Sentences with phrase «charter school children»

This landmark lawsuit challenges the state's funding scheme for charter school children, which short - changes students statewide.

Across the state, charter school children receive less funding for their education than children in district schools, resulting in a gap of thousands less per child per year.

It's time to go back to a common sense way of funding charter school children.

Fortunately, the Republican budget proposal does protect public charter school children by maintaining the $ 11,250, and we are grateful for this support for public charter kids and families.

The Northeast Charter Schools Network today responded to the Senate and Assembly budget proposals released over the weekend, thanking the Senate for its ongoing commitment to charter school children by investing in schools that are working.

The lawsuit, which was filed in September 2014, challenges the constitutionality of the state's funding scheme for charter school children statewide.

The two women were awarded Torchbearer Awards for their activism on behalf of charter school children.

◦ To provide parents with sufficient information on whether their child is reading at grade level and whether the child gains at least a year's worth of learning for every year spent in the charter school

In Albany, charter school children only get about 75 cents on the dollar compared to district kids.

To be fair, the committee did preserve the funding Governor Malloy proposed for existing charter school children.

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Led by a drum line of students from charter schools all over the state, 500 parents celebrated, according to a press release, «50,000 public charter school children currently receiving a world - class education» and strove to «raise awareness of the more than 35,000 children that remain on charter school waiting lists.

It also challenged the reasoning of the report, saying it amounted to «debating whether charter school children are «really, really poor and disadvantaged» or just poor and disadvantaged.

They are calling for fair funding and an end to the inequality that leaves Rochester charter school children with only 68 cents on the dollar compared to other public school children in the city.

In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

Albany, NY — The Northeast Charter Schools Network (NECSN) today joined New York City parents calling for funding equality for their charter school students, and reminds state lawmakers this is a problem that that hurts all 120,000 charter school children statewide — from New York City to Buffalo, where the funding disparity is the most severe.

Albany, NY — The Northeast Charter Schools Network today responded to the Senate and Assembly budget proposals released over the weekend, thanking the Senate for its ongoing commitment to charter school children by investing in schools that are working.

«The total number of charter school children being deprived of their rights is staggering,» said Harold Hinds, legal director for the Northeast Charter Schools Network, which along with five charter school families, brought the lawsuit on behalf of the state's 107,000 charter school students.

Albany, NY — Across the state, charter school children receive less funding for their education than children in district schools, resulting in a gap of thousands less per child per year.

Brown v. New York challenges the state's funding scheme for charter school children, which short - changes students statewide.

«This proposal tells the people of this state that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children,» Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, said in a statement.

Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, the UFT's state affiliate, said: «This proposal tells the people of this state that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children.

«While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation by the state Assembly ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come.»

Providing facilities aid for all charter school children is the right thing to do — let's get the job done.»

Currently on average, charter school children are funded at only 75 cents on the dollar compared to district school children.

«Charter school children are being shortchanged.

«Still, public charter schools are unfairly funded and forced to do more with less; charter school children receive an average of nearly $ 4,000 less per year than students in traditional schools.

Not only are these attacks bereft of reason, they sometimes veer into harassment, like doxing poor women of color who dare voice their support of the charter schools their children attend.

It is critical that you email your state representative right now to let them know public charter school children are not worth less than their peers at other public schools.

In New York City, charter school children receive about 68 cents on the dollar compared to district children.

Charter school children in Western New York are severely shortchanged compared to students in district schools.

The Northeast Charter Schools Network (NECSN) today joined New York City parents calling for funding equality for their charter school students, and reminds state lawmakers this is a problem that that hurts all 120,000 charter school children statewide.

«While we still have a long way to go in order to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, we look forward to continuing to work with Gov. Malloy and the General Assembly on behalf of all public charter school children.»

More families and communities deserve the kind of opportunity that charter school children have this school year.

He says the suit was filed by four families in Buffalo and one family in Rochester, but is on behalf of 107 - thousand charter school children and another 50 - thousand children on waiting lists.

In his role, Kirkwood, also the father of charter school children, will be working with and representing all of Buffalo's charter schools.

Some districts do right by charter school children every time.

The Northeast Charter Schools Network today responded to the Senate and Assembly budget proposals released over the weekend, thanking the Senate for its ongoing commitment to charter school children by...

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