Sentences with phrase «city charter school movement»

Ms. Moskowitz, the face of the city charter school movement and a rumored mayoral candidate, is a frequent de Blasio critic.

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Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

The new mayor enraged the charter school movement by vowing to charge schools getting rent - free space in city buildings and scrapping a $ 210 million charter building fund.

With the political winds seemingly at its back, New York City's charter school movement staged a splashy rally in Albany with an enthusiastic mix of thousands of students, a raft of state leaders and a pinch - hitting pop star.

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Moskowitz, a 49 - year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over education reform.

Steve Zimmerman, who leads a coalition of independent charter schools in New York City, said Loeb's remark «certainly isn't going to help the charter movement, which is already being tarnished by association with the current administration.»

«We have a few charter schools that are serving our community's needs, and if they no longer serve that need then I wouldn't be opposed to Success Academy coming to Staten Island,» said Sam Pirozzolo, vice-president of the New York City Parents Union, a volunteer organization that has been a vocal supporter of the charter school movement.

And Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal wrote an entire New York Post op - ed last year decrying what he described as de Blasio's «systematic campaign to destroy the city's burgeoning charter school movement.»

The Bronx Beep also has strengthened his ties with officials in the city's charter - school movement, many of whom have ties to wealthy donors who could back a future citywide campaign.

Both New York City and Denver are considered leaders in the charter school movement.

But they were barred from the contest, triggering an outpouring of angry accusations and casting the children as victims of an increasingly hostile struggle over the city's growing charter school movement.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

The charter school movement has benefited from the spectacular results achieved by the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academies, Success Academy, BASIS Schools, KIPP Schools, Uncommon Schools, and others in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and other prominent cities.

«Under Joseph, Albany also became ground zero for the charter school movement, with the city's 11th school expected to open soon.

It was, according to the paper's summary, an «article on school - choice movement; competition from charter schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.Schools Inc described.»

Finally, she said bluntly, «To make New York City not hospitable to the charter school movement is to hurt efforts at fixing the school system.»

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

As the school - choice movement accelerates across the country, several major cities — including Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Washington, D.C. — are expanding their charter - school portfolios.

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KIPP, the nationwide network of charter schools and one of the great success stories of the charter movement, has 125 schools serving 41,000 students, making it less than one - twentieth the size of the New York City Department of Education.

It also gave the movement a populist patina, making it seem that if you were concerned about the plight of poor inner - city children, you would certainly support the creation of many more charter schools.

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If Jeff Litt stands for the old guard in New York City's charter school movement, Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success, represents the new.

But when he co-wrote an op - ed with New York City Chancellor Joel Klein advocating for ending restrictions on the expansion of the charter school movement, everyone has to take notice.

«By emulating some of the best practices to come out of the charter - school movement, the administration continues to evolve on charters and recognize their important place in the city's educational landscape,» said Jenny Sedlis, executive director of the advocacy group StudentsFirstNY.

The centerpiece is the charter school movement's effort to radically transform education for the city's mostly African - American public school children, many of whom would still be attending some of the worst performing schools in the nation.

«Her leadership of the city's charter movement gives her the experience to help us continue to launch great schools in Indianapolis.»

Funded with taxpayer dollars but operated independently of the school system, charters now enroll more than 40 percent of the city's students, putting Washington at the leading edge of a national movement toward charters.

Holdaway said the ability for the charter schools and city officials to work together provides a huge benefit to the community, and will help the ultimate success of the charter school movement and its students.

The city's charter movement has attracted innovative school operators such as KIPP, Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, Harlem Village Academies and others.

In 1999, the charter - school movement began in New York City with a handful of schools given independence from years of encrusted union rules and city regulations that made real learning virtually impossible in the city's chaotic schoCity with a handful of schools given independence from years of encrusted union rules and city regulations that made real learning virtually impossible in the city's chaotic schocity regulations that made real learning virtually impossible in the city's chaotic schocity's chaotic schools.

Teach for America has been essential to the success of the charter school movement by staffing the city's schools with at least 500 of its teachers.

It was a frigid February day in Albany, and leaders of New York City's charter school movement were anxious.

«Now, as the charter school movement has expanded into suburbs or wealthier parts of cities, they have become competition.

SL: Do you worry that opposition in the suburbs might do political damage to the charter school movement and wind up limiting progress in cities?

Before the national stalwarts of the charter school movement settled in a drain New Orleans, a group of city residents who resided on the West Bank of the Mississippi River — Algiers — formed a nonprofit that would eventually be the first organization to open schools.

The Frantz building, meanwhile, encapsulates the history of public schools in New Orleans from the end of the civil rights era to the post-Katrina charter school movement that has dramatically restructured the city's school system.

A key advisor to the president - elect, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, recently stated, «Trump is going to be the best thing that ever happened for school choice and the charter school movement,» according to a New York press outlet.

Joel Klein, the ex-New York City school chancellor who sanctioned many charters under former mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has personally subsidized the school privatization movement, tweeted, «The 2d «A» in @NAACP stands for Advancement.

Miss Allie Heemstra and Mrs. Valerie Diebel's classes at the Crossroads Academy (a public charter school in downtown Kansas City, Missouri) have studied history, visited 10 neighborhoods from Waldo to Pendleton Heights, talked to «change - makers» and read about community movements.

One DC charter school network, Center City, is in the forefront of a movement to reverse that approach.

When Mr. Fulop takes office on July 1, Jersey City could join New York City, Newark and Bridgeport, Conn., as another local laboratory for a national movement known as education reform that emphasizes tougher standards for teachers, uses test scores to grade schools and educators and promotes alternatives such as charter schools.