Sentences with phrase «charter school company»

At least three of the charter schools will be using the taxpayer money to pay down debt on buildings that these private charter school companies own.

We need to stop taxpayer dollars going to for - profit charter school companies.

Their plan is simple — more money for charter school companies — cuts to public school programs and higher property taxes for the rest of us.

Those of us in the other camp feel that in light of immediate budget budget constraints and past management issues within charter school companies, that no new charters should be approved this year.

The 2014 state budget contained a provision calling for two online charter school companies to establish a four - year pilot program in the state.

Rather than triggering a broader process, the specific option — for example, the specific charter school company — is part of the petition.

There's the explosion of for - profit charter school companies that run what are supposed to be public schools that serve students and communities not out of state corporations and their shareholders.

Republican Peggy Lehner «expects to be [so] flooded in the coming week with interested people who have been hired by charter school companies and groups that she has jokingly called the reform bill the «full employment act» for lobbyists.

And the Hartford Courant, the newspaper that produced the investigative news stories that brought down the Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain has a story entitled, State Board Approves Probe Of Charter School Company.

The Malloy administration gave Jumoke / FUSE charter school company no - bid contracts to run public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and was granted management of a new charter school in New Haven.

A year ago, almost to the day, a group of Bridgeport citizens, including Maria Pereira, attended the State Board of Education meeting to request Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees REJECT applications by two more charter school companies to open privately run, but publicly funded facilities in Bridgeport.

Malloy and his administration, in this case with the support of the Republican members of the Bond Commission, are borrowing money to give to privately owned, but publicly funded charter school companies so that they can pay down mortgages on buildings that they own and will be able to keep even if they decide to close their charter schools.

But not to be outdone, Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his aides refocused their Clark Elementary School privatization effort, this time looking to hand the Hartford Public School over to a Washington D.C. based charter school company known as Friendship Charter Schools.

As the following links reveal, Stefan Pryor and Morgan Barth then concocted a plan to hand Clark Elementary School over to a large Washington D.C. charter school company called Friendship Charter Schools.

Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school company that was co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, is continuing its campaign to get the Hartford Board of Education to close the Clark Elementary School and hand it over to the charter school operator.

Although charter school companies like Jumoke Academy and Achievement First, Inc. have been unwilling to take their fair share of students who face language barriers and children who have special education needs, Malloy and Pryor have been diverting millions of dollars away from public schools to finance charter school operations.

While the primary purpose of the program is to help charter schools, «Finance school building projects, including the construction, purchase, extension, replacement, renovation or major alteration of a building to be used for public school purposes,» the law does allow charter school companies to seek grants to, «Repay debt incurred for school building projects, including paying outstanding principal on loans which have been incurred for school building projects.»

As part of her new public relations campaign, Eva Moskowitz, the infamous and controversial CEO of the Success Academy Charter School Company, will be addressing a group of the super-elite at New York City's Harvard Club tomorrow — March 29, 2016.

Not surprising, Rubinstein discovered that the examples that Mass Insight Education relied upon are similar to what charter school companies here in Connecticut have been doing.

Rep. Rob Bryan is working on legislation behind the scenes in the General Assembly that could turn over poorly performing public schools to for - profit charter school companies who could then fire teachers and administrators at will with no accountability.

He laid off most all the staff and hired charter school company Mosaica Education to run the schools for five years.

Gotham Capital's Managing Partner, Joel Greenblatt is the co-chair of the notorious Harlem Success Charter School company.

Jeff Klaus is connected to the CEO of Achievement First — the privately - run, for - profit charter school company which was slated to get $ 10 million of state money if Malloy's original bill was passed.

A graduate of Harvard and Yale, King was managing director for the nonprofit charter school company Uncommon Schools before joining the state education department in 2009.

He entered the education industry as Director of Strategy and Planning at LearnNow, a high growth charter school company that was acquired by Edison Schools.

The Ohio Supreme Court, for instance, found that state law dictates that everything a private charter school company purchases with public dollars — from desks to computers — belongs to the private company, not the public.

Bronin's donor list actually includes many of the top board members and sponsors behind the various charter school companies and education reform groups in Connecticut.

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says the consequences of turning entire school districts over to for - profit charter school companies deserves more consideration from state lawmakers.

When the Hartford Board of Education rejected Steve Perry's plan to transfer Hartford's Capital Preparatory Magnet School and a nearby neighborhood elementary school over to his private charter school company last year, Perry took to Twitter saying;

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

After student performances from schools throughout Los Angeles, including Celerity dancers, the Gabriella Charter School Company Kids and the Granada Hills Charter High School Marching Band, a fantastic line - up of speakers made heartfelt pleas for public education.

24) New York: Private charter school company pumps $ 78,000 into state Senate races.

Initially the Great Oaks Charter School company proposed that they would be ready to open a charter school in Bridgeport in time for the 2015/2016 school year.

Earlier this month, Sarah Darer Littman had a column in CT Newsjunkie reminding readers to be on the lookout for an attempt by the charter school industry and Governor Dannel Malloy to undermine efforts to hold charter school companies accountable for the public funds they get.

Thanks to Malloy's education reform effort, Connecticut taxpayers already subsidize charter school companies to the tune of more than $ 100 million a year and while Malloy laments the state budget deficit, his budget plan is to actually give charter school even more taxpayer funds even though these companies refuse to educate their fair share of students who need special education services or those who require extra help when it comes to learning the English Language.

The new mandates recess for some elementary school students, pares down on a few standardized tests and seeks to incentivize charter school companies to set up near chronically failing public schools.

To fully appreciate how Connecticut's taxpayers are being ripped off by charter school companies, read Robert Cotto's entire article at: