Sentences with phrase «charter school dollars»

[8] EMOs are held accountable for how they spend those public charter school dollars: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2014/08/28/state-board-of-ed-chair-directs-nc-charter-schools-to-disclose-all-employee-salaries-by-september-30/

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Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

His ploy regarding NYC schools has always been fronting for the big dollar charter advocates.

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 Mike Murphy.

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

The GOP majority has diverted millions of dollars to the charter school industry, despite have virtually no charter schools in the Republican held districts.

Venditto voted against public schools every change he could, selling his soul to the charter school crowd and giving away taxpayer dollars.

After millions of dollars of spending on his behalf, much of it by the charter school crowd, Carl Marcellino was finally declared the winner of his race by about 1500 votes against a woefully underfunded opponent.

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.

New York faces a June 1 deadline for relaxing rules for charter schools to boost its chances of winning about half a billion dollars from the federal Race to the Top program.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

money, follow the money: These charter school proponents would love to privatize and monetize everything in sight - including your children's future - as they increasingly suck up your tax dollars and public buildings and public resources for their own ideological and profit - making ends — leaving the public schools starved.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the union claims charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

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.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says NYSUT is claiming charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

In New York, charter school interests and the teacher unions each have pumped millions of dollars in recent years into state races, particularly in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority and are strong charter - school backers.

He gave $ 264,441 to the Senate GOP and wrote a pair of million - dollar checks to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, an independent expenditure committee created by charter school supporters that helps the conference.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in ASchool, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Aschool hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

He does this because NYSUT stopped endorsing him and he rakes in tens of thousands of dollars from the charter school industry, despite not have a single charter school in his district.

The Success Academy charter school network has filed an appeal to a state Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

The Hempstead school board Monday night voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

StudentsFirstNY, a charter schools group, and REBNY, a deep - pocketed trade association, plan to spend millions of dollars during the next month in hopes of keeping the Republicans in control of the state Senate.

The Hempstead school board voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

Why, as in... Why do Republican state senators upstate and on Long Island support sending tens of millions of dollars in new funding to New York City charters... instead of reserving that money for their own schools in places like Troy, Poughkeepsie and Plattsburgh?

Charter schools statewide receive on average 75 cents for every dollar spent on students in traditional public schools, according to charter advCharter schools statewide receive on average 75 cents for every dollar spent on students in traditional public schools, according to charter advcharter advocates.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cSchool Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cschool of their choice.

«Backroom manipulation» by Albany lawmakers will cost charter schools more than a billion dollars in funding over the coming years, according to some critics.

Senate Republicans, who have received millions of dollars in campaign donations from the charter industry, pushed for the elimination of the charter cap and for unfreezing charter school tuition, which would have resulted in an enormous windfall for charter schools.

President Donald Trump on March 16 took the first step to make good on his campaign promise to shift federal tax dollars from traditional public schools to a «choice» program that promotes charters, private and religious schools.

In the face of multimillion dollar negative ad campaigns from Success Academy Charter Schools and its CEO Eva Moskowitz, Hawkins maintains that the mayor could have pointed out that public school children - some disabled - face being displaced - but chose not to.

Charter school advocates and those seeking an education tax credit that would allow people to donate up to a million dollars tax free to send underprivileged children to private schools, among other things, together spent over $ 7.5 million.

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.

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

UFT lawyers argue that «while charter schools may receive some funding from private entities, they are overwhelmingly funded by public tax dollars and they are subject to the disclosure requirements applicable to government agencies under the New York state Freedom of Information Law.»

But advocates of charter schools organized a multimillion - dollar advertising campaign and flooded the capital with protesters.

There is no excuse for ignoring the fact that charter schools must take dollars out of classrooms to pay the rent.

That difference was the result of some $ 5,500 per student in local tax dollars going to district schools that charters such as Omega did not receive — all this in addition to money for facilities and other outlays that were also denied to Ohio charters.

Districts are reimbursed through another funding stream for students who have left traditional district schools for charters: 100 percent of per - pupil in the first year, 25 percent for the next five years, as well as an annual per - pupil facilities cost of approximately $ 900 dollars.

For example, NCB Development Corporation used its $ 6.4 million grant to create the Charter School Capital Access Program; the grant dollars comprise a «first loss reserve» - money that serves as a buffer for lenders in case payments fall through - on a $ 45 million loan pool that NCB and the Reinvestment Fund raised from large financial institutions.

For one, the schools need the money; a report last year from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute showed that the average charter school receives 80 cents on the dollar compared to traditional public schools.

He says Question 2 could eventually see hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid follow students to charter schools, threatening the status quo.»

And that's even after losing tens of thousands of students and hundreds of millions of dollars to charter schools.

And to receive federal dollars, districts must give parents the freedom to use this information to select the school of their choice — traditional public, charter, or private.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

Districts and charter schools could use the extra dollars to lower class sizes, improve classroom technology, or target teacher training in grades K - 4.