Sentences with phrase «charter school expansion»

The district has asked the state to impose a three - year expansion on charter school expansion in the city.

Currently, she's focused on preventing charter school expansion in her state and protecting student data privacy.

And increased political support has been an effect as well as a cause of charter school expansion.

This is even evident in municipalities that have been booming with charter school expansion.

The department's application for a federal charter school expansion grant has also been criticized for including several errors.

Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that backs charter school expansion, spent just over $ 2 million.

Their four - point criteria for evaluating charter school expansion lacked a fifth: school quality.

The civil rights organization has been weighing in on school choice at least since last year, when it called for a moratorium on charter school expansion.

Most of our bloggers support charter school expansion in New York City.

The following is CCSA's response to the September 21st L.A. Times story discussing a plan for charter school expansion in Los Angeles.

At issue are kickbacks for high priced merchandise, misuse of federal charter school expansion funds, grand theft, racketeering, fraudulent invoices, overcharging families for uniforms... the list goes on.

«Moody's: Vote against Charter School Expansion «credit Positive» for Massachusetts Cities like Springfield.»

Clinton also signed into law the «Charter Schools Expansion Act of 1998,» authored by CSDC's President and CEO, former Congressman Frank Riggs, when Riggs was chairman of the House of Representatives» Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.

HB 250 opened up the door for unchecked charter school expansion by allowing schools to add a grade level each year without the State Board of Education's approval.

He began fulfilling that pledge one month into his term when his administration reallocated $ 210 million from a public charter school expansion fund.

The situation in Detroit is damning evidence against unchecked charter school expansion.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reiterated its opposition to charter schools Saturday when its board of directors ratified a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion until more oversight is established.

The governor handed de Blasio a defeat over charter school expansion last year and, more recently, Cuomo was said to be considering stepping into the increasingly nasty feud between the mayor and the police unions.

After hearing about charter school expansion in Madison.

The Center's Paul Zavitkovsky responds to a Chicago Tribune op - ed favoring continued charter school expansion in the city.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

These include the ethics of grade inflation, lottery - based school assignment policies, disciplining socially fragile children, and charter school expansion policies that take attrition rates and school demographics into account.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

NAACP REPORT FINDS «WIDE RANGE OF PROBLEMS» WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS: After calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion last year, the NAACP today is releasing a highly anticipated report that calls for the elimination of for - profit charter school operators.

With all this evidence apparently stacked against charter schools, it seems downright responsible of the AFT to call for a moratorium on further charter school expansion «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness and viability is presented.»

Bridgeport Schools Beginning Teacher Coordinator Michael Brosnan was among many teachers urging the State Board of Education to reject charter school expansion at today's meeting.

Thanks to growing parent interest and state laws encouraging charter school expansion, the number of students attending public charter schools...

Must reads this morning — The New York Times editorial on the NAACP's call to ban charter school expansion, saying it would hurt children stuck in broken public schools.

Olsen also supports a far more limited charter school expansion than Vos.

As one reporter noted, despite the fact that Duncan has dedicated the last few years to undermining public education, his speech to the delegates, «steered clear of mentioning charter schools expansion, teacher evaluation, and aggressive school turnaround — policies at the heart of the Obama administration's agenda...»

While charter advocates could easily be heard in statehouses demanding charter school expansion throughout the Obama era, their silence on the rest of the Republican agenda was a compromise that clearly favored Republicans» long - range plans.

E-mail your friends and family and let them know about HB 634 and what charter school expansion would mean.

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

Klein confirmed Wednesday talks surrounding charter school expansion had fallen off the table.

This partisan divide has been reflected in the early months of the 2015 legislative session while issues such as charter school expansion have been among the most discussed in Albany.

ALBANY — Supporters and opponents of education reform, primarily charter school expansion, spent more than $ 30 million combined attempting to influence New York State politics in 2014, a Capital analysis of lobbyist reports and campaign finance data found.

Parents at P.S. 811 say Mayor de Blasio was right not to allow Success Academy charter school expansion.

The cap on charter school expansion across the state, particularly in New York City, is also an issue to watch.

As much as Villaraigosa — and the school superintendent with whom he is allied — have appeared committed to rapid charter school expansion, when the L. A. school board took decisive action in February, charters were forced to settle for much less than they expected.

But when the school district and teachers union got wind of the Broad Foundation's plan to help launch schools to serve those students, simmering tensions over charter school expansion exploded.

After a court challenge blocked charter school expansion, the union and its allies «went back to their old ways.»

Obama education secretary Arne Duncan is still bitterly remembered for 2009's Race to the Top, a coercive, $ 5 billion «doubling down» on the disastrous legacy of punitive, high - stakes testing and charter school expansion bequeathed by George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.

Even before a single dime was disbursed from the «Race to the Top» fund, we saw state legislatures take actions to support things like charter school expansion: Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Rhode Island were not exactly lining up to help charter schools until Duncan made clear that it would impact these states» applications for federal funding.