Sentences with phrase «charter schools cut»

An article by Harvard's Tom Kane reports that the wildly successful Boston charter schools cut the black - white achievement gap by roughly one - fifth each year in reading and one - third in math.

Not exact matches

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

Cuomo's preliminary budget allocates $ 300 million less for the NYC Department of Education than was expected, according to a new report, and Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter school lease compensation by $ 86 million.

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.

«He's supported charter schools, cut funding for public schools, and has said failing schools should face the death penalty.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

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.

Two polls from Siena College and Quinnipiac University have shown Cuomo's margin of victory diminished by a generic candidate running to his left — surveys that have emboldened the activist wing of the party upset with his stances on tax cuts and charter schools.

The activist wing of the WFP had raised concerns over Cuomo's fiscal policies, including his support for tax cuts aimed at businesses and property owners, as well as his embrace of charter schools.

Still, the mayor noted cuts and cost shifts averted include $ 144 million for charter schools, $ 129 million for child welfare services and $ 65 million for special education.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

The regulations, approved by the SUNY Charter Schools Committee on Wednesday, were tweaked from the original proposal, which would have cut the number of hours of classroom instruction a teacher must receive to only 30.

Some members of the party have been upset because they believe the governor has not been progressive enough and they're unhappy with Cuomo's support for business - friendly tax cuts and charter schools.

But the governor has also passed a cap on property tax increases as well as a suite of business tax cuts, along with embracing charter schools — all policies that have led to activists within the WFP to challenge him.

For his part, Mr. de Blasio criticized parts of the executive budget that would shift financial responsibility for charter schools to the city, and that would cut funding for special education and affordable housing.

Rob Astorino, the Republican Party candidate for Governor, will further segregate our schools by resisting fair housing settlements, supporting even more cuts to the education budget, and trying to outdo Cuomo in his promotion of charter schools.

The members were also vocal about Cuomo's big push for tax cuts, protecting charter schools, and the tension they believed he caused with Mayor de Blasio over pre kindergarten funding.

In addition, the IBO said Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter - school lease compensation by $ 86 million while also tightening oversight of school budgets.

Cuomo's support for charter schools, tax cuts for the wealthy, and indecisiveness on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has fueled progressive discontent with his reign.

For liberals, Cuomo's work with Republicans has led to economic policies they oppose, including tax and spending cuts and support for charter schools.

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

Question topics, which were limited by the mayor's press staff to «budget only», included an MTA budget cut contained in the state budget, the charter school co - location / rent provisions in the state budget and mayoral control of the school system.

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Recently, de Blasio cut funding to charter schools and ended agreements where three charter schools shared locations with public schools.

Thus, the NAACP's recent call for a charter school moratorium stands as the unkindest cut of all.

(A knot that reform — especially charter schooling — has tried to cut.)

Starting in July 2005, charter schools also had to pay fees to their sponsors, which cut further into their operating margins and was seen by many in the charter community as a harsh tax.

Part of the answer certainly lies in the policy arena — giving charter schools equitable access to funding (including capital funds), cutting unnecessary regulations, ensuring that institutions other than local school boards can issue charters in every jurisdiction.

Only 41 percent of school districts and 60 percent of eligible charter schools signed on for changes needed to participate in the Obama administration's Race to the Top contest in which states can win extra federal funding to ease the impact of steep budget cuts.

CSD implemented even more stringent cost cutting and found ways to make short - term loans to charter schools in order to stay afloat.

Governor Donald Carcieri, Speaker Gordon Fox and Mayor Daniel J. McKee cut the ribbon at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy's 2009 opening, surrounded by (from left to right) Cranston mayor Allan Fung, R.I. attorney general Peter Kilmartin, former senate majority leader Daniel Connors, R.I. commissioner of education Deborah Gist, former president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools Nel - son Smith and former R.I. representative Mary Ann Shallcross Smith.

BASIS is a charter school that has struggled through neighborhood protests and funding cuts, plus the usual resistance that charter schools face, but its success speaks for itself.

Including closing weak charter schools or cutting off public funding to private schools of choice if they diminish achievement?

In theory, the organizers of charter schools strike a simple deal with the people who grant them their charters: Cut us loose from red tape and see if we cut the mustaCut us loose from red tape and see if we cut the mustacut the mustard.

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After all, charter schools are a cutting - edge education opportunity popular with parents in more than 40 states.

As for the Nannies: These folks underestimate the importance of cutting the Gordian Knot that inspired charter schooling in the first place.

When you cut the data to look just at urban charters, the percentage beating the surrounding neighborhood schools rises to 40 percent.

In fact, Trump's cuts would harm even the public charter schools he purports to support: charters rely on Title II teacher - preparation grants to train their educators, and Trump wanted to eliminate the federal appropriation for that program.

They charged that having to share the money with charters would amount to a budget cut for district - run schools.

States too often cut with an axe, limit or prevent rural charter schools outright, where a scalpel is needed.

Nevertheless, when students leave to attend charter schools, the state does not cut its aid immediately.

The Boston charter schools truly are a cut above charter schools nationally.

The money allocated to privately managed charters and vouchers represents a transfer of critical public resources to the private sector, causing the public schools to suffer budget cuts and loss of staffing and services as the private sector grows, without providing better education or better outcomes for the students who transfer to the private - sector schools.

A couple of smaller school districts could proportionally have to give a greater cut of their available funds to charter schools.

They're putting their kids in charters but that means the district schools need to right - size by cutting jobs, and that affects their cousin.

The Baltimore City school district's recently unveiled budget proposal cuts roughly $ 5.5 million from its 34 charter schools.

In those cases where the local districts don't have to share their money, area charter schools would still get capital aid from the state — $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 that's divided among all eligible charter schools statewide, even those getting a cut of local money.

Rents would compel charters to make significant cuts to critical programs and lose access to buildings, and would leave many students without middle and high schools, advocates said.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.