing and low - enrollment schools with charter schools and smaller campuses, it has also led to a surge in violence that has increasingly turned deadly, many activists, parents and students say.

Among the nine task force members Mr. Christie named on Oct. 28 are a local schools superintendent, a high school PTA officer, a charter school principal, and a school choice activist.

In the summer of 2000, a group of St. Louis education activists, including two Washington University social work professors, was moving full speed ahead with plans to open a new charter school in the Walnut Park section of the city.

Founded in 2000 as the state's first independent public charter school, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movschool, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movSchool in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movement.

Education activists, teachers, lawyers, a PTA leader and a woman who used to work with charter schools in California are among the applicants to the new state commission that is expected to approve some of Washington's first charter schools...

A native of Barbados and father of four children, Michael is a school - reform and community activist serving on numerous committees and Boards including the School Leadership Team of Bard High School Early College, Bed Stuy Piranhas at Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA, Coalition of Community Charter Schools (initial Board) and the Education and Youth Committee of Community Boschool - reform and community activist serving on numerous committees and Boards including the School Leadership Team of Bard High School Early College, Bed Stuy Piranhas at Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA, Coalition of Community Charter Schools (initial Board) and the Education and Youth Committee of Community BoSchool Leadership Team of Bard High School Early College, Bed Stuy Piranhas at Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA, Coalition of Community Charter Schools (initial Board) and the Education and Youth Committee of Community BoSchool Early College, Bed Stuy Piranhas at Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA, Coalition of Community Charter Schools (initial Board) and the Education and Youth Committee of Community Board 3.

At the transformation of traditional public school districts to non-traditional charter school districts in New Orleans, birthed a group of fearless student activists called the Carver Five known throughout the city as the C5!

NEW YORK — New York City Councilmembers, charter and district school leaders and parent activists convened tonight in Brooklyn for a first - of - its - kind panel to confront the segregation crisis in New York City public schools.

CCSA Advocates is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the involvement of the charter school community in the political process, creating a pipeline of charter school supporters and activists, electing public officials who support California charter public schools, and growing the political influence of the California charter public school movement.

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She was a founding teacher at the University of Chicago Charter High School and a founding member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute, a collaborative of scholars, activists, and teachers committed to training educators to teach issues of social justice with integrity.

Some parents, activists and politicians worry that shutting the schools will drive families into the city's charter schools, which could lead to declining enrollment and further closures in the traditional school system.

Karen Wolfe and Carl Petersen, parent activists and bloggers, regularly report on the problems with charter schools in the area.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

Several months ago parents, teachers and community activists successfully prevented a charter management company from taking over the school.

Still, the planned sale sparked dissent among some community activists who have protested the closure of district schools and the rise of charter schools in the city.

Every organization and activist in support of the Dearborn will symbolically «walk - in» to Dearborn and show their support during this difficult time as Dearborn workw to turn their school around without a charter operator and address critical infrastruction issues.

Brett Bymaster, a community activist in San Jose, California, here describes the chain's current plans to increase the number of its charter schools.

Negotiators on the platform committee met this past weekend in Orlando (you can watch here, starting at the 31st minute) and changed an earlier draft of the K - 12 education plank (one of five education sections) that had drawn criticism from activists who wanted the Democrats to take a stand against some of the key elements of corporate reform, including on charter schools and test - based accountability.

Ford's two sons attended Animo Inglewood Charter High School and she initially became an activist to support Green Dot Public Schools, the charter network that manages the Charter High School and she initially became an activist to support Green Dot Public Schools, the charter network that manages the sSchool and she initially became an activist to support Green Dot Public Schools, the charter network that manages the charter network that manages the schoolschool.

Altorice Frazier, KIPP NJ parent, board member, and Newark education activist stated: «Public charter schools have been a lifeline to children in Newark and are putting our students on the road to and through college.

As the pressure to expand charter schools continues to mount, and the budgetary health of local districts continues to decline, teachers, administrators, parents, and activists on both sides of the charter school divide are facing off over a dwindling resource: money.

INCS Action and its affiliated organizations, INCS Action PAC and INCS Action IC, were created in 2014 with the mission to engage the charter school community in the legislative and political process, grow the coalition of charter public school supporters and activists, and educate Illinois public officials on the impact of charter public schools in the lives of families and in communities across the state.

Monday, August 1: Buffalo Community Activists & Clergy to Host Emergency Town Hall Meeting to Address Educational Crisis Community groups co-hosting meeting; Northeast Charter Schools Network, clergy leaders, the Buffalo Black Lives Matter chapter and others to attend

Hundreds of protesters hit the streets in Denver to send a message to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos... Voucher proponents on the Hill are pushing a federal tax credit voucher program... two new community schools announced in Philadelphia, and activists in Florida campaign against for - profit charter corporations.

As reported in a New Haven Register article entitled, Connecticut education activists continue push to address «failing» schools,» the group will be using their resources to push for more charter schools.