Sentences with phrase «charter supporters going»

While Bill and Hillary Clinton have been charter supporters going back to his presidency in the 1990s (when the first schools opened), late last year Hillary Clinton recited some of the critic's points in a speech where she said too many charters «don't take the hardest - to - teach kids, or if they do, they don't keep them.»

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Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

But supporters said charters can o make per - student dollars go further because they are not saddled with out - of - control teacher pension and health - care costs.

If the media had been told it was a Gala Dinner in which Malloy was going to celebrate the life of the Achievement First's champion and one of the nation's leading supporters of Charter Schools you can assume someone from the media would have realized it might be an opportunity to see what Malloy was preparing.

This organizing campaign is going in a direction that should trouble supporters of charter schools nationwide.

So supporters of those kinds of charters are going to have to figure out how to differentiate their schools from the rest of the charter industry.

If you go back and read the comments you will see that every time I've raised this issue, charter school administrators and supporters have challenged my assessment saying that the lottery system ensures that everyone has an equal chance to get into the charter school.

«The diehard supporters [of charter schools] and the effort to privatize public education seems to be going into a stealth mode.»

Each year, the ASPCA urges supporters across the country to support their efforts and Go Orange for Animals in honor of the signing of the ASPCA's charter in 1866.