Sentences with phrase «defense of charters»

In the all - charter district of New Orleans — that Chait described at the 2015 anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as «spectacular» in another defense of charters — virtually no (less than one percent) white students attend schools in that have earned a «D» or «F» performance rating.

Serving poor kids «has been a political defense of charters,» she said.

As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance data in assessing teachers.

Serving as chairman of the Committee on Small Business, the former pro basketball player's most outspoken moments have come in defense of charter schools, and in warning that the city's aggressively progressive direction might debilitate mom - and - pop entrepreneurs.

Literally across the country school choice advocates have stood up against the NAACP in defense of charter schools these past couple of weeks leading up to the vote.

A blanket defense of charter schools and reforms by black people is a cover for institutional racism.

«Finally, we are encouraged to see how strongly the Governor has remained in his defense of charter school autonomy.

Anne Magee Dichelle offers a defense of charter schools on the grounds that the Jumoke / FUSE debacle can not be taken as typical of charter schools as a whole.

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In particular, the declaration references the charter's «principles of constitutional contractual citizenship» and «freedom of movement, property ownership, mutual solidarity and defense, as well as principles of justice and equality before the law,» in regards to Muslims and non-Muslims.

Elsewhere, he omits Lord Robertson's invocation of the NATO charter in America's defense after the September 11 attacks.

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

I remain unpersuaded that any theological movement can dramatically affect the course of the world while its own leaders undermine the integrity of its charter documents, or while its spokespersons domestically exhaust all their energies in internal defense of those documents.

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self - defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.

BNG continues to make it loud and clear that Biafra needs activation of self defense as enshrined in UN 2007 charter to restore Biafra and that is what BNG represents.»

The comments came as part of a defense of state Sen. Jeff Klein, who leads a rival faction of breakaway Democrats and has been an outspoken supporter of charter schools.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

Unfortunately, it also has an active seismic zone beneath the PF - 4 building, producing persistent worries among the staff and members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, a congressionally - chartered oversight group, that if it experienced a rare, large earthquake, the roof could collapse and toss chunks of plutonium so closely together a chain reaction would ensue, spewing radioactive, cancer - causing plutonium particles throughout nearby residential communities.

For charter supporters, there's been plenty of ammunition for defense and explanation.

In Defense of Education's «Wild West» Charter schools thrive in the Four Corners states By Matthew Ladner

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

For Brill and the reformers in his book, the unions are the enemy, with their defense of incompetent teachers, their hostility to charters, and their resistance to efforts to judge teachers by the achievement of their students on tests.

Read more about charters in Arizona and the other Four Corners states in «In Defense of Education's «Wild West»» from our Spring 2018 issue, or learn more about charter schools by visiting our topics page.

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But contrary to what some have said in defense of DeVos, the law's passage was not a sign of her lack of influence or of her support for charter accountability.

The GAO recommended greater guidance from the departments of Defense and Education on charter school startup and operational issues on military bases.

«Family concerns about education affect readiness and retention of military personnel,» said the report, citing the Department of Defense, which recommended in 2008 that military families in areas with poorly performing public schools be offered charter school options.»

Defense attorneys argued that charter schools — California has about 1,000 — should be treated as nonprofits, which have flexibility in spending money, provided that they are furthering the mission of the organization.

But, we also will be the first line of defense against any effort to divert federal education funding to private and religious schools, or to promote creation of charter schools not subject to authorization and oversight by school boards.

Barron's Slurring Charter Schools A skewed defense of our failing public schools, and a hit job on Harvard Business School.

Mathis was previously the regional director at Partnerships to Uplift Communities (a public charter school network in Los Angeles, CA), adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California, and project director of a Children's Defense Fund project at Maya Angelou Public Charter charter school network in Los Angeles, CA), adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California, and project director of a Children's Defense Fund project at Maya Angelou Public Charter Charter School.

Coming to Malloy defense was the Hartford Courant's Rick Green who used the opportunity to mock me and the underlying issue that I was raising and went on to claim that it was absurd to suggest that Governor Malloy, charter school proponents and their wealthy investors were part of some vast conspiracy to push Malloy's «Education Reform» legislation.

ConnCAN's Jennifer Alexander, the paid spokesperson for Connecticut's charter school industry, responded with a lame defense of the Common Core in yesterday's CTMirror under the title of «Don't let misinformation destroy the promise of Common Core.»

In what may well be the most incredible and absurd defense of the Common Core SBAC test written to date, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded front group for the Common Core and Charter Schools recently published an article entitled, «For Parents, Testing is an Opportunity.»

The 2016 cohort represent public and non-public elementary, middle, and high schools, including traditional, charter, magnet schools, parochial, and independent schools in 42 states, the District of Colombia, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools in Fort Benning, Georgia; Ramstein, Germany; and Seoul, Korea.

About the only defense of the AP report came from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who asserted in a tweet that the article offered «damning» evidence against charter schools, which are mostly non-unionized.

Due to privatization, the expansion of school voucher programs and charter schools, attacks on teacher unions, and a focus on standardized testing as a means of evaluation, teachers find themselves increasingly playing defense.

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