Sentences with phrase «over charter expansion»

Families for Excellent Schools fought with the de Blasio administration over charter expansion and was a close ally of Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz.

Third, I assess the effect of charter proximity on historically underperforming students at district schools, a population often referenced in debates over charter expansion.

Families for Excellent Schools fought with the de Blasio administration over charter expansion and was a close ally of Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz.

Not exact matches

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that backs charter school expansion, spent just over $ 2 million.

While appointing an education board with an aligned agenda, Lavine could, as mayor, leverage her authority over the budget to implement an expansion of charter schools.

The last pay raise in 1999 was the product of a trade between lawmakers and Gov. George Pataki over charter school expansion.

Michael Mulgrew called the Senate GOP plan to tie the renewal of a law granting de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools «crap.»

ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.

Similarly on the fight over charter schools, de Blasio wants to slow their growth while Cuomo appears to support their expansion.

Eva Moskowitz founded Success Academy Charter Schools and has clashed with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the expansion of her schools

The Assembly passed the extender, but not so the State Senate, reportedly willing to trade for charter - school expansion and perhaps continuation of mayoral control over New York City public schools.

There will be perennial fights over funding, charter expansion, and the teacher pipeline, but what's the next big issue to captivate lawmakers on the education front?

Some teacher groups, opposed to charter school expansion, submitted bids to take over eligible choice campuses as pilot schools.

But when the school district and teachers union got wind of the Broad Foundation's plan to help launch schools to serve those students, simmering tensions over charter school expansion exploded.

In fall 2010, CSGF announced the launch of a new fund of $ 160 million to invest in the expansion of the best - performing charter schools and CMOs nationally over the next five years.

Charter agreements have four «systematic advantages» over the current arrangement of schools: the ability to start new, diversity of options, the opportunity for replication and expansion, and the possibility of closure.

The days of rapid charter expansion in Wilmington may be over, but the conversation over how to govern them is just beginning.

Over the last three years, we have worked closely with the Albertson Foundation and partners like Building Hope, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping charter schools develop high - quality facilities, to support the expansion of some of the best charter public schools in the state.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

A + Updates An Innovation Evening Over 100 people joined our conversation about the future of charters and innovative school designs in Colorado, where we explored questions about the future of charter authorizing, expansion, and new models in Colorado and their impact on student achievement.

Other provisions impact teacher bonuses and scholarships and expansion of charter schools by taking over schools in low income areas without requiring district oversight.

The debate over whether more charters should open up in the state and have access to a bigger stream of public money has fallen sharply down partisan sides in North Carolina, with the newly empowered Republicans supporting the expansion of charters and their access to public funds.

Amid all the debate over state control and the big expansion of charter schools, Camden schools administrators were busy doing their homework this week.

Despite the increase in funding, which Democrats have long called for after years of cuts or no increase in state funding for schools, the proposals drew the ire of Democrats on the budget committee over the voucher provision, expansion of independent charter schools and the addition of state money for services at private schools.

We also are asking them to stop charter expansion and to stop handing over these schools to politically connected, under - performing charter networks.»

Indeed, the rhetoric driving charter school advocacy has changed dramatically over the years as proponents of charter schools condition public perceptions to accept the expansion of these schools.

«Moreover, the continued expansion of charter schools in non-urban districts is likely to impose an increasingly large fiscal burden over time.»

During his tenure as Connecticut's education commissioner from 2011 to his 2014 resignation, Pryor had a rocky relationship with teacher unions and some education advocates over standardized testing and charter school expansion.

The tensions over charters grew increasingly more heated after January's unanimous vote by the board to oppose the charter expansion plan.

Then again, Rubin went into hyperdrive over Princeton Charter School's small expansion, no doubt a terrible burden for Princeton Public Schools, which allots $ 25,910 for each of its students.

Within five years, nearly 27,000 students who go to school in Newark — well over 40 percent of the total — could be attending charter schools, according to a projection by Rutgers University associate professor Julia Sass Rubin based on school expansions approved by the state.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.