Sentences with phrase «fights about charter»

In some of the cities known as ground zero for noisy fights about charter schools, quiet partnerships are underway between district and charter leaders.

«The more you're fighting about charter schools, the less time you have to solve other problems,» he said.

Not exact matches

In steering Senate Republicans through the close of three legislative sessions, Flanagan has made a point about fighting for education aid and charter schools.

Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, who has fought with de Blasio over the role of charter schools in the city, said earlier Wednesday that she agrees with him about mayoral control.

The mayor has generally avoided talking about charters since his unsuccessful fight over charter school space in March 2014.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

On Saturday, LaborPress caught up with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.

Districts also have reportedly become more sophisticated about fighting Proposition 39 requests, and those bureaucratic delays can make it too time - consuming and expensive for a charter school to fight a resistant district for space.

In the New York Daily News, Caitlin Flanagan writes about the charter schools launched by Mike Piscal's Inner City Education Foundation in LA, and wonders when unions will stop fighting against charter schools.

Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.

Jeffries said this work includes promoting both district and charter schools in places like Denver, and fighting against «bad actors» in the charter sector — a move that would seem essential today, given the growing stories about

Similarly, four years ago, about $ 30 millions poured into the race for superintendent of public instruction when Torlakson faced Tuck, which became a proxy fight over charter schools.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

This summer I have learned more about the many political challenges that they can face, and on how many different fronts charter school teachers, leaders, and advocates must fight to serve students in California.

This latest skirmish, being fought in a small town in Burlington County, once again puts the Christie administration on the defensive about the role — and cost — of charter schools in the suburbs.

«For me... that is the problem with the movement of charter schools is that it's about fighting and dividing, not collaborating and strengthening public schools as a whole entity,» Nelson said.

Last year, teachers in a high - profile New York City charter school fought to split from the local union only about a year after signing up.

Brown v. New York parent plaintiffs continue to fight for their day in court; supporters rally with them in support of fair funding Rochester court heard arguments about why the charter funding case should not be dismissed, as the state continues to try to have it thrown out; parents and supporters rallied before hearing

For older groups of kids, like the charter school in Brooklyn Center last year, we talked about pit bulls in general: myths and facts, breed discrimination, responsible ownership and dog fighting.

I disagree with him about the notwithstanding clause — hardly ever used outside Quebec, and I don't think that's a problem; about property rights — an open invitation to fight every kind of government action on the basis that one's property (i.e. right to do whatever one wants without regard to others) has been infringed (the US took over 100 years to fight that one out, and the right to govern is back under attack there); and about secession — in fact the SCC managed to give a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution (not the Charter in particular) on that point.