Sentences with phrase «favor of charter schools because»

What is true is that hedge - fund managers such as Whitney Tilson are biased in favor of charter schools because of their trust in entrepreneurialism.

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Cornegy's primary problem is that he is out of favor with two important unions: Hotel Trades Council and the United Federation of Teachers because of his support for Airbnb and charter schools.

What the CT SDE and charter school lobbyists are not explicitly telling you in these claims is that charter schools often serve a relatively more advantaged group of Black and Latinx children compared to the local public schools where they are located and these children are likely to do relatively better on standardized tests because standardized tests favor more advantaged groups of people.

For example, Achievement First, the charter school management company that runs 20 schools in New York and Connecticut would be one of the entities likely to be given control of «Commissioner's Network» schools because they have deep pockets and are favored by the commissioner of education who helped to form the company and served as one of the company's Directors for eight years until he resigned to become Malloy's commissioner.

RTTT has cash - strapped school systems engaged in wasteful «jumping through government orchestrated hoops»... How many school systems spent untold time vying for this RTTT money only to be denied it anyway because they weren't pro charter, or weren't in favor of linking student test scores to teacher evaluations?

Although Pryor and the Malloy administration have consistently denied that there was any pre-determination in favor of Friendship Charter Schools, the Courant story reveals the truth with the statement that, «State education officials [now admit that] they recommended Friendship because the group has experience working with a teacher's union and has the organizational means to take on a school with as many challenges as Clark — and in time for the 2014 - 15 academic year.»

He had favored a local group of teachers and residents because, he said, the charter's emphasis on teaching in Spanish in the early grades was not the right fit for all the students who would be attending that school.