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At 6 p.m., NYC's Charter Revision Commission holds a public meeting and hearing soliciting input from New Yorkers on how best to improve the efficiency of local government and strengthen democracy, Bronx Community College, 2155 University Ave., Bronx.

At 6 p.m., the NYC Charter Revision Commission holds a public meeting and hearing soliciting input from New Yorkers on how best to improve the efficiency of local government, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Edna Barnes Salomon Room, 476 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

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 proposed charter school has hundreds of local supporters and backing from SUNY New Paltz and the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement.

Senate Democrats, while hobbled by a mere one - vote majority, could barely contain their glee at Cuomo's strong support for some of their most favored positions: more charter schools, a tough cap on state spending and local property taxes, and opposition to a massive new borrowing scheme — all counter to Silver's positions.

New York City has just 28 slots left for new charters, a number that could easily drop to zero over the next year with the growth of local charters guaranteed under a state law passed earlier this yeNew York City has just 28 slots left for new charters, a number that could easily drop to zero over the next year with the growth of local charters guaranteed under a state law passed earlier this yenew charters, a number that could easily drop to zero over the next year with the growth of local charters guaranteed under a state law passed earlier this year.

«We strongly urge you to hold a new public hearing on Success Academy's application to open a new charter school in School District 1, so that the residents of that district have an opportunity to provide their input on the revised application,» said local leaders in a Nov. 13 letter to Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

For the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollars.

ALBANY — At a rally on the Capitol steps, Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Senate leaders intimated that charter schools would get a boost in the budget, while down the street, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio continued his push for the inclusion of a local tax increase to fund pre-kindergarten programs.

James Merriman, C.E.O. of the New York City Charter School Center, said, adding that the question «worries everybody» in the local charter comCharter School Center, said, adding that the question «worries everybody» in the local charter comcharter community.

Moskowitz organized several massive pro-charter rallies after de Blasio rescinded a handful of previously approved co-locations, and she helped push the passage of a new state law that guaranteed protections for local charters.

Weingarten's New York local supports three charter schools itself, one opened just this fall.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Over a third of Grand Rapids» schools had fallen below 60 percent of capacity, including two brand - new ones, as more and more families decamped for local charter and private schools, or moved to other districts.

The study, «Leveraging Local Innovation: The Case of Michigan's Charter Schools,» found that the schools have mostly seized on innovative practices already in use for years in regular public schools, rather than coming up with new ideas of their own.

Charter schools in Michigan are failing to use their freedom from state and local regulations to forge new directions in public education, according to a report released last week by Michigan State University.

However, pilot schools, which were started by Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to the state.

Without the Excellence Commission, only local school boards can authorize new charter schools.

Conflict between charter schools and their local school districts is nothing new, having persisted since the first charter school opened in 1992.

This structural flaw runs counter to the original idea of chartering, allowing an entity other than the local school district to establish new schools.

It would also recruit new charter supporters at the state and local policy level, especially since many governors, legislators, and local activists who gave birth to the charter effort have since moved on to other endeavors.

The 5 - 4 vote in New York state's second - largest school district was a victory for charter opponents, particularly the local affiliate of the National Education Association.

On the upside, new charter - school legislation is making its way to the governor's desk; it would enable the state board of education to authorize charter schools rejected by local school districts.

Silver has plenty of company among alumni from the Ed School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new twinew schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new twiNew York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new twinew twist.

The emergence of charter schools in the 1990s provided manifold possibilities for educators to create new schools outside the purview of local school boards, where innovation and experimentation were encouraged.

Louisiana has decided that all New Orleans charter schools now overseen by the state's Recovery School District will be placed under the control of the local school board.

This is important work: The «elite» charter groups you've read about in this book can never expand fast enough to meet the need, which means new high performers have to be groomed at the local level.

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

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 representCharter School Authorizers and local, state, and national representatives.

As in many locations, New Hampshire law requires the per - pupil funds to pass from the state through local school districts, and then to charter schools.

The new Department of Education would also do well to invest in strategies to prevent harm to students in districts facing major enrollment losses, such as local district - charter partnerships.

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Though both states succeeded in passing legislation allocating a more equitable share of local tax revenue to charter schools, the authors note that partisan conflict and legislative force led to a flawed process — as well as potentially jeopardized implementation of the new law — in Florida.

Those against the law also raised the familiar criticism that charter schools would be free to use the new local dollars without the accountability and oversight required of traditional public schools.

In contrast to past practice where school districts dolled out their local capital dollars based on school facility needs, the new sharing requirement under HB 7069 calculates how much is owed to charters on a per - student basis.

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So while it's tempting to frame the fight in New York as a perilous fight between Democratic education reformers and «the de Blasio wing» of the party, public charter schools are just too local to drive a national political conversation — let alone a serious civil war within the Democratic party.

Charter and magnet schools are often a coveted choice for parents in urban public school districts like New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford as parents search for alternatives to their local schools.

The bill would place lots of new restrictions on charters, including requiring that they maintain retention rates equal to the local district, and that their boards of trustees include a member of the local district school committee.

Among them is a provision that would let communities effectively block new charter schools in a community by allowing them to count seats at in - district «innovation» schools and in - district charter schools in the calculation used to determine when the local cap on charters has been reached.

Worse yet, I was personally present with local and national union leadership when they acknowledged that reality and celebrated that much of the money donated by Mark Zuckerberg was going to go into the pockets of their teachers rather than towards a radical expansion of the charter sector — as had been the case, for example, in New Orleans.

That includes Colorado and Florida, which gave charters access to local property tax levies; Texas, which gave charters state funding for facilities for the first time; and Illinois, which passed a comprehensive overhaul of its school finance system that brought greater equity to school statewide, and created a new tax credit scholarship program to boot.

Some districts have added all - day kindergarten programs in response to local charter schools or increased their expenditures on new technology.

New York State law has required charter schools to grant admissions preference to students living in the local community school district since 2007 — 08; prior to that, many charters followed this practice voluntarily.

Ms. Gates was in New York to visit New Visions Charter High School for the Humanities II, in the Bronx, and to talk with local teachers about professional development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Because local control rules the day in the «live free or die» state, New Hampshire's districts and charter schools were free to interpret and implement this mandate as they saw fit.

In fact, because of the strong tradition of local control, New Hampshire's districts and charter schools were free to interpret and implement the state's competency mandate as they saw fit.

Yesterday, the Gates Foundation announced that district and charter school leaders in nine cities have embraced a «District - Charter Collaboration Compact,» in which the district and local charter schools pledge to collaborate in necharter school leaders in nine cities have embraced a «District - Charter Collaboration Compact,» in which the district and local charter schools pledge to collaborate in neCharter Collaboration Compact,» in which the district and local charter schools pledge to collaborate in necharter schools pledge to collaborate in new ways.

Two parallel processes are being set up to start up to 40 of the new public schools in five years: the Charter School Commission and local school boards that apply to be authorizers through the State Board of Education.