Sentences with phrase «charter school advocates»

Three school board seat races generated $ 6.7 million in campaign contributions, much of it from charter school advocates and labor groups.

Take for example the false claims being made by charter school advocates about the size of waiting lists for charter schools.

Another important factor on the side of charter school advocates is the greatly diminished power of the teachers union, which had often been an obstacle in earlier reform efforts.

Yet many outspoken charter school advocates say it's vital charter schools answer for their performance.

But, with charter school advocates at the helm, I can tell you where it's not going.

The bill would give school districts more power to approve or deny charter schools, which charter school advocates argue would lead to many charter schools closing their doors.

I think that even charter school advocates would find these actions problematic.

Free - market charter school advocates are quick to refer to charters as «public schools» in discussions about funding levels and access to public facilities.

The more I hear charter school advocates advocate for charter schools — the more concerned I become about the other 90 %.

Bloomberg heaped praise on UFT President Mike Mulgrew, whose union is under fire from charter school advocates who believe it blocked efforts to raise the cap in Albany in advance of the state's «Race to the Top» application (which failed).

Democrats are blasting the TV ad money being spent by a independent expenditure committee backed by charter school advocates in the race for the 37th Senate district in Westchester County.

Have you seen their Teachers as Charter School Advocates toolkit?

In a major victory for charter school advocates, the two candidates backed with millions of dollars in outside contributions have won their bids for seats on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.

Texas state senators and representatives received hundreds of calls, emails, and visits from charter school advocates on this issue.

We are grateful to long - time charter school advocate Nelson Smith for his review of our new book, A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education.

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Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

LANSING, Mich. — A national charter schools advocate and school funding research expert has joined the School Finance Research Collaborative, officials announced today.

Nearly $ 2.3 million from wealthy charter school advocates fueled the nation's most expensive school board elections in Los Angeles last spring, but those donors and their contributions were never disclosed to voters until months after the election, a review of records shows.

Chicago charter school advocates gathered to protest a provision that would cap the number of charter schools in the city under a contract with the CTU.

Charter Proponents Focus On Shutting Down Failing Schools On Wednesday morning, NACSA head Greg Richmond will join New Jersey Schools Commissioner Chris Cerf and California charter schools advocate Jed Wallace at Washington D.C.'s National Press Club to announce a new campaign, «One Million Lives,» that aims to crack the whip on the duds.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

Charter school advocates made a strong push for schools to ignore the state's demands.

DeVos may have problems not only from the left but from the political center as she appears to be out of step with many charter school advocates in cities where charters often represent 30 percent or more of student enrollment.

New York charter school advocates are emboldened by promises from state Senate leadership and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding for charter schools this year.

Charter school advocates want New York to re-write the formula used to fund its public charter schools.

Hedge fund manager and charter school advocate Daniel Loeb is standing by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Charter school advocates accuse district leaders of discriminating against them and their students; district officials...

That's where The Lottery climaxes and where charter school advocates find their best persuasion.

Charter school advocates not only spoke up in favor of school petitions, but against some of the bond money being spent that should be shared with charter schools.

Local charter school advocates also need to engage in assertive but respectful conversations about how to manage district enrollment loss so that students in district - run schools do not pay the price for unfettered growth.

Two billionaire charter school advocates stirred up California's gubernatorial race by pouring a total of $ 8.5 million into an independent expenditure campaign supporting former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Two billionaire charter school advocates stirred up California's gubernatorial race by pouring $ 8.5 million into an independent expenditure campaign supporting Antonio Villaraigosa.

According to Sean Roberts of Milwaukee Charter School Advocates, «special education, food service, transportation and other district services aren't free for non-instrumentality schools.

Chicago charter schools advocates gathered to protest a provision that would cap the number of charter schools in the city under a contract with the Chicago Teachers Union.

Pryor and other charter school advocates claim that the Amistad Academy and other charter schools provide a measurably better education than do public schools and are engaged in an all out lobbying and public relations campaign to change the way Connecticut funds its schools, shifting scarce resources from our public schools to the charter schools.

Since the corporate education reform industry began ramping up their lobbying efforts as part of Governor Malloy's education reform initiative of 2012, the various charter school advocates and education reform groups have spent a record breaking $ 8.4 million on behalf of their pro-charter school, pro-Common Core, pro-Common Core testing, anti-teacher agenda.

The latest proposal, penned by charter school advocate Sen. Jerry Tillman (R - Randolph), would disrupt that funding relationship and would actually give charter schools an unfairly larger slice of the pie, said Hollamon.

The top of the tally featured three education groups: the pro-tax credit Invest in Education Coalition, labor union New York State United Teachers, and charter school advocates Families for Excellent Schools.

De Blasio did not address the victory charter school advocates scored in the state budget announced Saturday, even as pro-charter forces heaped praise on the agreement reached between state legislators and Cuomo.

Charter school advocates used the day to call for facilities funding and parity in how the state funds charter and district schools.

He recommended charter school advocates combat these civil rights groups by recruiting celebrity supporters of charters, such as the rapper Pitbull, «to lift [charters] up.»

At NECSN we are very clearly charter school advocates — we fight hard on behalf of our members because we see first - hand the great work they do to change lives every single day.

But today you will be approached by busloads of well - financed charter school advocates trying to spin the facts while they ask you to ignore the truth and pave the way for more money and «freedom» for charters.