Sentences with phrase «charter school coffers»

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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.

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.

Senate Republicans were pushing proposals to eliminate the charter school cap and send hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to charter coffers at the expense of New York City public schools.

Todd Ziebarth, vice president for policy for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said he thinks states such as Washington are «in for a rude awakening,» when the federal education dollars don't flow into state coffers.

Stein's amendment, which would have excluded federal school lunch reimbursement monies from charter schools» coffers was defeated on the Senate floor prior to the bill's passage.

The teachers union claims erroneously that the approval of Referendum 55, which would legalize charter schools, will drain $ 100 million from state education coffers.

A total of $ 91,000 in donations has rolled into Connecticut Democratic Party coffers in 2013 and 2014 from four people: Sackler, a Greenwich businessman, investment executive and charter schools advocate; his wife; mother and father.

The billionaires, millionaires and corporate elite who fund charter schools give generously to Democratic and Republican politicians and the politicians return the favor by shifting public funds into the coffers of the privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Leaders in both camps have been debating charter funding in North Carolina for years, particularly since a 2010 amendment by Democrats in the legislature denied charters access to certain funding sources, such as sales tax revenues, gifts and grants traditionally bound for public school coffers.

Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina's State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.'s California settlement, a purported $ 168.5 million pact with the state's attorney general amid long - running allegations that the for - profit virtual charter school operator inflated student test scores and attendance to drain more cash from public coffers.

Pennsylvania's politicians, like those in so many states, have neither the stomach nor the will to curb the abuses of charter schools as they drain the public school coffers.

And the bill would require that the property taxes collected for charter schools be listed separately on tax notices, rather than diverted from district coffers, something advocates of traditional schools have requested for several years.

This is another in a wave of coordinated efforts to engage charter school teachers to abandon their classrooms and their students under the façade of solidarity to suit their own agenda, optics and ultimately their coffers.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school compaSchools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school compaschools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

What is clear is that FUSE Inc is the charter school management company that Jumoke Academy set up to divert tens of millions of public dollars away from Connecticut's public schools and into its coffers.

Charter School chain is using a completely different approach as it seeks to pull off a deal in New Haven that would shift existing funds away from New Haven's public schools and into the coffers of the Achievement First operation.

But Tillman's bill would force schools to share these coffers, even though many charter schools do not provide school lunches.

Charter schools are demanding access to more pots of funding, including sales tax coffers and federal grants used to offset the costs of school food programs, despite the fact that many charters do not offer school food programs.

«There is a tipping point for LEAs,» cautioned Cowell, explaining that in school districts where there are high concentrations of charter schools, students» educational experiences in traditional public schools could be compromised as funds are siphoned away from those budgets and into the coffers of charters.