Sentences with phrase «national charter group»

So why is a prominent national charter group saying it will spend money this year to try to flip the chamber to Democrats — many of whom were elected with the strong support of teachers unions, charters» frequent nemeses?

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Republicans have been helped by $ 1.6 million in spending by New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, which was founded by the national charter school advocacy group StudentsFirst.

«It's an acquired taste,» said Nina Rees, C.E.O. of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacyCharter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacycharter advocacy group.

Leadership of DFER has also shifted: Shavar Jeffries, who in 2014 lost a high - profile race for mayor of Newark, N.J., with the strong backing of charter supporters, became the group's national president a year ago.

Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner is a charter member of one of the two groups that made the cosmological constant respectable again (the other group is led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California).

La Raza has put together the most intensive package of services — including hands - on consulting for community - based groups starting charter schools, joint professional development opportunities, and the creation of national partnerships that can be useful to all of the network's schools — which La Raza hopes will number 50 by 2005.

In 1906, Congress granted a federal charter to the National Education Association that exempted the teachers» group from property taxes on its national headquarters in WasNational Education Association that exempted the teachers» group from property taxes on its national headquarters in Wasnational headquarters in Washington.

A lot, it seems, judging from one group's decision to give itself a new moniker: the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Interest groups ranging from the National School Boards Association to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, from the National Governors Association to the major civil rights groups, all issued statements of approval.

Twenty groups hoping to run new charter schools submitted 43 applications to a review committee, comprising a team from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representcharter schools submitted 43 applications to a review committee, comprising a team from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national represenNational Association of Charter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representCharter School Authorizers and local, state, and national represennational representatives.

In the 2013 — 14 school year, 651 new charter schools opened around the country, and 202 charters closed, a 3 - to - 1 ratio that has held steady for the past five years, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy and researchcharter schools opened around the country, and 202 charters closed, a 3 - to - 1 ratio that has held steady for the past five years, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy and researchCharter Schools, an advocacy and research group.

The «dark money» from some of the national charter networks has come in to balance out the spending by well financed groups opposing Question 2.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers informs members that one of their core responsibilities is making sure schools are open to all, said Alex Medler, a vice president of the group.

To support my case, I presented three categories of evidence: (1) the fact that national reform groups seem deeply concerned about Detroit; (2) the similarity in performance between the city's charter and traditional public schools; and (3) the large negative effects of two statewide voucher programs on student outcomes.

A union - led coalition of local and national groups has launched a campaign against Ohio's charter school program, hoping to stir up enough controversy to make charter schools an election issue.

Each subject has been assigned to committees led by college professors and including experienced AP teachers, with expert advice being solicited from groups that include the congressionally chartered National Research Council and the American Historical Association.

«The students, their families, the educators (and indeed the entire country) need a national independent, democratically organized charter advocacy group to advocate for independently managed, financially transparent, community oriented public charter schools as articulated in our manifesto.»

In addition to those groups, there's also the National Heritage Academies (NHA), a Michigan - based charter school management organization that has seven partner schools in Detroit.

A group of parents protested outside before the vote, and Ron Rice of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools wrote a great piece: NAACP's Anti-Charter Vote Was Disheartening — but What Happened on the Streets of Cincinnati Wasn't.

Nina Rees, head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy group that lobbies on behalf of charter sCharter Schools, an advocacy group that lobbies on behalf of charter scharter schools.

We are a diverse group of 13 educators who met for six weeks to review research on different national efforts to improve school climate, as well as local strategies being proposed or piloted by Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, LA's Promise, Los Angeles Education Partnership, LAUSD and local charter networks.

A replacement for the much criticized No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the reauthorization gained support from groups as diverse as The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Education Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, The National School Boards Association, the National Governors Association and Fairtest, an organization that addresses issues related to fairness and accuracy in testing.

This task force will consist of two parent representatives, two student representatives, two teacher representatives, two ward education group representatives, two District business representatives, two community education advocates, two national education experts, the District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor or designee, one District of Columbia Public Charter School Board designee, an OSSE designee, State Board President or designee, and two SBOE representatives.

The South Carolina Public Charter School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

For his efforts that year, Cuomo was declared a «charter champion,» by a national reform group, and he collected tens of thousands of dollars from pro-charter donors in the run - up to his re-election.

Building on those findings, this month, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (Richmond's group), and 50Can, an education reform advocacy group, jointly released a report with recommendations for states to hold virtual charters more accountable for student performance.

