Sentences with phrase «of charter advocates»

In the view of charter advocates, though, the new law simply brings more balance to school funding.

A diverse coalition of charter advocates rallied at City Hall on Friday to raise the cap, including several small independent charter operators who don't usually ally themselves with larger organizations, such as Families for Excellent Schools.

She had, early in the movement, actually convened a meeting of charter advocates and district personnel to try and start working through some of the issues in «the charter wars.»

Our nation's most respected civil rights advocacy groups, like the NAACP, now have further evidence to distrust the motives of charter advocates and to characterize our movement as a stalking horse for privatization.

The goal of charter advocates, Castrejon said, is not to undermine traditional public education but to support a range of successful schools.

We witnessed the damage when summary firings were the reform du jour of charter advocates, and teachers lost union protections in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, in Washington, D.C. under Michelle Rhee's stint as chancellor, and in Newark, NJ, during Cami Anderson's beleaguered tenure as the city's school chief.

A coalition of charter advocates, charitable leaders and business groups — including the Pioneer Institute, a free - market Boston think tank — are pushing for the bill.

But the sad part isn't the frustrated aspirations of the governor or of charter advocates.