Sentences with phrase «controversy over charter schools»

Those announced Monday aren't likely to put an end to the controversy over charter schools that has raged for years in Chicago and the rest of the country.

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The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

There are, for example, no statistics on the percentage of ELL students in the schools, no numbers on the privately raised funds the schools put to use, and only cursory gestures, in Kenny's book, to the controversy over students counseled out of or removed from these charter - school classrooms and to their teacher turnover rate.

The issue of racially segregated schools is back in the public's attention as a result, in part, of the controversy that has arisen over charter schools that enroll almost entirely students of one race.

The current local controversy over whether the school board should approve two more charter schools is not about believing in school choice, it's about survival.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

Finally, I address the controversy over a law abolishing for - profit, academically selective charter schools, investigating the multiplicity of positions in relation to «the market», understood as a politicized trope, the invocation of which carries morally multivalent meanings.

For example, in Connecticut — where controversies over charters have become part of this fall's governor's race — there are only 17 charter schools.

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.