Sentences with phrase «number of city charter»

Among the sticking points were Republican demands to increase the number of city charter schools.

While the Assembly bill introduced Friday would extend mayoral control over the schools for three years, the Senate has been pushing a one - year extender that would be tied to an increase in the number of city charter schools.

Not exact matches

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

The issue of mayoral control was deadlocked because the Republican - led Senate wanted to tie it to an increase in the number of charter schools allowed to operate in New York City.

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Negotiations in Albany were also bogged down over how to divide increased education funding, the details of an affordable housing and development tax credit in New York City and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

She said that standardized testing should play a «minimal» role in evaluating teachers and that she would not raise the cap on the number of charter schools that can be opened in the city.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders continue to talk with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about a «grand plan» to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorize sales taxes around the state and, possibly, increase the number of charter schools.

Lhota and de Blasio differ sharply on charter schools: de Blasio, the city's public advocate, wants to charge them rent while Lhota has called for doubling the number of charters.

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 year.

A leading charter - school advocate said Friday that Mayor de Blasio's hopes of extending mayoral control of city schools are tied to Hizzoner supporting a hike in the number of charters allowed in the state.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

This time Moskowitz is pressing to raise the cap on the number of charters — from the current 256 in the city and 460 statewide — a goal she has a decent chance of achieving.

The 12 - month extension, which was coupled with a strengthening of charter schools in the city and statewide through keeping their numbers in an available pool, was agreed to after the mayor sought a permanent program.

Thousands of parents and teachers descended on Foley Square to demand that de Blasio get behind charter school proponents» plans to increase the number of charter seats across the city to 200,000 by 2020.

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.

In response, a spokesman for Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat like Klein, blasted Cuomo for his ongoing feud with de Blasio, saying it had hurt the city on a number of issues ranging from charter schools to mayoral control.

Also high up on the mayor's list of defeats are a one - year extension of mayoral control of the schools — he wanted permanent control, but a minimum of three years — and an increase in the number of charter schools authorized for the city.

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The governor also called for eliminating the restriction on the number of charter schools that can open in New York City.

The budget also extends for two years the so - called millionaire's tax, preserving up to $ 4.5 billion in annual revenue, and keeps in place a cap limiting the number of charter schools, both positive outcomes for city public schools.

In TV interviews and news stories, she repeatedly refused to take herself out of the running for 2017, joining a growing list of Democrats — some aligned with charters — who were openly considering taking on Mr. de Blasio, who has endured declining poll numbers and withering criticism from the city's elite.

Flanagan (R - LI) has called for extending mayoral control for five years, but only in concert with other provisions — including lifting the city's cap on the number of charter schools.

The demonstrations were aimed at Cuomo's plans to increase the importance of standardized tests for teacher ratings, boost the number of charter schools and turn over the management of troubled city schools to outside groups.

The borough president departed from his fellow candidates on several occasions, including in his support for standardized tests and raising the cap on the number of charter schools in the city.

Klein, who oversaw more than 1,600 public schools with 136,000 employees and a $ 21 billion operating budget, also helped grow the number of charter schools in the city.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

In the final hours of this year's legislative session, for instance, the Republican - controlled Senate demanded a number of concessions for charter schools in exchange for granting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a one - year extension of mayoral control of city schoCity Mayor Bill de Blasio a one - year extension of mayoral control of city schocity schools.

But public education in our city is also facing a number of systemic challenges: DCPS asks why it can't function with the same freedoms as the charter sector.

Unfortunately, charter schools and regular public schools have some information recorded differently in the New York City database, and these differences cause charter schools» numbers of special education and English language learner students to be understated.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

According to the authors» own numbers in Table 20, more than half (56 percent) of charter school students attend school in a city, compared to less than one - third (30 percent) of traditional public school students.

That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.

But by this time, the state had approved charter schools, and substantial numbers of Kansas City's black schoolchildren were patronizing them.

In a number of cities, charters educate a significant proportion of public school students (see Figure 1).

Meanwhile, charter schools can't expand without access to facilities, and in a growing number of cities, suitable facilities are in very short supply.

They point, for example, to President Bush's No Child Left Behind law (enacted in 2002), mayoral governance of schools recently instituted in some cities, and the creation of a small number (4,638) of charter schools that serve less than 3 % of the U.S. school - age population.

The conflict intensified in the wake of a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to double the number of charter schools in the city.

Last fall, the conflict between charter and district schools intensified after someone leaked a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to raise up to $ 490 million from foundations and wealthy individuals to double the number of charter schools in the city, with the goal of enrolling about half the students in the district within eight years.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

This promising pattern of performance may well reflect the fact that a surprising number of charter schools in these states serve suburban students, bucking the national trend of charters concentrating in big cities.

The authors concede that a number of national and city - level studies show relatively strong performance for disadvantaged youth in charters, but come to rest on the familiar refrain that charter students do about the same as those in other public schools.

The number of charter schools has doubled and children can apply to attend almost any public school in the city.

A number of cities have «charter - lite» schools that violate the control principle by not giving their leaders full operational authority.

Bloomberg turned nearly all the city's high schools into schools of choice, increased the number of charter schools from 22 to 159, instituted a grading system for schools, and closed those that were failing to educate their students.

A number of cities are showing that the charter sector is best able to reliably create and grow high - performing schools.

The study, conducted by Stanford University researcher Caroline M. Hoxby and her co-authors Sonali Mararka and Jenny Kang, is based on eight years of data for students applying to the city's growing number of charter schools.

In fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school system.

A number of forward looking cities have set aside contentious debates about charter schools, and have instead chosen to embrace high - quality charter schools in their reform strategies.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.