Sentences with phrase «like at a charter»

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Having Viacom content helps Charter add video subscribers at a time of increasing competition from virtual streaming services like Hulu and DirecTV Now, while Viacom is still heavily dependent on cable and satellite companies for distribution, according to Evercore ISI.

Federal regulators are set to wave through Charter Communications» $ 55 billion bid for Time Warner Cable, with a few key conditions aimed at ensuring that the emerging video streaming industry, personified by the likes of Netflix and Hulu, can provide in future what the cable market has historically lacked: competition.

Also like Comcast's wireless service, Charter's service, to be creatively named «Spectrum Mobile,» will offer users unlimited data for $ 45 per month — provided you also at least subscribe to traditional Charter fixed - line broadband service.

Finally, in Chapter VII the Charter gave the Security Council the power to authorize force in cases of threats to international peace and security, without clearly defining what such threats might look like and without taking account of the fact that the states who are members of the Security Council at any given time might have different views on this matter because of their own perception of their national interests.

At the briefings Monday, union officials also discussed issues like tax increment finance district reform, charter schools and merit pay, another thorny issue that will be raised when contract negotiations start soon.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Randi Weingarten likes to brag a little about the reading and math test scores posted this year at two New York City charter schools she...

«The reason why I joined this case is because for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break in 2006.

Cuomo has been a strong supporter of charters and close ally of Moskowitz's at times, but has recently inched away from the charter cause in favor of more broadly popular education plans like free college tuition.

He's an outspoken advocate for suburban interests like property relief — a big focus for his conference this year — and charter schools, which has put him at odds with some fellow Democrats.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

There were no moneyed interests (Uber, charter schools) trying to chip away at Mr. Bloomberg's approval ratings because they, and people like them, were all on the same side.

De Blasio has complained about disproportionate attention to the charter debate, at the expense of issues like teacher retention, and he returned to those «foundational problems» on Sunday morning.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aCharter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level acharter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

While Weingarten and Astorino aren't too far apart on the Common Core, they are at odds on issues like the statewide property tax cap, collective bargaining rights, tenure, charter schools and voucher programs.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

Looks like the clock is about to run out on thousands of out - of - luck kids at Success Academy charter schools.

I was at the Red straw event at Yager bar too... It was definitely too busy and intense... 1 guy opened with I'd just like to let you know I'm a chartered accountant (snore!)

, season two became a crusade for a charter school with Anna (Katie Aselton, looking like Cameron Diaz) taking on the role as uppity - bitch with her French - inspired education idea (hey, but at least it's an idea, right?).

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

Schools like Democracy Prep Charter School in Central Harlem, which ends at 5 p.m. and runs for 200 days, also has a summer session.

The task force spent nearly five hours taking testimony from pre-selected presenters who don't work in charter schools every day like I do and, in most cases, don't work in or attend any school at all.

At first glance it looks like PDK finds broader support for charter schools.

Yet the enduring value of YES Prep and charter school efforts like it may ultimately be measured in outcomes elsewhere: Will they effectively feed the reform efforts at struggling schools like Hogg and the Academy?

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stop them.

New Mexico's charter enrollment growth, like the growth of its student population at large, has been more modest, but it is still above the national average.

1) Entry Grade Level: Charters that enroll at the K - 1 level did dramatically better than those (like Democracy Prep) who enroll in the middle school grades.

Like other small nonprofits, charters are at risk of falling into financial trouble.

After a dispiriting experience at the D.C. charter school, he moved back home in 2004, and that summer ran a summer program for children at his local food cooperative, telling parents that if they liked his approach, he'd homeschool them for free in the fall to test out his model.

Since returning from teaching at Harvard University to start a charter school in his hometown, Lawrence P. Hernandez has become well - known for two things: coaxing top - flight test scores from his mostly low - income and Latino students, and fighting like a pit bull for the money to do it.

Finally, look at the politics of public choice mechanisms, such as the massive open enrollment programs that have been established in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Like charters and vouchers, these programs have their critics.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (skip, skip, skip, skip, skip), without financial realism, some charter schools and CMOs might, in the near future, look a lot like the school districts of today.

Irvin and Lettre launched CBP, Irvin says, after a fellow guest she'd met at a Washington dinner party asked her how a public - school advocate like himself could find out about charter - school boards that could use his help.

At their worst, classes at diverse charters feel choppy and fragmented, like a PowerPoint presentation with too many slides or a TV show with too many unrelated strands of plot, leaving advanced kids bored and struggling kids feeling anxiouAt their worst, classes at diverse charters feel choppy and fragmented, like a PowerPoint presentation with too many slides or a TV show with too many unrelated strands of plot, leaving advanced kids bored and struggling kids feeling anxiouat diverse charters feel choppy and fragmented, like a PowerPoint presentation with too many slides or a TV show with too many unrelated strands of plot, leaving advanced kids bored and struggling kids feeling anxious.

And we're going through another round today, with initiatives such as «Reimagining Learning,» led by Stacey Childress and her team at the NewSchools Venture Fund; the Emerson Collective's XQ SuperSchool project; Marc Zuckerberg's efforts to «personalize learning»; and any number of technology - centric undertakings like Summit Public Schools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual schools.

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What's more, lottery studies like the one out Wednesday can only be done at schools that are oversubscribed — and hence probably among the better charter schools around.

First as a teacher and later as the founding Dean of Students at Excellence Girls Charter School, Hilary honed her use of Teach Like a Champion techniques daily.

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

Last week, Eliza Shapiro published an article at Capitol New York that explored the «charter - like» approach the Partnership for Inner - City Education is bringing to its Catholic schools.

Like all charter schools, KIPP schools are chosen by parents, but critics fear that disadvantaged parents do not know enough to choose wisely, or else do not have their children's best interest at heart.

Rigorous research on vouchers, tax credits and other school privatization models like charter schools shows that the effect of vouchers on student achievement and other outcomes is highly suspect at best.

For example, comments like those made by U.S. Representative Buck McKeon are representative of the support shown by some federal policy makers: «We should incentivize charter school expansion at the state level while increasing awareness about the most effective strategies employed by charter schools, because charter schools rest on the pulse of education» (McKeon, 2011).

Stand - alone charter schools say they're often overlooked in favor of big - name networks like KIPP — while at the same time being unfairly tied to Betsy DeVos's agenda.

Recently, the depth of the charter school scandals even made it to John Oliver's HBO show, «Last Week Tonight,» where he observed, in Philadelphia alone, at least 10 executives or top administrators have pleaded guilty in the last decade to charges like fraud, misusing funds and obstruction of justice.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my excitement for being named the founding principal of Renaissance Charter School at Goldenrod.

Like at other schools, the charters would be funded based on student enrollment.