Sentences with phrase «outspoken charter»

Yet many outspoken charter school advocates say it's vital charter schools answer for their performance.

Another outspoken charter school advocate, Sen. Craig Johnson, was at Perkins» hearing.

Just weeks before Daniel Loeb, an outspoken charter school proponent and one of the biggest donors in New York politics, unfavorably compared a top African - American state senator to the Ku Klux Klan, he exchanged a separate series of caustic and racially charged emails with a top official in the de Blasio administration.

There's been speculation that the charter advocates, who are already beating the bushes for a primary foe for outspoken charter opponent, Sen. Bill Perkins, could spend some $ 10 million during this election cycle.

Not exact matches

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

Perkins has been an outspoken opponent of charters, and that position has cost him political support among Harlem politicians.

Unlike James, Polanco is an outspoken proponent of expanding charter schools.

The comments came as part of a defense of state Sen. Jeff Klein, who leads a rival faction of breakaway Democrats and has been an outspoken supporter of charter schools.

Loeb's full post disparaged Stewart - Cousins for her lack of support for charter schools, and praised state Sen. Jeff Klein, who leads a rival faction of renegade Democrats and has been an outspoken supporter of charter schools.

He's an outspoken advocate for suburban interests like property relief — a big focus for his conference this year — and charter schools, which has put him at odds with some fellow Democrats.

Klein has been an outspoken supporter of charter schools, being one of the few Democrats (including Andrew Cuomo) who attended a pro-charter rally on the steps of the Capitol in March.

The law was passed after Mr. de Blasio, an outspoken opponent of charters in the past, tried to charge the well - heeled schools rent.

Serving as chairman of the Committee on Small Business, the former pro basketball player's most outspoken moments have come in defense of charter schools, and in warning that the city's aggressively progressive direction might debilitate mom - and - pop entrepreneurs.

Ed Next's report noted that within the past year, progressive Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders, D - VT, and Elizabeth Warren, D - MA, have been outspoken opponents of charters.

From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough - and - tumble battles to reform America's education system.

Parental school choice fit perfectly within John's intellectual framework for effective service delivery, and he championed all forms of it — vouchers, charters, tax credits, magnet schools, and open enrollment — throughout his academic and policymaking career, knowing full well that his outspoken support for this policy would limit his ability to rise through the ranks of his party.

The Ohio Education Association, a teachers union that has been among the most outspoken critics of charter schools, has testified against them in the state legislature and supported litigation aimed at toughening oversight.

Instead, he had proposed an ambitious plan for free higher education, unveiled alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of the country's most outspoken opponents of charter schools.

But this week, after one of Raleigh's most outspoken school choice backers, former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, suggested charter leaders file a class - action suit against every county in North Carolina over funding, leaders on both sides seem farther apart than ever.

But Rhee is an outspoken advocate for charter schools and broke with her party to support school - choice vouchers.

was also an outspoken proponent of the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school enterprise until that charter school chain collapsed amid revelations about the criminal past of its CEO, his lying about his academic credentials and an FBI investigation into the potential misuse of public funds.

Once outspoken about the power of standardized testing, charter schools and free markets to improve schools, Dr. Ravitch is now caustically critical.

Charters Care is spending their money on «literature and T - shirts promoting Stallworth over Pereira, an outspoken opponent of charter schools, and Rep. Terry Adams of Bridgeport over Dan Dauplaise.»

An Associated Press story on Monday showed Bennett, an outspoken proponent for school choice and for using student test scores to rate schools and teachers, had sent emails ordering changes to Indiana's A-F school grading system in 2012 when it appeared a favorite Indianapolis charter school would get a C.

As an outspoken advocate on education, she hopes to bring fresh perspective and thought leadership through her work as a board member of a public charter school and as a spokesperson for statewide public school funding campaigns.

During an interview at a Chalkbeat breakfast event on Thursday, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools explained her evolution from what she described as an «FDR Democrat» who believed the traditional school system was flawed but could be improved to an outspoken critic trying to lead an educational revolution from the outside.