Sentences with phrase «financial backers of charter schools»
Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs.
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The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»
The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»
The project had financial backers, and even though the actual charter hadn't yet been approved, signs were hung on the outside of the old school building announcing the plans for its new educational life.
Vallas, a longtime backer of charter schools, also singled out the financial drain caused by the lone charter school in District 187 but didn't offer strategies in the report to address what he said «inequitably amounts to a heavy subsidy at the expense of the rest of the district.
Also on the board are former Mayor Edward I. Koch; Geoffrey Canada, the founder of the Harlem Children's Zone organization, a network of charter schools; and a number of venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, who have served as the movement's financial backers.
The people who were the financial backers of Achievement First then created ConnCAN and ConnAD, the two lobbying and advocacy groups designed to support the effort to shift more state funds to Achievement First and Connecticut's other charter schools.
Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..