Sentences with phrase «for more charter»

Mr. Fulop said he supports wresting control of city schools from the state eventually, but his initial plans include diverting a portion of local revenues collected from tax - abated properties to city - school recreational programs and finding space for more charter schools (the city has about 10 charters now, with one slated to close.)

The Governor signed Assembly Bill 948, our sponsored legislation, into law thus securing safe, reliable school facilities for more charter students.

In keeping with their promises in last year's education reform law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly committed to helping close the per - pupil funding gap that treats charter students like second - class citizens, and also secured funding for more charter schools.

State legislation in recent years has pushed for more charter schools and alternatives to the traditional public school model, but state educators and others say they have not seen enough high - qualified groups applying for charter schools to fill the demand.

How is this state facing approximately $ 3 billion in budget deficits over the next two years, yet the SDOE requested bids for more charter schools?

No doubt because charter schools have not proven to be better than traditional schools, privatization promoters are using the «waiting list» argument to explain the urgent need for Congress to pay for more charter schools seats.

Calling for more charter schools, vouchers and tax credits to help parents pay private school tuition fits with the party's mantra that the government works best when it gets out of the way and lets the free market flourish.

Erica Frankenberg, co-director at the Center for Education and Civil Rights, said the problem with the report is that it ignored a lot of evidence, and it called for more charter schools.

After funding for Steve Perry's proposed Bridgeport charter school, along with money for seven others charter schools, won the full support of the State Board of Education, Melodie Peters, the President of the Connecticut Federation of Teachers, submitted a hard - hitting commentary piece to the CT Mirror entitled, «Plan for more charter schools flawed in many ways.»

He has led successful statewide political campaigns for more charter public schools and easier passage of local school bonds.

There are also proposals for more charter schools in CT..

Over the next six years the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy paid Gaffney Bennett at least $ 540,000 to push for more charter school funding and changes to Connecticut's charter school laws, money and changes that would directly benefit Achievement First.

As reported in a New Haven Register article entitled, Connecticut education activists continue push to address «failing» schools,» the group will be using their resources to push for more charter schools.

The good more or less mirrors that which is highlighted above, the bad includes legitimate concerns about how ESSA will allow for more charter schools, more room for Teach For America (TFA), «Pay for Success» for investors, and the like.

Emanuel's push for more charter schools is in full swing Chicago Tribune — 9.24.2012 3.

The CMOs could be spending this money on millions of dollars in No. 2 pencils, helping to buy foot - long Subway sandwiches at lobbying events, or paying for student field trips to rally for more charter school money.

George Norcross, a south Jersey Democratic power broker and insurance executive, called for more charter schools, a change to the teacher tenure system and corporate sponsorship for public schools at a forum tonight.

But the vice chair of Trump's transition team boasts the support for more charter schools, not better.

While the report recognized a robust national demand for more charter schools from parents and local communities, it found that 17 percent of charter schools reported academic gains that were significantly better than traditional public schools, while 37 percent of charter schools showed gains that were worse than their traditional public school counterparts, with 46 percent of charter schools demonstrating no significant difference.

That's why there is powerful and widespread support — among parents of CPS students and among other Chicagoans — for more charter schools in Chicago.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

Because Rahm's education platform consisted almost exclusively of pushing for more charter schools.

There is no need for more schools, especially not for more charter schools.

It's a true testament to the need for more charter schools, and Oprah's commitment and donation will help in our goal to extend these opportunities to every child and family.

Some «donewaiters» — most of whom are employees of charter schools or charter promoting agencies — also wrote a letter to the Sun - Times last December pushing for more charter schools.

State - mandated teacher evaluations create various problems, but they are particularly challenging for charter schools, according to AEI and those who advocate for more charter schools.

Commissioner Robinson cited the need for more charter schools to open in urban and rural areas with «persistently low - achieving schools.»

The survey, showing a 56 - 34 percent support for more charter schools, comes just days before thousands of families, teachers and community leaders will rally on the Brooklyn Bridge next Tuesday to communicate a simple message to city and state leaders: charter school families need your support.

«Harbormasters» are unelected entities that seek to put themselves in control of managing public education in a particular community, and (b) «High - Quality Seats» is a euphemism for more charter schools.

If Zimmer loses to challenger Kate Anderson, both sides agree, that will permanently tip the scales 4 to 3 in favor of a board that pushes for more charter expansion and data based teacher evaluations.KPCC Donations From Independent Groups Shaping City, LAUSD Elections Independent...

Among those looking for more charter schools in the state's worst - performing districts was 18 - year - old Eddie McGuire, a senior at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, who believes more students should have the same kinds of opportunities he has had.

There, one finds «Democrats for Education Reform» on one side calling for more charter schools, merit pay, and results - based accountability for educators, and encounters teachers» unions on the other side, defending the status quo.

The promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more charter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to attract better teachers.

This would seem to support arguments for more charter schools, not fewer.

The RttT money was important enough to New York's legislature that just a few days shy of the June 1 deadline, they voted to remake the teacher evaluation process, to allow for more charter schools, and to appropriate $ 20.4 million for a new longitudinal data system.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Cuomo on Wednesday is also expected to outline an aggressive education reform agenda that will include a push for more charter schools and additional funding for them, tougher teacher evaluation standards, and money for teacher incentives.

Meanwhile, a second source linked Cuomo's support for more charter schools to his «longtime opposition to bureaucratic models that fail to solve an obvious problem.»

«You can not throw out P.S. 811 to make room for more charter schools.»

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

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.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the state's largest teachers union, said it favors new rules for charters but opposes any bill that would allow for more charters, which are publicly funded, but operated independent of districts, usually with non-unionized teachers.

«He's been tentative on choice issues,» says the institute's executive director, Jim Stergios, citing Payzant's refusal to push for more charters and his slowness in expanding the student assignment system used to determine where children attend school.

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

To give an idea of the dire need for more charters beyond the current permissible amount, there are about 163,000 students presently on waiting lists all over the City whose parents are waiting for the opportunity to exercise a real choice about their education.

Walters also asserts that civil rights groups are behind the push for more charters, a talking point of the privatizers.

Currently, the business and civic leaders of the city have advocated for more charters, even though several of the city's charters have been investigated for financial misdeeds.

But Eli Broad's name appears at the end of a cover letter accompanying the report that makes a case for charter schools as «the greatest hope for students in L.A.» And alluding to the number of students on waiting lists to get into existing charters, now about 42,000, the need for more charters, he says, is urgent.

In addition to opening the field for more charters, SB 618 would also lift restrictions on out - of - state charter operators, many of which are for - profit.