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At Liberty Media's investor day, Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge speaks to CNBC's David Faber about the deal with Viacom and the outlook for its video products.

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is having a strong day, with shares up more than 4 percent after Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) CEO Thomas Rutledge said in a UBS conference that he had advanced discussions with the company over set - top box integration.

It begins in the morning with a half - day charter fishing trip, the «First Hand», led by a local Key West captain, where participants fish the Gulf and Atlantic for grouper and snapper, among many other species, while learning about which catch methods and techniques work best for each species.

In spite of those challenges, charter schools are finding ways to implement thriving nutrition programs by meeting these challenges with best practices; specifically, through universal meals and boosting school breakfast participation by making it part of the school day.

Nia Dennis, 8, a student at Betty Shabazz Charter School, and Xavier Dilworth, 4, came with their parents to demand a longer school day.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

To coincide with Armed Forces Day, the CIOB offers a number of routes, depending on experience and qualifications, to a professional chartered career in construction for those serving or ex-military personnel.

A legislative source reports two top aides to Mayor Bloomberg — Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and Director of Legislative Affairs Micah Lasher — are huddling with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in hopes of landing a charter school deal before the day is out.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneday pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneday pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneday sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneDay Parade in uniform / with banners.

But with half of the session's last scheduled day behind them, the state's top men still have not reached a resolution and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he was still refusing to give on a push by Cuomo and Senate leaders to help charter schools.

With just days to go before the April 1 deadline to finalize the state budget, he said Senate Republicans were pressing for the elimination of the charter cap and more money for charters at the expense of public schools.

His hourlong visit on National Teachers Day also included a brief meeting with special - needs students at P.S. 149, a public school that shares a building with the charter school.

«With half - a-million children trapped in NYC's separate and unequal schools, parents will hold a day of action in Albany to support charter schools, which are a critical solution to education inequality,» Jeremiah Kittredge, FES» CEO, said in a statement sent to POLITICO New York.

A day after getting slapped with a federal lawsuit from charter school parents for canceling classroom space for their kids, Mayor Bill de Blasio got hit from the other side...

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

A group of veteran charter school proponents has filed with the State Education Department to take over East High and Waterfront, dropping union contracts and adding longer school days and longer school years.

The following day, Ragone had a conference call with another former Bloomberg aide who now works for the charter sector, Bradley Tusk.

«After days of analysis and numbers - crunching, the results are clear: While charter schools will see a boost next year, the new formula which will be put in place will prevent funding parity with other public school students,» said NECSN director Andrea Rogers.

«Under the charter we have to deal with within the next thirty days.

The following day he vowed to find a home for Moskowitz's charters during an interview with WNYC's Brian Lehrer.

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

It was the first time a state education commissioner has attended the advocacy day event at the state Capitol, which is designed to raise awareness for charter school issues and give parents and students an opportunity to speak directly with legislators in Albany.

The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down staCharter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down stacharter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down standards.

Earlier in the day, Senate Independent Democratic Leader Jeff Klein, following a closed door meeting with Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders, said he hoped for a «grand bargain» that would include the mayoral control extension, the sales tax continuation and some provisions to help charter schools.

One day after her organization scrapped its pre-K program over a bitter contract dispute with the de Blasio administration, Moskowitz blasted Hizzoner for failing to provide facilities for charters as mandated by state law.

To spend two years, or over a year, coming up with charter changes working in a bipartisan fashion and you throw it away because some blogger that lives in his mom's attic is intimidating elected officials these days is disgusting and cowards to those who worked on this project and then decided to yield to some blogger that is telling them how to vote.

Organizers with the deep - pocketed charter school lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools promise the same flashy production values as in previous pro-charter-school rallies, when performers such as the musician Questlove entertained thousands of students whose schools gave them the day off.

As more schools move forward with their own efforts, many are taking their cue from the mavericks on time and learning: charter schools, where more than two - thirds run on longer days, many successfully.

