Sentences with phrase «more than charter schools»

«Why do state officials value conventional schools more than charter schools?

This was a huge breakthrough for the district sector to be able to have the same flexibility from laws and rules as did the charter sector and teachers have the autonomy of chartered school teachers and also keep the same amount of money as district schools which is considerably more than the chartered schools.

Not exact matches

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more successful than charter schools.»

Organizers at Pembroke Pines Charter High School said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing thaSchool said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing thaschool if there hadn't been testing that day.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

In 1970, one year after the school was kicked out of the Mid-American Conference as punishment for more than 100 NCAA violations, a chartered plane carrying 75 players, coaches, fans, university employees and crew crashed, killing all on board.

From Men in Blazers: America SCORES is non-profit organization that promotes football and poetry with students at more than 175 public and charter schools across North America.

Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools.

There are currently more than 50 Waldorf - inspired public charter schools in the US, most of them K - 8 charter schools.

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

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.

But all have said they feel lawmakers deserve their first pay bump in more than a decade, which was then tied to increasing the number of charter schools in New York.

«It is difficult when the charter school lobbyists have spent more than $ 5 million on a TV and radio advertising campaign.

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

Mount Vernon — Accusations of impropriety continue for Mayor Richard Thomas, who is already facing corruption charges as the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting more than $ 100,000 as a trustee of the Amani Public Charter School in violation of state education law.

Success Academy Charter School head Eva Moskowitz will be shutting down all of her schools this coming Tuesday to join more than 2,000 charter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their sCharter School head Eva Moskowitz will be shutting down all of her schools this coming Tuesday to join more than 2,000 charter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their scSchool head Eva Moskowitz will be shutting down all of her schools this coming Tuesday to join more than 2,000 charter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their scharter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their scschool advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their schools.

«More than 85 public charter schools from across the state will be in Albany on Tuesday.

The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

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.»

Charter school supporters and their critics spent eight hours shouting at one another at a volatile public hearing Thursday - and left the battle more polarized than ever.

The Working Families Party is ramping up its rhetoric against charter school exec Eva Moskowitz in a sharply - worded letter set to be released to more than 100,000 members this evening.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

Cuomo's policies will punish teachers, students, and schools in communities disadvantaged by poverty, segregation, and under - funding, while they will reward the hedge fund managers who invested more than $ 10 million in last year's election and stand to profit from their charter school investments,» Hawkins said.

«This proposal tells the people of this state that we care more about nail salon customers than charter school children,» Andy Pallotta, the president of New York State United Teachers, said in a statement.

Lhota: «There's nothing more progressive today than the charter school movement throughout the United Staes.»

In some charters, more than half the teachers left from one school year to the next.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

But Ms. Moskowitz has far more power outside the political machine than she ever did within it, forging a close bond with the governor that allowed her to secure unprecedented protections for charter schools in last year's legislative session.

In part due to fights over charter schools, unions have spent significantly more helping Democrats than Republicans in the past couple of Senate elections, the largest partisan battleground in the state, but as recently as 2012, the reverse was true.

Cuomo's plan also shifts at least $ 56 million in costs to New York City — but also includes more than $ 400 million in funding increases for the city, and would lift the cap that prevents charter schools from expanding in the five boroughs.

City charter schools in public school buildings are far more overcrowded than their district - run counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

It would also increase funding for charter schools by $ 225 per student next year — even more than the governor's budget would.

Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.

Asked how unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014 elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.

«These illegal regulations tell the people that New York State cares more about nail salon customers than children in charter schools,» said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said in a statement.

De Blasio said the gap between public - and charter - school exam proficiency was due more to an ideological divide than educational effectiveness.

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

Public opposition hasn't stopped more than 350 applicants to the Upper West Success Academy charter school.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

ALBANY — The Democratic - controlled state Senate last night passed legislation to more than double the number of charter schools — infuriating teachers - union officials who immediately declared war against the lawmakers who voted for the bill.

More than a dozen elected officials are signing on to a letter pledging support for charter schools ahead of a major rally in New York City.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

He also said the district needs to return to «neighborhood schools» and «promote charter schools which are generally more successful than the traditional public schools.»