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Not exact matches
The Buffalo Public
Schools district potentially faces two
lawsuits: for not increasing the ranks of minority students at City Honors and for favoring current city students for admission
over charter and parochial students.
A judge has rejected a
lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles teachers union that was aimed at blocking the
school district from allowing
charter operators to take
over new
schools.
So when Harlem Success Academy, a
charter group in New York, proposed to take
over P.S. 194's building after the
school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a
lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local
school boards.
During a visit to a Philadelphia
charter school on Monday, U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor demanded the U.S. Department of Justice drop its
lawsuit over school vouchers or face a congressional challenge.
Palm Beach
school district
lawsuit over the constitutionality of the HB 7069 requirement to share low district facility revenue with
charters will be heard in circuit court.
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.
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.
The current method, under which local
school districts are charged with turning
over state funds to
charters, has prompted
lawsuits and acrimony
over the last decade.
The
lawsuit was the first that the
charter schools association had brought
over a parcel tax, which 124 districts in the state — about 1 in 8 — have passed at some point, according to a 2013 EdSource report.
Esquilin and Achieve Hartford Inc. not only supported Superintendent Kishimoto's failed attempt to close Clark Elementary and hand the building
over to Achievement First, Inc. but also supported the outrageous and potentially illegal attempt to hand S.A.N.D. Elementary
School over to Steve Perry's private charter school company as part of a that secret Sheff lawsuit
School over to Steve Perry's private
charter school company as part of a that secret Sheff lawsuit
school company as part of a that secret Sheff
lawsuit deal.
Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on
lawsuits trying to stop the popular
charter school from expanding to 8
Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on
lawsuits trying to stop the popular
charter school from expanding to 8th grade from a K - 6
school.
That's according to Advocacy Manager with the Northeast
Charter Schools Network, Duncan Kirkwood, whose group supports a lawsuit filed against the state over the way New York funds charter s
Charter Schools Network, Duncan Kirkwood, whose group supports a lawsuit filed against the state over the way New York funds charter s
Schools Network, Duncan Kirkwood, whose group supports a
lawsuit filed against the state
over the way New York funds
charter s
charter schoolsschools.