Sentences with phrase «dominated by charter»

Hartford's North - end is already dominated by charter schools, with Achievement First, Jumoke Academy, the new Jumoke Academy at Milner and the charter like Capital Prep.

A year ago, the panel was clearly dominated by charter supporters and charter operators who represented Schwarzenegger.

For students in some American cities, a school system dominated by charter - based school choice isn't a hypothetical — it's already arrived.

Not exact matches

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

The city's Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, voted 8 to 4 at its March 1 meeting at Brooklyn Technical HS to co-locate a new charter school in Bedford - Stuyvesant's already - cramped PS 308, infuriating the school's parents, students and teachers.

But tomorrow's headlines could as easily be dominated by tales of charter irresponsibility.

Opinion with respect to charter schools has also become more polarized, but here the growing opposition among Democrats parallels the intensifying resistance to charters by many state legislatures dominated by that party.

Two reforms have dominated the education policy debates of the past decade: school choice as epitomized by charter schools, and testing and accountability as symbolized by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Now, by design, no single apparatus of power — not OPSB, RSD, or the charter schools and charter management organizations that answered to them and to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE)-- could assert hegemony and dominate the others.

Years before the first charter school was established in the United States, all government schools in New Zealand became something akin to charter schools, each governed by a board of trustees dominated by parents.

Dominated by hedge fund managers who control billions of dollars, DFER has contributed heavily to political candidates for local and state offices who pledge to promote charter schools.

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

And families and educators are starting to push back against the model of charter school that has dominated in some communities, including New Orleans: That model, its critics argue, is segregated by design in that it's created specifically for low - income minority children.

Critics say Michigan's laissez - faire attitude about charter - school regulation has led to marginal and, in some cases, terrible schools in the state's poorest communities as part of a system dominated by for - profit operators.

Note: I call the charter school a «public charter school» because a charter school is still a public school, just one that is not dominated by public employee unions.

Though the facility discussion dominated the meeting, White said he had hoped to also talk about whether the school should remain run directly by the Recovery School District or become a charter.

Though this report is superior to AFT's study, its results are dominated by a large number of students who are in their first year at a charter school and a large number of charter schools that are in their first year of operation.

While Tom Price's aviation activities dominated headlines last week, news also emerged that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a private flight on a plane owned by oil and gas executives.