Sentences with phrase «donor supported charter»

The report is the Governor will «increase per - pupil funding for charter schools from $ 9,400 to $ 12,000» and that at least $ 1,000 per - pupil would be a transferred directly for the resource poor urban districts to the big - time donor supported charter schools that have recruited students from their area.

Not exact matches

He ripped Cuomo for the MTA mass transit crisis, accused him of «emboldening a Republican state Senate majority» by not doing enough to reunify fractured Senate Democrats, and knocked his support for charter schools and big - money hedge fund donors.

Mr. Jeffries could face attacks on certain positions, such as his enthusiasm for charter schools, that might be less popular in a citywide Democratic primary than with political donors who support education reform.

Cuomo's past benefactors include Tim Gill, a software entrepreneur and influential gay donor who was impressed with his push on same - sex marriage, as well as Ken Langone, who chaired «Republicans for Cuomo» and hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, who was attracted by Cuomo's support for charter schools.

Independent expenditure committees backed by wealthy donors who support education reforms and charter schools sought to be major players in a range of Democratic primary campaigns.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

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.

The measure won support after a Wall Street funded public relations blitz from charter school advocates and Cuomo campaign donors.

An open question in this year's Senate races is the degree to which Gov. Andrew Cuomo — a charter supporter who has received major support from DFER donors — will act to help his fellow Democrats win the Senate.

Republicans were more likely to support charters than Democrats, but Democrats were more likely to support tax credits for donors and school vouchers.

The support of these generous donors made this possible: North Star Charter School Community, Idaho Power, NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium, Discover Technology, Subaru of America, and the Center for the Advancement of Science and Space.

While many of our own donors are supportive of public charter schools, some are more excited about our work to support district school redesign efforts and community engagement.

But many charters, envisioned decades ago to be laboratories of innovation in which best practices could be scaled up to traditional public schools, also receive outside support from donors.

Aren't there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools?

Simon explains that, «Well - established and successful chains of charter schools, such as KIPP, Green Dot or Achievement First, receive hefty support from philanthropic foundations and private donors.

Perhaps the most pressing concern for charter networks and organizations is that they are funded by some of the same prominent financiers who supported Trump and they operate in the same sphere as DeVos, a prominent education reform donor and advocate for school choice who is worth an estimated $ 5 billion.

While they may receive support from outside donors and patrons, charter schools are supported by federal funds and federal spaces (Educational Finance Branch 2015).