Sentences with phrase «charter school campaign»

(Hartford Courant), Hundreds Rally At Capitol For Expanding Charter Schools (Hartford Courant) and Aggressive charter school campaign descends on the Capitol (CT Mirror)

and CT Mirror's Aggressive charter school campaign descends on the Capitol.

, while the CT Mirror's story is titled, «Aggressive charter school campaign descends on the Capitol.»

An incredible 95 percent of the money that flowed into the Massachusetts charter school campaign came from out - of - state donors, with 84 percent of the total funds coming from New York based Families for Excellent Schools, a dark money charter school group that advocates in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The Senate GOP is going to pay dearly for its war on public schools and public school teachers and its love affair with charter schools and charter school campaign contributions.

Now Cuomo, the Republicans and the IDC are proposing millions of dollars more in subsidies to charter schools while filling their accounts with charter school campaign donations.

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The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

Sen. Bill Perkins, whose outspokenness has so angered some fellow Democrats and charter school advocates that they're shopping for a primary challenger to run against him, will formally kick off his campaign this Sunday.

«It is difficult when the charter school lobbyists have spent more than $ 5 million on a TV and radio advertising campaign.

Several are also the subject of the AFL - CIO's leaflett and canvass campaign accusing lawmakers of breaking promises to union members on a host of issues — support of charter schools among them.

Hedge funders who have become charter school champions met with Cuomo at the Regency last month; they've also hired Bloomberg's former campaign manager, Bradley Tusk, and lobbyist Patricia Lynch.

Over the last several weeks, Republicans have received support from organizations that back strengthening charter and parochial schools, campaign finance records show.

John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars for campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mikecampaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman MikeCampaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.

The teachers unions have also pointed to wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign.

In return the charter schools have showered millions of dollars of campaign contributions on these senators.

Kaminsky has in recent weeks been archly critical of the controversial Common Core standards and raised questions after Republicans successfully pushed for a boost in charter school aid the budget and then received campaign support from the pro-charter organization.

The Senate GOP showed nothing but distain and disgust for public schools and teachers during its long love affair with the charters and their campaign contributions.

Democratic Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky in a radio interview Friday criticized an education reform group's campaign against him, suggesting an investigation wouldn't be surprise because of charter school money being approved in advance of an ad blitz.

Rep. Charlie Rangel slammed his main primary opponent, Sen. Adriano Espaillat, for accepting $ 21,300 in campaign donations from the controversial charter school lobby since 2006.

It is infatuated with charter schools because it needs contributions from the billionaire set to fund its campaigns.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

Education - oriented groups were the top lobbyists, conducting expensive and extensive campaigns as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a package education policy changes for teacher evaluations and charter schools.

Marcellino had repeatedly voted to drain public schools of tens of millions and ship to the charter school companies that fund the GOP campaigns.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

As Azi Paybarah points out, Bloomberg is also expected to support his 2009 campaign consultant and charter school supporter, Basil Smikle, who is mounting a primary challenge against an anti-charter Democrat, Sen. Bill Perkins.

As Governor Cuomo has turned his attention to how the state would deal with Ebola, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins appeared in Buffalo Friday campaigning against charter schools, Common Core and Fracking.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Hamilton told Babin that his campaign has raised roughly $ 170,000, and said he took «no money from charter schools,» adding, «We have extensive small donor list.»

Supporters of a charter - school network run by Eva Moskowitz that is in de Blasio's cross hairs are pouring big bucks into the campaign coffers of Cuomo — a friend of charter schools.

New York State United Teachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his campaigns.

Cuomo has enjoyed the backing of charter school and real estate groups that frequently use independent expenditure campaigns to boost their candidates.

He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.

The Creative Resistance said in a video «IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump.»

«IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump,» the narrator says.

The failing schools campaign supports the charter sector's most powerful ally, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and his ambitious, controversial education agenda.

The Senate GOP, which is based mostly upstate and on LI is sticking its nose into NYC schools / charters because it needs the campaign contributions of the charter billionaires, not because it wants to help anyone.

Independent expenditure campaigns have been funded by a variety of interest groups seeking to influence the outcome of a legislative race, including the teachers unions, charter school groups and real - estate organizations.

The group had hinged its campaign on a bill introduced by Flanagan this month that would have raised the statewide cap on charter schools by 100 and linked it to a 12 - month extension for mayoral control of New York City schools.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

The week concluded for New York politics with a racially charged jolt: A prominent and prolific campaign donor and benefactor of charter schools in since - deleted Facebook suggested the state's black Senate minority leader had been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.

ALBANY — After years as a pro-charter school operative, Democratic state Senate candidate Micah Lasher is adopting a more union - friendly attitude on education issues, vowing in his campaign literature to «ensure that charter schools have to play by the same rules.»

One source said the major outstanding issues involve charter schools, an anti-corruption package, campaign finance reform and the DREAM Act.

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.

Mr. Cuomo, who has received large campaign contributions from entities tied to privately - run charter schools, has said he would agree to almost triple the state's education budget — from $ 377 million to $ 1.1 billion — if the state legislature agrees to his reforms.

He's the chair of the Success Academy charter school network and a major donor to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaigns.

Independent expenditure committees backed by wealthy donors who support education reforms and charter schools sought to be major players in a range of Democratic primary campaigns.

He has voted for all the anti-public school bills of Cuomo and Flanagan; voted to enrich the charter schools that fill the Senate GOP campaign coffers, voted for a budget that includes the Gap Elimination Adjustment that steals state aid and forces up taxes, voted to support the Endless Testing Regime that has made life miserable for kids and parents.

Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb, a staunch backer charter schools, gave $ 100,000 to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, according to a filing posted to the state Board of Elections on Wednesday.