Sentences with phrase «of real charter»

Falon Denison is the third parent we have spoken to from Finn Academy: An Elmira Charter School as part of our Real Charter Champions series.

Not exact matches

The Cummings family story ends (or continues) with the family taking a direction that may bring the worlds of homeschool and real school together: an online charter school where some classes would be «self - directed» and others would «meet in a virtual classroom on a regular schedule.»

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Cuomo has enjoyed the backing of charter school and real estate groups that frequently use independent expenditure campaigns to boost their candidates.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

He said negotiations failed around three major issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, a potential cost shift from public schools to charter schools and a real estate tax abatement program in New York City.

The Creative Resistance said in a video «IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump.»

«IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump,» the narrator says.

Independent expenditure campaigns have been funded by a variety of interest groups seeking to influence the outcome of a legislative race, including the teachers unions, charter school groups and real - estate organizations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo meanwhile blamed three key issues: A dispute over post-release supervision as part of raising the age of criminal responsibility, funding for charter schools and a real - estate tax abatement.

I do not wish to be a soothsayer of doom, but unless we actively listen to the concerns of the unions (and their members) then to my mind there is the very real possibility that later in the year we could witness similar scenes upon London's chartered streets.

Many Charters are governed by a corrupt Board hand selected by the Charter «owner / entrepeneur» and engaged in massive nepotism and real estate conflict of interests?

He will serve as director of real estate at Success, a charter school headed by Moskowitz, who President Donald Trump, at one time, considered appointing education secretary.

Capping charters in a certain neighborhood, for instance, is a shot aimed directly at parents in Harlem — where a proliferation of charters is starting to offer real alternatives to failing district schools.

The real estate people stand to make billions off killing or limiting rent control laws in NYC and the charter school charlatans are chomping at the bit at the prospect of putting an obscenely huge chunk of public education money in their pockets.

But Kieron Beal and Tom Hickman of Blackstone Chambers argued in a 2011 paper that «there can no longer be any real doubt that the Charter has legal effect in UK law».

He's come under regular fire in his first term from Democrats who claim he's out of step with his own party for his positions on labor issues, support for charter schools and coziness with wealthy real estate developers and financial firms.

A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

As has been the case in previous filings, Cuomo's biggest campaign donors include people from the New York City real estate industry and supporters of charter schools.

Sensing a limited window of opportunity, a number of special interests are investing heavily in the Senate battle, with charter school advocates and real estate interests backing the Republicans, and teachers» unions, tenant advocates and social progressives — led by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — siding with the Democrats.

Some of the largest 2013 indepdent spenders — the Real Estate Board of New York and charter school backers aligned with StudentsFirstNY — have not been involved in the 2017, yet.

She benefited from nearly $ 540,000 in spending from the IDC's campaign arm — much of it coming from real estate interests and charter school supporters that have also backed Senate Republicans, who are more often cross-endorsed by the Independence Party.

But the teachers union, threatened by charters that outperform traditional, union - run schools, thinks it can squash the competition by depriving it of real estate.

Mr. de Blasio has pledged to charge rent to charter schools, and he has said he will deny, at least temporarily, future requests to use space inside public school buildings — a lifeline for many charter schools given the high costs of real estate in the city.

Hawkins has called for an investigation of the massive donations Cuomo has raised in his re-election effort, especially from real estate firms, hedge funds linked to charter schools, and the fracking and gambling industries.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday denied any real or perceived conflicts of interest arising from his choice of appointments to his Charter Revision Commission, which includes individuals who have donated to his past campaigns for elected office.

And next month the agency wraps up a pilot study on charter boats in Florida and North Carolina of electronic logbooks, which provide real - time reporting of catches.

We use a scientific matching system that leverages 29 DIMENSIONS ® based on features of compatibility found in thousands of successful relationships — Charter Oak dating has never been more real.

Loosely based on real - life events, «Won't Back Down» tells the story of a single mom who teams up with a disillusioned teacher to transform a failing public school into a charter school.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadCharter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadcharter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

By serving an entire region or market's group of charter schools, the real - estate trust would look familiar to state officials and to lenders: a single entity that grasps the intricacies of real - estate finances and serves the individual needs of multiple schools, as school districts do.

After all, real - estate development is not, and should not be, the core competency of charter school leaders.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

Had the commission been able to develop as a real alternative to local authorization, larger numbers of charter schools could have been established, and that likely would have created a powerful political constituency in support of charter schools, capable of resisting jealous attacks from the public education establishment.

With the frequent reports of school districts doing a poor job of fulfilling their authorizing duties and school districts» authorizing over half of the nation's charter schools, it is easy to see how the real power of the chartering strategy is being negated.

Fortunately, this conversation needn't be hypothetical; chartering has given us real - world examples of geographies that fit the diverse provider bill.

If employees of charter schools or any outside management companies that run them serve on the schools» boards of directors, they must avoid any «real or apparent conflict of interest» if the school receives money from the Department of Education's charter school program, under new guidelines released late last month.

Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter schooling in rural America — and the very real challenges facing it.

«I do want to thank you for acknowledging the situation in Albany, but going to the heart of what's real, we have 10 charter schools in Albany with a total public school population of 10,500 students.

Jason Pater, a real estate manager for National Heritage Academies, which operates a network of charter schools in five states, noted that charters have more flexibility to use different construction methods.

National Association of Charter School Authorizers president Greg Richmond pointed out that there are real, substantive disagreements over how to understand the civic mission of schooling.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

The Democratic mayor's public comments against charters, among the most significant of the Bloomberg reforms, have convinced many reformers that de Blasio is a real threat to continued progress in the city's schools.