Sentences with phrase «most charter supporters»

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It lacked the state's most important charter supporter, Cuomo, who made a dramatic surprise appearance at a similar rally a year ago.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

For years, billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has been one of the Success Academy charter school network's most crucial supporters.

Sources in the charter - school movement dreaded the future without Tisch, one of their most reliable supporters.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

In the most recent election there, charter school supporters and labor unions collectively spent $ 15 million trying to elect their allies, making it the most expensive school board election in United States history, according to The Los Angeles Times.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

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.

In what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history (with $ 3 million spent overall), the union squared off against charter supporters, including the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - actiocharter supporters, including the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - actioCharter Schools Association Advocates, the association's political - action wing.

Here's hoping that Success skeptics will open themselves to the possibility that the network is actually getting some things right, and that Success supporters will consider how the rapidly expanding network can do everything possible to attract and retain the kids who most need its help and share best practices with other schools, charter and district.

It is no accident that some of the biggest supporters of charter schools are the most alarmed by the failure to shutter low - performing charter schools.

But charter schools supporters say it would not take away from traditional schools because the students most likely to enroll in a charter school are ones that have already left the system.

As charter leaders, supporters and parents, you are one of the most credible sources for telling the charter school story.

Not only did Paul Tudor Jones create the Excellence Charter School, the first all - boys charter school in the country, but he has been one of the most significant financial supporters of the charter school front group called Families for Excellent SCharter School, the first all - boys charter school in the country, but he has been one of the most significant financial supporters of the charter school front group called Families for Excellent Scharter school in the country, but he has been one of the most significant financial supporters of the charter school front group called Families for Excellent Scharter school front group called Families for Excellent Schools.

Although Tuck ended up losing to Torlakson by almost 200,000 votes in 2014, the campaign itself attracted close to $ 30 million in spending — most of it from charter supporters of Tuck and labor groups supporting Torlakson.

Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed support for charter schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter schools as a principal means of reforming public education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»

Supporters of a South Side charter school have abandoned plans to move into Hirsch High School, one of Chicago's most under - enrolled neighborhood high schools, citing financial issues.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

Some (including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the nation's most vulnerable children.

Some charter supporters say Senate Bill 808 could be the death knell for most of the state's charter schools, yet Zimmer's support for it appears to have badly damaged his re-election chances.

Charter school supporters and advocates frequently point to the broad choices that families have when seeking a school in New Orleans, where most of the 82 public schools are charters and most accept applications from across the city.

Diaz has been among the Legislature's most ardent supporters of charter schools and school choice.

has been among the most vocal supporters of Steve Perry, the would - be charter school management company operator who is relying on Governor Malloy to force the Connecticut General Assembly to fund Perry's plan to open a privately owned, but publicly funded charter school in Bridgeport.

The Walton Family Foundation, one of the country's most prominent and generous supporters of charter schools, recently established a $ 250 million Building Equity Initiative to improve charter schools» access to facilities.

But Moskowitz has been one of the charter sector's most prominent supporters of DeVos, a billionaire proponent of school choice now heading the U.S. Department of Education, despite considerable backlash to her nomination.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

Supporters — including most Republicans, a handful of Democrats, a wealthy Oregon businessman behind a national network of charters and an ALEC - affiliated, right - wing outfit — call it an «innovative» solution to the plight of chronically underperforming schools.

All of this bad press should be enough to make even the most ardent supporters of charters welcome robust oversight and accountability.

But New York's charter school leaders and advocates, some of the national education reform movement's most vocal and influential supporters, have remained resolutely on the sidelines.

Independent charter schools, while funded by state taxpayers, operate outside most traditional public school rules in a way that supporters say make them more effective and perhaps better able to address long - standing challenges, such as raising test scores for low - income and minority students.