Sentences with phrase «charter school industry»

Sackler ponies up $ 8,000 more in Charter School Industry's effort to influence legislative races in Connecticut

Connecticut Charter School Industry spends another half a million dollars on lobbying elected officials

on Charter School Industry raised more than $ 24 million in 2016 record breaking defeat In Massachusetts

on Massachusetts Ballot Question # 2 — Charter School Industry pours record breaking $ 26 million into stunning loss

Despite the political rhetoric coming out of ConnCAN and other charter school industry front groups, Trinity's Robert Cotto reveals that Connecticut's charter schools do not outperform local public schools.

Rep. Fresen is the subject of two active ethics complaints and his colleagues in the Florida House receive a bounty of campaign contributions every year from the for - profit charter school industry.

Ken Dixon of the Connecticut Post wrote about today's charter school industry rally noting, «Malloy stars in charter schools rally at Capitol.»

While Families for Excellent Schools and the entire charter school industry continue to expand their lobbying efforts, Neil Vigdor, of the Hearst Media Group, reports that Families for Excellent Schools and other so - called education reformers have set up another Political Action Committee that they will be using to reward and punish candidates who support or oppose their agenda.

San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is spending lavishly on technology despite their budgets being decimated by California's unaccountable charter school industry.

As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.

It drew immediate criticism from the state teachers unions, which oppose the publicly funded, privately run charter school industry and consider the proposal a «shortcut» and «backdoor to certification» that would ultimately harm students.

But the truth surrounding these corporate education reform strategies fall far short of their advertising claims, a fact that is especially true when it comes to the growing online or virtual charter school industry.

«Celerity's troubles highlight that the real victims of California's runaway charter school industry are students.

These so - called forums end up being informercials for their favored (read charter school industry connected) candidates, and more importantly, their neoliberal corporate education reform agenda.

It was Malloy who supported ConnCan and the grotesque charter school industry.

The Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education (CCJEF) explains why the Connecticut General Assembly should approve legislation requiring a CT School Adequacy Study rather than adopt a faulty school funding formula that fails to adequately fund Connecticut's public schools and diverts even more scarce resources to Connecticut's unaccountable charter school industry.

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

«It's a discussion worth having, but not before we take steps to reform the charter school industry,» Mulgrew said.

It has sold itself to the charter school industry.

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.

In her latest blog post, educator and education advocate Ann Cronin reports on Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and his administration's loyalty to the charter school industry and their latest attack on public education.

Isn't he another GOP sellout to the charter school industry?

Considering Clemons» close relationship with the charter school industry, he shouldn't be voting on any issue related to the oversight and funding of charter schools in Connecticut.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

The charter school industry is also seeking legislative approval to increase PSF backing for its bonds to $ 4 billion.

According to an October 2015 investigation conducted by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the federal government has spent more than $ 3.3 billion over the past two decades on the creation and maintenance of the charter school industry.

While you can read Bronin's political meandering on education on his website — See CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, what is far more telling is the amount of money that is pouring into his campaign from the corporate education reformers, the charter school industry and the people who are pushing the Common Core and Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

The massive financial investment the charter school industry made in Malloy's last gubernatorial campaign appears to be paying off yet again as Governor announces a new plan to cut state spending.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released the results of a damning audit of the charter school industry which found that charter schools» relationships with their management organizations pose a significant risk to the aim of the Department of Education.

With more than 6,700 charter schools spread across 42 states and the District of Columbia, fraudulent activities associated with the publicly funded, but privately owned, charter school industry have become the fodder for almost daily news stories.

While it is not clear whether Luke Bronin simply doesn't understand education policy or is hiding his true positions from Hartford voters, the reality is that the charter school industry and the education reformers are lining up for the golden boy from Greenwich and that, in turn, makes it very clear whose side he will be on if elected mayor of Hartford.

In the months leading up to and through his re-election campaign, corporate education reform proponents and the charter school industry poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into Malloy's various campaign entities and organizations.

Of course, the charter school supporters who donated and worked for Malloy are overjoyed by the news that Malloy was coming through, yet again, for the charter school industry.

As a member of the Connecticut Board of Education Erik Clemons will be in a position to financially reward himself, the charter schools he is or has been associated with and his friends and colleagues in the charter school industry.

The Corporate Education Reformers and their allies in the charter school industry are so desperate to hijack the voices of public schools students that they actually create front groups with names like Students For Education Reform.

The truth is that the charter school industry has put an unprecedented amount of money on the political table.

Given the rapid and continuing expansion of the charter school industry and the tremendous investment of public dollars, California must act now to reform its oversight system.