Sentences with phrase «on affiliated charters»

Although school districts control major operations on affiliated charters including employment decisions, the school gains access to the charter categorical block grant, which expands spending flexibility and can be used to reduce teacher layoffs in a given year.

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Concerns about such a knock - on effect on Viacom of the decline in traditional cable TV subscriptions deepened last quarter, when Charter Communications Inc moved five of its flagship networks to its most expensive programming tier, a move that will likely result in lower affiliate revenue for Viacom.

Reinvent Albany delivered testimony to the mayor - convened New York City Charter Revision Commission this evening, calling for more transparency and limits on contributions to city - affiliated nonprofits by donors doing business with the city.

In recent weeks, for example, state affiliates have been pushing for higher taxes on businesses to boost education spending in Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington State.

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The District - government - affiliated agencies with representatives serving on the Task Force are the Office of Human Rights, the Metropolitan Police Department, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), Office of the State Superintendent of Education, the Mayor's Office on GLBT Affairs, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Health, D.C. Public Charter School Board, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the D.C. Public Library, Department of Mental Health, Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, Office of Disability Rights, University of the District of Columbia, and Child and Family Services Administration.

Although Al was never able — on this issue as on many other reforms that he knew were needed — to get the AFT's state and local affiliates to embrace his visionary thinking, his restlessness with the status quo, his boundless creativity, and his statesman - stature in the education field cause him legitimately to be viewed today as one of the parents of charter schooling in the U.S.

The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.

Affiliated Charters have become popular with non-Title 1 LAUSD schools as a mechanism to retain greater funding on campus and for branding purposes.

But some of the strongest criticism came from local union affiliates, who especially objected to the emphasis on charter schools and merit pay.

Read more on charters, magnet schools and affiliated charters.

Monarch Academy Glen Burnie, a public charter school founded and operated by The Children's Guild and affiliated with TranZed Alliance, serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade with an enriched, rigorous, hands - on, academic curriculum emphasizing project - based learning and the arts and technology.

Garcia is a leading voice for reform policies, and the PAC affiliated with the California Charter Schools Association has spent more than $ 77,000 on Johnson's behalf.

Some of the new slots will likely be filled by schools affiliated with philanthropist - backed groups like Bryan's Team CFA (the charter school arm of the Challenge Foundation), for - profit companies like the National Heritage Academies (which already manage five charters in the state) and «virtual charters» similar to K12, Inc., a publicly - traded Virginia company paying a lobbyist this year to go to the N.C. General Assembly on its behalf.

The CCSA noted LA's top performing middle schools were charter schools: Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle, which is an affiliated charter school that also has a science, technology and math magnet on campus, Renaissance Arts Academy, KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory, Paul Revere Charter Middle, and New West Ccharter schools: Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle, which is an affiliated charter school that also has a science, technology and math magnet on campus, Renaissance Arts Academy, KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory, Paul Revere Charter Middle, and New West CCharter Middle, which is an affiliated charter school that also has a science, technology and math magnet on campus, Renaissance Arts Academy, KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory, Paul Revere Charter Middle, and New West Ccharter school that also has a science, technology and math magnet on campus, Renaissance Arts Academy, KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory, Paul Revere Charter Middle, and New West CCharter Middle, and New West CharterCharter.

Meanwhile in the Empire State, the New York State United Teachers — an affiliate of both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — is already bearing its teeth in opposition to a set of proposals from state Assemblyman Sam Hoyt to end the state's ban on using test scores in evaluating the performance of probationary (pre-tenure) teachers and lift the cap on charter school expansion.

A lack of oversight and confusion among several departments with little experience in understanding how affiliated charter school should operate, including school operations, school management services and budget services, lead the district to purchase textbooks, classroom furniture and other supplies for years on behalf of the autonomous schools.

The United Teachers of New Orleans, an affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, petitioned the labor board for union elections on behalf of teachers groups at both International High and Lusher Charter School.

INCS Action and its affiliated organizations, INCS Action PAC and INCS Action IC, were created in 2014 with the mission to engage the charter school community in the legislative and political process, grow the coalition of charter public school supporters and activists, and educate Illinois public officials on the impact of charter public schools in the lives of families and in communities across the state.

Karega is a former Charter Schools Director with the Indianapolis Mayor's Office; founded and served as Director of the Indianapolis affiliate of Stand for Children, a national educational advocacy nonprofit; and was on the leadership team of Indiana University's Equity Project, housed at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.

ABOUT INCS ACTION INCS Action and its affiliated organizations, INCS Action PAC and INCS Action IC, were created in 2014 with the mission to engage the charter school community in the legislative and political process, grow the coalition of charter public school supporters and activists, and educate Illinois public officials on the impact of charter public schools in the lives of families and in communities across the state.

Large charter networks and their influential affiliates, like Families for Excellent Schools, have held massive rallies calling on the state to lift the cap and have spent millions on cap - related lobbying and advertising.

«The challenger and three incumbents we've chosen to endorse represent the common sense leadership that families in Los Angeles are counting on to provide equitable access to a quality public education, which includes the 130,000 students who attend 285 independent and affiliated charter schools in the district.»

When charter schools first came on the scene, block grants for an additional $ 400 per student were added for affiliated charters.

Until recently the SFER Board also included acclaimed education reform financier Jonathan Sackler (Whose activities include funding the Achievement First Inc. charter school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform charter school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER.)

Wilmington Trust's back office support will allow Franklin Templeton to focus on its strategic asset management and retirement priorities, while its affiliated trust company, Fiduciary Trust International of the South, a Florida chartered trust company, remains the trustee for the funds.

It provides regularly scheduled flights and cargo services to 15 airports and connects to more than 65 destinations in British Columbia in conjunction with its affiliate partner Wilderness Seaplanes located in Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island and Charter services across western Canada and the U.S.

The charter affiliates who commented on Coldwell Banker exude confidence.

The St. Croix Board of REALTORS ® is a real estate trade organization chartered by the National Association of REALTORS ®, affiliated with the Virgin Islands Territorial Association of REALTORS ® and currently serves 145 members on the island of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands.