Sentences with phrase «demand more charters»

Each played a role in the breakdown: Mr. Flanagan, who demanded more charter schools in exchange for giving Mr. de Blasio an extension; Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker, refused that demand, and said that he would no longer allow mayoral control to be used as a bargaining chip.

Parents across the country are demanding more charter schools.

Not exact matches

The two most relevant regulations were: 1) the prohibition on interstate banking, which created overly small and undiversified banks that were highly prone to failure; and 2) the requirement that federally chartered banks back their currency with purchases of US government bonds, which made it prohibitively expensive to issue more currency when the demand rose, leading to the currency shortages and resulting panics that culminated in the Panic of 1907.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

However, The People's Charter did more than merely reassert established radical demands.

To understand why the Chartists were so abundantly confident that the People's Charter would remedy much more than just the yawning democratic deficit left after the 1832 Reform Act, we need to appreciate that annual parliaments were just as integral to their demands as universal male suffrage.

Mike Mulgrew calling for more accountability for charter schools is like the Pony Express demanding faster service from FedEx.

SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high - performing Success Academy and other charter - school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 charter - school students and teachers descended on Albany Tuesday to demand equal funding with regular public schools.

But the independent charters, which hold comparatively tiny political rallies and have a fraction of the money of their network counterparts, are still demanding more facilities funding.

«As New York City's charter schools work to meet the demand from families and serve 200,000 students by 2020, they must have the support of their leaders in Albany during this crucial state budget season,» said Jeremiah Kittredge, CEO of Families for Excellent Schools «Charter school families have many champions in Albany, and need their support now more than ever.charter schools work to meet the demand from families and serve 200,000 students by 2020, they must have the support of their leaders in Albany during this crucial state budget season,» said Jeremiah Kittredge, CEO of Families for Excellent Schools «Charter school families have many champions in Albany, and need their support now more than ever.Charter school families have many champions in Albany, and need their support now more than ever.»

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

The IBEW has taken issue with Charter's demand that the company pay less toward pensions and health benefits, while workers contribute more.

The Four Corners states have seen rapid charter growth and even more - rapid growth in demand since the turn of this century.

When the need is so great, the demand so strong, and the supply so skimpy, why not allow more charter schools to serve more children?

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

At the same time, in cities where charter sectors have blossomed (e.g., New Orleans, Detroit, Newark), communities are demanding more democratic control.

Nationally, demand for these schools remains high, with more than 75 percent of charters having waiting lists that together could fill at least 900 more schools.

In charter schools, they are paid 6 percent more, suggesting that charter schools have greater demand for teachers who have graduated from colleges that rate at least «competitive plus.»

In the capitol, the union won some accountability and transparency fights — prohibiting for - profit organizations from running charters, making charters adhere to state comptroller audits, and demanding they serve more special education and ELL students — but lost the bigger issues of saturation and the cap, which legislators agreed to raise from 200 to 460.

Is there a tipping point at which the demand for charters will force a reconstruction of the educational system more generally?

Looking ahead, Neerav Kingsland, a Yale Law graduate and strategist for NSNO, talks about «Charter Issues 2.0,» the problems that arise on the way from being 10 percent of the system to being 80 percent of the system, the next and far more demanding phase of work.

Public assessments of local schools would shift in a more skeptical direction; support for universal voucher initiatives, charter schools, and the parent trigger would increase; limits to teacher tenure would gain greater public support; and both teachers unions and demands for increases in teacher salaries would confront greater public skepticism.

In response to widespread demands for better public education and for more choice among public schools, a number of state legislatures in the early 1990s permitted educators and local communities to develop charter schools.

Since all three choice sectors — private, charter, and district schools of choice — are offering parents educational options that are considerably more satisfying, one must expect the market demand for educational alternatives to increase.

In California, if you are a low - income Hispanic or African - American child, you are more likely get a better education (as measured by test scores and parent demand) if you attend a charter school.

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Or does that create demands on charters to become more and more like the district schools they're replacing, potentially undermining the premise of charter schooling?

In this 2002 report, and even prior to more recent studies like the 2004 LAO report, which called charter schools «a viable reform strategy,» the AFT demanded a halt to new charter schools «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness or viability is presented.»

He won't approve any more charters, even though parents are demanding them.

With the Los Angeles Board of Education poised to consider the expansion of another successful charter school at its March 8 meeting, parents demanding more choice deserve to know what is driving the district's questionable practices around charter review.

However the real truth is that as a result of Malloy's demand that charter schools get the money they wanted, the present Connecticut budget includes $ 8.6 million more for Charter Schools this year and an additional $ 13.1 million more in next year's charter schools get the money they wanted, the present Connecticut budget includes $ 8.6 million more for Charter Schools this year and an additional $ 13.1 million more in next year's Charter Schools this year and an additional $ 13.1 million more in next year's budget.

Brooke Charter Schools is listed as an example of a network of schools with far more demand than seats available in the opinion article «Too Much Left to Chance ``.

AF charters are in more demand than they have open spots.

When center - left officials and institutions (such as the NAACP) support arbitrary caps, they are dismissing the voices of three million current charter school students and their parents, and the one million more who want to enroll their child in a charter school, but due to high demand, were only able to get on a waiting list (this includes: 8,640 parents in Washington, D.C., 44,000 in New York, 34,000 in Massachusetts, and a whopping 158,000 in California).

The events at Charlottesville from a month prior still weighed heavily on me, I learned the only parent organization independent of the school district was losing its funding, and more than one thousand charter school parents signed a petition demanding a little respect only to be greatly disrespected — again.

This week marked National Charter School Week, a weeklong event that raises awareness about public charter schools, their academic success, and the demand from parents for more school oCharter School Week, a weeklong event that raises awareness about public charter schools, their academic success, and the demand from parents for more school ocharter schools, their academic success, and the demand from parents for more school options.

Parents are demanding more options, and access to schools who are succeeding for students, and charter schools are rewarding that faith.

This is much needed relief for charter schools in California, which continue to grow every year due to parent demand for more public school choices.»

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

As a result of the demand from Texans for more seats at a public charter school and TCSA's advocacy efforts, we have seen legislation that includes additional funding for public charter schools:

Despite this growth, there is still an overwhelming unmet parental demand for quality school options, with more than 1 million student names on charter school waiting lists.

Leading the spending spree was the New York - based entity that calls itself, «Families for Excellent Schools, Inc.» This is the group that bussed in parents and students from as far away as New York City and Boston to hold a rally at the Connecticut State Capitol demanding more money for the privately owned charter schools.

Connecticut's Democratic legislative leaders initially said they would not agree to giving Connecticut's charter schools even more money, Malloy demanded that it was, «his way or else.»

Proponents of stronger planning say it's not clear that there is a need for that school, or any other, until the school system and charter officials look more closely at supply and demand.

Demand for great charters — for more and better choices across the public school system — shows no signs of flagging.

Fact 1: Family demand is strong with more than 35,000 students on charter wait lists throughout the state.

More and more families are demanding the charter school school option as they learn that charter school students are doing better in schMore and more families are demanding the charter school school option as they learn that charter school students are doing better in schmore families are demanding the charter school school option as they learn that charter school students are doing better in school.

Still, as constituents and politicians demand more accountability from schools, and dissatisfied parents seek more education options for their children, charter schools have become the most identifiable and popular effort for school reform and improvement.

Demand for equipment to drive learning in the charter classroom could go unmet if schools have trouble partnering with companies to make technology acquisition more affordable.