Sentences with phrase «favor of charters»

Other legislation in favor of charter schools is expected to come up this legislative session, including a bill that would allow charter schools to offer adult education classes.

41 % of teachers were in favor of charter schools.

Half of voters felt the cap on charter schools should be increased versus 41 percent who were not in favor of charter expansion.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.

Well practiced in preparing sales, projections, contracts and other reports, I believe hiring me would prove to be in favor of charter communications.

Among the remainder, the split is nearly three to one in favor of charters.

After the vote in November, there was a 48 - vote spread in favor of charter change.

All while voters in Providence rejected a union - backed convicted felon in favor of a charter supporter.

Hoover - Smoot, who consistently votes in favor of charter applications, is being challenged by Morgan Hill board member Claudia Rossi, who's running a grass roots campaign to try to unseat Hoover - Smoot.

The Obama administration has established clear incentives in favor of charters as part of its funding goals - such as the Race to the Top competition.

Recently, Rhee's husband, a former NBA star and Mayor of Sacramento, California showed up to campaign in favor of the charter change.

Delfina Bright, a 42 - year - old Lacey parent, voted in favor of charter schools because she thinks they could offer smaller classes for families who can't afford private school tuition.

Former Olympian and Women's National Basketball Association star Lisa Leslie spoke in favor of charter schools, and hip - hop artist Ashanti performed to close the rally.

On a day when he rallied in Albany for his pre-K plan, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who has developed into something of a frenemy of the mayor's — held an even bigger rally in favor of charter schools.

«This becomes too much of a political football often in Albany, where the discussion is, unless there's additional changes in favor of charters, people talk about perhaps not extending mayoral control of education,» he said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show.

For sure, this is a cause movie - sometimes it even feels that way - in favor of charter schools and against the teachers» unions.

Statewide, newspapers editorialized in favor of charters and against the governor's so - called reforms.

According to Greene, some families that pulled their children out of Partnership schools in favor of a charter have returned.

Vander Ark, always personally in favor of charter schools, finally persuaded the foundation to support a Washington state charter - school bill.

I am not in any way in favor of charters, particularly for - profit charter chains, but I really do not want to see larger numbers of special needs students going to charter schools.

That's because, of those polled, a whopping 70 percent were in favor of charter schools — a major union bugaboo — and only 27 percent were not.

Federal Way Superintendent Tom Murphy, whose School Board passed a resolution in favor of charter - school legislation, said anyone applying to start a charter - school would have to show that their schools elsewhere had performed better than traditional public schools.

If Stefan Pryor were a public school he would have long ago been judged as «underperforming» and he most likely would have been closed down in favor of a charter school.

Moskowitz has testified in favor of charter schools during congressional hearings and is a regular attendee at Sun Valley, an annual private conference of the world's top CEOs and financiers.

«This was not a campaign that in any way was run against the union or in favor of charters.»

We don't see other very often, but when we do she tells me how the state is waging an all out war against the public school system in favor of Charter Schools.

The State Education Department (SED) ruled in favor of the charter in a complaint filed against the district for withholding special education services from children.

«I'm not in favor of charter schools because I don't think they fix the public education problem,» Beffa said.

By the time the State Appellate Court ruled in favor of the charter school last June, the first set of HoLa students had already graduated from 8th grade.

To be sure, not everyone is in favor of the Charter.