Many folks were at first bewildered when Sharpton — who has ties, both financially and ideologically, to teachers» unions» groups — started advocating for charter schools; they were later shocked, shocked to learn that a mega-billions hedge fund linked to conservative school reform had channeled a $ 500,000 donation to Sharpton's National Action Network when the organization was struggling with tax woes.»

Some of the new slots will likely be filled by schools affiliated with philanthropist - backed groups like Bryan's Team CFA (the charter school arm of the Challenge Foundation), for - profit companies like the National Heritage Academies (which already manage five charters in the state) and «virtual charters» similar to K12, Inc., a publicly - traded Virginia company paying a lobbyist this year to go to the N.C. General Assembly on its behalf.

NCSECS is developing this resource jointly with special education and charter school experts from numerous leading national organizations and advocacy groups.

Given the growth of national charter school networks, such as the Challenge Foundation — a national group that funds a pair of schools, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the student population, in rural Rutherford County — proponents say it's essential to maintain some local control over charters.

The national board of the NAACP, which has long expressed concern about charter schools, is scheduled this weekend to vote on whether to approve a resolution — passed at the group's convention this past summer — that calls for a moratorium on their expansion.

«As soon as I heard about the achievement school district bill, I just knew I had to be a part of it,» said former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, who founded a charter school in High Point and is now executive director of CarolinaCAN, a state chapter of the national advocacy group 50CAN which works to promote high quality charter schools.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools pulled together a varied group of seasoned educators, authorizers, attorneys and other stakeholders from across the country to share best practices and experiences.

We are currently working on an expose of charter discipline policies with a national advocacy group.

We are a diverse group of 13 teachers who met for nine weeks to review both national attempts to improve Common Core implementation for unique student populations, as well as local strategies being proposed or piloted by LA Unified, Partnership for Los Angeles School, Youth Policy Institute and local charter networks.

Pro-charter advocacy group Center for Education Reform has accused national unions of recruiting charter educators into protesting.

The protest was paid for by the American Federation for Children, a national group that advocates for tax - credit scholarships, vouchers and charter schools.

Shining Rock is a member of a growing U.S. network of charters pushed by the Challenge Foundation, a group funded by a wealthy, Oregon businessman who's been a national advocate for school choice and other right - wing causes.

And the same Jonathan Sackler also formed the national charter school lobby group called 50CAN, a multi-state bring the ConnCAN model to other states.

Tommy Fuller of the Fuller Law Group represented Universal Academy and successfully argued that charter schools are exempt from the NLRB's jurisdiction because they qualify as political subdivisions for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act.

The group's new National Task Force for Quality Education — a group created after the call for a charter moratorium was approved to study and recommend education policy — just held its first public session hearing in New Haven, Conn..

AECI Charter High School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group for reasons of race, color, creed, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual preferences or mental or physical disability.

As Texas Aspires Chairman and former Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams said, «It saddens me to see the representatives of a civil rights group become so embattled in the national politics of education that they fail to see the promise of more funding for all public schools or the great work so many charters are doing with students of color».

Likewise, Democrats for Education Reform, a national group of education advocates that support a range of education options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns about DeVos.

More than 4,000 charter school leaders, educators, advocates, and policymakers are expected to attend the annual gathering that's hosted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacycharter school leaders, educators, advocates, and policymakers are expected to attend the annual gathering that's hosted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacyCharter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacycharter advocacy group.

During its 2016 National Convention last month, the group's delegates passed a resolution that reaffirmed the association's opposition to spending public money on charter schools but went a step further by calling for a full moratorium on their «rapid proliferation,» NAACP interim education director Victor Goode confirmed for our partner site The74Million.org Tuesday.

Before the national stalwarts of the charter school movement settled in a drain New Orleans, a group of city residents who resided on the West Bank of the Mississippi River — Algiers — formed a nonprofit that would eventually be the first organization to open schools.

Karega Rausch, the interim CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, told The Intercept that their group does not have a hard - and - fast rule, or even guiding data, on the number of authorizers a jurisdiction should have — but they have observed that the overall quality of a charter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authoCharter School Authorizers, told The Intercept that their group does not have a hard - and - fast rule, or even guiding data, on the number of authorizers a jurisdiction should have — but they have observed that the overall quality of a charter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authocharter sector can be «diluted» in places with too many authorizers.

The Charter Institute at Erskine does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.