Sentences with phrase «other charter proposals»

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Earlier Monday he noted testimony from Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR), Dish and other pay - TV companies that criticized AT&T's arbitration proposal, and might be reluctant take the company up on the offer.

In New York City, allies of Mr. Bloomberg have organized such groups to lobby for the mayor's proposals on congestion pricing, charter schools and other issues, often in opposition to the municipal labor unions.

The proposal had been criticized by opponents of charter schools, including teachers» unions, and others.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

There will soon be two charter revision commissions preparing to recommend changes to the charter for approval or disapproval by voters: one is sponsored by the mayor, with recommendations due this fall, and the other by the City Council in partnership with Public Advocate James and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, with proposals due in 2019.

Saturday's meeting with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña provided the impetus to shift course as prominent charter leaders criticized her for offering no details about co-location, rent proposals, and other key issues.

Cuomo's ambitious education reform proposals include raising the charter cap by 100 slots, weighing standardized tests more heavily in teacher evaluations and linking evaluations with tenure awards, among other reforms.

Two other co-location proposals involving Success Academy passed the P.E.P. on Wednesday, along with a co-location proposal involving an Icahn Charter School.

Among other changes, the Senate's proposal would include donations made to charter schools and would provide a credit for home - school supplies.

A majority of the board last week decided to actively seek charter school proposals for Bennett, East and Lafayette high schools, as well as Martin Luther King Multicultural School 39 and «any other location» in Buffalo.

In this view, Cuomo will cave on most of his other proposals — like merit pay and stiffer teacher evaluation standards — as long as he gets a higher cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

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 president's first budget proposal, released in May, includes an increase of nearly $ 200 million for the federal Charter Schools Program and a package of other choice - friendly programs.

Other proposals to cut funding for California charters emerged from the state department of finance.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

«We're encouraged to see this proposal would increase funding for charter school facilities grants and improve access to loans and other financing for charter schools.

But that's exactly what has happened, as evidenced by a recent proposal to allow charters and other organizations to compete for the right to operate 50 new L.A. schools over the next few years.

But promoters of this proposal are ignoring two other critical issues: The small role that charter schools play in the Race to the Top application, and the fact that city charters are not serving a representative sample of our neediest students.

Immediately following the release of the Governor's budget, on January 15, several CCSA Board members traveled to Sacramento to meet with legislators and other policymakers, to discuss the budget proposal as well as to advocate for issues that will have lasting effects for charter schools such as the Parcel Tax, Local Control Funding Formula proposal (formerly named Weighted Student Formula) and closing the funding gap for charter schools.

The three other options included solo proposals from the district and Crown Prep and one from Academia Moderna, a nonprofit charter led by a local teacher.

Under the other Jindal proposal, parents of students attending failure mills throughout the state would be allowed to vote on whether it can become part of the Recovery School District after three years of persistent academic underachievement; the schools would essentially be converted into charters under state oversight.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

Under its proposal, which was revised and re-submitted in May, the waiver would be extended to any other district or charter school system in the state that agrees to follow its guidelines.

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Some pending proposals would increase the state's capacity for approving and overseeing charters, while others would make it more difficult for new charters to open and put greater restrictions on existing ones.

Among other changes, the legislative committees also removed a proposal that would have paid for an additional 275 slots in public charter schools, reduced proposed funding to comply with the Sheff vs. O'Neill court order to reduce racial isolation in Hartford schools and sharply cut back a plan for various teacher training and leadership programs.

The proposal states that one paid year - long residency will be at an Achievement First charter school; the other will be at a Hartford Public School.

He or she will be working alongside school leadership and other schools in the community to learn best practices and develop her / his own proposal for a new diverse charter.

On the other hand, if the district's charter - dumping accusations are true, the proposal could at least allow IPS to receive state funding to educate these students.

ConnCAN not only wrote a proposal shockingly identical to this bill, the charter lobby also sponsored a «forum» for legislators in 2015 where it invited Ms. Lott of the failed Milner school and others, such as the deputy superintendent of Lawrence to speak to legislators.

None of those groups are directly connected to the «other» charter school and Corporate Education Reform Industry groups that have spent money lobbying in Connecticut, including StudentsFirst and Students for Education Reform, which together dropped in over $ 1 million on behalf of Malloy's proposals.

$ 91,000 in campaign donations flowed to Connecticut Democrats from a single wealthy businessman and charter school advocate, Jonathan Sackler, and three members of his family; those donations and others from Wall Street were rewarded with proposals for over $ 21 million in new charter school funding while public school spending remains flat.

Because the district's board had not agreed to share the proceeds of the bond with local charter schools.18 The organization spent $ 100,000 on fliers and other efforts to defeat the bond proposal.

The district will call for other proposals in the future, but for now, only teachers who choose to attend an organization that is unaffiliated with a college or university, that was created to supply charters with teachers trained to meet the needs of these specific charters, and that is based on the beliefs of teaching amateurs will receive raises (Newark Public Schools, n.d.).

On Tuesday, Waterbury's Brass City Charter School community came together to urge lawmakers to reject a harmful proposal to cut $ 11 million in funding to charter schools, a cut that could prevent Brass City and several other charter schools from adding more Charter School community came together to urge lawmakers to reject a harmful proposal to cut $ 11 million in funding to charter schools, a cut that could prevent Brass City and several other charter schools from adding more charter schools, a cut that could prevent Brass City and several other charter schools from adding more charter schools from adding more grades.

During public discussions of the Isthmus Montessori Academy (IMA) proposal to open a charter school with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), I repeatedly stated that the matter before the Board of Education was the proposal submitted, not the role of charter schools, the value of Montessori education, or a host of other things.

An official with the Chicago - based National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) told Policy Watch this week that, to the organization's knowledge, no other U.S. state has approved a proposal like House Bill 800, a measure one Democrat likened to creating «de facto, segregated private schools» last week.

The mayor's goal, embodied in part in a proposal by Board of Education member Yolie Flores Aguilar, would let charter - school organizations, the mayor's nonprofit and other groups compete to run 50 new schools scheduled to open over the next four years.

In a 27 - page opinion (PDF, English), the president of the commission, Jacques Frémont, states that he believes (along with numerous others) that several proposals in the government's policy paper contravene Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and infringe upon established fundamental rights and freedoms.

Adoption of this charter would underpin the further development and implementation of the specific proposals put forward in this report, guide all future relationships between the Commonwealth and indigenous peoples, and be capable of applying to the roles and responsibilities of other spheres of government as well.