Sentences with phrase «even more charters»

Either way, if Governor Malloy wants to nominate even more charter school champions to the State Board of Education, that is his prerogative, but to nominate one whose conflict of interest is so obvious and clear is an insult to the children, parents, teachers and taxpayers of Connecticut.

In addition, Malloy's state department of education announced earlier this week that it is seeking proposals to fund even more charter schools, a strategy that will divert even more scarce funds away from public schools and to the private sector.

Not exact matches

For a few hundred more dollars, you can do a custom charter flight to a destination of your choice, and you can even choose to fly on a faster aircraft if you'd like.

In conclusion, she asks those reading her post to «not even consider» using Talon Air, and instead to turn to one of the «many more charter companies available.»

When the people decide to amend the nation's charter, they do so because they believe the changes will make their Constitution an even more perfect instrument of the right, rather than because they think it will better serve them and their interests.

Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

The Working Families Party is ramping up its rhetoric against charter school exec Eva Moskowitz in a sharply - worded letter set to be released to more than 100,000 members this evening.

If NYSUT sent even more money then it already does to GOP office holders Flanagan would be working to ban all charter schools.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

Even though we are outside the euro we are still subject to an unelected EU commission which is generating new laws every day and an unaccountable European Court in Luxembourg which is extending its reach every week, increasingly using the Charter of Fundamental Rights which in many ways gives the EU more power and reach than ever before.

It would also increase funding for charter schools by $ 225 per student next year — even more than the governor's budget would.

Rob Astorino, the Republican Party candidate for Governor, will further segregate our schools by resisting fair housing settlements, supporting even more cuts to the education budget, and trying to outdo Cuomo in his promotion of charter schools.

The legislature was downsized from 33 to 23 under the 2006 charter, meaning most were doing more for the same pay, but even then there wasn't much call to pad their own pockets.

Mahoney says the county would do even more if it was allowed by the county charter or state law, but some agencies like Veteran's Services are required to have their own department.

He talks about more rigorous standards and evaluations for teachers and students, even while the charter schools he champions function without any effective oversight.

Reinvent Albany delivered testimony to the mayor - convened New York City Charter Revision Commission this evening, calling for more transparency and limits on contributions to city - affiliated nonprofits by donors doing business with the city.

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

Thomas Lickona, of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs, says that he believes the Brother's Keeper code has effected profound changes in Hyde's peer culture, adding that he was «deeply impressed» by the school in Bath and «even more impressed» by the Washington charter school.

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

In Arizona, parents seem to be even more active in closing undesired charter schools than their Colorado counterparts have been.

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

Avis Glaze, former superintendent of the Ontario education system, correctly observed that Canada does not have charter schools, but others mentioned that the large number of religious schools that are both government - funded and subject to state regulation give Canadians even more choice than exists in the United States.

We wouldn't have the same expanding charter sector were it not for the credible threat of even more private school choice.

CSD implemented even more stringent cost cutting and found ways to make short - term loans to charter schools in order to stay afloat.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

Today, almost half of the city's public school enrollment is in charters, even more kids are on charter waitlists, and PCSB has the authority to continue growing its portfolio.

While many of the students transferred into Little Rock charter schools that were racially segregated, these students generally left traditional public schools that were even more heavily segregated.

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»).

And it is even more amazing considering that some of the highest performing charter schools, like Roxbury Prep in Boston or KIPP Infinity in New York City, serve very disadvantaged students.

Even as «no excuses» schools like KIPP work to make their programs more intellectually challenging, only a few charter providers (for example, Summit) are experimenting with technology - based, personalized schools and with models that reduce the need for large facilities.

Charter enrollment is even more impressive if you look at the fine print: In 2008, charters enrolled 48 percent of public - school 6th graders, up from 36 percent a year earlier.

True, the revenue amounts received by charters and TPS are more even once you exclude all of the ways that district - run public schools are forced to be inefficient.

Charters are important for stimulating improvement in all public schools — and providing even more quality choices — as research has clearly shown that they do.

Even so, only seven states had more charter schools than North Carolina as of 2002 and of those, only five had a greater concentration of charter schools: Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, and California.

Unfortunately, somewhere along the road to the brave new world of charter schools and market incentives, Bloomberg and Klein either forgot, or never comprehended in the first place, that all good education, and, even more so, education for disadvantaged children, starts with systematic and explicit instruction in the basic skills of literacy, numeracy, and other foundational academic subjects.

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

If charter schools actually did all of the above — instead of merely being periodically accused of it — activists would be roaring to close them down even more than they currently are.

Emanuel continued to promote charters using the bully pulpit, and CPS was approving more charters even as the district was closing traditional schools.

Detroit's charter schools significantly outperform Detroit's district school sector even when selective - admissions magnet schools are included, and even more significantly when they are excluded.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school services.

While charter schools and digital learning are thought to be the safest choice options for political elites to promote, tax credits are even more popular than charters, and vouchers, the most controversial proposal, also command the support of half the population when the idea is posed in an inviting way.

It's true that New York charters get several thousand dollars less in operating funds per student than the city's district schools do — and, even more important, they do not get separate capital funding for facilities in Gotham's extremely pricey real - estate market.

These constraints bode well for Cerf's Machiavellian hypothesis, although the downside for charter operators in these fiscally constrained times is that the new mayor will be even more tempted to charge them rent.

This ProPublica story is a vivid example of how focusing on the role of charters can confuse readers and distract from a much larger and even more troubling issue.

If Success can help chart a course back to the original vision of charters as laboratories of innovation and reform, that would be an even more amazing success story than the one already being written.

The local chapter of the AFT was even more direct, telling her that they would not support any bill that allowed charter schools to «contract out teaching services to agencies or groups which are not part of the teachers» bargaining unit» (pg.

Had they not let data guide their strategy, DPS and charter leaders might have spent huge amounts of money to attract more teacher applicants, even though they already had more than enough.

«But even many charter organizations like KIPP are now growing back toward elementary schools to provide more continuity of service,» he says.

Most didn't have reliable data on vacancies beyond individual schools or networks, and even in cities where charter schools accounted for half of student enrollment or more, nobody was able to provide a sector - wide view of teacher or leadership needs.

«With support from the Walton Family Foundation, the CAEL will help us reach even more educators in charge of districts, charter management organizations, state departments of education, and other systems — leaders who will, in turn, have a tangible impact on the lives of literally millions of learners,» Ryan said.