Sentences with phrase «concerns about charter»

In practice, this loose interpretation has meant that not a single report relaying concerns about Charter compliance has ever been made to Parliament.

In recent weeks, some African - American organizations have raised concerns about charter school funding, spending and performance.

A number of bills addressing concerns about charter schools are also still pending, and while some may see some life or at least hearings in the fall, others that would require local approval of charters, for instance, or tougher restrictions on them are maybe too contentious.

on State education board meeting at Cohen HS becomes forum for concerns about charter takeover

«I have serious concerns about the charter proposal, especially the parts about charter admission requirements that fail to give our own students preference,» Saddleback Valley president Suzie Swartz said before she and her fellow board members unanimously voted no.

Concerns about charter quality have also been raised as well.

What would be so helpful is for you to focus in on your own personal stories or concerns about charter schools, written up in a paragraph, and either e-mailed or faxed to your House representative.

Randi started out talking about all of her concerns about charter schools and all the reasons why they aren't the solution.

In the last post, I shared the Florida Auditor General's concerns about some charter schools.

Consistent with other studies, they found that some of the concerns about charter schools can be put to rest and that some of the anticipated benefits of charter schools have not become a reality.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

The national board of the NAACP, which has long expressed concern about charter schools, is scheduled this weekend to vote on whether to approve a resolution — passed at the group's convention this past summer — that calls for a moratorium on their expansion.

MEMO: Results of Two Key Charter Initiatives Suggest Growing Concern About Charter Impacts November 9, 2016

This was not the first time the organization expressed its concern about charter schools.

The charter school proposal has been controversial, with at least one School Board candidate, Tracy O'Neill, raising concerns about charters.

If there were widespread concern about charter finances, Van Tassell said, the public would make that known.

«I'm actually very concerned about charter schools pulling kids from the public schools and what that's going to do to our schools that we've invested a lot in.»

Short version: Task force members are still very concerned about charter expansion.

I am not sure I understand the concern about a Charter breach, as the Charter does not apply to private activity.

Not exact matches

While national media coverage of politics in Quebec has been overwhelmingly focused on the specter of separatism and Parti - Québécois's proposed charter of values, a recent CBC - Ekos poll found that the majority of Quebeckers are most concerned about jobs and the economy.

Concerns about such a knock - on effect on Viacom of the decline in traditional cable TV subscriptions deepened last quarter, when Charter Communications Inc moved five of its flagship networks to its most expensive programming tier, a move that will likely result in lower affiliate revenue for Viacom.

4.31 The ACCC Chairman, Graeme Samuel, noted that the Charter will benefit consumers by promoting competition in the supermarket sector, particularly by helping to address concerns about creeping acquisitions.

The Club Charter includes information concerning everything you need to know about Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club.

Families for Excellent Schools added in a news release they are also concerned about that the administration «also continues to hint at plans» that would roll back charter co-locations.

He also expressed concern about the administration's effort to redirect a $ 210 million construction fund used to build space for charter schools toward pre-K, and its plans to charge better - financed charter schools rent.

The more I hear charter school advocates advocate for charter schools — the more concerned I become about the other 90 %.

Sir Michael implied that this alleged loss of neutrality was due to concerns within the BBC about the Conservatives» proposed reforms to its Royal Charter.

The Poloncarz administration said in a statement that, «It's worth keeping in mind that the County Executive's proposal was designed to be a stand - alone expansion of ECDOH's lead poisoning prevention program, and regardless of concerns about proposed City Charter changes it is a well - thought out plan to improve Erie County's response to lead poisoning.»

«However, we still have concerns about the inconsistencies of Senator Flanagan's position and the policy implication of his efforts to expand the number of charter schools.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

Proponents have argued that the change will boost sliding voter participation — something the commission is «deeply concerned» about, Charter Revision Commission Chair Matthew Goldstein has said.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

«What this rally is about is the anxiety and the concern levels of the charter school parents of those charter schools that already have their permits, have their charters and unfortunately don't have the locations identified.

If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before — as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general — they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio's election, and the mayor's immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.

Parents of 70,000 charter students are concerned about the future of charter schools.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

Charter parents report more extensive communications with their children's schools than parents in the other two sectors, but they also express greater concern about a paucity of extracurricular activities.

States are right to be concerned about how to best regulate virtual charter schools — they ought to measure their results based on the growth of individual students and shut down poorly performing ones.

If you listen to those involved in the charter debate, both charter critics and advocates express grave concerns about whether the media is getting this right.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

• Charter schools are no panacea, and legitimate concerns exist about the effectiveness of for - profit education.

Raising the Cap on Charter Schools (Fox 25 WXYT, 11/2/16) Harvard Professor of Education Heather Hill, has closely studied ballot question two and is concerned about raising the cap.

Concerned about the growing political pushback, CPS made two agreements that would likely prove incredibly hard to maintain: a five - year moratorium on any further enrollment - related closings and not to lease or rent empty buildings to charter schools.

She echoed my concern about 500 - page charter - school applications, noting, «That's not progress.

Don Soifer, a longtime member of D.C.'s charter - authorizing board, says parent members «help with the flow of critical information,» getting word to the board about issues at the school before they begin to fester, and getting word to parents about board actions and concerns before they reach the rumor mill.

And charter - school supporters, though they remained concerned about funding for state - authorized charters, cheered the new income that would soon be flowing toward district charter schools.

It is one thing to share the authors» concerns about equity and current threats to social cohesion (which I do) and quite another to think they have made the case either that charter schools are threats to those values or that schools controlled by elected school boards effectively promote them.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms 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.