Sentences with phrase «charter school advocacy group»

Marking a significant shift in its lobbying strategy, the influential charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will not hold a political rally in Albany this legislative session for the first time since NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took office.

On Monday, Politico's Eliza Shapiro broke the news that Families for Excellent Schools, the high - profile charter school advocacy group in New York, will close in the coming months.

Republicans have been helped by $ 1.6 million in spending by New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, which was founded by the national charter school advocacy group StudentsFirst.

Marking a significant shift in its lobbying strategy, the influential charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will not hold a political rally in Albany this legislative session for the first time since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office, several sources confirmed.

Since January of this year, Occhiogrosso's company has billed A Better Connecticut, the leading charter school advocacy group, over $ 2.3 million for television ads, polling and strategy to support Malloy's education reforms.

The Connecticut Coalition for Education Reform and the various charter school advocacy groups that are pushing these proposals are new to Connecticut.

However, although no official announcement has yet been made, it appears that Adam Goldfarb has recently landed the job of Chief Operating Officer for the education reform and charter school advocacy group known as Democrats for Education Reform (DFER).

Surprise, surprise... An out - of - State charter school advocacy group has started an advertising campaign to support the Malloy administration's decision to give Steve Perry his own privately run, but taxpayer funded, cha

Sampson, for example, collected just 35 contributions, including $ 8,000 from former Gibraltar Industries chief executive officer Brian Lipke, $ 5,000 from the downstate charter school advocacy group Students First and $ 5,000 from developer Samuel Savarino.

Attendees included independent charter school leaders from across the city, representatives from charter school advocacy groups, and a special appearance by the New York City Public, Advocate Letitia James.

The Achievement First Charter School Chain, along with Connecticut's two major charter school advocacy groups, ConnCAN and CCER, have spent millions of dollars lobbying in favor of the Common Core SBAC testing system and Governor Dannel Malloy's «education reform» agenda.

A Better Connecticut is the latest charter school advocacy group to develop out of ConnCAN, the group that was created by Jonathan Sackler and the other deep financial pockets that funded the creation of Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that was co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

Yesterday a number of corporate funded charter school advocacy groups joined Governor Dannel Malloy in support of his plan to dramatically increase charter school funding while making historic cuts to funding for public schools.

Indiana not only is ranked as having the most favorable policy provisions for charter schools by a prominent charter schooling advocacy group, but it is among the 25 states employing a type of charter school unfamiliar to many folks across the United States: the cyber charter school.

There is currently a perception, created by debate in the public media in Connecticut, that the executive branch of the state government, including the Governor's office, is forwarding plans for the creation of new Charter Schools with all deliberate speed, having formed strong working associations with Charter School advocacy groups.

The well - financed charter school advocacy group is the organization that is paying for the television ads promoting Governor Dannel Malloy's proposed state budget that makes historic cuts to public education while dramatically increasing funding for charter schools.

Marking a significant shift in its lobbying strategy, the influential charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will not hold a political rally in Albany this legislative session for the first time since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office, several sources confirmed.

Sackler also founded the national charter school advocacy group 50 - CAN and sits on a number of other pro-charter school groups, as well as being a founding member of Achievement First, Inc.'s Board of Directors.

Achieve Hartford's funding comes from a wide variety of individual and corporate sponsors including Connecticut's leading charter school advocacy group, ConnCAN, as well as from Teach for America.

Although Families for Excellent Schools is new to Connecticut, it is closely associated with Connecticut's original charter school advocacy group, ConnCAN.

Surprise, surprise... An out - of - State charter school advocacy group has started an advertising campaign to support the Malloy administration's decision to give Steve Perry his own privately run, but taxpayer funded, charter school in Bridgeport.

Charter school advocacy groups in particular have been unusually silent.

In lieu of the massive rallies it has held biannually since 2013, the charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a modest lobby day on Jan. 20 in Albany.

In lieu of the massive rallies it has held biannually since 2013, the charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a modest lobby day on Jan. 20 in Albany, POLITICO New York has learned.

And education groups are invested in the race — Lasher has work for a charter school advocacy group, and NYSUT is spending to help Jackson.

Today Bryan Lawrence, Board Chair of Families for Excellent Schools, put out a statement saying that the charter school advocacy group will be dissolving.

Education reform and charter school advocacy groups have criticized the Renewal program for not bringing change quickly enough to long - struggling schools.

The charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools, a frequent critic of the education policies advanced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, was a plaintiff when the lawsuit was filed in Brooklyn federal court in April 2016.

Although Malloy's proposal to end tenure failed, we are now learning that the CEO of ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group, is working to file a lawsuit to end teacher tenure in Connecticut.

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.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy group that helped make the lobbying campaign in support of Malloy's education reform bill the most expensive in state history.

Today Bryan Lawrence, Board Chair of Families for Excellent Schools, put out a statement saying that the charter school advocacy group will be dissolving.

Finally, one of his most interesting connections he has is with Achievement First Inc, the charter school management company and ConnCAN, Connecticut's charter school advocacy group.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

Nationally, charter school advocacy groups are looking for better standards for online schools.

The coalition includes ConnCAN (the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First, the charter school management company that will end up the biggest winner under Malloy's bill), the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Association of Schools, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

Sackler and his family not only funneled well over $ 100,000 into the slush fund that the Malloy operation set up to get around Connecticut's campaign finance system, but Sackler co-founded ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group and serves as the Board of Directors of the Northeast Charter Schools Network, the group that is falsely claiming that Connecticut was reneging on its commitment to charter schools.

Edgerley has also donated millions in support of the privatization of public education, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Profit, Inc. and Strategic Grant Partners, a Massachusetts based foundation that has been funding the expansion of charter schools and charter school advocacy groups in that state.

Side Note: The emails reveal that the person who brought the Connecticut state officials and the billionaire's consultant together was none other than Alex Johnston, who was then the Executive Director of ConnCAN — the charter school advocacy group that was created by Achievement First — the charter school management company.

A Better Connecticut, the charter school advocacy group formed by the present and previous CEOs of ConnCAN, the charter school lobby group, has spent $ 50,708 so far in support of the endorsed slate of candidates for the Bridgeport Board of Education.

A group of billionaires and corporate executives are using a front group called Great Schools Massachusetts and the New York based charter school advocacy group, Families for Excellent Schools, to pour an unprecedented amount of money into a campaign to expand the number of charter schools in Massachusetts.