Sentences with phrase «made by charter»

The charters contend that recommendations by district staff are inconsistent with site visits made by the charter division and that the district's Office of Inspector General exercises too much authority in charter school investigations that lack transparency, go on too long and too often result in technical «material revision denials» of otherwise academically sound programs.

A better reason for fright is the rapid progress made by the charter school reformers.

One need only read the words of Martin Luther King Jr. and other true civil rights champions to understand the fraudulent claims being made by the charter schools.

Below is Wendy Lecker's interview with Robert Cotto, Jr. about recent claims made by charter school advocates.

Despite intense funding, facilities and authorizing challenges faced by charter schools, heroic efforts are being made by charter leaders, teachers and staff to expand, replicate and open new schools to meet the unrelenting parent demand for better educational options for their children.

This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made by these charter school students are indeed due to the quality of the schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter school students and students in traditional public schools.

Early evidence suggested that quality control was indeed a concern: The achievement gains made by charter students in Arizona, in particular, often lagged that of their district peers through 2012.

Although they find modest advantages for charters in terms of parental satisfaction, school - based social capital, and civic instruction, they emphasize that these differences — some of which diminished over time — fall well short of the promises made by the charter movement's most ardent supporters.

I found the argument made by Charter 88 persuasive that the Monarchy helped to legitimise the broader constitutional arrangements, and remove them from public and political scrutiny, with something of a taboo against debating either the Monarchy or the constitution.

Not exact matches

The Principles were developed by the independent Best Practice Principles Group (BPPG), made up of the charter signatories, including Glass Lewis, based on recommendations from ESMA, which were outlined in its 2013 Final Report regarding the role of the proxy advisory industry.

Affirm loans are made by Cross River Bank, a New Jersey - chartered bank, Member FDIC.

In a recent filing, Charter makes it clear that the company is taking an «inside out» approach to wireless, by focusing heavily first on indoor connectivity (leaning largely on its existing WiFi hotspot footprint), then shoring up cellular tower support down the line.

All loans are made by Cross River Bank, a federally - insured New Jersey chartered commercial bank, member FDIC.

The World Bank was forbidden by its charter to interfere in the internal affairs of the nations to which it made loans.

Yesterday, a private charter plane carried 149 Christian refugees from Kurdistan to Slovakia where they are receiving full asylum, made possible by a ton of donations totaling $ 12 million.

We had made it up from Johannesburg to Maun by two - engine chartered plane the afternoon before, flying the 500 miles directly over the burning Kalahari Desert, the heat rising up to shake the small plane.

Show your support by signing the Charter and getting your teams to wear rainbow laces for their matches this week and make sure you tweet your pictures with the hashtag #TiedTogether.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

In spite of those challenges, charter schools are finding ways to implement thriving nutrition programs by meeting these challenges with best practices; specifically, through universal meals and boosting school breakfast participation by making it part of the school day.

Robert White, a charter boat captain operating out of Diversey harbor and a board member of the Midwest Charter Assocation, says Diversey harbor is protected by a breakwater that makes it the calmest in Ccharter boat captain operating out of Diversey harbor and a board member of the Midwest Charter Assocation, says Diversey harbor is protected by a breakwater that makes it the calmest in CCharter Assocation, says Diversey harbor is protected by a breakwater that makes it the calmest in Chicago.

In an interview with NY1's Erin Billups earlier today, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called the charter schools legislation passed by his house in the wee hours of the morning a «good bill» that will enable the state to make a strong application for Round II of «Race to the Top» funding by June 1.

The group has been funded in part by Dan Loeb, a wealthy supporter of charter schools who last year apologized after making a racially charged remark at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

What is clear is that to address political inequality — which is a precondition to achieving the broader goals raised by the Great Charter Convention — we must restore substantive democratic power over how our political and economic institutions are organised, thereby better enabling individuals to come together to make collective decisions that shape their lives, communities and workplaces.

«Once again, New York City's public charter schools are driving the gains made by the city's highest - need students,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.

