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The courts» position on whether the Charter allows an accused to use her cell phone to contact counsel from a police car will therefore become important.

First, the CJEU firmly took sides in the debate on whether the Charter has a different scope of application than the case law based fundamental rights regime.

The discussion moved to Diane Ravitch's blog with readers weighing in on whether charter school teacher training programs should be authorized to grant graduate degrees.

Much of the argument centers on whether charter schools unfairly cherry pick students.

While civil rights groups and leaders often agree that poor and minority children are more likely to receive a substandard education, they diverge on whether charter schools provide a sound alternative.

Not exact matches

The Assembly continues to have «concerns,» according to the governor, who said he will submit an application regardless of whether there's an agreement on lifting the charter school cap because «you never know, we might win.»

He goes on to say, «Article 9 of the Charter simply leaves it to States to decide whether they wish to afford homosexual couples the right to marry» — and this in the context of a decision about civil, not religious marriage.

Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday that he selected members of a Charter Revision Commission examining city campaign finance laws based on merit — not whether they donated money to his...

Proposals to raising the cap on charter schools in the state and whether to extend mayoral control of schools in New York City were were dropped from the negotiating table as Tuesday's deadline loomed.

Mayor Bloomberg called on the Charter Revision Commission yesterday to examine whether the public advocate's office should be dismantled.

State applications are graded in part on whether they lift artificial caps on charter schools — a key education priority of President Obama.

Among other things, competing states» school - reform plans are graded on whether they promote charter schools.

States are judged in part on whether promote charter schools.

Questions included how they would ensure continued funding for senior centers, whether they support a state constitutional convention, their views on charter schools, whether their candidacies help Bill de Blasio by simply drawing anti-de Blasio votes from Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis and plans for dealing with the homeless, particularly in Bay Ridge.

The charter is silent on whether the public advocate has broader authority to sue the city, and the courts have been reluctant to confer such a power.

«We want to give parents the ability to have choice and to choose based on their interests and the success of a school, whether it's a charter school or a non-charter school,» Walcott told NY1.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

«Absolutely, I do,» Clinton said when he asked whether he backed a charter - school expansion — taking a rare position on a controversial state issue.

In his written address, Inibehe Effiong, Counsel to Udo, is seeking to determine whether the assault and torture meted by the accused persons on his client, amount to «a breach on the applicant's fundamental human rights to dignity of his human person as guaranteed in section 34 (1)(a) of Nigeria's 1999 constitution (as mended), as well as the African Charter on Human and People's Rights».

New York negotiations also focused on how to divide increased education funding and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

The Court would have the onus of also determining whether Luke and his security aides violated his client's fundamental rights of freedom of movement and from discrimination as guaranteed by relevant sections of the Constitution (1999) and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, amongst others.

New schools chancellor Carmen Fariña said last week she'll review the charter co-locations and openings approved by the P.E.P., but has been vague on whether she and de Blasio will consider reversing the approvals.

ALBANY — Education issues like charter schools and a proposal for an education tax credit could split the State Senate's Democrats, with advocates on both sides of the issues waiting to see whether a proposed reunion of regular and Independent Democrats will come to fruition.

«I'm not buying de Blasio gave him an overarching focus, because clearly the governor used the mayor for a punching bag from the very beginning of the administration, whether it be on the millionaire's tax or charter schools,» said Doug Muzzio, professor of political science at Baruch College.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

States are graded in part on whether they promote charter schools.

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.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

The State Board of Regents may vote late this morning (Tuesday) on whether or not to charter Truxton

In response to a question on whether the state should raise its cap on charter schools, Mr. Hawkins said, «Public schools fail because we're the most - segregated state in the United States.»

Ninth - graders from Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy in Washington, focused their attention on whether radish roots and shoots will grow differently in microgravity.

Whether your idea of the perfect date is sipping a rich malt beer during a brewery tour, noshing on a gooey grilled cheese, or hooking an emerald - scaled walleye during a chartered fishing trip, the city offers a rich array of activities.

The Lottery (Unrated) «Ticket out of the ghetto» documentary follows the diverging fortunes of four NYC families who feel their children's prospects in life depend on whether or not their names are drawn in the lottery admitting students to a phenomenally - successful, Harlem charter school.

The third pattern is a set of disputes about whether charter schools and conventional public schools compete on a level playing field.

Schools that decided to convert to charter schools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upgrades.

We also found that, depending on the data source, between 20 and 25 percent of charter schools show no evidence of offering the National School Lunch Program, thus calling into question whether they are enrolling low - income students.

This becomes significant as teachers and other staff sign yearlong employment contracts, meaning that the charter school is on the hook for these costs whether pupils stay or leave.

The NAACP has been conducting a series of hearings on the topic of whether charter schools are good for children of color.

Eleven studies have examined whether charter schools will have positive or negative indirect effects on students in district public schools.

Members of both groups attended all three types of schools — private, public charter, and traditional public — in year 3 of the voucher experiment, although the proportions that attended each type differed markedly based on whether or not they won the scholarship lottery (see Figure 2).

In Massachusetts, where residents will soon vote in a referendum on whether to allow the creation of more charter schools, pro-charter groups are running tv ads including the one shown above.

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parents.

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

There is also a wealth of information available on the demographics of charter schools and whether they are representative of their neighborhoods.

On four issues — Common Core, charter schools, tax credits, and merit pay for teachers — the poll examines whether President Trump's endorsement of a policy has a polarizing effect on public opinion by telling half of the sample the president's position while not supplying this information to the otheOn four issues — Common Core, charter schools, tax credits, and merit pay for teachers — the poll examines whether President Trump's endorsement of a policy has a polarizing effect on public opinion by telling half of the sample the president's position while not supplying this information to the otheon public opinion by telling half of the sample the president's position while not supplying this information to the other.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

In Massachusetts, where residents will soon vote in a referendum on whether to allow the creation of more charter schools, pro-charter groups are running tv ads.

«Charters create an opportunity for people, whether it's entrepreneurs or educators, to start schools from scratch and let those schools keep going if they deliver on the promise.

To estimate the effects of charter schools on students in traditional public schools, we use information on each school's distance from the nearest charter school to develop indicators of whether or not the traditional school faces competition from charter schools.

Our analysis of competitive effects therefore investigates whether the effect of charter schools on traditional public schools varies with the number of nearby charter schools as well as with the distance to the nearest charter.