Sentences with phrase «make school a charter»

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In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

The charters of many nondenominational schools make it clear that is what they were founded to do.

A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

Naseir Upshur, who has said that Michigan is recruiting him the hardest, got a personal note from Michigan's head coach after making the honor roll at his high school — Imhotep Institute Charter School in Philadeschool — Imhotep Institute Charter School in PhiladeSchool in Philadelphia.

Bob Lenz is the co-founder of the Envision Schools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stSchools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stschools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino students.

Visit the public schools, both charter and regular, before you make a decision.

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.

At the Novato Charter School family involvement makes our school very spSchool family involvement makes our school very spschool very special.

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.

In addition, each school district and charter school is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pschool district and charter school is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pschool is required to establish a district School Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pSchool Health Advisory Council that shall meet at least 2 times annually to make recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness pschool board in the development or revision, implementation and evaluation of their wellness policy.

Given the breadth and variety of practice settings of school nurses, the School Health Unit makes available the services of one state school health nurse consultant, six regional school health nurse consultants, and one charter school health program to provide leadership, training and consultation services to school nurses and school school nurses, the School Health Unit makes available the services of one state school health nurse consultant, six regional school health nurse consultants, and one charter school health program to provide leadership, training and consultation services to school nurses and school School Health Unit makes available the services of one state school health nurse consultant, six regional school health nurse consultants, and one charter school health program to provide leadership, training and consultation services to school nurses and school school health nurse consultant, six regional school health nurse consultants, and one charter school health program to provide leadership, training and consultation services to school nurses and school school health nurse consultants, and one charter school health program to provide leadership, training and consultation services to school nurses and school school health program to provide leadership, training and consultation services to school nurses and school school nurses and school school staff.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

We should just make every school in the state a charter school.

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.

The minor gains that NYC students made on state reading and math tests aren't good enough, according to Eva Moskowitz, the Success Academy charter school founder, who blasted Mayor de Blasio for the incremental improvements at a press conference in her Wall Street headquarters.

Now that AG Andrew Cuomo is dipping his toe into the roiling waters (via Fred Dicker) on select issues such as the still - late state budget, the Ravitch plan and lifting the charter school cap, his opponents are taking the opportunity to call on the yet - unannounced gubernatorial hopeful to make clear his positions on a host of other topics as well.

NYSUT's spending came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a series of changes to the state's education policies, including a new criteria for teacher evaluations, a strengthening of charter schools and making it easier to close schools deemed to be «failing.»

Cuomo wants to make it easier for a takeover of failing schools and help parents of students in failing schools transfer their children to charters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had indicated support for the Senate's effort to expand charter schools, has not made a public appearance in Albany this week, remaining behind closed doors negotiating with lawmakers.

Cuomo and Flanagan also want to make it even easier for charter schools to reject, and even kick out, students who don't do well academically and might tarnish the pretty statistics charter schools often paint to suggest they present a much better alternative to traditional public schools.

«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 Kitschools are driving the gains made by the city's highest - need students,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah KitSchools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.

Charter school advocates have repeatedly insisted that their rally was planned before the reversal decisions were made and that the effort is not intended to take away from the pre-K efforts.

The Assembly proposal would end supplemental charter tuition so that going forward, districts would no longer be required to make this payment to charter schools and the State would no longer be required to reimburse districts for such payment.

Governor Cuomo is seeking an expansion of 100 more charter schools, but the plan did not make it into the recently enacted state budget.

As an ardent supporter of charter schools and education as a means to create upward mobility, Lavine is prepared to make a meaningful change in Syracuse.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

President Obama has made lifting the charter - school cap a priority.

He and predecessor David Paterson remain the only state or local politicians in New York who've received donations from individual members of the family, though they have also made some sizable checks to charter school groups that support Senate Republicans.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

At last week's hearing, he called charter schools a «money - making scheme» similar to Enron.

For example, the SAFE Act angered gun owners and his support for charter schools made his relationships with teachers unions tenuous.

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.»

The charter concept is a promising one, but only if the charters commit to helping the kids who can't make it in regular public schools.

«Now they have rolled over for Andrew Cuomo, the latest son seeking to inherit his father's former office, who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi makes the case against the Senate Charter School Bill, and talks about what he'd like to see in a charter reforCharter School Bill, and talks about what he'd like to see in a charter reforcharter reform bill.

money, follow the money: These charter school proponents would love to privatize and monetize everything in sight - including your children's future - as they increasingly suck up your tax dollars and public buildings and public resources for their own ideological and profit - making ends — leaving the public schools starved.

Which hedge fund is making profit out of it or which charter school's CEO is drawing huge salary are not the point....

The bills would make permanent the ability for a charter school to switch the authorizing entity for the school — a key concern for charters in New York City.

Kermit the Frog: who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking an expansion of 100 more charter schools, but the plan did not make it into the recently enacted state budget.

«I think I've made it pretty clear that charter schools should be an integral part of any discussion on mayoral control.

He said the union also needs to work to make permanent the ban on the use of state ELA and math tests in teacher evaluations and to make sure the charter school cap is not increased.

Cuomo only says that he's pursuing «a number of strategies to protect charter schools,» but no final decisions have been made.

City Hall would agree to make it easier for charters to get public - school space or obtain funding to lease private space, said an education official familiar with the discussions.

In steering Senate Republicans through the close of three legislative sessions, Flanagan has made a point about fighting for education aid and charter schools.

Northeast Charter Schools Network New York Director Andrea Rogers said in a statement that «the Trustees made the right decision» and offers more «flexibility» for Charter schools who opt to design their own teaching requirSchools Network New York Director Andrea Rogers said in a statement that «the Trustees made the right decision» and offers more «flexibility» for Charter schools who opt to design their own teaching requirschools who opt to design their own teaching requirements.