About 64 percent of students attend a charter school with a school year of 190 days or longer, and 20 percent attend a school with a school year of 200 days or longer.

About 55 percent of students attend a charter school with a day that lasts eight hours or longer, 67 percent attend one with an optional afterschool program, and about 57 percent attend one with Saturday school that is mandatory for all or at least some students (for instance, students who are struggling academically).

Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, an all - black, all - male, 9 - 12, Title I school in Chicago, Illinois, begins every day with Community, a 30 - minute, schoolwide assembly.

This might look like charter - school agreements in the early days — customized contracts that consider «multiple measures» and qualitative judgments that are better aligned with the mission and approach of the schools being evaluated (like the ones you love, Governor «Moonbeam» Brown).

With their limited resources and broad mandate to serve all schools, it's not possible for most of them to roll up their sleeves day in and day out or to provide full services, like accounting or special education, to charter schools.

So two days later, I visited Envision Academy, a downtown Oakland charter school, and Ruth Negash, an intense 4th - year teacher with wild, curly hair and two education degrees from San Francisco State University.

Those high - quality charter networks arguably have enough on their plates with longer school days, weeks and years, and they need to keep their miraculous scores up.

Shortly before last year's school year ended, I spent a day with Steven Wilson and several of his colleagues at Ascend Public Charter Schools in Brooklyn.

The first charter - school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991, and New York finally followed with its own statute in the last days of 1998.

In fact, Facebook has launched a partnership with Summit Public Schools, a charter network in California and Washington, to work to improve the technology that powers personalized learning with the hope of one day making it available to all learners.

HCZ's work with traditional public schools does not have the same number of hours each day as our work with our charter school kids, but the dedication is the same.

On October 7, the day of the next school board meeting and with the board still unaware of Moran's plans (she had e-mailed the plan to her colleagues the night before, but according to Education Week, some board members and Acting Superintendent Watson said they hadn't had a chance to read the application before the meeting), New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced that he would ask the governor for help in creating a citywide charter school system.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

Then we [have] 150 other schools that were perceived to be the dregs of the universe and had no buy - in, a fortress mentality, and no flexibility whatsoever... You put me in a room with charter school principals, and you put me in a room with traditional school principals, and it's night and day.

In November, Tennessee provided a perfect and alarming example of how this might play out with regard to RTTT: though the state lifted its charter cap as Duncan desired, in the span of two days Memphis and Nashville denied all 24 charter applications submitted to them.

Two strategies are particularly attractive: reopening these schools as charter schools, or contracting with a for - profit or nonprofit manager to run their day - to - day operations.

The push to extend both the 6.5 - hour day and the 180 - day year began with the charter school movement in the 1990s and has become increasingly popular in traditional public schools.

We looked at charter schools and saw success with longer days, said Chris Gabrieli, chairman and co-founder of Massachusetts 2020.

Two recent studies, one by Joshua Angrist and colleagues and another by Matthew Johnson and colleagues, found that attendance at urban charter middle schools with high behavioral expectations is associated with a higher number of days suspended relative to attendance at traditional schools in the same districts.

The only exception is that, in acknowledgement of the fact that many charter schools do not have a traditional district's breadth of resources, the New Jersey charter school law stipulates that, «the fiscal responsibility for any student currently enrolled in or determined to require a private day or residential school shall remain with the district of residence.»

The scholars» laboratory was the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a 97 - block area where students from both inside and outside the zone attend what are often called «No Excuses» charter schools (with strict behavioral and academic expectations combined with longer school days and frequent assessments), and residents receive a range of community services.

The day after Election Day, students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., ran «equity day,» based around themes ranging from identity to living with a single pareday after Election Day, students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., ran «equity day,» based around themes ranging from identity to living with a single pareDay, students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., ran «equity day,» based around themes ranging from identity to living with a single pareday,» based around themes ranging from identity to living with a single parent.