Yes, the pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY praised the budget: «New York made history by investing in... charter schools in a manner that will dramatically assist in educating public school children.»

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

The proposed law would amend the Erie County Charter to require that goods purchased by the county that cost more than $ 10,000 be manufactured in the U.S. and all contracts for services for more than $ 10,000 are made with entities in the U.S. Morton said he has not given up on the issue and continues to pursue a compromise.

Also under the deal, if a new charter approved by the city includes a request for space inside existing city buildings, the city would have five - months to make a «reasonable» co-location offer or pay for private space, the sources said.

Except as otherwise provided in this Charter or the Administrative Code, other appointments to boards and like units shall be made in the manner provided by applicable law.

As mandated by the City Charter, the Borough President is empowered to make recommendations to the Mayor's Budget, as well as provide discretionary funding to organizations and City agencies.

It reiterates claims made in a report by Antonacci earlier this month that the raises violate the New York State Constitution and the Onondaga County Charter.

The Charter Revision Commission, the panel appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to consider changes to the city constitution, plans to take a serious look at a proposal that would eliminate the need for voters to make a second trip to the polls for runoff elections.

But de Blasio, by making the mistake of canceling those charters in the middle of the budget season, may end up stumbling into more money for pre-K.»

The NYC Department of Education rejected requests for space made by a dozen charters so far this school year, forcing them to file appeals in Albany for relief under the state's charter - school siting law.

The legislative leaders and the governor made some progress yesterday, reportedly reaching a deal on education that adds $ 300 million in additional spending to the $ 807 million boost Cuomo proposed, spends $ 340 million on pre-K — most of which is going to NYC — and also hikes per - pupil state aid for charter schools, though they would have to agree to be audited by the state comptroller.

At 10:20 a.m., Success Academy Charter Schools founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz makes an announcement about the middle school space proposal recently sent to Success Academy by the New York City Department of Education, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

After a bid from the nation's largest cable provider, Comcast, to purchase Time Warner Cable was dropped earlier this year, Charter Communications made an offer to buy the company, a merger that is now pending review by federal regulators.

Success Academy spokeswoman Ann Powell said that the charter school network has had no communication with the city about closing schools and that any decisions about building space would be made by the DOE, not by them.

Newspapers will be given a chance to make their reformed regulator work without oversight by the new royal charter, Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has said.

Starting next year, the legislation will make it easier for charter schools to ask to be overseen by a different entity.

The schedule called for the New York State Legislature to be home for the summer by this week, but lawmakers are still in Albany as legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo try to reach agreement on a number of major issues, including making the 2 percent tax cap permanent, and changes to the charter school limit.

While Cuomo has somewhat made peace with the teachers unions he so often battled with, he has continued to back charter schools and has not met the school funding demands put forth by AQE, either in amount or district distribution.

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In his 2010 campaign book, the New NY Agenda, Cuomo called for making schools more efficient — notably by removing unfunded mandates, requirements the state puts on district but does not pay them to meet — and for an increase in charter schools.

By charter, the legislature is supposed to be the policy - making branch of government, but it doesn't do much of that.

Cuomo has repeatedly angered the left wing of his Democratic Party by supporting Republican candidates, backing charter schools, and routinely making middle - of - the - road compromises on various issues.

Catalano's point, apparently lost on his fellow Republicans, was that the legislature, not the executive, was charged by charter with making policy decisions and that they shouldn't be doing it as part of the budget process.

The problem was made much worse by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's decision to sign up to the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, without even giving the country the referendum they had promised us.

He is helped by the fact Success» so - called #SaveOurPreK campaign has failed to garner anything approaching the amount of attention as the school space battle, when Moskowitz was making front - page news regularly for declaring that de Blasio was effectively shuttering high - performing charter schools.

For every move de Blasio has made to treat charters less favorably relative to traditional public schools than they were treated by the previous administration, Cuomo has countered with promises of more charter funding and benefits.