Sentences with phrase «of charter school parents»

Check out our new video on Families That Can, a statewide organization of charter school parents.

And, of course, many thousands of charter school parents are active in their own child's school on a regular basis, providing support for a host of school functions.

According to Families for Excellent Schools, 93 percent of charter school parents are black or Latino.

Two new studies compare the views of charter school parents to the views of private school and district school parents.

Another player here, one that it is too soon to measure, is the growing political power of charter school parents.

At 9 a.m., hundreds of charter school parents from Brooklyn join state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. and other Brooklyn community leaders at a rally to celebrate the impact of charter schools on Brooklyn's communities, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn.

Likewise, a 2000 survey sponsored by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools reported that academics clearly are the primary concern of charter school parents.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

«What this rally is about is the anxiety and the concern levels of the charter school parents of those charter schools that already have their permits, have their charters and unfortunately don't have the locations identified.

Millions of charter school parents — those who have their children enrolled and those on wait - lists — have come to realize that their goals are way out of sync with the «kill or unionize» mob.

I have heard from a number of charter school parents who really like their program and resent the suggestion that their children should get «dumped» back into the public school system.

Public charter schools are «public schools» in NYS and the regulation that allows for the discrimination of Charter School parents to have an opportunity to serve on CECs need to be addressed and changed.

Athena Ross - Allen, a charter school parent, talks about the importance and passion of parent advocacy of charter school parents in the Bay Area and beyond.

The rally was coordinated by Families That Can, a statewide organization of charter school parents which is part of the California Charter Schools Association, in partnership with a wide range of community organizations, including the United Way, Families In Schools, Alliance for a Better Community, Communities for Teaching Excellence, EdVoice and Democrats for Education Reform.

Families That Can is a statewide organization of charter school parents united to fight for high - quality public education choices and to be the voice for the children of California.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's moves to rein in charters, as Cuomo was battling him on other education issues, have changed the governor's rhetoric at lightning speed, highlighted by the governor's decision to take to the Capitol steps to speak to thousands of charter school parents and students who traveled to Albany to protest the mayor's reversal of three charter co-locations.

On October 28, hundreds of charter school parents and supporters gathered before dozens of reporters and TV cameras prior to the CPS Board meeting chanting «Great Schools Can't Wait,» «My Child, My Choice,» and «Charter Schools are Public Schools.»

Our children can't wait,» said Corri Ravare, Executive Director of Families That Can, a statewide organization of charter school parents.

Why don't you talk to some of charter school parents?

«Thousands and thousands of charter school parents are militantly protective of their schools,» said Chris Cerf in a phone interview not long after de Blasio's primary victory.