Sentences with phrase «including opponents of charter schools»

Still, the episode has provided ammunition to his critics on the left, including opponents of charter schools and big money in politics.

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The proposal had been criticized by opponents of charter schools, including teachers» unions, and others.

A group of charter school employees expressed support during a morning meeting, and opponents, including the district's labor partners, criticized the plan later in the day.

According to the flyer for the event, speakers included Assemblyman Kip Bateman (regularly endorsed by NJEA), two officers from Save Our Schools - NJ (which partners with NJEA to lobby against testing and charter schools), Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman, a fervent opponent to accountability), and Deborah Cornavaca, Associate Director of Government Relations aSchools - NJ (which partners with NJEA to lobby against testing and charter schools), Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman, a fervent opponent to accountability), and Deborah Cornavaca, Associate Director of Government Relations aschools), Mark Weber (aka Jersey Jazzman, a fervent opponent to accountability), and Deborah Cornavaca, Associate Director of Government Relations at NJEA.

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.

Opponents of charter schools, which include many school districts, say they worry that an increasing number of such schools will drain vital dollars away from traditional public schools and create a divided system in which select students attend charter schools and students with special needs fill the traditional schools.

MLA, which isn't a charter, operates schools under the union contract, so it has faced less opposition from charter - school opponents, including some leaders of the teachers union.