Sentences with phrase «on charter school efforts»

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The campaign, which features 30 - second videos on YouTube, is part of an effort from Families for Excellent Schools opposing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent reduction of $ 210 million in capital as well as a new charter rent policy.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was critical on Thursday of an effort being pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have the state take over low - performing public schools, saying it could potentially lead to them becoming charter schools.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

The conferences led by Heastie and Flanagan do not see eye to eye on a number of key issues, including a minimum wage hike, the education investment tax credit and an effort to strengthen charter schools.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver reiterated his opposition to both the effort to increase the state's cap on charter schools as well as the education tax credit.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

Marcellino has also been skeptical of efforts to tie an extension of mayoral control to New York City schools to rising the cap on charter schools statewide.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

As of late August, tax credit backers had put $ 321,261 into the race, which, according to Newsday, Ramos believes is «retaliati [on] against him for successful efforts to block charter schools in Islip.»

Bloomberg heaped praise on UFT President Mike Mulgrew, whose union is under fire from charter school advocates who believe it blocked efforts to raise the cap in Albany in advance of the state's «Race to the Top» application (which failed).

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

Tuesday night, the Homer School District held a public hearing on the latest effort to convince to the state to approve the Truxton Academy Charter School's application.

But his efforts came too late; Mr. Cuomo and Republicans in the State Senate were already working in private to provide a lifeline to charter schools, seizing on what they saw as the mayor's political weakness.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

As more schools move forward with their own efforts, many are taking their cue from the mavericks on time and learning: charter schools, where more than two - thirds run on longer days, many successfully.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

Efforts to bring the academic results of some of the nation's best urban charter schools to a far larger scale are «sharply constrained» by limits on the supply of talent willing and able to undertake the highly demanding work, argues a new working paper by Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington think tank.

We decided to build on their work, in an effort to produce a more complete account of the politics of the charter school movement.

Broader deregulation efforts to form charter schools and create accountability systems have been slowed by such barriers as state lawmakers» reliance on mandates, equity questions, and the lack of credible...

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Critics often suggest that superior performance in the charter sector is a result of high levels of attrition, caused by implicit or explicit efforts on the part of school staff to «counsel out» the students who are hardest to educate.

We at Fordham have lived through a long, slow, painful — but ultimately successful — effort to repair Ohio's charter law, which was full of loopholes and lax provisions bearing on schools and authorizers alike.

Reform efforts such as school choice, charter schools, reconstituting schools, and reducing class size all rest on the belief that changes in structure or governance will result in higher student achievement.

Similarly, systematic efforts to cultivate and develop quality ideas and organizations focused on elementary, secondary, and possibly even postsecondary education, perhaps modeled on the Charter School Growth Fund or NewSchools Venture Fund, must be created.

Along the way, Brill gives background on Albert Shanker and the rise of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the 1983 report of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and what presidents have done since, the creation of TFA by Wendy Kopp, and on David Levin and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) and other successful efforts to create charter schools.

The Minnesota Leadership Academy for Charter and Alternative Public Schools pairs practicing and aspiring principals and other school administrators with business leaders, in an effort to give school leaders better training on how to manage their employees and get better results.

Some of the most effective charter schools thrive because the culture of the organization is nimble and informal, inspiring teachers to work as cohesive, trusting teams and put forth monumental effort on behalf of the neediest students.

Among many influential projects conducted under the auspices of EdLabs, Fryer has developed and implemented programs to test the impact of incentives on student achievement, teacher pay - for - performance concepts, and an effort to apply charter - school practices to a district turnaround school in Houston.

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

Another important factor on the side of charter school advocates is the greatly diminished power of the teachers union, which had often been an obstacle in earlier reform efforts.

«When you see a school and community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in Broschool and community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in BroSchool, a preK — 8 school located in Broschool located in Brooklyn.

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

But if the charter school fight proved to be too narrow a focus to win broad support, so too might an effort focused solely on more money for schools.

But these charter efforts remained a tiny percentage of federal spending, Bush was rebuffed on an effort to make school choice a much bigger component of NCLB, and the Obama administration did its best to anesthetize the D.C. voucher program.

Of course, once Baker and charter school backers decided to take the question to the ballot, an effective political calculus was the only way to make good on that effort on behalf of parents.

Each year nominations are accepted and evaluated by a selection panel that chooses new honorees based on: their pioneering efforts in the development / growth of charter schools; their long term commitment and contributions to charter schools and education; their innovative ideas and successful implementation of those ideas; and their inspiration to others in the charter school movement.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

In addition to supporting the movement, Klein has emerged as a strong voice in the effort to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in the state legislature.

The state of Texas has been making a concerted effort to raise the quality of its public charter schools through sound policy reform, effective implementation, and resources to help practitioners zero in on improvement.

The audience was given a glimpse of what's to come on Councilmember Grosso's agenda, including efforts to create a charter school facility mandate and a reintroduction of a language access bill deemed essential.

Opponents of charter schools put Referendum 55 on the ballot in an effort to repeal a bill that Gov. Gary Locke signed into law last spring.

Facing an April 30 deadline to surrender the schools, the HISD trustees earlier this month proposed allowing Energized for STEM, a charter network authorized by HISD and operating four schools, to take on the management, budget, curriculum and turnaround efforts.