Sentences with phrase «fights over charter schools»

Cities from Boston to Los Angeles are locked in fierce fights over charter schools, which critics say siphon off money and the most engaged families from local districts, while skimming the best students and steering away the most challenging — not always with better results.

But the considerations at issue are really the fundamental ones underlying fights over charter schools since their inception.

And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

In part due to fights over charter schools, unions have spent significantly more helping Democrats than Republicans in the past couple of Senate elections, the largest partisan battleground in the state, but as recently as 2012, the reverse was true.

Similarly on the fight over charter schools, de Blasio wants to slow their growth while Cuomo appears to support their expansion.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

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

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.

The fight over charter schools has filtered down in the community to schoolchildren in Rutherford County and created a situation where children are passionately trying to defend their school system.

The Fight Over Charter Schools Made Los Angeles» School Board Races Historically Expensive Mother Jones ow.ly / TCi8309Mixi

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

Rochester family part of statewide fight over charter school funding Allison Norlian, News 8 - May 13, 2014

This Boston Globe piece gives the fascinating backstory behind the Massachusetts ballot fight over charter schools, in which outside money was trumped by a massive, methodical, teacher - led ground game.

Not exact matches

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

The fight over control of the Senate came into relief this month when a prominent political donor and charter school benefactor, Dan Loeb, wrote on Facebook that Stewart - Cousins has been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.

Cuomo, too, has embraced charter schools over the years, though after several contentious fights with the Assembly he has de-emphasized so far this year.

At the same time, the governor and the WFP are currently feuding over his recent comments knocking the public education system as a «monopoly» and pledged to fight next year for more charter school protections.

Families for Excellent Schools fought with the de Blasio administration over charter expansion and was a close ally of Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz.

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.

City Hall has largely demurred when facing Moskowitz in the past — ever since losing a high - profile fight with her and the network in the spring of 2014 over charter school space — with officials saying they wanted to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Later on, the board fought over Board Member Carl Paladino's business dealings with charter schools.

What's probably going to be a very long fight over the financing system for New York charter schools went into State Supreme Court Thursday.

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.

Last year, when de Blasio was at his most vulnerable, Cuomo chose to play a decisive role in the mayor's most embarrassing political defeat to date by siding with charter school executive Eva Moskowitz in a high - profile fight over city charters.

Perhaps emboldened by his modest alliances with some charter leaders and schools, and the overwhelmingly positive reception to his universal pre-K program in general, de Blasio seems comfortable directly confronting Success over the pre-K fight.

But it's likely to be just the first step in what promises to be a long fight for Moskowitz over public school space and the future of the controversial charter network.

When we talk to school providers there, they say they can still get charters authorized but the politics of district finance, combined with the saturation effect of having so many charter operators fighting over the same buildings, kids, and talent, are forcing them to look to other communities.

Competition between schools is so fierce that charter schools in the same charter network say they sometimes fight over students.

To this day the fight continues to rage over our decision to collocate charter schools in public school space.

The political skirmishes in Florida, including court fights over vouchers and charter schools, and ongoing struggles over a parade of different merit pay plans for teachers, give credence to the standard portrayal.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groOver the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groover 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Seven out of the state's 15 top - scoring schools on math proficiency tests this year were Success Academy charter schools — the same network targeted by Mayor de Blasio earlier this year in a fight over classroom space.

The fight over The Project School cuts to the heart of what makes charter schools different and once again highlights an instance in which reconciling two prevailing values of the state's current education policy regime is far from simple.

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.

The ongoing fight over the future of Central Park East 1 elementary school is not something that we in the charter sector should ignore.

So, I'm at a loss to explain why Mulgrew wants to pick yet another fight with charter schools, this time over a new provision in the charter law that makes it easier for our staff to send their children to the school they work in.

The fight over racial and economic mix at charter schools is playing out in cities all over New Jersey.

Yet, one year after the first charter opened, forces that lost the legislative battle over charters have taken their fight to the judiciary, filing a lawsuit in Hinds County arguing that Mississippi's charter school law is unconstitutional.

Watchdog.org: Charter schools seek to join legal fight over funding in Mississippi http://bit.ly/2bGhDzi

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.

«It takes away a huge, huge chunk of money from their chunk of money» The fights in Maplewood and Millburn are reminiscent of what East Brunswick went through last year, before the DOE approved the charter school's application over parental protests and the local board of education's recommendation to deny the application.

The district is in a legal fight with the California Charter Schools Association over the funding formula used to allocate space for charters.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuschool families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuschool districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuSchool in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

The American Federation for Children and state affiliate, Arizona Federation for Children, will continue our work locally to fight for the rights of the 67,000 children currently using private school choice programs and the over 170,000 children attending charter schools, as well as work to ensure that one day all Arizona families are empowered to choose the best school for their children.

Families for Excellent Schools fought with the de Blasio administration over charter expansion and was a close ally of Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz.

With school districts throughout the United States millions of dollars in debt, fights over teacher seniority are taking place alongside pushes to shift public money toward charter schools.

As per an article in The Tennessean: «Huffman — a former Teach For America executive and ex-husband of controversial former Washington, D.C., Chancellor Michelle Rhee — made Tennessee a flashpoint nationally for debates over teacher evaluations, teacher licensing, Common Core standards and charter schools... In recent months, Huffman lost a handful of political fights.

Over the years, charter schools have fought many battles for equity, funding and even survival.

Dr. Rodriguez represents a significant improvement over the incumbent in Board District 5, Mr. Kayser, who has consistently opposed high - quality charter schools and fought to deny educational options to tens of thousands of hard - working families.

We will regroup over the summer and be ready in the fall to fight for good charter school reform.