Sentences with phrase «charter supporters spending»

The total cost was estimated at $ 15 million, with charter supporters spending $ 9.7 million, according to estimates from the Los Angeles Times.

Charter supporters spent about $ 9.7 million in the race.

Not exact matches

Another group, New Yorkers For Balanced Albany, which has been backed by charter school supporters, has also spent heavily in the race.

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

In many cases, the groups — ranging from supporters of charter schools or proponents of public school spending — are waging battle in order to flip control of the chamber and are being spurred by issues that primarily impact New York City.

Charter school supporters and their critics spent eight hours shouting at one another at a volatile public hearing Thursday - and left the battle more polarized than ever.

NYSUT is expected to play an active role in the Senate and Assembly elections year in order to counter the heavy spending by supporters of charter schools.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state Senate.

Two independent expenditure committees funded in part by wealthy supporters of charter schools are wrapping their spending sprees on Senate Republican candidates with large ad purhcases in two state Senate races upstate.

The latest push is coming from New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a group backed by supporters of charter schools, is spending $ 263,976 on digital, radio and TV ads in the suburban district.

Charter school groups and their supporters spent $ 16 million on lobbying, campaign contributions to state - level candidates and parties and independent expenditure campaigns last year.

In the most recent election there, charter school supporters and labor unions collectively spent $ 15 million trying to elect their allies, making it the most expensive school board election in United States history, according to The Los Angeles Times.

He was also helped by StudentsFirstNY, a charter school supporter who invested heavily in Senate Republicans in 2014 and has reported spending $ 1.49 million on the race in the past two weeks, $ 250,000 of which came from a group backing education tax credits.

At a preemptive news conference with education advocates, The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says wealthy supporters of expanding charter schools have spent nearly twice that amount, and have contributed large sums to the governor's campaign.

She benefited from nearly $ 540,000 in spending from the IDC's campaign arm — much of it coming from real estate interests and charter school supporters that have also backed Senate Republicans, who are more often cross-endorsed by the Independence Party.

Supporters of charter schools and education tax credits have caught up to unions in terms of total political spending, but NYSUT's VOTE - COPE remains one of the state's biggest PACs.

In recent years, outside groups, from unions to charter school supporters, have spent millions on New York elections.

A major supporter of charter schools, Loeb has given heavily to outside groups that back education reform, including $ 1 million in July to a pro-charter group that's spending to help state Senate Republicans.

In what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history (with $ 3 million spent overall), the union squared off against charter supporters, including the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - actiocharter supporters, including the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - actioCharter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - action wing.

Charter supporters are spending millions to blanket the airwaves with ads.

Although Tuck ended up losing to Torlakson by almost 200,000 votes in 2014, the campaign itself attracted close to $ 30 million in spending — most of it from charter supporters of Tuck and labor groups supporting Torlakson.

As of the last campaign filing, charter supporters hadn't spent any of that money, but started running television ads this week.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

Reformers and charter school supporters, including the political arm of the California Charter Schools Association and LA Students for Change, a group funded by former Mayor Richard Riordan, have spent about $ 3.3 million through their charter school supporters, including the political arm of the California Charter Schools Association and LA Students for Change, a group funded by former Mayor Richard Riordan, have spent about $ 3.3 million through their Charter Schools Association and LA Students for Change, a group funded by former Mayor Richard Riordan, have spent about $ 3.3 million through their groups.

September 29, 2015 - Tonight, as the Richmond City Council debates how to spend the $ 35 million in college scholarships provided by the «Richmond Promise,» at least 50 charter school supporters will demand that the funding be shared equally among all public school students, including charter students.

Yet Peters is a huge Malloy supporter who has strongly endorsed Malloy's reform program in its entirety, including increased standardized testing, VAM, and increased spending for Charter Schools while cutting spending on public schools.

Supporters of a charter - school reform bill passed last year, House Bill 2, and of new evaluations for school sponsors say they aim to bring more accountability and transparency to a charter system that spends about $ 1 billion annually to educate more than 120,000 Ohio students attending 374 charter schools.

Members and supporters of PAA affiliate MecklenburgACTS will spend Friday, May 11, calling attention to the destructive education legislation that ALEC has promoted, legislation that increases high - stakes testing, promotes school vouchers and online charter schools and undercuts the teaching profession.